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TomCADem

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3. 'I don't believe it': Huntington Beach a symbol of mask resistance as doubters abound
Fri Jul 24, 2020, 12:37 PM
Jul 2020

California is a large state with a few Republican counties that have very vocal Trump supporters who see the refusal to wear masks or abide by social distancing as their First Amendment right. So, they see the State's efforts to control COVID-19 as a black-ops effort to establish a dictatorship.

To review:

Mandatory masks to control pandemic = Dictatorship
Unidentified paramilitary kidnapping protesters = Freedom

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-22/doubts-about-dangers-of-covid-19-linger-in-huntington-beach

As Brad Colburn whisked his metal detector over the tan sands of Huntington Beach, a rejection of Orange County’s spiking coronavirus infection rates surfaced.

“I don’t believe it. I don’t believe the rates are rising,” Colburn said. “They’re inflated. It’s another way of shutting everything down … of the Democrats trying to get what they want.”

The 58-year-old Huntington Beach resident said he has yet to wear a mask outside of shopping. Standing by a beach path as cyclists and in-line skaters zoomed by, he offered his own alternative policy to restrictive coronavirus health orders.

“If you don’t want to go outside, don’t go outside,” Colburn said.

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