Protesters clog streets in Michigan over Whitmer coronavirus stay-home order

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Mark Moore - The New York Post


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Thousands of protesters on foot and in vehicles converged Wednesday on Michigan’s capital to rally against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home orders in the state.

“Operation Gridlock,” organized by the Michigan Conservative Coalition, created a huge bumper-to-bumper traffic jam around the Michigan Capitol Building in Lansing, Fox 2 Detroit reported.

Meshawn Maddock, an organizer for the group, said the demonstrators include Republicans, Democrats and independents.

“Quarantine is when you restrict movement of sick people. Tyranny is when you restrict the movement of healthy people,” Maddock told Fox News. “Every person has learned a harsh lesson about social distancing. We don’t need a nanny state to tell people how to be careful.”

The protests had been expected to start at noon, but a line of vehicles stretching for miles began earlier in the morning.

“Operation Gridlock” was just one of many demonstrations planned across the country to push back on the stay-at-home orders, calling on state governments to focus on the economic toll the coronavirus pandemic has caused along with taking care of the sick.

Nearly 17 million Americans have been laid off or furloughed in the past three weeks – or one out of every 10 workers.

Echoing President Trump that “we cannot let the cure be worse than the disease,” Maddock said the restrictions are wrecking people’s lives and may have killed more than the virus.

“The health-care system is basically shut down,” she said. “People with issues are having trouble seeing a doctor because everyone is focused on the virus. My husband and I are checking in on my in-laws, but even doing that is now breaking the law.”

Trump has created a White House task force charged with trying to find ways to reopen the economy.

He has suggested a May 1 deadline, but some governors have said that timetable is too soon.

The US has more than 610,000 coronavirus cases and the death toll has surpassed 26,000.

There are more than 25,000 cases in Michigan, and 1,602 have died from the virus.

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Whitmer, who acknowledged that people in Michigan are under pressure by the orders she signed last week, compared the stay-at-home orders to being snowed in.

“So we just had snow. I got snow on the ground here in Michigan. I got snow on the ground in Lansing and we’re expecting up to 30 inches of snow in the Upper Peninsula,” she said on the “Today” show.

“The fact that we’re cracking down on people traveling between homes or planting or landscaping or golfing, really, for a couple more weeks is not going to meaningfully impact people’s ability to do so, because the snow will do that itself.”

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Asked what factors she is looking at to determine whether it’s safe to return to work, Whitmer said more testing capability.

“It’s that we get robust testing, and that is still a struggle across this nation. We need some assistance from the federal government when it comes to swabs and reagents and making sure that we get the kind of robust testing that we need so we get data that we can actually rely on,” Whitmer said.

Some governors, including New York’s Andrew Cuomo, have joined regional task forces to decide when to have their states ease restrictions and reopen their economies.

[KevinD]

It's coming.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Dom Calicchio | Fox News


Protesters in Michigan and other states who recently demonstrated against their governors’ stay-at-home orders and other coronavirus guidelines won no sympathy Thursday from Joy Behar, liberal co-host of “The View.”

“Well, I’d like to ask them if they’re willing to sign away their right to treatment if and when they get infected,” Behar said, as “The View” panelists discussed the protests via video while quarantined in their homes.

“Are you gonna say, ‘OK, I don’t need a ventilator because I thought I should go out and defy the governor’s order?” Behar asked.
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On Wednesday, hundreds of protesters gathered outside Michigan’s capitol building in Lansing to protest Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s social distancing restrictions, which critics have described as an overreach.

Some protesters noted that Michigan had counties that were on lockdown despite being free of confirmed cases of the virus, also known as COVID-19. Others said limits on gardening and visiting relatives went too far.

“Citizens are frankly tired of being treated like babies. As adults, we now know what needs to be done to stay safe,” Marian Sheridan, a co-founder of the Michigan Conservative Coalition, said in a statement.
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That would seem to suit Behar, who also express concern about infected protesters seeking treatment close to her home.

