Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday the state is exploring more aggressive enforcement of its COVID-19 coronavirus shelter-in-place order after residents in coastal areas ignored the order over the weekend by going to the beach.
Newsom led off his daily briefing on the coronavirus by chastising residents in places like Orange and Ventura counties who flocked to local beaches, particularly on Saturday, during a wave of warm weather across the
state.
Newsom argued that the state is weeks, rather than months, away from beginning to loosen shelter-in-place orders due to the coronavirus as long as people abide by physical distancing and other public health practices to avoid spreading the virus. He said that won’t be the case if people continue leaving their homes just because the weather is nice.
“As we change our behavior, we can impact the science, the health and the data,” Newsom said. “This virus doesn’t take the weekends off, this virus doesn’t go home because it’s a beautiful, sunny day around our coasts.”
Newsom said similar images of crowded beaches weren’t as abundant from other areas like Los Angeles, San Diego and San Mateo counties because local governments followed state directives for enforcing stay-at-home orders.
San Mateo County had previously issued an order allowing people to only do recreation activities within 5 miles of their homes. On Linda Mar Beach in Pacifica, that city’s police officers contacted 853 beachgoers and ordered 535 off the beach after learning they lived more than 5 miles away, police said.
State officials are collaborating with the California Highway Patrol, state park patrols and other agencies to enhance enforcement provisions against people who leave their homes for non-essential reasons.
“We will avail ourselves to more aggressive enforcement of the stay-at-home order, of the social distancing, of the guidelines and procedures that we expect to be followed all across the state of California,” Newsom said.
Oh, . . . this will turn out well.
Wonder if there will be a massive backlash against democratic party candidates in NOvember ? ?
Not likely
I’ll do my best in the primary– not that it makes much difference.
Come November, most of us will be stuck. The only thing worse than a left-wing authoritarian is a right-wing one. *shudder*
This well turn out very well. The vast majority of Californians support a shelter-in-place for as long as it takes. The Democrats will take over Washington in November.
LOL I highly doubt Democrats are going to vote Republican, and they won’t be abstaining from their vote.
So now you cannot be more than 5 miles from home. And if you are at the beach and live more than 5 miles from there you are in violation of a local Health Nazi Edict. what nonsense is this. Ordered 535 to leave the beach…they did not have that many ticket books. What nonsense. Is Newscum going to activate the national guard to patrol the streets and start arresting people ?
Starting to sound punitive and more and more like house arrest. I would like to know what crime I have committed? I also would like to know how much longer this “state of emergency” can be extended? It has to end at some point. Especially if the so called “second wave” is going to happen regardless. Might as well get it over with. It’s impossible to develop herd immunity if we’re all staying away from each other. It’s also impossible to know if I’m infected or if I’ve had the virus (but no symptoms), if I can’t test because I have no symptoms. And since no one knows if you can get re-infected, meaning you don’t develop immunity, how will we ever get to a point where it is “safe” again to go out? I’m ready to just get out there and live life. If I die because of the virus, so be it. Rather be dead than live like this for the rest of my life!
The whole state should not have to lock down because some people went to the beach
Mongoose, only San Mateo County has the 5 miles from home deal as far as I know and they told people to go home, they didn’t give 535 tickets. Maybe belligerent ones got them, but not if you politely left.
However, this pisses me off. The beaches are for everyone or no one. How the hell did those San Mateo politicians decide on 5 miles? So I live 6 miles and can’t go but ok for you at 5? No freakin way. Close the beaches for everyone, not just those lucky enough to live close.
@Mongoose .. where do you see 5 miles? I know stupid San Mateo did it, but that is not a state thing, or did it change?
5 miles oughta be fun to enforce. My local costco is farther than 5 miles from house. San Francisco is more than 5 miles across. 5 miles in San Francisco is way different than 5 miles in Contra Costa County, or say Shasta County …
It is past time to rise up against this ‘leadership’ and challenge them like the two residents in Sacramento.
@Chuckie’s Wife:
It is for your own good. This isn’t supposed to be easy.
Beware a government that does things “for our own good.”
I have to travel more than five miles in search of toilet paper and necessary things in stock. No one store can provide… and it all gets swooped up in minutes after stocking shortages. Gavin golden boy never has to look for sh*t … he just makes us roll in it.
It would be nice if the State took a similar aggressive stance on enforcing immigration laws.
Change.org recall Newsom
The most profound and true statement yet thank you
Land was taken by your ancestors. You kick rock first.
TSA- exactly!
The reality is that light from the midday sun quickly kills viruses, including the corona virus. Being on a beach around high noon has to be much safer than being in a grocery store picking up the week’s supplies.
Very True
I agree. The summer sun kills the virus quickly. In accordance with President Trump’s recommendation, I am also looking at how effective it would be to huff bleach or some other disinfectant to “cleanse” myself.
