Jbay arrests after no crowds prove too tempting

Prevent others from doing the same

I think the point is to look like you're doing something because you have no idea what to do

The San Diego example - the mayor has previously bungled one epidemic (Hep A) and has long be expected to run for governor one day - the county called out the city for failing to manage the beach and said they'd close the beaches if they couldn't manage it, effectively blaming the city - so the mayor just closed the beaches so (1) he doesn't get pwned for incompetence and (2) can pretend like he was proactive in future political campaign ads when the state/county were keeping beaches open... there's probably even more high school level drama among some of the players but that's really secondary

Anywhere that's ostensibly a liberal democracy with elected leaders can have their own local flavor of this kind of dick swinging and pissing contests

Oceanside handled it like a boss and was like fuck all that noise, but Del Mar-Carlsbad has too many NIMBYs and kooks that might prefer keeping beaches closed and don't want to deal with the added traffic once SD closed

This ends today's episode of "what does politics have to do with surfing"

there was a post yesterday showing how good it was

https://www.reddit.com/r/surfing/comments/fqgz5m/if_firing_jbay_can_be_empty_to_curb_the_spread_of/

Everything closed in SC today

It's not because a single surfer is a problem. It's because people as a whole are too selfish and dumb to have access to the beaches and practice distancing so they went with zero tolerance. Yes zero tolerance is a lazy solution, but carving out who can use the beach and coming up with an enforcable method to allow us to surf is (and should be ) a low priority for society right now.