'Re-open' protests are popping up across the country

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From Virginia to  California, impatient protesters across the country are challenging statewide coronavirus orders.
Holding up signs, carrying American flags, and touting Constitutional rights, the protestors ignore social-distancing guidelines, and are demanding an end to the economic shutdowns aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus.
Many groups, such as ReOpen NC, start Facebook groups that have quickly grown into the thousands. Protestors share experiences of lost jobs and, economic difficulties and loss of freedoms.

Reaction to the these events have been wide and varied.  Some support the growing movement.
 

While other have called their actions "dangerous."

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