Oroville Mercury-Register

Fans in stands? How did we miss this?

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Man oh man, if we had only known! How did we miss this?

One year ago, Oracle Park in San Franfreako (and in stadiums and arenas across the USA) fans were prohibited. Remember all of those cardboard Bidenesque replicas? No more! Sellout crowds in super-sized venues are now being packed with maskless and unvaccinat­ed fans. And now not a word from a politician about shutting down these formerly-named “super spreader” events! And, this, in the middle of the pandemic with an even more transmissi­ble variant of the Covid virus. Could it be that the our politician­s used the Covid-19 pandemic as a testing opportunit­y to see how much control they could exert over their constituen­ts without being lynched or completely destroying economies? Could we admit that our politician­s “super-stealthed” us? Just askin’.

— Tom Neill, Chico

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