“OK, and I’d like to know if people in states that are following the guidelines, like people like us in New York, can be sure that these people don’t come here,” she said. “I understand the fact that they’re upset they can’t get their veggies. But hello, we’re talking about this disease being way more infecting and worse than they even thought.”

Whitmer is now facing at least two federal lawsuits because of her policies, which she defended in a Twitter message on April 11.
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“We are living in a difficult time, & the unknown is scary,” she wrote. “But I do know that we must remain steady. We can’t allow fear or panic to guide us. The lives of Michiganders are at stake. We must stay the course to save lives. Stay steady. We’re going to get through this together.”

Other states seeing protests in recent weeks included Ohio and Wyoming.

[RBP]

Joy Behar should suck her own dick. You don't tell me what's right and wrong.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Joy Behar should suck her own dick. You don't tell me what's right and wrong.

You listen to your intellectual betters :nono:

[RBP]

You listen to your intellectual betters :nono:

Yes, the enlightened ones.

[Godfather]

I'll leave this here because I'm not sure what to make of this info really:




There's an imperial ton of astroturfing going on, and it's quite visible in how those groups popped up literally overnight (hint-hint). The thing is that they targeted groups who were... how does one say... more receptive to the message who wouldn't be inclined to look any deeper into what they were joining.

As an example, [right now, this is happening in Los Angeles.](https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/g3bzm1/large_reopen_california_protest_on_main_street/)

Now, [here's a screenshot of the description of the "Operation Gridlock Los Angeles" group](https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2020-04/17/22/asset/e0f5dcf081a3/sub-buzz-2654-1587161925-14.png) when it was first spotted by [Buzzfeed News.](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/salvadorhernandez/coronavirus-quarantine-protests-facebook-groups)

Concurrently, [here's a screenshot of the description of the "Operation Gridlock Tennessee" group.](https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2020-04/17/22/asset/4f5f6bc4c162/sub-buzz-1434-1587161900-16.png)

But, hey... it's Buzzfeed News right? [Cool-cool-cool-cool-cool...](https://media.giphy.com/media/4NnSe87mg3h25JYIDh/giphy.gif)

[Here's a link to the group "Pennsylvanians Against Excessive Quarantine"](https://www.facebook.com/groups/525702768306093) - sitting 55,281 members deep at the time of this post.

Okay...

Now [here's a link to the group "Minnesotans Against Excessive Quarantine"](https://www.facebook.com/groups/2996185320466628) - presently with 18,938 members.

Why do these groups have the exact same description?

Let's not stop there. Following their own links: one is from the "Pennsylvania Firearms Association", and the other is from the group "Minnesota Gun Rights" - both with the exact same layout.

Both of these domains are registered with the same registrar and were registered on the exact same day at the same time.

[ ~]$ whois reopenmn.com
[Querying whois.verisign-grs.com]
[Redirected to whois.godaddy.com]
[Querying whois.godaddy.com]
[whois.godaddy.com]
Domain Name: reopenmn.com
Registry Domain ID: 2512322197_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.godaddy.com
Registrar URL: http://www.godaddy.com
Updated Date: 2020-04-08T14:39:18Z
Creation Date: 2020-04-08T14:39:17Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2021-04-08T14:39:17Z

[ ~]$ whois reopenpa.com
[Querying whois.verisign-grs.com]
[Redirected to whois.godaddy.com]
[Querying whois.godaddy.com]
[whois.godaddy.com]
Domain Name: reopenpa.com
Registry Domain ID: 2512322050_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.godaddy.com
Registrar URL: http://www.godaddy.com
Updated Date: 2020-04-08T14:37:30Z
Creation Date: 2020-04-08T14:37:29Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2021-04-08T14:37:29Z

The rest of the whois information is obscured by a proxy organization that provides privacy for whois records (I even use them myself as do many others for privacy reasons), so I cannot tell *who* owns these domains.

Following the pattern of their sites, I checked for "reopenmd.com", but it never resolved to anything. That said, the DNS lookup itself didn't result in a `NXDOMAIN` error which tells me the domain does exist.

