Memo to California COVID Cops: When Crushing the Dreams of a Brewery Owner, Don't Do a 'Happy Dance'https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2021/02/16/memo-to-california-covid-cops-when-crushing-the-dreams-of-a-brewery-owner-dont-do-a-happy-dance-n1425830That’s what happened to “Bravery Brewing†in Lancaster, Calif., last weekend when an LA County health inspector apparently thought she had a real gotcha moment when she caught the business doing businessy things on a Sunday.
After months of shutdowns, reopening, shutdowns, reopenings, outside is open, inside is closed, tents are good, only certain tent sides can be closed, wear masks, six feet apart diktats from LA County and California comrades who make laws for little people and then ignore them personally, the co-owner of Bravery, Bart Avery, thought he had the rules on lock. In fact, he knew the rules better than the health inspector who was enforcing the COVID diktats.
The Lancaster brewery was open for take-out orders, growlers, kegs, and whatever other merch they sell, for the big game on Sunday, February 7th.
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But on Sunday before the big game, the California brewery owner was simply planning to fill take-out orders. There would be no in-person swilling. Not even in one-sided tents outside in the southern California sunny and windy conditions.
And that’s when the inspector, Jatinder Chhabra, the bane of the existence of small businesses in that piece of heaven in LA County, decided she’d strike.
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Avery said she was told to call her boss and came away from the conversation agreeing that his employee and his co-owner son were right.
The whole article is well worth reading. The bottom line is that many of the inspectors enforcing the shut-down regs' shibboleths don't know or understand what they are enforcing. And their ignorance is costing the small businesses they attack and harass $$.
