Saturate OC revival meeting held in Huntington Beach despite city orders to cancel

Hundreds gathered on the sand at Huntington Beach on Friday evening for the fourth week in a row to participate in a revival meeting called Saturate OC despite a city order earlier in the day to cancel the event because officials said organizers failed to obtain permits or follow state and county coronavirus health mandates.

About 300 to 400 participants, a vast majority of them without masks, stuck close to one another, kneeling on the sand and singing hymns as some played guitars and drums. Several young children seemed to be in attendance as well. The entire meeting was streamed live on Facebook.

City officials had posted large neon signs along Pacific Coast Highway en route to the beach that said the Saturate OC event had been canceled. But event organizer Jessi Green, who told participants that police showed up at her door with a citation, said she and her husband, Parker, who moved from New York City to Orange County in 2016 to hold such an event, do not plan to stop anytime soon.

“You can’t cancel Jesus,” she told the crowd, holding a megaphone.

https://www.ocregister.com/2020/07/24/saturate-oc-revival-meeting-in-huntington-beach-moving-forward-tonight-despite-city-order-to-cancel/

We are doomed as a country. When believers in bronze-age superstitions can evade public health measures intended to stop a deadly pandemic, we have reached a point where we can no longer control its spread.