VIDEO: Colorado Health Care Workers Face Off With Protesters Demanding The State Reopen Amid Coronavirus

Photos and videos continued appearing online Monday of Colorado health care workers clashing and holding counter-protests to protesters ignoring social distancing guidelines during the coronavirus pandemic.

One of the most notable videos to appear online was a nurse in scrubs blocking the truck of a woman protesting the lockdown. He is seen standing in the crosswalk, blocking the truck while the woman screams at him and hocks her horn repeatedly.

Images of the health care workers' protest may seem reminiscent of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in China in which one protester faced down a tank.

“Go to China if you want communism,” the woman in the car is heard screaming at one point.

Photojournalist Alyson McClaran, who took several images of the counter-protest, also offered a short description of the exchange.

“They were blocking the roads until the police force stepped in,” McClaran told the New York Times. “People were putting their cars right up against them.”

Another nurse described seeing the protests to reopen the state as a “slap in the face” to health care workers across the U.S. The nurse, who only identified herself as Alexis for fear of backlash against her or her hospital, told Denver’s NBC affiliate KUSA that she doesn’t work in a coronavirus unit but the impact of the virus has been felt across the hospital.

Alexis said she has been in self-quarantine since Sunday after showing cold symptoms while home.

“We’re having to be surrogate family members for our dying patients,” Alexis said. “Whether or not they're COVID because we’re not allowing visitors right now. We can’t risk it.”

She followed by saying for protestors “to fly American flags to support your point being that it’s justifiable to put other Americans in danger so that you can enjoy your life, so that you can go back to work.”

“It feels backwards.”

Protests similar to the one in Denver have popped up all over the U.S. in states like Michigan and Washington in response to shutdown orders. These protests have been backed by wealthy right-wing groups demanding the states reopen their economies while Trump has shared his support with tweets simply reading “Liberate.”

As of Monday morning, Colorado has 9,433 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 411 deaths from the virus.