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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDozens of people attended a party for first responders in Los Angeles without wearing masks or ...
Dozens of people attended a party for first responders in Los Angeles without wearing masks or social distancingThe party, according to a spokeswoman for the Hollywood bar, was meant to be a mix of first responders as a way to celebrate their profession. CNN was tipped off to the event by a source with direct knowledge of the party, who was told it would involve 100 to 150 law enforcement personnel at Sassafras Saloon.
Attendees entered through the back door, where a small desk with a candle greeted them outside. The owners of the Sassafras Saloon rented the bar out to someone who wanted to "honor a group of first responders," according to Lisa Strangis, a spokeswoman for 1933 Group, which owns the bar on North Vine St.Strangis was unwilling to name which agency the first responders belonged to.
"Everybody is either family or works at the same place so that's why we don't have Covid concerns," said a man who spoke to CNN outside the bar Friday night. "They micro-group or whatever with each other and everyone's been tested and everything. That's why we all know that everyone in there is cool." The man, who declined to identify himself, claimed, "Everybody's spaced there. Everybody's wearing things. Everybody's getting temperature checks."
CNN did not observe any of that occurring.
The event took place as California surpassed 500,000 cases of Covid-19 -- the highest number of cases for any US state, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. As of Sunday, more than 9,300 people in the state had died since the start of the pandemic.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/02/us/los-angeles-first-responders-covid-party/index.html
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Dozens of people attended a party for first responders in Los Angeles without wearing masks or ... (Original Post)
left-of-center2012
Aug 2020
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chowder66
(9,120 posts)1. These people are pissing me right off.
Initech
(100,164 posts)5. I wonder if the constant temperature checking is really helping.
Like look at that school in Indiana or that camp in Georgia. While you're checking for fevers, someone else showing other symptoms could get into a place and really do some damage. I think we really need to overhaul our screening methods if we are going to open more things up.
JI7
(89,293 posts)2. It was just a reason to go drinking .
herding cats
(19,569 posts)3. Sure, that's how you support first responders.
Except it's the antithesis of supporting them. This is literally how first responders end up sick and/or dead. 😑
Initech
(100,164 posts)4. This is like saying you won the World Series when you're in the fourth inning of game 1.
we can do it
(12,227 posts)6. Say cops when it's law enforcement, FFS.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,506 posts)7. Not good optics for our youth from public service employees.
I understand the need to blow off some steam in this high-stress environment today but for goodness sake, keep it small and private.
KY.......
oasis
(49,522 posts)8. Brigade of drunken dunces.
crickets
(25,996 posts)9. These are the very people who ought to know better. What idiots. nt