[CheshireTheCat]

Nope, not dumb. Smart, very smart. Much smarter than I thought Californians were capable of.

You go Californians. Go, go, go to the beach. Get sun. Get some fresh, salty air. Get exercise. Get some frivolity. Get de-stressed. Get a life, in other words.

(The original headline on the main page had the Cowa-dum-ba part.)

[Yaelle]

Heading to the beach today.

If you go with your family, of course you don’t need to sit six feet from them. Everyone at the beach is decent and remains 6 ft apart and there are police who tell you to do so.

Sunlight kills corona. Happiness and freedom lift the immune system. Who’s with me?

[wildcard_redneck]

“You go Californians. Go, go, go to the beach. Get sun. Get some fresh, salty air. Get exercise. Get some frivolity. Get de-stressed. Get a life, in other words.“

I agree 100%.

The passage of time will reveal this lock down to be the stupidest public policy that has ever been implemented. So many of our leaders, our supposed intellectual superiors, have opted for suicide by government.

During a pandemic you quarantine the sick, not the whole healthy population. Intelligent policy would be to assist those who are vulnerable to this disease to isolate themselves for their own safety and to quarantine the sick and provide them medical care. These clowns would have us die in the dark by starving to death from poverty.

[Blue Collar Christian]

The photograph in the article certainly does not support the panicky New York headline. Family members seem to be close to each other, but otherwise people in the photo are much more than the stupid 6 foot rule apart.

[glennaro]

The pressure on Gavin Newsome to re-open California is accelerating with each passing day, and it's not just due to the growing frustration of its citizens and business owners. Because Pelosi's nephew has aspirations of running for President in 2024 (it's rumored he thinks of himself as this generation's JFK, Jr.), and because everything this boy thinks, says or does results from a political calculation, his viability in a national election compels him to restore the state sooner rather than later ... no matter what he says he plans to do.

Although the Democrat/Left Party requires Newsome to do whatever he can to hurt Trump as he is in such a powerful position to do so, and although he needs to maintain his "favored-status" among those who actually control the Party in order to be selected by those powers (not by any caucus or by Democrat primary voters ... that's just not how things are done in the Democrat/Left Party) as the Left's presidential nominee in 2024 including the state's 55 electoral votes, it's clear Newsome self-tempers his actions so as to maintain his viability as a candidate for President at the national level.

One thing I must acknowledge: Newsome is very adept at balancing these often-conflicting requirements and may prove to be a formidible opponent in 2024. (As are any others in the Democrat/Left Party who have even the slightest "viability" as a Presidential candidate in 2024, Newsome is staying as far away from the 2020 election as is humanly and politically possible ... another very smart, though obviously essential, strategy.)

[outofsalt]

This thread sounds a lot like the often mocked flubros and flubras.

[willk]

Fake news. Most people are practicing social distancing. They are using telephoto lenses that makes it seem like they are closer together. They did the same thing when Florida opened some of their beaches.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Cowa-dumb-ba: Crowds ignore social distancing rules at Southern California beaches

A suggestion for the NY Post and other NYC papers - cluck at the people in your own city and stop trying to tell the rest of the country what to do. NYC has about half of the US coronavirus deaths. Long Island has about as many coronavirus deaths as all of California does.

We get that New Yorkers love to crowd on top of each other in their homes and in their subways, but the rest of us don't, even though the Democrats dream of making all of us live like New Yorkers. Get back to navel-gazing and stop bothering the rest of the country.

[gunnut]

All of the picture I have seen appear that people are staying far enough apart.

[Hostage]

> “Much smarter than I thought Californians were capable of.”

There are online videos of beachwalk locals and visitors in Venice Beach asked about views of President Trump, one video from about three years ago and one about a year ago.

The older video showed almost all having the expected poisonous view of Trump as programmed by the fake media.

The more recent video showed most accepting Trump as “doing a pretty good job”.

Venice Beach, Ok with Trump. Hit me, I’m hallucinating.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

The New York Post is proving that New Yorkers might be the stupidest people on Earth. How’s yer subways?

[KittyKares]

“Others show sunbathers sitting so close their towels touch.”

Oooh, their towels touched. Arrest the towels for improper social distancing.

[Avalon Memories]

For those not familiar with SoCal, Hueneme is pronounced Y-nee-me. Port Hueneme is in Ventura County, northwest of Los Angeles. The article uses a photo from Port Hueneme but discusses beaches in Orange County that are about 100 miles to the south. Typical ignorant New York City perspective.

[ifinnegan]

A New York paper says this?

The absolute ground zero epicenter for this, the place that is messing up all over, that New York.

[hinckley buzzard]

Those pictures sure don’t look very “packed” to me. Hardly crowds at all.

[Sooth2222]

Here at the Jersey Shore (the #1 Karen state!) I just returned from my daily 5K at the beach. Less than half of the walkers/runners were wearing masks. Last weekend it was about 60%.

Even in New Jersey it is becoming obvious that this has gotten silly.

[trebb]

"Appear to break social distancing rules..."

I guess none of them came as family units...even the kids drove their own cars...

[GOP Poet]

Yep. Been hiking and doing hour long beach walks daily here in Santa Barbara. It’s been healing and healthy and a joy. Great to see others out there doing the same.

[dennisw]

Of course the New Jack City subways spread that covid crap all around. Buses too. The windows don’t open on them. Plus the NYC Transit Authority was running half the trains once self isolation became big. Half the trains means more packed with people breathing covid crap on you.