Why social distance? People who stayed home askance at mass protests

Published June 16, 2020 4:00am ET



Some are questioning the guidelines that were put in place during the pandemic after social distancing rules were broken during the mass protests that followed the death of George Floyd.

“I’ve always been pretty skeptical of the stay-at-home order,” Rose Laoutaris, a student at American University, told the Washington Examiner. However, she still obeyed the order and only went out when she had to. After the protests, she stopped taking the social distancing guidelines as seriously since it seemed like others stopped social distancing.

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