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Doug Young's avatar

We were on a Florida trip in December and attended the Miami Brownstone Institute event celebrating Joe Ladapo's accomplishments, and his speech couldn't have been more informative, combative, funny & human. We still live in San Francisco, and the contrast of life in Miami, which is also can international, cosmopolitan, multi-ethnic, gay-friendly, medium-sized but dense, couldn't be starker. Hardly any masks, smiles everywhere, helpful people, open storefronts, ...What a difference a governor makes in these times.

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Chevrus's avatar

Is SF still in the covid frenzy? I lived there for 10 years and I really liked it. Close to nature, nice air off the pacific. It’s the NIMBY capitol of the nation though.

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Doug Young's avatar

Not a COVID frenzy, but the "librarians" and much of the ethnic communities where they're still masking back in their origin countries are pretty heavily masked, even walking outside. You still have to mask in courts, public health meetings, etc., so the government can't let it go. Most long-term citizens are done w/it and are starting to organize, in person!, against the homeless industrial complex, crime, and other issues that plague the city. Our team still mans COVID vax info tables whenever we can, people are way more receptive than a year ago, and we've done away w/all vax mandates. They Symphony & Opera were the longest holdouts they finally came to their senses a few months ago.

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Kitkat's avatar

I was in SF this past weekend. Luckily stayed away from Downtown and just stuck with the more nature-y stuff. It's incredibly sad how fast and far that once-beautiful city has fallen. 3 days of all the BLM signs, Ukraine flags and rainbow flags in all the windows was enough for me.

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daverkb's avatar

Woke! Sodom and Gomorrah! Ideological Idiot Stupidifed, Satanic Epicenter and in rebellion against God and a righteous moral order! And to think that the Golden Gate once had a placard on it reading something like this, 'the golden gate to spreading Christianity to the East'.

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Turfseer's avatar

Here in NY I think there are a few private companies still asking for vax passports.

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https://turfseer.substack.com/p/passport-to-hell

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Chevrus's avatar

Well that's good news! My wife and I went for a visit 3 years ago this coming week right before the Covid Narrative kicked off. Stayed at friends place out on Sloat, borrowed a car and barely ever went into town. HMB, headlands Pt. Reyes, oh how I miss all that. But damn the homeless drug area had spread waaaaay past the Tenderloins, 6th and Market etc... That's what happens when you enable it I guess.

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JW's avatar

We moved out if HMB after being born and raised there. Heartbreaking such a beautiful state is benig decimated this way. Miss the dungeness crab too. 🦀

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CaplT's avatar

Yes it is, even tho most places don’t require masks they strongly recommend them. Many are very happy to keep their nose blanky.

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Turfseer's avatar

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Ripple's avatar

I'm across the Bay in Berkeley and most of the mandates have gone away, with a few holdouts. I was required to mask when I brought my cat to the vet or otherwise wait outside. There is a bakery/pizzeria up the street that requires a mask to order at a counter; they never resumed indoor seating. A small music venue downtown just transitioned from mask required to mask recommended.

Testing sites across the city are being shut down, there's nothing like the injection and testing fervor of 2021-early 2022, Covid seems to have mostly stopped being a major thing in people's minds. Unfortunately it does seem like masking among a sizable minority of people is here to stay. Some of them are my friends...

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Formerly_Known_As_Someone's avatar

Not so many masks anymore, but SF is 86% vaxxed and 38% bivalent boostered, put it that way … Bay Area/Silicon Valley universities still mandating shots.

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Susan Banks's avatar

Thank you for that caparison!! That was great to hear Miami and San Francisco are different in that respect. What I can’t understand is that Newsome has been dead 2 years at least! He was one of the very bad! This is a Clone of him. He was deep deep state!!

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