@The Observer~
Thank you for posting this Info to let others know. From what I gather it takes 3 minutes or so for the sun to kill Covid-19.
Something like this happened in Germany. Papers, show me you papers.
Recall Gavin Newsom 2020…….
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yet he allows Gas leaf blowing to continue spreading the virus along with dirt and debris in the air everyday around us and those with lung issues and allergies.. Not thinking straight and I am sick of him!.
Will you get off the leaf blowers already? They’re not blowing the virus around.
@AuntBarbara – what are you talking about? Should he also ban the wind?
Aunt Barbara is like claycord’s own Don Quixote, except that, instead of tilting at windmills, she shakes her cane at leaf blowers.
All the people the arrest they could house at the Sleep Train! I heard it is empty.
You think the National Guard was called up purely to help with foodbanks? That was always a backup plan if the populace wouldn’t obey. Hopefully doesn’t come to pass, but yes, the government has the power.
The National Guard is here to protect our elections and enforce the constitution
The Army will not be used as that would be a federal need. The National Guard is supposed to protect us, but if the government decides they need to protect us from ourselves? People act like it can’t happen here, but look at Covid. People said the same thing. Just because we live in the US, it does not mean we are free from possibilities.
The NG are our fellow Californians. They will follow their oath to uphold the constitution. There is zero possibility they will enforce Gavins unconstitutional orders
I don’t have enough middle fingers to respond to Gov. Newsom yet. Maybe this evening when I start to see double…
Good one Chuckie! LOL
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Is that five miles as the crow flies? Is it from your front door to where the sand meets the pavement? What if you live five miles and one foot from the beach? Will the police use a surveyor to measure the distance?
Of course I’m being silly, but I’m having fun with it.
Thank you Gov. Newsom. Continue to stay the course!! We are making progress and don’t want to start over!
Agreed!
Agree!
Time to start a recall effort against this governor.
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Newsom is more about control than what’s really good for the people.
I think he probably loves these times so he can try and keep people stuck in their homes as long as he can.
I also believe his six-stop program is overly complex and mostly unattainable.
His promises are false and his edicts are an overreach that at different times would have the people protesting in front of the capital.
But Newsom sees fit to ban protests.
He really is a totalitarian at heart.
There are those who worship the ground Newsom slithers over.
I am not one of those people.
Change.com recall Newsom. Don’t just complain, sign it
We can expect this every Monday. His handler’s need to tell him to start relaxing guidelines. If he wants to beat on his chest about California being the first to do this and that, sure go right ahead. In fact we expect it. But don’t hold us hostage as the statistics continue to improve.
LA isn’t the only place ignoring Comrade Governor. Just like old times, Highway 4 backed up on the Willow Pass grade … Lowe’s had steady stream of small Contractors, he’ll up his rhetoric tommorow
Interesting to hear about small contractors flocking to Lowes. I suspect there are many self-employed people who have to get back to work if they want to eat and feed their kids. Businesses have been failing already, how long can this go on?
I would guess that trades and small contractors continued to work throughout this. I don’t see a problem with that.
Oh yeah, remember when state parks ASKED that we wear masks….? Dictator Newsom has his SS sergeants eye on us. You will comply! He’s just like the dictator governor of Michigan. Oh and Oregon and Washington.
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I couldn’t more, people are gonna rise up.
Nope. We must all sacrifice for the war effort. Those who don’t are violating their patriotic duty.
The ignorance in these comments is astounding.
Don’t worry, you’ll fit right in
You’ll be even more astounded to find out how quickly you get used to it. 🤯
At some point Newsom is going to have to recognize that people need to interact with one another be it 6 feet apart for now. If everyone wears a mask and keeps there distance there is no reason to keep most businesses closed, limit the occupancy and get on with life.
Today, U.S. Attorney General William Barr instructed U.S. attorneys to monitor state and local governments for infringement on citizens’ civil liberties.
Worth a read,
https://www.justice.gov/opa/page/file/1271456/download
Mr. Newsome needs to be reminded that we have Human Rights. We all need to exercise them. This video spells it out: https://www.humanrights.com/what-are-human-rights/
Welcome to Commeefornia . Where Newscum is dictator !!!! Wake up folks this isnt about the virus. This is about control , now and for the future! I see multiple lawsuits coming !!
California’s politicians are garbage.
Komrade Newsome.
So the CHP will not pull people over for doing 150 mph or for Tinted Windshields………but you had better get off of that Beach!!!
Soon, very soon.
Huntington Beach Police posted the real pictures of not so crowded beaches and said most of the people they observed were following Social Distancing.
How many covid case clusters have been traced back to Home Depot, Lowes, Costco, or any of the other stores that are packed every weekend?
Newsom says if you don’t stay home you’ll get sick but the numbers don’t support him.
