Americans are loud and clear in our opposition against job-killing, economy-crushing shutdowns.

The numbers and data simply do not warrant stay-at-home order, shelter-in-place mandates, or any forms of lockdown. Coronavirus has an over 90% recovery rate. 80% of all cases are mild and, to date, more than 471,000 people across the globe have recovered.

Earlier today in North Carolina, state residents took to the streets in protest. The protesters exercised their constitutional right and called for the end of shutdowns. Since shutdowns have gone into effect, tens of millions of people have lost their jobs. This country cannot continue on this current path and remain the United States of America.

Sadly, one of the protesters who pushed back on the governor's tyrannical lockdown was arrested. Such an arrest is definitively unconstitutional.

The Hierarchy of Law and Order

Police officers who arrested the North Carolina protester made the argument that such protests violate the governor's orders to stay home. This is all well and good, but protesting is a critical constitutional right. The rights in the United States Constitution override mandates issued by governors.

Americans have the right to protest and speak out against these absurd, nonsensical shutdowns. Economic decline is the greatest national threat to Americans; right now, there are so many people suffering and losing their businesses. Sadly, the cure has already become worse than the problem.

Our country cannot afford to wait until May 1, 2020; we must begin to reopen at least some parts of our economy NOW!

More Protests to Come

Arresting Americans for protesting shutdowns will not stop the protests; it will only ensure that crowds of anti-shutdown protesters become bigger and louder...and rightfully so. Enough is enough.

How many more people have to lose their jobs before governors realize that shutdowns aren't working? How much more social unrest must there be before officials understand that Americans are ready to get back to work?

There are already more protests planned. Michiganders are set to protest tomorrow against the latest tyrannical orders of Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Under Whitmer's Stay Home, Stay Safe order, Michiganders are banned from visiting friends' houses, going to vacation homes, etc. Likewise, residents of Ohio have already twice taken to the streets in protest.

Social unrest is not going away until shutdowns do. Coronavirus has a recovery rate of over 90%; tens of millions of people without jobs do not have such a high recovery rate.

We must get our nation back to work.