As infection rates soar in Orange County, residents of Surf City doubt the severity of the pandemic and call for easing restrictions.
“I don’t believe it. I don’t believe the rates are rising,” Colburn said. “They’re inflated. It’s another way of shutting everything down … of the Democrats trying to get what they want.”
Fred Smoller, a professor of political science at nearby Chapman University, described Huntington Beach as a conservative stronghold and said that the attitudes about the coronavirus there reflect larger political divides.“Their ideology is a lens through which they are viewing the coronavirus,” Smoller said. “I would imagine many people there see it as a hoax, which the president has encouraged them to do in order to up his chance of reelection.
There is widespread acceptance that masks play a key role in slowing the spread of the coronavirus, and their widespread use in other countries is credited with slowing infections dramatically.Hundreds gather this month for the weekly Saturate OC worship event in Huntington Beach.voted last week to approve recommendations for reopening schools that did not include mandatory use of masks
“It hasn’t affected me at all, besides that I can’t go to a bar and have a drink and really kick it with the boys,” the man said. He called the restrictions “pretty lame” but acknowledged the deadliness of the “gnarly” coronavirus.
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