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JohnnyLib2

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9. I paid close attention because of relatives in the area.
Sun Sep 13, 2020, 04:15 PM
Sep 2020

Side roads were blocked; his crowd parked on the sides of the main road in, some walked one to two miles to get to the check in point, the air quality was poor from smoke, a few thousand packed in mostly without masks, and he gave one of his more angry, disjointed, divisive speeches. Someone this morning posted folks running through the dirt when gates were opened, like a marathon of red hats.
That county extends up to the casino area of Lake Tahoe, so many were from CA. COVID spikes are bound to show up in many communities. Craziness in the desert!

The sheriff in that county had said he wouldn't enforce the governor's 50 person limit--so this was also an exercise rule bending along with the ego stroking.

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