Won’t be long before we have to start saluting Newsome. Want to talk about the second coming of the third Reich.
Papers Please! Prove you live within 5 miles of this beach. Off to the “reeducation” camps for you.
i wonder if Newsom is being blackmailed. I watched the Virginia governor over a month ago ignore advice to request Virginians to shelter in place and then the next day it was as if his family had been threatened the way he was behaving when he reversed the course. I think there is a bigger agenda going on that has nothing to do with a cold virus.
I totally agree but I believe we will find out the truth. The truth shall shocked the nation. I have no doubt that all those deaths in nursing homes were intentional. You do not quarantined under 1 roof among healthy with the ill – EVER. There is something nefarious going on and the virus is a ploy. Don’t get me wrong the virus is real, but it is being used to get rid of Trump and to bring our nations to its knees.
East bay Babe: I also think there is something else going on. And yes, it is a continued attempt to harrass our President.
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Change.org is worthless.
@ concord ygnacio
Here is a quote for you from James Madison –
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy … or in our case a virus.
A southern Illinois Judge has ruled the state’s governor
violated individual civil rights and exceeded his emergency authority in his stay at home order.
Meantime here in CA, lawsuit has been filed, …..
depriving plaintiffs of their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights.
https://libertycenter.org/center-for-american-liberty-sues-gov-newsom-over-ban-on-public-protests/
The Illinois Department of Public Health on Monday reported 1,980 new cases of coronavirus across the state, including 50 deaths.
The total number of cases has grown to 45,883, with nearly 2,000 fatalities.
You will if we copy Illinois.
Newsom will ease shelter in place before Memorial Day.
New order: Swelter-In-Place will continue until cold weather arrives again.
Does this guy WANT a revolt?
Because this is how you get a revolt.
At some point, the Sheep Will Look Up. And when the do, and find out what our rulers/handlers have done, we’ll do more than just bite the hand that feeds us, we’ll bite their arm(s) off at the shoulder…if they are lucky.
Everyday there is something new scientists and doctors find out about this virus. They don’t always agree on each others findings. NO ONE KNOWS! For all we know, it could be in the water. So are we going to run scared the rest of our lives under the control of government while medicine may or may not figure it out?
We all know what happens when government steps in too much, don’t we??
A serious question:
Violation of the stay at home order is a misdemeanor. As the article on Sylvester the car thief proved, no one is staying in county jail anymore and even before COVID-19, mass arrests for civil disobedience were only in custody long enough to be booked and cite released.
Even if the Commissioner of the CHP and all the Sheriffs and Chiefs of Police all agreed to post officers on all the beaches of California there are not enough police officers in the state to both effectively close all the beaches AND conduct normal day to day police business.
So I ask, what other resource is available to the Newsom to more aggressively enforce his order and what will he do with those who engage in civil disobedience?
“Loitering is the act of remaining in a particular public place for a protracted time, without any apparent purpose. In some jurisdictions, such as New York, the definition of loitering may include indoor littering, and wearing of masks or disguises in public. Wikipedia”
As I waited outside CVS the other day for a protracted time wearing a mask in public (with a lot of others) I noticed a sign “No Loitering” with some implied threats of enforcement by the Concord Police.
We are living in bizarre times
The No Loitering sign is likely aimed towards the homeless who frequent the area, as well as groups of kids.
Since 75% of residents in California support shelter in place, you are right it could get very interesting. This is what happens when the social contract breaks down, we fail to recognize our own role in preventing a spike and believe “the rules don’t apply to me”.
I’m fine with you doing you… just do it six feet away from me.
https://www.chcf.org/blog/covid-19-tracking-poll-75-californians-support-shelter-place-as-long-as-needed/
I will be exercising my constitutional rights thank you the Democrats want to control every single little aspect of everybody’s life it’s not going to happen the Democrats not only have no power now but after November they will have even less
Sailor protests beach. A True Patriot.
https://youtu.be/nXrdZPv3Ghs
@Susan
Did you read the wording on the questions ? Cause I did.
Also, I know a few people, and some of them even call me a friend. Very few, like 4-5 want to keep SIP up, most want it done, cause they no longer see the value when the goal post keeps changing.
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Yes I did Parent….. I’d rather be home on my couch then at John Muir in a bed.
Why are most of the states slowly lifting the shelter-in-place order?
Why can’t we do what are other states are doing?
What Newsom is doing, I think, is total BS. Folks are gonna go bonkers if he continues to be controlling.
