Pineapple Grill and Saloon, a restaurant and bar in the Los Angeles area, was forced to closed down its outdoor seating while a movie company was given permission to create an outdoor dining space in the parking lot directly across from the establishment. The owner took to social media to call out Mayor Eric Garcetti:

Jake Coco 💙🇺🇸🎶🐻 @jakecoco

Bar owner in Los Angeles CA is livid to see that mayor Garcetti has approved an outdoor dining area for a movie company directly across from her outdoor dining area (which was shut down)

California Democrats shut down businesses and threaten business owners like this woman with major fines and jail time while the cultural aristocracy is allowed to set up shop and provide virtually the exact same services. It’s time to get mad as hell.

Mac’s Public House was shut down over NYC restrictions:

When indoor dining was banned in the area because of high coronavirus infection rates, the bar continued to serve local customers inside.
When the state suspended the pub’s liquor license, the general manager announced a way to skirt the law: by serving food and alcohol for free — still indoors — in exchange for a contribution.
Keith McAlarney, the bar owner, ignored cease-and-desist notices and rapidly accruing fines, he said. Mr. McAlarney painted an orange rectangle out front and declared the bar an “autonomous zone.” He publicly taunted Mr. Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio, whom he called “de Bozo,” to come down in person and take the license off the wall.

Co-owner Danny Presti taken away like a hardened criminal in handcuffs:

“I have nothing to lose,” said Presti. “Our city and state government can’t keep kicking the can down the line to the federal governmentbecause the federal government didn’t shut us.” The state responded:

Jack Sterne @JRSterne

Spokespeople for Cuomo and de Blasio slammed the bar for “putting your neighbors’ lives at risk during a global pandemic to make a political statement.” “This owner is learning that actions have consequences,” Cuomo spokesman Jack Sterne told the Times.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost

Hundreds of Staten Island protesters rally around a bar shut down for defying covid rules: "Open up!" https://t.co/CPSqmfK7HE

Except there is reportedly a restaurant around the corner allowed to remain open while SNL can host studio audiences but all of Broadway remains closed. Cuomo and de Blasio’s insipid remark only makes sense if you disregard the virus’s 99% survivability rate. Infection isn’t instant fatality, but that’s the fear-mongering anti-science behind the lockdown narrative. Are they not worried about the lives that the lockdown costs?

It’s no wonder that depression rates for every age demographic have tripled with this pandemic lockdown.
Domestic abuse has increased globally since the lockdown.
Child abuse cases have increased.
Foster kids are in jeopardy.
60% of small businesses that closed during the last lockdown will not reopen.
Others barely hanging on are giving up.
Even though schools aren’t super-spreaders and medical professionals have been telling districts to reopen, many haven’t (NYC just closed theirs again).
Remote learning isn’t working and our kids are falling behind. Badly falling behind.
A new nickname has developed for an entire generation of kids: Generation Covid. And no, the kids aren’t alright.
People are turning to drugs and alcohol to cope.
Fatal drug overdoses have skyrocketed.
Deaths from non-coronavirus health issues have climbed since the start of the last lockdown as people don’t seek medical care for treatable illnesses. The lockdown could kill more than the virus.

Another NYC landmark faces closure because of the state’s shutdowns:

Karol Markowicz @karol

I'm tired of people expressing sadness or whatever at every story like this. Get angry about every dead and dying business and demand our elected officials let them open. That's it.

Arlene’s Grocery on ‘Life Support,’ Closing February 1With live music in total freefall for the pandemic-fueled duration, performance venues are barely hanging on. Here on the Lower East Side, iconic rock venue Arlene’s Grocery is officially on the endangered list. The establishment at 85 Stanton Street made a serious public appeal over the Thank…boweryboogie.com

Like I said, it’s time to get mad as hell. I agree with my friend Nick Searcy. It’s time for mass civil disobedience:

SUPER-SPREADER Nick Searcy, INT’L FILM & TV STAR @yesnicksearcy

Restaurant owners have to say WE ARE OPENING UP, and then people have to go eat there. We have to make them arrest us. It is time for civil disobedience.

President-Elect DJHutchinson @DJHutchinson2

That is so wrong on so many levels!!!! Isn't there anything ANYBODY can do????? https://t.co/RRzzlcdeEi

To reiterate, The virus is awful and we will never vanquish it. Some health professionals are talking of making face masks and distancing the new normal. Meanwhile the makers of one vaccine don’t actually know if it prevents transmission.

The second wave of vaccine rollout may be … Wall Street traders?

Sunny Oh @SunnyOhHK

Wall Street traders could be second in line for a COVID-19 vaccine after healthcare workers and nursing home residents. A trade group told me they asked the CDC to treat financial workers as "essential," per DHS guidelines

Wall Street and finance workers could get COVID vaccines before most AmericansFinancial industry workers could be second in line after healthcare workers and nursing home residentsmarketwatch.com

The people who supported from D.C. your states shutting you down, ruining the economy, forcing your children to essentially forfeit a year of education are just playing politics when it comes to any federal relief after the eminent domain of the marketplace.

Jake Sherman @JakeSherman

PELOSI has held out for a big deal for 6 or so months. She said this morning that now that BIDEN is president, she is willing to do a smaller deal.

RNC Research @RNCResearch

Nancy Pelosi admits it was her “decision” to block coronavirus relief for months youtu.be/iynWvqLQ3Ao

As for the apparent belief that Pelosi was going to take these funds and whisk off to hospitals around the country where she would personally award fistfuls of cash drawn from her Chanel handbag to tired health care workers across the country, well, no:

Atherton, California, is the richest town in America with an average annual household income of $525,000. Located 20 miles from Silicon Valley, the San Francisco suburb is home to the many tech titans of Google and Facebook.
Knowing this, Americans would be right to ask why Nancy Pelosi’s Heroes Act shelled out $3.8 million in coronavirus “aid” money to Atherton. We contacted Speaker Pelosi and the Atherton city manager for comment and did not receive a response.
Atherton isn’t the only rich suburb to receive bailouts from American taxpayers. Our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com cross-referenced the nation’s 50 richest communities listed in the Bloomberg 2020 Richest Places with Heroes Act coronavirus bailouts.
[…]
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected both high- and low-income communities, but it’s unclear why such wealthy neighborhoods need so much money to weather the storm.

From FEE:

Watchdogs from OpenTheBooks.com inspected the fine print of the HEROES Act and found that it allocates $350 million to the 50 richest communities in America. The average annual income in these areas ranged from $262,988 to $525,324.
“It’s unclear why such wealthy neighborhoods need so much money to weather the storm,” Adam Andrzejewski of OpenTheBooks.com wrote.“Should American taxpayers from lower-income areas be subsidizing the lifestyles of the rich and famous?
Some might reasonably look at a figure like $350 million and conclude that, in the context of a $2.2 trillion bill, it is a relatively small amount of money. But we mustn't forget that this figure is only looking at a tiny sample size. It is not all the money this bill allocates to wealthy zip codes, just a snapshot.

This is a virus, a second virus of tyranny for which there is not cure and no treatment but vigilance and the exercise of freedom. As for the coronavirus, we can vaccinate against it, build up our immunities, but just as with chicken pox, polio, and other illnesses before this one, there is no cure, there is only prevention and acclimation. Overreaction is a lesser enemy, moderation is an ally, and the act of denying you your freedom is an enemy.

It’s time for civil, polite, responsible disobedience with inconsistent, unscientific demands that indicate a lack of regard for the rest of the lives just as negatively impacted by this pandemic.

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