They planted themselves opposite the entrance to Pier 39, our most attractive maritime tourist trap, and kept up a loud din on Saturday. Ah, free speech.
They proclaimed multiple and mixed messages.
Alongside the usual white natonalist appropriation of patriotic symbols, somebody urges "Free Austria." This apparently refers to the rather desperate effort by the Austrian government to stop rising coronavirus infections with a new lockdown and a nationwide vaccine mandate beginning this week.
The tourists took the protest in stride: just more of the freak show along with the clowns and jugglers.
If these folks want to avert something similar to Austria here -- not likely, but we never know what the virus may do -- they know what they can do. Get vaxxed now!
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Encountered while Walking San Francisco.
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