[thrwaway2day]

It also isn't a good look when the restrictions happen to fall on apparent political lines, even if it isn't intentional.

Hollywood productions, Amazon warehouses, protests in line with democratic party values, abortion clinics and pot shops = D leaning voters = Allowed, if not encouraged

Small businesses, churches, protests of lockdown measures, gun ranges, Musk and Tesla = R leaning voters = Forbidden, shun them, they are going to kill grandma

Add to that the many of the people advocating for these policies fail to follow them themselves (Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, London Breed, Dianne Feinstein just to name a few) and you can see how many especially those who are losing their livelihoods see this as a attack and are frustrated. The optics are extremely bad, though that might be the point.

[gamblor956]

Tesla was deemed an essential business and remains open...

Outdoor gun ranges are also still open.

Churches are still open.

Also, most of Amazons warehouses are in conservative areas like San Bernardino and largely white employ right leaning voters.

Simply put, while the latest lockdowns follow the same ineffectual policies of the earlier lockdowns, they're not based on targeting ideological opponents and protecting political allies.

[nickthemagicman]

Musk had to fight tooth and nail for months to reopen and he's now moving to Texas because of this.

Chruches are only open because the highest court in the land, the surpreme court, overruled the Gov of Cali executive branches restrictions.

Outdoor gun ranges? Almost everything out door is still open...

Amazon is from Seattle and Bezos owns the WaPo. It's not conservative.

https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-reported...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/us/coronavirus-supreme-co...

Simply put, Corona restrictions can easily be viewed as being ideologically based and also be viewed as having been weaponized against opposing political groups in California to hurt them, and its very concerning to see.

[nickthemagicman]

Whats it going to take for people to freak out and revolt, it's time. It's clearly extremely bad.

[mindslight]

It's going to take the people not getting distracted by red herrings. So much outrage has been channeled into destructive memes like denying that Covid is a problem and rebelling against simple measures to stop the spread.

The real problem is the unsustainable structure of the economy. I don't think this woman is being driven to tears because she really wants to be running her restaurant right now, but rather because she's going to lose it completely when she falls off the debt treadmill. Instead of small businesses and individuals getting recurring stimulus and suspended rent/mortgages/taxes, we got peanuts. Meanwhile trillions of dollars were given to Wall St to make sure the magic Line keeps going up. That was a massive theft from the public to the plutocrats. But until the outrage stops getting divided and derailed by distractions, I'm afraid it will only continue.