[ ~]$ whois reopenmd.com
[Querying whois.verisign-grs.com]
[Redirected to whois.godaddy.com]
[Querying whois.godaddy.com]
[whois.godaddy.com]
Domain Name: reopenmd.com
Registry Domain ID: 2515645280_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.godaddy.com
Registrar URL: http://www.godaddy.com
Updated Date: 2020-04-17T04:19:17Z
Creation Date: 2020-04-17T04:19:16Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2021-04-17T04:19:16Z
Registrant Organization:
Registrant State/Province: Florida
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Email: Select Contact Domain Holder link at https://www.godaddy.com/whois/results.aspx?domain=reopenmd.com
Admin Email: Select Contact Domain Holder link at https://www.godaddy.com/whois/results.aspx?domain=reopenmd.com
Tech Email: Select Contact Domain Holder link at https://www.godaddy.com/whois/results.aspx?domain=reopenmd.com

Registered a little more than week later with the same registrar. The thing is, they didn't actually complete their whois information this time, and whoever set it up cheaped out or forgot to pay for the Domains by Proxy service. Although whois information is literally a public record, I'm not inclined to place my account at risk by opening myself up to accusations of doxxing. That said, anyone who feels inclined to can go to https://whois.godaddy.com and search for `reopenmd.com`. I myself would be personally curious as to why someone in Florida is registering domains claiming to be gun rights organizations in other states.

Seriously, even without that information - who or whomever is responsible for this astroturfing couldn't make this more obvious if they tried. It honestly took me longer to type all of this up to present here than it did for me to find this all. Yet people have taken the bait hook-line-and-sinker.

Meanwhile, the President then starts tweeting ["LIBERATE MINNESOTA"](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1251168994066944003), ["LIBERATE VIRGINIA..."](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1251169987110330372), and ["LIBERATE MICHIGAN"](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1251169217531056130); and one of the major forces behind the group in Michigan was a political group that [has direct ties to](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greg_McNeilly&oldid=933829692) and has historically been heavily funded by the family of the Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos (though [said family denies direct involvement in last weeks protest](https://www.newsweek.com/residents-gridlock-michigan-streets-protest-governor-whitmers-coronavirus-lockdown-measures-1498112))?

In that regard, I'm not alleging some major conspiracy here, but l-o-fucking-l.

----

Edit: for the record, `reopenva.com` also exists and has the exact same registry info as `reopenmd.com`.


[ ~]$ whois reopenva.com
[Querying whois.verisign-grs.com]
[Redirected to whois.godaddy.com]
[Querying whois.godaddy.com]
[whois.godaddy.com]
Domain Name: reopenva.com
Registry Domain ID: 2515650132_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.godaddy.com
Registrar URL: http://www.godaddy.com
Updated Date: 2020-04-17T04:43:47Z
Creation Date: 2020-04-17T04:43:46Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2021-04-17T04:43:46Z
Registrant Organization:
Registrant State/Province: Florida
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Email: Select Contact Domain Holder link at https://www.godaddy.com/whois/results.aspx?domain=reopenva.com
Admin Email: Select Contact Domain Holder link at https://www.godaddy.com/whois/results.aspx?domain=reopenva.com
Tech Email: Select Contact Domain Holder link at https://www.godaddy.com/whois/results.aspx?domain=reopenva.com


https://www.reddit.com/r/maryland/comments/g3niq3/i_simply_cannot_believe_that_people_are/fnstpyl/

[lost in melb.]

@gf

Neurosis, fear and too much time on your hands :dunno:

[lost in melb.]

$1700 fine a pop if anyone tried that here

https://i.imgur.com/ivDD3qml.jpg

[RBP]

But they same people who are digging deep to argue against this "obvious" conspiracy have no problem taking a break from Reddit to attend the rent strike protest.

[RBP]

@gf

Neurosis, fear and too much time on your hands :dunno:

"Neurotic" should have never left the psychology vernacular. It's a great descriptor. I use it all the time.

[Griffin]

All I'm saying is a real pandemic would have swept through like captain trips instead of leaving everyone sipping their cappuccinos with a face mask hanging off one ear.

