In a rural area 20 minutes outside of Riverside, CA, a woman who's been sitting outside for three weeks in her front yard, waiting for for CDFA to reschedule finally had them show up. With cops, and with a warrant, despite the fact that she'd consented. She is, however, home to make sure they don't cut locks to her property.
This time, fb live is not enough. Men in biohazard suits leaned over her makeshift crate, removed her autistic child's pet hens, put them in the garbage can, and turned the gas on.
She and her neighbors can only look on from under a tarp, now bedraggled, already fading, under which they have gathered to support her for the past 19 days. It ends with the birds in a double-wrapped black trash bag, hauled like any municipal waste to the dump.
Almost immediately, there's another alert from nearby. These homeowners, a couple, have decided not to sign. This time, six cops show up along with the white-jumpsuited kill squad unannounced.
The woman, about 70, faints in her driveway.
A portly CDFA supervisor leans down by her. So do the cops. Her friends are entreating them to call 911, to go to the hospital. Time slows, with each minute elongating languidly into what feels like an hour, before Cal Fire paramedics show up. The woman has recovered enough to stand. She declines to have them take her to the hospital. She just wants to go inside.
Her husband, a retired cop himself, has words with CHP and CDFA outside. Civil words. The words out of his mouth were, "I plead the Fifth."
CDFA decides to come back later at an unannounced time. The six cops, none wearing biohaz booties, depart.
The new USDA-APHIS table is released. From May 10-14, eight new detections have been reported--eight in Riverside County, two in LA County, which would have passed 120 days of no detections in June. The USDA epidemiological models predicted that if the disease went back into LA, the disease would be persistent.
It would be easier on the homeowners to believe them. To take their word for it. But they've been in the middle of these 30-depopulation/day zones for a month. They've seen the ripped hazmat suits, the CDFA workers tromping from property to property without changing booties, the regular black-bag disposals at the dump. They have allowed testing, they have cemented their yards for roofed coop runs costing thousands of dollars, they have cooped their chickens, they have put them in the front yard. These are the people who haven't run. They aren't everyone.
Picture this happening to your neighborhood, especially if you are in California.
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My heart truly goes out to you guys in California. 
