I posted about some anti-maskers targeting schools in Beverly Hills a while back. Here they are in my neck of the woods in Santa Monica:
At John Adams Middle School/Will Rogers Elementary in Santa Monica, where anti-mask activists are protesting public safety guidelines requiring masks in school.
Multiple SMPD cruisers nearby.
This is the third such protest in Los Angeles that I’ve documented.
A man walking a dog yells at the protesters to “get the fuck out of my neighborhood.”
A woman tells a protester that she has lost 3 family members to covid. The anti-masker says “it probably wasn’t even Covid that killed them.“
A parent confronts the anti-mask protesters over approaching his son. He tells them they shouldn’t talk to other people’s children.
One protester tries handing out cards to the middle school students as they leave school. One girl tells them to “kill yourselves.”
A student asks one of the protesters if he is a doctor and tries to give him a mask. He asks, “Where’s your data? On Google?”, and then walks away.
One parent, apparently recognizing one of the protesters, yells at the group through his window. “Now I know, you’re that idiot!…We’ve had this conversation before.”
The driver says he has also lost somebody to of Covid, a theme of the day.
The protesters get into a conversation with a girl and her father, Dr. Blaine Pope, who works (it turns out) in public health. They say they shouldn’t be made to wear masks; Dr. Pope says they are missing the “public” part of “public health.”
One Protester tells Dr. Pope, who is Black, that the masks are “a form of slavery.” His daughter exclaims, “We have been through slavery, you have not!”
The conversation between Dr. Pope and the protesters went on for some time. I will excerpt portions of it at the end.
Then the High Schoolers got involved. Appropriately absurdist, in my view. How else can you respond to this lunacy?
A group of Santa Monica High seniors mount a counter protest…to protest labor conditions at the Krusty Crab? They are soon joined by Squidward.
“Krusty Krab Unfair” and “Valet Parking” among the counter protesters’ signs
Still more counter protesters show up, this time with “legalize ranch” and “I hate signs” signs.
One of the anti-maskers tries engaging with the high schoolers, asking where the Krusty Krab is.
The responses:
– “At the bottom of the ocean.”
– “Valet parking.”
– “Sus.”
– “The Krusty Krab is a metaphor for society.”
The protesters decide to leave, telling the high schoolers that they are “so indoctrinated.” As they go, the seniors tell them not to forget valet parking or legalizing ranch.
The protesters tell me that they plan on going to County Supervisor Shiela Khuel’s house next—a frequent target of their protests.
Dr. Pope asks an anti-masker to explain what “agenda” COVID-19 serves and to name the “they” behind it. The protesters answer that the agenda “is about control” in order to “depopulate the world.”
“For what end?”
“I just told you, it’s about control. It’s about depopulation.”
The protesters, who seem skeptical whether COVID-19 is even a real virus, argue that nobody is actually dying from COVID. Dr. Pope points out that COVID can precipitate a health crisis in vulnerable people.
Update: I was sent a screenshot of one of the protesters expressing dismay at the kids’ reactions.
They say that they “expected some kids to join us.” Instead, they were met by kids who “were dressed like they were grooming to become antifa.”
“They gave us middle fingers…”
Originally tweeted by Samuel Braslow (@SamBraslow) on May 3, 2021.
Boo hoo hoo. The teenagers had green hair! Oh lordy!
There is more at this link if you’d like to see some Santa Monica residents and the county supervisor Sheila Keuhl try to confront these people with facts and logic. I think the high school kids had their number.