[RBP]

All I'm saying is a real pandemic would have swept through like captain trips instead of leaving everyone sipping their cappuccinos with a face mask hanging off one ear.

There are currently as many deaths from the normal flu season as COVID.

[lost in melb.]

But they same people who are digging deep to argue against this "obvious" conspiracy have no problem taking a break from Reddit to attend the rent strike protest.

:rimshot:

I'm just a curious observer here

:excellent:




All I'm saying is a real pandemic would have swept through like captain trips instead of leaving everyone sipping their cappuccinos with a face mask hanging off one ear.

:bwaha:

[Griffin]

There are currently as many deaths from the normal flu season as COVID.


:shockface:

[KevinD]

TLDNR: is GF post saying the protesters aren't real?

[RBP]

TLDNR: is GF post saying the protesters aren't real?

Well saying it's some manipulated, coordinated effort, not an organic protest by citizens.

[lost in melb.]

There are currently as many deaths from the normal flu season as COVID.

Yeah, but if it wasn't for social distancing it could be 50 times more. That's not forget this isn't potentially a killer

[DemonGeminiX]

Well saying it's some manipulated, coordinated effort, not an organic protest by citizens.

Just like Black Lives Matter! And Antifa! :D

[Griffin]

Yeah, but if it wasn't for social distancing it could be 50 times more. That's not forget this isn't potentially a killer

I was practicing social distancing well before it became mandated.

Not for preventative measures mind you but because I can't stand being around people.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Yeah, but if it wasn't for social distancing it could be 50 times more. That's not forget this isn't potentially a killer50 times more? :-s And what exactly are you basing that number on? Unless a place like Sweden, which let everything basically go "business as usual" other than telling the elderly and the people that had underlying conditions to stay home, has a pet capita death rate of 50 times the average, then we'll never know what would have happened if we hadn't destroyed the world economy.

And as for that death rate, those numbers can be manipulated any way people want. First, we'll never know how many people in China were actually infected and how many really died. Never. And second, here in the US, if you die, no matter the cause, if you test positive for the Wu Flu, that's what they are marking down as the CoD.

[Pony]

COVID-19 Fatality Rate by AGE:

*Death Rate = (number of deaths / number of cases) = probability of dying if infected by the virus (%). This probability differs depending on the age group. The percentages shown below do not have to add up to 100%, as they do NOT represent share of deaths by age group. Rather, it represents, for a person in a given age group, the risk of dying if infected with COVID-19.
80+ years old
14.8%
70-79 years old
8.0%
60-69 years old
3.6%
50-59 years old
1.3%
40-49 years old
0.4%
30-39 years old
0.2%
20-29 years old
0.2%
10-19 years old
0.2%
0-9 years old
no fatalities

These numbers are from New York.

[Godfather]

50 times more? :-s And what exactly are you basing that number on? Unless a place like Sweden, which let everything basically go "business as usual" other than telling the elderly and the people that had underlying conditions to stay home, has a pet capita death rate of 50 times the average, then we'll never know what would have happened if we hadn't destroyed the world economy.

And as for that death rate, those numbers can be manipulated any way people want. First, we'll never know how many people in China were actually infected and how many really died. Never. And second, here in the US, if you die, no matter the cause, if you test positive for the Wu Flu, that's what they are marking down as the CoD.

Greece has a similar population to Sweden and 4 times the density of Sweden. They've made about the same number of tests. The difference is, Greece locked down early and firmly:
- Greece Cases 2235, deaths: 110
- Sweden Cases 13,822, deaths: 1511

Also more than 50% of households in Sweden are single-person.

I'm really rooting for Sweden because this virus isn't going away in a few weeks, so we need their system to be practicable. Not sure yet though.

[Hikari Kisugi]

There are currently as many deaths from the normal flu season as COVID.

Yet... These are additional.
People sick with this clog entire hospitals, take up all the ventilators and staff times, so there isn't time for normal medicine to proceed at its usual pace.
There is something quite different about this.

