Two brave healthcare workers have been photographed standing up to lockdown protestors by blocking their way in the street. Yesterday, protestors took to the streets in Colorado, Michigan, and Maryland, creating gridlocks and holding signs out of their vehicles in an effort to voice their displeasure against the country's lockdown measures - which they perceive as unjust policies. However, in Colorado, two healthcare workers decided to counter-protest by standing on the road in their hospital scrubs. The video below, which was posted by software engineer Marc Zeenn, was captioned: "Two nurses, who have witnessed first hand the toll Covid is taking in Colorado, stood up and peacefully counter protested. Here is how they were treated. I had join them." Watch the counter-protest below:  [[jwplayerwidget||https://content.jwplatform.com/videos/L5hTmoei-dkXnENEs.mp4||L5hTmoei]] Throughout the US, countless people have been protesting the lockdown measures implemented because of the coronavirus pandemic. Further commentary to the protest was added to the incident by journalist Chase Woodruff. Sharing pictures of the incident, he wrote: "Remarkable scene at 12th and Grant, where two healthcare workers from a Denver-area hospital - they declined to say which or give their names - are standing in the crosswalk during red lights as a 'reminder,' they say, of why shutdown measures are in place." [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/dcwoodruff/status/1251967877848195073]] Woodruff continued: "They say they've been treating COVID patients for weeks. Today most of the people driving by have been 'very aggressive,' they say. I've been standing here for a few minutes and already seen two people get in their faces." [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/dcwoodruff/status/1251968835835527169]] The video below puts the extent of the protest into context:  [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1252010489585991680]] Additional pictures of the protest were posted by Charles Croucher to Twitter. They were captioned: "An incredible series of photos by Alyson McClaran in Denver. She writes 'health care workers stand in the street in counter-protest to hundreds of people who... demand he stay-at-home order be lifted'." [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/ccroucher9/status/1252039378953629696]] Shelly Bradbury, a breaking news reporter at The Denver Post, reported this protestor saying: "Pot shops are open, abortion clinics are open and my church is closed." [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/ShellyBradbury/status/1251961452975607809]] Each of the protests that took place over the weekend followed a similar format of cars turning up in central places in cities. The protesters would be holding signs demanding that the economy be opened up again and that people should be free to work, with many claiming that the threat posed by the coronavirus has been exaggerated. In the majority of states, the lockdown orders have been extended until May.

Two brave healthcare workers stand-up to lockdown protestors

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