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Phil Davis's avatar

I'll add one more. Police have been called on me more times than I can count. Sometimes I engaged them because they showed up in time. Usually I was gone before they arrived if they ever did.

The conversation always went one way, this is private property, they can tell you to use a mask or leave.

The times it was government property or outside I would ask what law I violated. They said it was a health policy, I asked for the Bill number that my state passed to make me wear a mask, they said the governor made the call. I then asked if the governor can make law.

The circular arguments went on like this and the end result was they would arrest me, again citing no law broken.

I used to somewhat respect police, now I have very limited respect to none. They are loyal to a paycheck only. I've always wondered how the people of Germany went along with Hitler. Now we know, we have clear evidence of a mass formation psychosis and police that only care about their jobs. It's a simple formula.

I also have too comment on the backboneless people in general. They disgust me.

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My heart goes out to you. I was born and spent most of my life in SF (and LA). I have an MBA, have held senior positions in the finance world, and have owned houses in SF, Marin and the Peninsula. I am very comfortable with numbers/stats. For decades I’ve been basically apolitical. To watch this whole pandemic public policy response unfold, especially in CA, has seemed so irrational to me. It is the worst kind of manipulation, where authority takes advantage of the general population’s trust and sense of community to force compassionate, good people to do irrational, self-damaging things under the guise of “helping others.” And then these former “good” people turn on their neighbors. The populations’ trust in “experts” combined with the inability to do basic research into the primary data has been eye opening. We blindly accepted mandates for experimental injectable products from an industry that has a history of putting profits ahead of people. No matter what you believe, nobody knows whether these products are safe, because there is NO long term data. Period. All one had to do was a small amount of basic research online to realize we were regularly being lied to about so many things, but the more I tried to share my research with others the more they maligned me as a “Trumper” or right wing “anti-vaxxer.” The fact that you continue to state your truth (which I believe is accurate, not because I’m Red or Blue, but because I can research primary data), the more gratitude I have for your commitment. It takes character to walk alone through the wilderness, babbling to the world with only the strength of your convictions as a companion. Thank you! Thank You! You may never be accepted as “right” but you will always know you did the “right” thing. BTW, I no longer live in CA.

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