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The Supreme Court this week ruled that California's law stating that no more than 3 families may gather in their home for religious services is unconstitutional. To paraphrase (the alleged grifter) Nick Rekieta of Rekieta Law, a Small Law Firm in Central Minnesota - "This is a good ruling. The Supreme Court has repeatedly told the 9th Circuit that California Laws cracking down on Religious actions over those of Secular actions are inherently unconstitutional. Special considerations need to be paid when cracking down on the freedom to worship as you see fit, and there is no evidence that 3 families in a religious setting spreads Covid any better than more than 3 families settings in a secular setting, as such discrimination is currently permitted by California Law".
This has of course upset many Californians. If you were to look at Twitter's response to this ruling, you would believe that any and all Covid deaths from this moment onwards will be from the sharing of altar wine between the neighborhood Catholics, and that the Supreme Court is made up of religious looneys who care about Jesus more than grandma.
What we didn't hear about was the fact that California reopened the Bath Houses. No, not today after the vaccine has been distributed to the most vulnerable. Not in March when California's warm air allowed cases to drop dramatically. They reopened them in July of 2020. In the exact middle of "The second wave" and just months before the "Third wave" that killed tens of thousands of Californians. As far as I can tell, this went over everyone's head. With only a select few news articles reporting on it (mainly LGBT+ publications), and the only Kiwifarmer I could even find talking about it was some random guy in the Covid Megathread who shared a video.
So in the mid 1980s with the outbreak of AIDS, the Health Department made the call saying that Bath Houses had to be shut down - which was shortly cemented into law with municipalities and the state banning private rooms with lockable doors. As of July 2020, these laws have all but been reversed.
Why do I bring this up? Why am I writing a short essay on a disease 4 decades after its outbreak, and long after we have mitigated it?
Over the past 13 months the government has stripped us of our most basic rights. They've taken away our rights to peacefully practice our religion, they've banned activities that they deem "unessential", and they've stripped small businesses of the right to operate while giving large corporations protections. Even now, the Californian legislature has to be admonished by the Supreme Court itself just to allow three or more families to worship together.
Through all of that though, they'll still tell you "It's the teenagers not wearing masks to pool parties! It's the restaurants reopening! It's the Church that had 51 people in it that's causing the virus to spread! You're why my 102 year old Grandma died alone!". They'll strip you of your freedoms while blaming you for it - and in the meantime they'll allow rioting on the streets, change the law so raping a boy is no longer a felony, and specifically reopen locations so young men can go have sex in public. They wouldn't let you get a haircut "out of an abundance of precaution", and your sons and daughters had to lose out on their senior prom because "if it even saves just one life", but meanwhile casual sexual encounters between random young men was legalized just because banning it wasn't nice to the LGBT. Never forget one simple fact. They hate you, and they're not afraid to show you how much they hate you.
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One of the articles I used to do some cursory research. My Google Ads are going to be filled with Gay Sex Websites for the next 6 months because of how many times I Googled "California Bath Houses" while writing this.
This has of course upset many Californians. If you were to look at Twitter's response to this ruling, you would believe that any and all Covid deaths from this moment onwards will be from the sharing of altar wine between the neighborhood Catholics, and that the Supreme Court is made up of religious looneys who care about Jesus more than grandma.
What we didn't hear about was the fact that California reopened the Bath Houses. No, not today after the vaccine has been distributed to the most vulnerable. Not in March when California's warm air allowed cases to drop dramatically. They reopened them in July of 2020. In the exact middle of "The second wave" and just months before the "Third wave" that killed tens of thousands of Californians. As far as I can tell, this went over everyone's head. With only a select few news articles reporting on it (mainly LGBT+ publications), and the only Kiwifarmer I could even find talking about it was some random guy in the Covid Megathread who shared a video.
In case you're too young to care why I bring this up - prior to the mid 1980s, Bath Houses were more or less publicly private locations in California where young gay men could meet up to have sex. With the advent of the AIDS epidemic though, they quickly became a hotspot for transmissions, and one of the leading factors for spreading AIDS. If you don't know much about AIDS, please, go read an article about it. Covid is like a mild tickle in your throat when compared to the AIDS epidemic. HIV is a horrible way to die, and its only saving grace is that it can only really be spread through gay sex and blood transfusions. Up until the advent of modern medicines like PREP, if you were infected, there was essentially no way to survive AIDS and all you had to look forward to was a slow and painful death.San Francisco is trying to open the pozzed bathhouses, but wants to keep churches closed.
So in the mid 1980s with the outbreak of AIDS, the Health Department made the call saying that Bath Houses had to be shut down - which was shortly cemented into law with municipalities and the state banning private rooms with lockable doors. As of July 2020, these laws have all but been reversed.
Why do I bring this up? Why am I writing a short essay on a disease 4 decades after its outbreak, and long after we have mitigated it?
Over the past 13 months the government has stripped us of our most basic rights. They've taken away our rights to peacefully practice our religion, they've banned activities that they deem "unessential", and they've stripped small businesses of the right to operate while giving large corporations protections. Even now, the Californian legislature has to be admonished by the Supreme Court itself just to allow three or more families to worship together.
Through all of that though, they'll still tell you "It's the teenagers not wearing masks to pool parties! It's the restaurants reopening! It's the Church that had 51 people in it that's causing the virus to spread! You're why my 102 year old Grandma died alone!". They'll strip you of your freedoms while blaming you for it - and in the meantime they'll allow rioting on the streets, change the law so raping a boy is no longer a felony, and specifically reopen locations so young men can go have sex in public. They wouldn't let you get a haircut "out of an abundance of precaution", and your sons and daughters had to lose out on their senior prom because "if it even saves just one life", but meanwhile casual sexual encounters between random young men was legalized just because banning it wasn't nice to the LGBT. Never forget one simple fact. They hate you, and they're not afraid to show you how much they hate you.
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One of the articles I used to do some cursory research. My Google Ads are going to be filled with Gay Sex Websites for the next 6 months because of how many times I Googled "California Bath Houses" while writing this.
