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In California there were lots of people walking around outside after curfew. And you were always allowed to leave your home at any time to exercise. There was o

In California there were lots of people walking around outside after curfew. And you were always allowed to leave your home at any time to exercise. There was often a police presence down at the beach, but they didn't enforce anything. Not even fines.

vibrato2 5y ago
There’s a lot of video evidence to the contrary on your beach claim. Personally I was nearly run over by a police suv and tackled off my skateboard at noon by an officer in a major American city for violating park closure.
- asdff 5y ago
  It depends on the city. In LA people still played pickup basketball and soccer despite whatever the mayor was saying and the police only got serious about the beaches a few times. Surfers never stopped going out naturally.
jdavis703 5y ago
There was an 8pm curfew with emergency alerts broadcast to everyone’s cellphone. You were only allowed to be out if you were heading home. I was out at the time when the alert was issued, and got gassed along with hundreds of others. There are news articles about this.
- s1artibartfast 5y ago
  Can you share a link. I am sympathetic to the overreach, and would like to find out more.
- asdff 5y ago
  The cops were only enforcing curfew on protestors and that was only like a few blocks of the city. You could still drive around town fine in elsewhere LA at least during the curfew. Cops don't really pull people over here that often to begin with.
- majormajor 5y ago
  I think here you are mixing up pandemic-related WFH and protest-related curfews from a much shorter period of time in 2020 (under a week, where I was). WFH - what the article is about - and pandemic restrictions were much less aggressively enforced.
  - jdavis703 5y ago
    Ah you’re correct. There was a separate 11pm curfew that came a few weeks later from the health authorities. But the 8pm curfew was from from law enforcement. Regardless, of whether the curfew is 8pm or 11pm or enforced with rubber bullets or official letterhead, it’s still restrictive.

vibrato2 5y ago

There’s a lot of video evidence to the contrary on your beach claim. Personally I was nearly run over by a police suv and tackled off my skateboard at noon by an officer in a major American city for violating park closure.

asdff 5y ago
It depends on the city. In LA people still played pickup basketball and soccer despite whatever the mayor was saying and the police only got serious about the beaches a few times. Surfers never stopped going out naturally.

jdavis703 5y ago

There was an 8pm curfew with emergency alerts broadcast to everyone’s cellphone. You were only allowed to be out if you were heading home. I was out at the time when the alert was issued, and got gassed along with hundreds of others. There are news articles about this.

s1artibartfast 5y ago
Can you share a link. I am sympathetic to the overreach, and would like to find out more.
asdff 5y ago
The cops were only enforcing curfew on protestors and that was only like a few blocks of the city. You could still drive around town fine in elsewhere LA at least during the curfew. Cops don't really pull people over here that often to begin with.
majormajor 5y ago
I think here you are mixing up pandemic-related WFH and protest-related curfews from a much shorter period of time in 2020 (under a week, where I was). WFH - what the article is about - and pandemic restrictions were much less aggressively enforced.
- jdavis703 5y ago
  Ah you’re correct. There was a separate 11pm curfew that came a few weeks later from the health authorities. But the 8pm curfew was from from law enforcement. Regardless, of whether the curfew is 8pm or 11pm or enforced with rubber bullets or official letterhead, it’s still restrictive.