Should we rise up or keep cruising Netflix?
San Diego surfers are waking up this morning as properly designated second-class citizens. Discriminated against at the highest levels of county politics. Bigoted toward for the first time since 1971 as the Coronavirus Apocalypse turns a new, draconian corner.
No surfing.
Recreational boating, swimming and surfing will be prohibited countywide beginning Saturday under new county orders directed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus, which claimed the life of another resident and reached 1,000 local cases as of Friday.
The mandatory order takes effect Saturday, while county officials on Thursday had strongly urged all people to wear facial coverings when leaving their homes.
Practicing what they preach, county supervisors Greg Cox and Nathan Fletcher, along with other officials, wore bandannas or scarfs at the daily afternoon press briefing Friday.
At the Friday county news briefing, Fletcher expanded on an order from Thursday that prohibited active recreation in the county such as basketball, football and volleyball.
“Included in active recreation are swimming, surfing and recreational boating,” he said. “All of those activities are prohibited countywide.”
Passive activities such as walking, jogging and hiking still are allowed, he said.
Activity-ism may well be the social curse we carry out of this troubled time. Judging others by how they play as opposed to the content of their hearts.
Shame.
Deep profound shame.
But should we take this opportunity to reach for our oppressed basketball, football, volleyball brothers and sisters?
A glorious underground union?
A National Association for the Advancement of Active People?
Has surfing been officially banned where you live or are you still blindly operating under the lie of equality?
More as the story develops.
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I’m waxing up my butt dart… quads are gonna be so toned
All of the hiking trails are also closed in SD!
What happened to Nathan Fletcher? I thought he was more core than this. Or is it just another round of OC/SD stone throwing? Perhaps OC has forgotten that Trestles is actually in SD County.
The image above of the ‘surfers being shamed with orange juice…’ is in fact an image from UC Davis campus from 2011 in which university students were pepper sprayed during an Occupy movement demonstration. To confirm this, long press the image and select ‘Search Google for this image’.
Incorrect, Heads down as the Author stated, clearly indicates the shame they’re feeling from being sprayed with orange juice.
What?
Good move. Piss those hippy surfies off. Control them you control the virus. Make San Dieago Great Again!!
Got emailed a photo from the Noosa surfcam that I can’t link to because I am too cheap to fork out for premium. The National Park at Noosa has supposedly been closed. And yet at least 100+ cock-sockets decided surfing 1′ of slow, gutless fucking ‘sliders’ was important. Almost all were either on mals or SUPs. This is why we won’t be allowed to have nice things in the near future. Current talk here is 6 months of restrictions at least.
I’m all for sticking it to the man, Joel Tudor style, (while generally not being in his corner on much else), but surely anyone with half a brain goes ‘Well, I guess there are a few too many people out, I’ll chill’. Nope, it’s ‘Well, if they’re out there, I must be out there and not let any waves go to waste…’
We’re fucked.
Hell yes! Moment of clarity and remembered where my dust masks were. Gonna rock that shit because my dog has s cough
A tiger in the bronx zoo is CV positive
My heeler guy had a cough! Grouchy too.
This is really the perfect time for core Surfers to help drop surfing as a sport/form of exercise/spiritual pathway to being a fucktard and claim back Surfing as a way to wash away hangovers and develop drug addictions with like minded social misfits who like sitting in parked cars all day at a beach near you.
Just going surfing has never held so much weight.
Yes! Disfigured, phlegm loog spittin corona vet cretins only!
I’ve come around to this atmospheric biologist from Scripps that was saying surfing increases your chance of catching it. We need to really hammer that home. Surfing’s not safe. You will catch the ‘rus if a great white or the bay boys don’t get you first.
We won’t be far off a ban here thanks to the incessant crowding of pack surfers
Social shaming and guilt is really working well over here. Oceans never been emptier and there’s been swell, tide and wind lining up.
This is actually killer! A new era of snarky, smartass, quick with put down surfer may emerge. Kind of like the 80s
Party!
https://youtu.be/CnENa6QEGI8
Agree. Make it the gospel and spread the word! Whenever surfing is mentioned or you see VALs getting ready for a surf, tell them of the horrors that can happen.
Fake news! Been doing that for ages. Nothing more fun than coming in from a session and casually mentioning the 8′ Tiger/Bronzey/Bully cruising through the line up within earshot of the clean cut VAL crew.
The problem is they have no idea and assume that is all part of the “adventure” of surfing.
