Your kids are fortunate to have the resources to do those activities, but many families don't have those resources or the parents to encourage those activities (although I suspect most Club soccer parents do). The lockdown is disproportionately harming underprivileged and disadvantaged children and teens.
Do I have a right to host a rave party this summer with 5,000 attendees?
Sounds like a blast, Straw Man.
Not a straw man.
My view is that we needed a line, but they drew the wrong one. As you note, some of our elected leaders are hypocrites. The other choice is unelected bureaucrats, and some of them are hypocrites, too.
Or it's called hypocrisy. Or, you pay your business and city tax for police protection as a business owner and when you call the police no one shows up. I won;t mention his name but a certain business owner tried to open a week too early in Santa Monica during Corona. He was arrested and handcuffed. The next week, looters looted his gym in front of the same police officers that arrested him and they did nothing. Nothing!!! Why? Plus, no one was practicing what you dad of 4 have preached to us. That is a huge problem that is the smoking gun and why this has been too heavy handedness and the heavys have been left leaning politicians who don;t practice what they preach and are on record saying they hate rich business owners. The fact is, most "rich" business owners are not rich at all. They actually were providing jobs for people and now no more jobs to offer and it's all t fault too. Wow, you can;t make this stuff up. I can see, can you see? I hope our former President can speak with love and hope. Let's see what he has to say daddy o
Here's play #5 for next week in their play book. More cases and the second wave is coming earlier than expected. Kids had to get out to protest and what we found is they need to stay home more because they actually are the one's bringing it to the unhealthy. The can't play youth sports for the rest of the year because we have been through so much and we can;t afford more cases to come out and the nation needs time to heal plus all the soccer players need months to get back into shape and it's just too early.
The protests are not good for disease control. But that doesn’t mean we moved the bar for everything else. It just means that stopping the protests with a crackdown is worse than accomodating them.
What the hell is that supposed to mean!? I swear leftists are the most racist people around!!! Do you just assume that POC don't enjoy golfing or tennis in your world? That they can't afford it? White kids don't skateboard or play BB? I have many golfing buddies that are something other that lily white rich guys.
I‘m talking age and income, not race.
Bullshit. Golf was a rich mans sport many, many years ago. And Tennis costs very little at the rec level.
Remind me again how many business were looted and burned down then?
Police need to go after the looters and anarchists, instead of standing in a line all day in front of peaceful protesters. Arrest the looters, and THEN come back for the curfew breakers.
The answer was zero.....
That would be a deflection because the actual answer doesn't fit your preferred narrative. Grace is all over this. It is inconsistent and nonsensical, which is when people will no longer comply. The federal/state/local messaging and policy positions have been atrocious. Impossible to defend no youth sports outside but malls are open. Ticketing people for going to church and staying in their cars, but not ticketing people for standing next to each other in a mass group while breaking a curfew? Home Depot is OK, but not Best Buy? Looting is not an infection issue, but going alone to the beach is? The OC Park's department on its website this morning has a note providing that building a sandcastle is not permitted. Really? Care to explain that one? Doesn't say by more than one person, just not permitted. No umbrellas, either. Or sunbathing. I missed all the data out of Italy about how sitting alone under an umbrella at the beach was such a dangerous transmission risk. Target is OK, but people can't get married or have a funeral regardless of their mitigation activities? There is no data supporting that minor children engaged in sporting activity outside has proven to be any source of increased transmission risk to the kids, their families or the public at large. We now have several weeks of data from states where these activities are permitted. Where is the hospitalization spike connected to these activities in those states? There isn't one. Was government right to react aggressively in the face of an unknown risk? Sure. Has it been right to refuse to adapt to new information in a timely or consistent way? No, it hasn't. And why have those who refused to adapt tended to be Democrats? You remember that they are the science party, right? I guess only scary science, though. Gov. Whitmer threatened those protesting her shut in order with another month of restrictions based on the exposure risk the presented by protesting. I haven't heard any governor say that about these current protests, which are obviously dramatically larger. Have you? If COVID was such a risk that we needed to shut down the national economy and today keep it in largely a crippled state to protect the public against transmission of this virus, what difference would it make what the subject of the protest was? Exactly zero if we are talking science. But we aren't. We are talking politics in an election year.