The studies that will emerge after will be fascinating.
It will also give us a head start on how to plan for a proper infectious illness, say airborne Ebola or some mad shit that'll eventually appear.

[lost in melb.]

50 times more? :-s And what exactly are you basing that number on? Unless a place like Sweden, which let everything basically go "business as usual" other than telling the elderly and the people that had underlying conditions to stay home, has a pet capita death rate of 50 times the average, then we'll never know what would have happened if we hadn't destroyed the world economy.

And as for that death rate, those numbers can be manipulated any way people want. First, we'll never know how many people in China were actually infected and how many really died. Never. And second, here in the US, if you die, no matter the cause, if you test positive for the Wu Flu, that's what they are marking down as the CoD.

I'm modeling on business as usual, the same that we do with the flu. I would guess 50 minimum, up to 500 times more deaths than the seasonal flu ( including comorbidities). Maybe check with deebakes, he'd know more about this :dunno:

[RBP]

Yet... These are additional.
People sick with this clog entire hospitals, take up all the ventilators and staff times, so there isn't time for normal medicine to proceed at its usual pace.
There is something quite different about this.

The studies that will emerge after will be fascinating.
It will also give us a head start on how to plan for a proper infectious illness, say airborne Ebola or some mad shit that'll eventually appear.

I read a report that cardiac visits to the ER are down 50%. There's a whole 'nother piper to pay. I get frustrated with the thinking that the solutions cause no death... only save lives. That's completely illogical.

[lost in melb.]

COVID-19 Fatality Rate by AGE:

*Death Rate = (number of deaths / number of cases) = probability of dying if infected by the virus (%). This probability differs depending on the age group. The percentages shown below do not have to add up to 100%, as they do NOT represent share of deaths by age group. Rather, it represents, for a person in a given age group, the risk of dying if infected with COVID-19.
80+ years old
14.8%
70-79 years old
8.0%
60-69 years old
3.6%
50-59 years old
1.3%
40-49 years old
0.4%
30-39 years old
0.2%
20-29 years old
0.2%
10-19 years old
0.2%
0-9 years old
no fatalities

These numbers are from New York.

I'd be curious about the statistics of people that have to go to hospital, the people that had to go to intensive care, and how long they were in intensive care for ( those that survived)

[Pony]

I'd be curious about the statistics of people that have to go to hospital, the people that had to go to intensive care, and how long they were in intensive care for ( those that survived)

That would be tough because most people that stay at home with zero-moderate symptoms aren't currently getting tested.
There is some breakdown info here.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm

And more charts from New York, including deaths of people with underlying conditions broken down into age groups.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/

[lost in melb.]

That would be tough because most people that stay at home with zero-moderate symptoms aren't currently getting tested.
There is some breakdown info here.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm

And more charts from New York, including deaths of people with underlying conditions broken down into age groups.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/

Wow, look at the deaths from pneumonia! ( Unrelated to Covid)

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Dom Calicchio | Fox News


https://i.imgur.com/oV2Bkt8l.jpg

Protesters gathered outside the home of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Thursday -- the same day reports emerged that she plans to extend the state’s coronavirus stay-at-home order by two weeks until May 15.

The demonstration, dubbed “Operation Queen’s Castle,” featured an image of Whitmer wearing a crown, FOX 2 of Detroit reported.

“We wanted to send Gretchen Whitmer a message, we didn't want to surrender our liberties just for a little temporary safety,” Brian Pannebecker, who helped organize the protest, told the station.
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Meanwhile, the Michigan Legislature has scheduled a special session for Friday with the goal of creating an oversight committee to review Whitmer’s coronavirus orders and possibly strip her of some of her powers, the Detroit Free Press reported.

Critics have accused Whitmer, a 48-year-old first-term Democratic governor, of overstepping her authority with a series of measures intended to stem the spread of coronavirus in the state. April 9 revisions to her initial stay-at-home order included bans on visiting friends and relatives or traveling to vacation homes, and halts on sales of items such as furniture and gardening supplies.

In a podcast interview, she also said abortions should continue in the state during the virus outbreak because the procedures were part of "life-sustaining" health care for women.

