The World Is Locked Down. Should You Surf? | “We’re counting on you to not be an asshole,”
California is in a state of lockdown as is much of the world. Technically we are allowed and encouraged to go out and exercise still in the outdoors. So that includes surfing, backcountry snowboarding, and skateboarding. Just don’t be an asshole about it. Don’t get hurt. Don’t get near anyone. And if you’re traveling at all for it be self-sufficient so you’re not contaminating anywhere else you filthy bastards!
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We should appreciate not only the Governor’s understanding that drastic action needs to be taken — at this point we all know our roles in “flattening the curve” to prevent a sudden spike in infections that would overwhelm our medical infrastructure and cost untold lives — but also for the tone of the order. The order is mandatory and administration officials have stated violators could be subject to a misdemeanor, according to the LA Times. But on the subject of enforcement, the Governor said, “I think people are making sense of what this is and what this isn’t. And again, on a regulatory bucket, we have enforcement that’s not traditional law enforcement, but we have regulatory enforcement, licensing enforcement from a business perspective and then we have social pressure that you, others, common sense will place on people, and of course we have the capacity to move beyond that.”
In other words, it’s on us to accept personal responsibility as citizens of this state and as human beings during a global crisis. “We’re counting on you to not be an asshole,” essentially.
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