LANSING, Mich. (Reuters) – Countless demonstrators in cars and trucks with horns beeping thronged around Michigan’s state Capitol on Wednesday, some shouting “lock her up,” to oppose against stay-at-home orders imposed by Governor Gretchen Whitmer to stop the coronavirus.
FILE IMAGE: Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer sits in a 2019 Chevrolet Traverse, assembled in Lansing, Michigan, at the General Motors show area during the North American International Vehicle Show in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., January 15,2019 REUTERS/Rebecca Cook
Traffic around the Lansing statehouse was jammed for hours by the rally, dubbed “Operation Gridlock” and organized by the Republican-aligned Michigan Conservative Union to challenge the Democratic governor’s social-distancing measures, among the strictest in the nation.
Michigan has dealt with one of the country’s fastest-growing infection rates for the brand-new coronavirus, with more than 27,000 confirmed cases and almost 1,800 deaths from COVID-19, the extremely infectious lung disease brought on by the virus.
However a backlash versus Whitmer’s stay-at-home regulation, which she recently extend