Protesters Take On State Street to Decry Pandemic Lockdown
Downtown Santa Barbara March Against COVID-19 Orders
Protesters on State Street | Credit: Delaney Smith
“Put kids back in school!”
This was the chant coming from about 40 protesters who marched up State Street Friday evening in fierce opposition to Governor Gavin Newsom’s new regional lockdown order.
“More people need to question [COVID-19] testing,” said protestor Aimee Smith, who was carrying a sign that read “Lockdowns kill.” Smith said that there are “major flaws” with the PCR tests used to determine COVID-19 cases, including conflicts of interest with the test studies and that the test’s false-positive rate exceeds 90 percent. The Independent was unable to verify Smith’s claims.
