Corona virus, China major city lockdowns, etc.

[Shaggy Hiker]

NO

But I am glad we have people willing to protest. Though I thoroughly disagree with these people. But we need people willing to spend time and energy protesting against governmental/corporate decisions. I hate to think what this world would be like if these agencies went unchallenged.

That's true. The direction of the world is the sum of the vectors of all the people tugging in different directions on different things and with different force. If enough tug in the same direction, the world will move that way. If they do not, it won't. Of course, it's vectors, so the direction the world moves may not be in the direction that any one individual wanted, but that's how it goes.

What I don't agree with is that protest necessarily means that the policy is wrong. That seems to be the point with talking about anti-vaccine protests: It's trying to say that the people are opposed to this policy.

No, there are SOME people opposed, but most are not.