>> Now hundreds have gathered here in front of the Washington County administration building
calling for the end of a mass mandate saying they are tired of not living their normal
lives. >> No more masks, no more masks.
>> Demand on the best of my kids or you're gonna get more federal fun, that's how I feel
about that.
>> A passionate call for action Friday morning in St. George. Several police officers on
standby as many locals call concerns about Coronavirus spikes overblown.
>> The flu kills more than Coronavirus. >> Others calling the virus a hoax, or stating
that asymptomatic carriers simply do not exist, and they cannot be forced to wear masks anywhere
as citizens of the United States.
>> If we want to wear a mask, that's fine, we can take care of ourselves.
>> Some rally attendees say they shouldn't ever wear a mouse if they have any medical
issues or mental health concerns, or if they feel they simply can't breathe.
>> When George Floyd was saying I can't breathe, and then he died.
And now we're wearing a mask and we say I can't breathe, so we're being forced to wear
it anyway. >> Though many stated that they believe in
all cases masks jeepardize kids' health. Parents are demanding they have the right to decide
what to do with their children. >> I'll tell you another reason I hate masks.
Most child molesters. >> School administrators responded that they
don't understand why crowds are protesting them based on a mandate given by the governor.
>> They blocked off the front entrance to the school building and we went out to ask
them to move and they attempted to storm the school building.
>> The school board is implementing the governor's recent order that facials alone are not enough.
And if a parent is adamant that their child cannot wear a mask or shields, they must fill
out a form including a doctor's note so the district can review it. At St. George, K.Kales
,ABC4 news.
>> I'm not gonna get that mad at a kid, the kid's just saying what he was told it. I hate
whatever adult told that kid that stupid line about the flu not in March when it was dumb.
But now, when this was a couple of weeks ago, we'd already lost like four to six flus worth
at that point.
And the kid is still saying it because that's what he's surrounded by kids just say what
adults tell him and that kid has been ruined, at least in terms of public health.
>> But that speaks to like, all of the things that the ills have on society, right?
That they're passed down from generation to generation of people who are passing on garbage
logic, garbage science onto their children. And then these children go to school, and
then they share that same information and then we create a community of people who believe
that foolishness, right? >> Yeah.
>> And so if we wonder how we got here, we got here. When people complain about the youth,
I always say well, who raised them right? I got that from my homeboy Brian Thompson.
He's always saying when somebody brings up the kids, he says, well, who raised them?
Who raise that kid who's his mom who's his daddy? Because they're the one we need to
deal with. >> Yeah, yeah, you're 100% right. And okay,
so we could extend that who raised those adults? Well, maybe that old woman that's talking
about child molesters wearing masks like, Jeffrey Epstein didn't have to wear a mask,
like, and and the final person I'm like, I'm trying not to.
I've just been so beaten down by this year that when I see things like that I try not
to individually be enraged and targeted at the individual. Because really they're emblematic
every one of those things that you heard is not about that individual that Floyd woman,
the flu kid, the pedophile older woman every one of those there's a million other is like
him.
What I'm also frustrated about though, is that and I apologize, I couldn't find the
full hour of that show that that report was embedded in from ABC4. But at least in that
block, they just presented all of that. Like the kid said the flu thing, the woman said
the George Floyd thing, and then,, back to you in the studio.
And now let's get an update about traffic on the 405. Like you can't just do that. Those
were lies, bizarre manipulations. There was a bit of QAnon in there that's not even being
acknowledged. Like how are you just going to amplify all of that to your local news
audience, and then move on with the weather.
That seems really irresponsible. >> I think that's where we are as a society
though, that that we have come to a place where people don't care about facts. They
don't care if we set the record straight. And there was a time journalism was about,
hey, I know somebody misspoke here.
We know what you heard there was said, but there's a counter argument, right? Where is
the counter argument? And where's the science because it doesn't matter about our discomfort.
It doesn't matter how annoyed we are about wearing masks. It's about does this work,
Canada had a day with no deaths yesterday, right.?
>> Yeah. >> And over 1000 people die. And so clearly,
we're not doing something right here as a country and other countries are, and so when
Donald Trump and his flunky say make America great again, in what regard? In what regard?
Because we are failing to beat this virus and we're failing to do it because of a lack
of leadership and a lack of just social responsibility.
>> Yeah, it's more make America empty again, one person at a time unnecessarily yeah Canada
had zero deaths, New Zealand once again had zero cases. All of this is possible. The issue
is that we live in a country and I guess to some extent, it was always like this.
It feels worse in the time of social media and everything but like, I feel like I Batman,
but like my utility belt is just filled up with hopefully facts. And all of those, like
everybody is immune to those now, like, if you were to go to those people in that protest
and tell them by the way, Canada didn't have any deaths, maybe they're doing something
right, that we could learn from.
They would say, no, Canada's just lying. Or did you know that only 20 people have died
of COVID? I heard that the CDC said that like they've cloaked themselves in this armor of
convenient falsehoods that they it's just it's better to believe those things. Why am
I going to look at these tracking numbers of COVID deaths every day that makes me uncomfortable.
I don't like that. I like the idea that almost nobody has died of COVID. And so I'll just
hug that. I don't know. And so it makes the job like you out there as activists we're
doing this show. Like how do we get through to people when everyone has been trained to
just run as fast as you can for a fact that makes you even momentarily uncomfortable?
>> I think we just keep preaching the truth, whatever the truth is, and and be unapologetic
about it the same way they are unapologetic about taking their positions that make no
sense. And the one thing we have on our side is science, right? And we also know that regardless
of what 2020 remains to be that in the end we're gonna be on the right side of history.
They're gonna look back at these people the same way they do at people who were protesting
against integration, right? They're gonna say, you're one of those people, right, one
of those people who wanted to harm more people. People are gonna look back at those people
and say, I can't believe you were one of those.
>> Yeah, yeah, and I'll do a version of what I did in the show yesterday. I devote 35 seconds
or so to speaking directly to Trump supporters. And I will say I'm trying to get through to
you that you've chosen this guy as your cult leader, your god, emperor, he doesn't care
if you live or die.
So back on in early April, so around April 10th or so, let's see we have Trump tweeted
that the virus will soon be in full retreat. Okay, three days later speaking with Bob Woodward,
he said this thing is a killer if it gets you it rips through people and talked about
how easy it is to spread.
So that's three days after saying it's gonna be in full retreat. And then a few days after
the Bob Woodward thing, you remember all of those liberate Minnesota, liberate Michigan,
liberate Virginia tweets. That was a few days after he told Bob Woodward this thing is a
killer it's the plague it'll rip through you.
He started telling all of his followers to have protests, like what you just saw. And
even though he knew when was talking about deadly was it, how quickly it spreads. He
told all of them, get out there and tell your governor to reopen. Not because it was best
for those individuals but because he thought it was best for him politically that it would
somehow benefit his reelection.
And many people have died. We can't necessarily say exactly who these are, these are big populations,
but people have definitely died because of that. And they were probably disproportionately
Trump supporters. So if you're still a mug ahead, maybe consider some of these timelines.
Your dude doesn't care if you live or die during this thing.