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Audrey Whitlock
Audrey Whitlock, a frontrunner of the “Reopen North Carolina” protest group, has examined optimistic for the COVID-19 coronavirus. Whitlock is an administrator for the ReOpen NC Fb web page the place she has helped set up a number of protests in Raleigh, N.C.
The protest group has been campaigning to reopen the state and rollback measures which were put in place to decelerate the unfold of the coronavirus. The restrictions the group is preventing in opposition to embrace social distancing laws and the Keep At Dwelling order that was issued by North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper.
Whitlock introduced the information of her optimistic take a look at on the Reopen NC Fb web page. Based on her put up, which has since been deleted, Whitlock was asymptomatic, and he or she completed a 14-day quarantine on April 26.
Whitlock believes she had COVID-19 in January, and he or she was administered an antibody take a look at and a coronavirus take a look at in April, CBS 17 reported. She examined optimistic for the coronavirus, however her antibody take a look at got here again detrimental.
In her Fb put up, she wrote that her First Modification rights have been infringed upon as a result of she was “imprisoned” in her house since she was “compelled” to quarantine. Whitlock additionally acknowledged that Individuals’ First, Fifth and Fourteenth Modification rights have been being violated by the coronavirus laws.
Whitlock wrote:
I've been compelled to quarantine in my own residence for two weeks. The truth is that trendy society has not been in a position to eradicate contagious viruses. A typical public well being quarantine would happen in a medical facility. I've been instructed to not take part in public or non-public lodging as requested by the federal government, and due to this fact denied my 1st modification proper of freedom of faith.
She additionally acknowledged within the Fb put up, “It has been insinuated by others that if I'm going out, I could possibly be arrested for denying a quarantine order.”
Whitlock needed to miss the primary two ReOpen NC rallies as a result of quarantining, the Each day Mail reported.
ReOpen NC Hosts a Protest Each Tuesday in Downtown Raleigh Each Tuesday
The ReOpen NC protest group rallies each Tuesday in downtown Raleigh. Within the group description, it says:
On April 7, 2020, a peaceable motion group known as #ReopenNC was fashioned. Two weeks later, this grassroots motion has grown to 68,000 North Carolina Patriots. We stand for The Structure. We're principally enterprise homeowners and staff which might be shedding our revenue and denied our proper to supply for our households. Now we have come collectively to demand motion from their elected officers. Rally with us at The Capitol/Governor’s Mansion/Legislative constructing each Tuesday.
As of April 27, there are 70,000 members within the ReOpen NC Fb group.
Governor Roy Cooper Prolonged the Keep At Dwelling Order Till Could 8
On April 23, Governor Cooper issued an Govt Order to increase North Carolina’s Keep At Dwelling order by way of Could 9. Dine-in eating places and bars, together with different non-essential companies, are to stay closed by way of Could 9 as nicely.
The Govt Order additionally continued to restrict gatherings of greater than 10 folks.
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