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Frontera Lupita's avatar

Don’t waste your time or gas! I was just up in The Bay Area & Marin & Sonoma Counties last month. The energy of the place is OPPRESSIVE….there are a lot of Sheeple and even people who are for personal & medical freedoms have caved in to the oppressive energy as well. It’s very sad…I lived there in my mid to late 20’s & then again in my early 30s…went to college in Santa Cruz, so I know the Bay Area! I have no desire to return unless I absolutely have to!

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Brian Mowrey's avatar

I am sure you are right - but on Fillmore they deal drugs right outside the McDonald's all day long, you can see it through the glass wall. The cognitive dissonance of being refused a coffee for not being vaccinated twenty feet from visible, armed drug dealers - I feel like I would be like William Shatner describing space afterward!

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Argos's avatar

The concern for public "health" and "safety" is such a joke here. Hundreds of poor souls have been living in squalor on the streets for years but somehow I am a threat to public health because I'm not vaccinated. Rats, human feces, lice....all good though as long as we're all masked and vaxxed.

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Brian Mowrey's avatar

If you want to prove the existence of the innate immune system, go to the locker room of any pre-pandemic Planet Fitness or 24 Hour Fitness locker room in the Bay one time and live to tell about it. Not to mention the PH Whole Foods bathroom.

But _this_ virus has been slotted into the collectively-believed-in agent of cosmic punishment for moral transgression usually reserved for God. Atheism is not compatible with the psychological health of most people who profess to practice it, so they map religious logic over the material world to salve existential anxieties. This is just one of the many results.

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Argos's avatar

The homeless at least have been relatively untouched by covid. I've been riding public transit almost every day since March 2020 and have been in proximity to many street people and I think that's been beneficial in terms of virus immunity. Here in San Francisco we have had at least 3x the deaths from overdose alone than from covid. Of course I think the kool-aid drinkers would attribute that to our masks and high vax rate.

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Brian Mowrey's avatar

lol - even though SF had a larger summer wave than last year *with* the pseudo-vaccine, just like FL. But there's so many overlaying confounding factors - lots of immune "exercise" from the squalor, less use of AC, lots of smoking - that I hesitate to even try to explain anything about how the virus has played out in CA. I stayed in the Bay as long as I could before the lockdown hoping to catch it and get it done with but in retrospect it was one of the "safest" places to be.

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Frontera Lupita's avatar

Well the SF police let people steal shit all day long from all the local Walgreens & CVS as well as stealing high price handbags from store down in Union Square, and do nothing, so they won’t be hassling the folks conducting business outside of the McD’s in the Fillmore! I I bet business is up for those guys during these times! 😼

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