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2 strip clubs can stay open and set own COVID rules, California judge rules
CBS News ^ | December 17, 2020

Posted on 12/17/2020 6:31:23 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Two San Diego strip clubs can remain open and make their own determinations about providing a safe environment for dancers and patrons during the pandemic, a judge ruled Wednesday. The decision dealt a setback to Gov. Gavin Newsom's health order that calls for such establishments to be shuttered.

The scope of San Diego Superior Court Judge Joel Wohlfeil's preliminary injunction appeared to extend far beyond the two clubs that sued the state to potentially all of the thousands of restaurants in San Diego County, the state's second-largest county after Los Angeles. On Wednesday night, Supervisor Jim Desmond tweeted that the judge "has directed the county to allow businesses with resturant services to operate their business safely and responsibly."

Judge Wohlfiel said it applies to "San Diego County businesses with restaurant services," including the strip clubs, and that it exempts them from shutdowns and "any related orders" that bar live adult entertainment and go beyond protocols "that are no greater than essential" to controlling the spread of COVID-19.

The judge noted that Pacers International Showgirls and Cheetahs Gentlemen's Club operated for five weeks during the pandemic under their own safety measures, which included keeping strippers 15 feet from tables, allowing no more than one stripper per stage and requiring them and other employees to wear masks.

Michael Workman, a spokesman for San Diego County, said county attorneys were meeting "to decipher the ruling and determine what's next. Stay tuned." County supervisors last week vowed to appeal any extension of the exemption for strip clubs, which the judge initially granted last month.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; china; liberty; strippers; virus
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1 posted on 12/17/2020 6:31:24 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m picturing the “big reveal” at a strip club. She slowly removes the mask. . .


2 posted on 12/17/2020 6:33:52 AM PST by T. P. Pole
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

where are they putting the masks, lol.
Let the ladies dance!


3 posted on 12/17/2020 6:34:41 AM PST by ronniesgal ( no fool like an old fool!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Korean guy walking in.


4 posted on 12/17/2020 6:35:38 AM PST by nwrep
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To: T. P. Pole

I wonder if any of the “ladies” dancing at this club have adopted the stage name COVID


5 posted on 12/17/2020 6:35:56 AM PST by srmanuel (It)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Churches, legitimate businesses closed. Strip clubs open.


6 posted on 12/17/2020 6:39:37 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: T. P. Pole

Funny, but too close to the truth!! One can in this dystopian reality easily imagine that porn might soon consist of videos capturing human beings interacting normally. And one can likewise imagine the totalitarians now trying to take control attacking/censoring it as being damaging to society by encouraging “unsafe” behavior. (Now, after having typed that, it does seem entirely possible...)


7 posted on 12/17/2020 6:41:30 AM PST by drwoof
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Judge Wohlfiel must be in the VIP Club.


8 posted on 12/17/2020 6:43:30 AM PST by wardamneagle
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

OK, can we all set our own Covid rules? Old people stay home, others were mask when you’re around old people, everyone else decide on your own whether to wear or not. Worry about yourself first, let others worry about them selves. As the old saying goes, we’re not our brothers keeper.


9 posted on 12/17/2020 6:43:32 AM PST by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Workers)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hey, give him a break! He didn’t want Hunter Biden to have nowhere to spend Christmas.


10 posted on 12/17/2020 6:44:22 AM PST by TonyM (Score Event)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Covid is great for butterface strippers.


11 posted on 12/17/2020 6:45:15 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Now any restaurant can simply put a pole in the corner and have some bikini-clad young thing writhing around it and they can stay open!


12 posted on 12/17/2020 6:45:57 AM PST by howlinhound (Live your life so that, when you get up in the morning, Satan says, "Oh Crap!..He's awake" - Unknown)
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Bat Flu is probably your least disease concern if you get too close to those “ladies.”


13 posted on 12/17/2020 6:47:24 AM PST by IronJack
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To: Jan_Sobieski

This order potentially extends to all restaurants in that county, and IIRC, the state is forbidden by another judicial ruling to submit churches and religious gatherings to stricter laws than those that apply to commercial businesses.

Essentially, this could overturn most of the restrictions in that county, which is fighting back. But they’ve gotta go for it and take advantage of this order quickly before Newsom finds some way around it.


14 posted on 12/17/2020 6:48:16 AM PST by livius
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To: T. P. Pole
ttiuwp


15 posted on 12/17/2020 6:50:40 AM PST by C210N
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Close the churches but leave open the strip clubs.

I guess our God is a patient God.

In the words of the great American theologian Jonathan Edwards:

There is no want of power in God to cast wicked men into hell at any moment. Men’s hands cannot be strong when God rises up. The strongest have no power to resist him, nor can any deliver out of his hands.—He is not only able to cast wicked men into hell, but he can most easily do it. — Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

16 posted on 12/17/2020 6:50:40 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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To: T. P. Pole

At least the Judge’s VIP card is still valid


17 posted on 12/17/2020 6:51:53 AM PST by Jimmy The Snake
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Strip clubs? They still have those? I thought that webcams had eliminated them. I’m guessing they mostly have.


18 posted on 12/17/2020 7:16:04 AM PST by cdcdawg (Turn off Fox!! You can do it! )
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To: C210N

That deserves a thumbs up. lol


19 posted on 12/17/2020 7:29:13 AM PST by T. P. Pole
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To: T. P. Pole

I’m picturing the “big reveal” at a strip club. She slowly removes the mask. . .
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Maybe she would remove her mask in the “VIP” dance area? Or the club would make both customer and dancer keep the masks on during that “VIP” dance...

Those strippers cannot make a living just depending on dollar bills from customers...Not enough...They have to do the “VIP” dances...


20 posted on 12/17/2020 8:19:48 AM PST by L.A.Justice
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