It's been ten days since Minnesota and Michigan reported spikes in the number of positive cases, but the Heir noticed that it was just over two weeks before then that those anti-lockdown protests started happening.  He sees this as likely proof that the refusal of protestors to abide by social distancing guidelines is primarily responsible for upcoming increases in cases in the Midwest, the West and the South.  He wishes that the Insurgent News Network would discuss how governors in those states are making reopening decisions based on the protests and not on the science.  Once they reopen the states and the cases get even far worse, there needs to be followup protests pushing *for* a lockdown.  The Heir remembered last week about that one counterprotestor that the media just happened to mention, but he doesn't believe there's been enough coverage regarding the counterprotestors, so he believes there are far more of them than people know.  It also doesn't help that the progressives are going to largely refuse to organize counterprotests, and instead drop the counterprotestors like a lead pipe and not give them the support they need and deserve.  The counterprotestors speaking truth to power are essentially on their own, while the progressives continue to berate ordinary people for not blindly taking the progressive side in every dang thing they can think of.  The Heir did catch AOC meeting with Elizabeth Warren on Youtube regarding essential workers, but that meeting did not make the Heir dislike AOC less, or make him see her as less snide and condescending.  That's his main takeaway, but because both participants were facing their respective Zoom cameras, it's really hard to discern body language for more specifics.  If AOC and Elizabeth Warren were to meet in person, he could tell whether they looked at each other while talking, or if one of them or both looked away and toward a viewing audience.  He did feel as if Warren and AOC had a parallel conversation going in which each comment was not a direct response to the comment before it, but was a series of comments on what each person was going to say anyway.  This was with the one minute video.  The Heir did not bother catching the five minute video, since he has better things to do, like still working on our DIY Third Pillar Music Player.  He's hoping that once we get to a good point in that, we'll at least release last year's unreleased episode on audio.  We do have a general plan to get back on audio.  We're not doing base shares permanently, but base shares like this one is a good way for us to keep everyone up to speed while we're waiting for the right time to go back on audio.

"One placard suggestion I have for the counterprotestors is something to the effect of, 'Tell my dead aunt that the coronavirus isn't real.'"