In addition, Whitmer came under fire after a no-bid coronavirus-related state contract was awarded to a firm operated by a well-known Democratic consultant who had written that President Trump should "get coronavirus ASAP." Whitmer’s office later acknowleged that the contract was awarded without adhering to normal protocols.

Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield, R-Levering, explained the point of Friday’s planned session in a Twitter message.

“The House & Senate will convene tomorrow to create a special oversight committee on COVID-19 to examine our government’s response,” he wrote. “Michigan needs to handle this pandemic seriously yet properly. It’s what the people deserve, and we will see that it happens.”
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In another tweet, Chatfield noted that marijuana, lottery tickets and alcohol had been declared "essential," while lawn care, construction and fishing in a motorized boat had been declared nonessential amid the outbreak.

On Monday, Whitmer said she would take a 10 percent cut to her $159,300 annual salary and her staffers would take cuts of 5 percent as the state grapples with the financial fallout of the coronavirus shutdowns. She also continued defending the orders she has issued.

“I know it’s not easy, but the price of losing loved ones is what’s at stake,” she said, noting that many people who contract the virus show no symptoms but can still spread it.

The theme of Thursday’s protest in Lansing, the state’s capital city, was that many Michiganders who are able to work should be able to do so, Pannebecker said.

“Younger people, healthy people, without putting anybody else in danger, including ourselves, and others in danger, should be able to go back to work,” Pannebecker told FOX 2.

The demonstration came eight days after a larger gathering outside the Statehouse called “Operation Gridlock.”

As of late Thursday, Michigan had more than 35,200 confirmed cases of the virus and nearly 3,000 deaths, the Detroit News reported.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Louis Casiano | Fox News


https://i.imgur.com/TQ6Zt7Kl.jpg

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Thursday extended Michigan's state of emergency and disaster declaration through May 28, hours before it was set to expire and after hundreds of protesters, some of whom were armed, gathered in the state Capitol building to voice their displeasure with the Democratic governor.

Whitmer also took shots at the Republican-controlled legislature for refusing to extend the order earlier in the day.

"By refusing to extend the emergency and disaster declaration, Republican lawmakers are putting their heads in the sand and putting more lives and livelihoods at risk," she said in a statement. "I’m not going to let that happen.”

The emergency declaration gives Whitmer additional powers to issue executive orders during an emergency. She claimed she had the emergency authority regardless of what state lawmakers did.

In a rejection of the governor, the state House and Senate adopted resolutions Thursday to legally challenge her authority and also approved a bill to allow some of her mandates but not her stay-at-home order, which expires May 16.

No lawsuit had been filed as of Thursday night, MLive reported.

Whitmer said she planned to veto the bill and won't sign any bills that "that constrain her ability to protect the people of Michigan from this deadly virus in a timely manner," her office said, according to The Detroit News.
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Earlier in the day, hundreds of demonstrators, some armed with rifles, descended on the state Capitol building in Lansing to voice frustration over the stay-at-home order, which mandates temporary business closures and that residents remain home.

Many made it inside the building and stood shoulder-to-shoulder, calling for a return to normal daily life. Opponents accuse Whitmer of overstepping her authority by prohibiting sales of items like garden supplies and banning most travel between homes and certain activities.

An earlier rally on April 15 called "Operation Gridlock" drew thousands outside the Capitol building, in addition to another gathering outside Whitmer's home. Similar demonstrations have occurred nationwide as many Americans remain concerned about their livelihoods.

The Michigan Court of Claims sided with the governor Wednesday, denying a motion for a preliminary injunction to the order. The court ruled that the stay-at-home order doesn't violate residents' constitutional rights.

Michigan recorded 41,379 COVID-19 cases as of Thursday, including 3,789 deaths, according to the state website.

In her declaration announcement, Whitmer said scientific data shows the state is not ready to resume normal operations.

“It defies common sense and science," she said during a virtual town hall Thursday night. "We are still in a state of emergency. We have to take this seriously. If we are smart, we can start to reengage safely."