A Shasta County supervisors' meeting was faced with verbal threats to government officials and talk of civil war. "You have made bullets expensive. But luckily for you, ropes are reusable," one person threatened.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March, pet rescues and shelters across California have seen kitten and dog adoptions soar to the point that they have waiting lists.
Some adopters, interested in companionship and a stress relief amid the lockdown, are willing to wait weeks for a pet.
A lack of veterinary services and COVID restrictions on opening facilities made wait times to adopt pets even longer.
Dog adoptions quadrupled in spring during the stay-at-home order, said Venus Hocking, manager at Happy Tails Pet Sanctuary in Sacramento. Her pet rescue received 25 to 30 dog adoption applications daily in March. Willing to drive ten hours to adopt
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The North State is the place to live if you’re a COVID-denying, curfew-breaking, face-mask-burning, anti-science, pro-Trump, China-flu-believer. Bonus points for you if you’re in that group and you also own, for example, a restaurant, such as the San Francisco Deli, Dill’s Deli or a slew of other COVID-19 non-compliant Redding restaurants – too many to list here – or the Palomino Room in Red Bluff, all of which openly disregard state COVID mandates, seemingly minus consequences.
It’s not like these places behave like sneaky speakeasies of the 1920s, with curtains drawn and secret knocks and passwords required for quiet entry. Rather, 100 years later there’s a different kind of prohibition backlash: bars and restaurants that remain open in willful defiance of state-mandated COVID shutdowns. This time around, all the lights are on, and patrons post happy photos of themselves at these establishments, as if we’re living in pre-pandemic times.