Problem is, if they acquire a novel virus, they can basically send us into another pandemic.

This kind of crap hurts everyone.

I don’t know much about the creator of GrapheneOS. What’s the bad about them? I know they’re a little dogmatic, as security/FOSS folk can sometimes be, but I’ve not heard anything beyond that.

If you are either A) bootloader unlocked or B) using a custom ROM via an exploit, your system is freely open to modification by a physical attacker, regardless.

And if the prospective protestors are comfortable, they’ll stop short of their goals. Perhaps very short, if they start at all.