Galveston, Texas — After spending two months in Warden Newsom’s COVID-19 prison, I decided it was time to make like El Chapo, and escape to freedom.
I was sick and tired of staring at the same four walls, watching Judge Judy reruns and eating Uncrustables — with no end in sight.
First, they told us all we needed to do was flatten the curve and not overwhelm the hospitals. Now, we are expected to stay inside until there is herd immunity or we get a vaccine.
But who knows how long before that happens, if it ever does. After all, we are still waiting on vaccines for SARS, HIV and MERS, among others.
Who’s got time for that?
The last straw for me was when the owners of one of my favorite restaurants, The Tropicale, in Palm Springs, were fined $1,000 for allowing an employee to rest at a table after finishing their shift.
According to owner Ranz Weinert, “Welcome to a taste of communism aka Palm Springs, California. Got this citation because we had employees who just finished their shifts enjoying shift drinks out of plastic glasses waiting for their take out employee meal. Completely socially distanced from any other customer picking up their food. No warning given by this thug. Just a $1,000 fine.”
If there’s one thing every restaurant owner in this state needs right now it’s more unnecessary expenses.
The best part is, the code cop who wrote the citation — let’s call her “Karen” — crossed out the fines listed, and bumped them up to $1,000 in pen, as if you can actually do that legally.
In all, Weinert was confronted by two uniformed code enforcement officers, four uniformed and armed police officers and three police cars, for the unconscionable sin of serving food in a restaurant.
First, the state ordered restaurants to create smoke-free sections; now they’re making them create no-eating sections. Is this really legal?
The cops who descended on this hotbed of crime were all wearing masks, which is what you do when you’re illegally holding up a place for $1,000.
Only in California.
Granted, we don’t get a lot of crime in Palm Springs, except maybe for the occasional double-parked Rascal scooter.
Ultimately, a public outcry forced the city of Palm Springs to back down and waive the citation. But you don’t have to be an ardent libertarian for this abuse of power to frost your cookies.
Needless to say, it was definitely time for me to “social distance” from the state of California. Which is why, over the weekend, I — and other freedom-seeking Californians — got on a plane and flew to Texas.
It was the COVID-19 equivalent of being on the last helicopter out of Hanoi.
Now that I’m in the Lone Star State, I must confess — freedom tastes good. In fact, it tastes like a steak and scotch at a restaurant with other humans. The restaurants and bars are busy, people are spending money, and they’re sick and tired of wasting their lives away while politicians who don’t know what they’re talking about constantly move the goalposts. The vulnerable wear masks or stay home, and everyone else is living their lives as normal.
When I tell my friends back home in California what life is like here, they freak out and act like I decided to play in traffic on my vacation.
Well, the numbers suggest otherwise. On May 25, Texas had the fewest COVID-19 fatalities since the end of March. It also had the fewest COVID hospitalizations since the middle of April. And, it has the second most recoveries from COVID in America.Taking this trip has been a much needed and uplifting experience.
Clueless politicians, “health experts” and the mainstream media may try to beat us down with bad models, a constant barrage of fear porn, but coming to Texas has proven to me that they won’t succeed.
The rest of America still loves freedom, and soon California will too.
John Phillips can be heard weekdays from noon to 3 p.m. on “The John Phillips Show” on KABC/AM 790.
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