Misinformation campaign is part of the handbook
May I add that Scripps be referred to as rona deadzone. Permanently toxic like Chernobyl. The more people that associate Scripps with deadly disease, sharks, shitty waves and not a goddam place to park, the better
Car break-ins too. Come back to your car to a sea of shattered glass around your car and your Whitesnake CD stolen!
This is it I’m telling ya. This is the end of the VAL. Just get it so that not going surfing is a Woke move.
Its perfect. Think how many VALs are all about the image and keep clogging waves just so they can post about how they surf? Most VALs know in reality it’s a big pain in the ass with marginal rewards. Takes a lot of work and effort. This is the perfect way out and hopefully the rest follow leaving surfing to outcasts and lovable degenerates. The woke ex VAL can be a moral highgrounder and declare that surfing is bad for mankind
Hmmmm. A glimmering silver lining on a very dark, indigo colored cloud? I don’t have the gift of word imagery of a Nick, Derek, Chas or Jen See, but I sure can see how a month of surf abstinence will allow surfing to regain it’s long lost tainted image and this will bode well for all of us. May the Wavestorm warriors, mid-length mafia (i will say it for you Chas – funkin’ Devon Howard) and Joel Tudor wannabes never grace the reefs and beach breaks of San Diego county and beyond for years to come. Now that the Corona Virus has shut down the production of it’s namesake beer, and every surf brand is on its financial heels, there will be nothing to bring the VAL back to the beach…only the die-hard surfers will remain.
This is like an Ashy Goggans slap in the face to Saint Diego, who I believe shaped wooden surfboards while living in the Canary Islands.
Slap a rainbow sticker on your car, put on the shortest Levi cut-offs you have and hike/cruise San Clemente canyon at sunset!
Is that canyon ‘rollerbladable’? Asking for a friend.
Yes! You can be anything there!
Maybe this our way to curb the SUP apocalypse. From now on, I will be casually associating it with our more open-minded friends.
Not yet in Victoria, but stage 4 restrictions are coming.Not sure if surfing will be hit.
Are you a) Still a postie, and B) Still delivering?
Yeah, still a postie and we are considered essential services believe it or not.
Not sure what stage 4 will do to us, but I see the government just made a deal for us to deliver medications to oldies, so that may be a good sign as far as working goes. I stopped at Bunnings to get some things as I don’t know what stage 4 will do to them. Got home and heard on am radio that cops were seen in the carpark of one asking people what they were there for. Not to mention the girl who just got fined for driving on her L’s.
I’m working as a sub-contractor to two other contractors (delivering mail, not parcels). Have heard of posties in Sydney getting a hard time for being out and about. Where we are seems a bit too laid back about it all at the moment. I guess it is all new to us all…
Wow..it’s usually the parcels that would get sub-contracted down here.
We can see and were actually told about the sudden letter drop off the past few weeks.Parcels are through the roof, but were told the panic buying is slowing.
Funny how about 3 weeks ago when word that cafe’s were about to close I saw all the coffee pods coming through for the 4wd mums.
We have about 140 in our place,we began staggered start times 3 weeks ago.
We’ve only in the last week or so noticed an increase in parcels. But the van guys have been getting hammered. I ordered some BG shirts, so it’s probably my fault.
I’m waiting for the new ones with Chas on the front, and “you either surf, or fight” written on back.
Just found out a few minutes ago that Bass Coast beaches are closed for Easter Weekend. Getting close.
We’re one good day away from a ban in Vic I reckon. Saw 30 guys out at a rarely surfed fat right point southeast of Melbourne last Tuesday (surfed a better reef a couple Kms away with only one other bloke instead) and it only takes one nark to upload a photo of a busy lineup to gain social media momentum and get it banned. Surf coast crowds are way worse than my neck of the woods too so if Bells gets clean and 4ft I reckon we’re fucked. Until then though, viva la resistance.
Probably right about Bells.
I was surfing a quiet fat right point on Tuesday myself, would have been maybe 15 when the high tide was on the way up.
Way too many people still surfing around here. Line ups are crowded with fuckwits not taking this seriously. Spring winds have dropped the water temp ten degrees and conditions are shithouse, so I’ll go hiking instead, but fuck all these fools hanging around and clogging the remaining beach access. Makes us all look like idiots.
Numbers here as well, but does it make sense to encourage people to hike on tracks where social distancing while passing each other on tracks is tricky?
Wait until the gang at Trestles is reminded that that spot is located inside the San Diego County lines, not in Orange County Let’s see how that goes.
Shit south/onshore winds for the next week will keep the angst at bay for a while. The pressure will build.
With this south wind I’ll be at Scripps everyday looking for Kim Prather to give her the $1,000,000 to catch a wave…