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Subject: FW: [External] Fwd: Social Distancing At Its Finest- Riverside, CA From: Adan Gomez <gomezadan@hotmail.com> Sent: Monday, July 20, 2020 9:08 PM To: Edwards, Erin <EEdwards@riversideca.gov> Subject: [External] Fwd: Social Distancing At Its Finest- Riverside, CA Sorry, I attempted to send this last week but had a typo in the email address. Q From: Adan Gomez <gomezadan@hotmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2020, 9:23 PM To: eedwarda@riversideca.gov Subject: Social Distancing At Its Finest- Riverside, CA Coucilwoman Edwards, Good evening I hope this email finds you well. I've communicated with you and Paloma before via lnstagram. 0 I'm contacting you today to share my concerns in our city regarding social distancing. Although we heard and saw some of our communities concerns initially like seeing yard signs that read "Community Over COVID" and "We're in this together. " I now see that for many, it was just lip service and I can also see why Riverside County has one of the highest infection rates in the state. I took a bike ride with my daughters this evening (7/15/20) in our neighborhood and was appaulled by what I saw at Ryan Bonomino/Tesquesquite Park. My daughters and I were few in hundreds of people that were wearing masks. There were full court basketball games being played with maskless individuals and others were playing other close contact sports like soccer, boxing, etc. I've attached some pictures for your review. I know that you understand the importance of this pandemic and the need to social distance and wear a mask, but unfortunately too many careless residents in this city do not. I went to Claremont yesterday and it was amazing to see the difference and social responsibility between residents in that city and ours. Everyone had a mask while biking, walking, etc! It was amazing! In closing thank you for what you do. I believe however that our leadership will have to take more drastic measures to ensure our safety as it is obvious that the majority of our residents don't care. Please close Mt. Rubidioux again until our infection rates decrease. Mt. Rubidioux also brings individuals from surrounding communities and cities which also complicates things and is concerning. Our residents don't deserve to have this recreation site available to them if they aren't going to be socially responsible and at the very least where a mask. Also, I've seen other cities remove the basketball rings temporarily on their basketball courts. Please consider supporting something like this as well to help our city control the spread. I understand that decisions are not made unilaterally, but we need to start pushing decisions like this at the local level. If not our governor will have to step in like before and shut us down. I know I'm speaking to the choir. Who knows another shutdown might be inevitable in good 01' Red Riverside! It looks like we don't believe in science around here! Again thank you for all you do and for your service. Take care and be well. 1