Other states are living shelter-in-place to take away emergency benefits. If someone’s place of work is able to reopen, they can’t collect unemployment anymore. If a small business owner who is allowed to reopen decides on their own that it’s not safe, they are on the hook for unemployment for employees. These orders provide protection in two ways — keeping us home and slowing the exponential spread of a virus we don’t understand to give us time to understand it/find treatments/develop a vaccine — and providing a means of relief to businesses through emergency funds and allowing the unemployment burden to be shouldered by the government. It is never going to be perfect and it will never completely unburden the people, but it is actually better than the alternative. The states who are opening too soon will show us what that alternative is and it will be sad to watch. The better thing to push for is more aid than the current stimulus that goes to people and small businesses who actually need it. And shelter-in-place regulation plans that are clear and protective, without inhibiting our lives more than necessary. For example, what if, instead of five miles, they allowed people who live in that county to use an online permit system that could place crowd limits on beaches & parks. People would know before they left their houses that they could spend X number of hours at the beach without crowds that could pose a risk.
If everyone stopped flailing against the idea that we need to keep this unknown virus under control, we could all work for ways to make our lives better while we shelter.
@Passing the Buck – You don’t seriously believe we should SIP until a vaccine is developed? New vaccines normally take years to develop, not months, A month more of SIP will put many businesses out of business permanently. In three months, people will be on the street begging for change. I understand the benefit of SIP to temporary decrease the spread of the virus while hospitals gear-up to deal with it, but SIP was never meant to prevent transmission. The CDC and experts assured us time and time again that SIP is simply to delay the spread, it will not prevent the spread. Increasing Federal aid is not the answer either. We are already saddling our young people with decades of debt. Now this? We need to stop this nonsense and get back to work. The right to provide for oneself and one’s family is a basic human right. Our “leaders” and their cadre of Little Eichmanns will be held accountable.
It’s not a matter of waiting for a vaccine, it’s a matter of gaining a better understanding of what this virus is and how it operates. Did you see the WP article about large blood clots causing strokes in Covid patients in their 30’s and 40’s? This is the kind of information we’re gaining as we go. We don’t even know exactly what we’re dealing with and we don’t have reliable treatments. The news about the remdesivir trial today is hopeful. There are other ways to gain ground before the vaccine. The idea that ending shelter-in-place sooner as if it will save the economy is false hope. It’s going to shift the burdens in ways I don’t think everyone who is advocating for reopening is thinking about. A backslide in cases will be worse for the economy. Forcing a small business owner to choose between opening up when they feel it will put their employees at risk or shouldering the full burden of unemployment isn’t humane and won’t be good for our economy either. Shelter-in-place allows for certain protections that are important. And easing back allows for some margin of error. It isn’t all or nothing, but I’d also like to point out that COVID isn’t either — this isn’t you either survive or you die. What’s not included in our death toll is the people who aren’t ever going to get back to their previous quality of life/health after having this virus. Are you willing to risk that for the people around you? For yourself? If waiting another month would give us a better understanding of this virus, a chance for ramping up production of drugs that are working, and time to explore what measures of social distancing are effective, would that be worth it? Would you rather deal with that discomfort than risk having a stroke? Because that recovery process would certainly keep you out of work longer than a little extra shelter in place.
@ parent – we tend to have friends that agree with our worldviews.
Lol Susan, are you high? Or do you just like being herded like a sheep by the government? 1,015 respondents in a state of 40 million. Get lost. 40,000 people went to the beach last weekend.
“ The study consisted of 1,015 representative interviews conducted among California residents”
I would have to guess there is NO crime in Pacifica
If they have enough officer to check over 800 people on the beach. Don’t these officer have something else they could be doing.
You’ll notice he keeps tightening the noose. He’s showing all the signs of a socialist tyrant, a third-world minor despot.
Sorry Freedom… must have been all that bleach I used to “cure” myself of this awful flu… guess I should’ve just waited till the spring came.
Go Governor! Do not give in. I’m so in for these strict measures. Unfortunately, for people who don’t follow rules it just pushed Gov. Newsom into more aggressive measures, we now all have to pay for the idiots who decided to be selfish and go to the beach. Just like everyone else , I would like to resume outdoor activities, but for the people that don’t comply, well here we are. Here is a thought, so stay home and follow rules and maybe the state of CA can start lifting restrictions.
For you people complaining (probably transplants from other states, trolls chiming in from other states or people who were not born in CA) just stop. Do you not know Newsom is doing it for ALL of us and not a set group. This is for us staying alive and not ending up in a hospital trying to fight this virus. Don’t think you are immune and won’t get it or possibly spread it to others,what makes you so special? Let’s not overwhelm our hospitals and the good Doctors and Nurses.
If you don’t like this beautiful state and the Governor that’s running it, you know where the highway is. I heard Georgia and Texas (this Friday) are and will be open for business. Just a thought.
Bless California, the Governor and Mayors for being strong minded and not backing down 🙌🏼
Recall this Clown Newsom 2020
FacePalm,
Did you follow the COVID statistics for CoCo County? Of 1,080,000 residents only 23 have died from COVID. Meanwhile, small businesses, hospitals, physicians, family businesses, restaurants and service companies are going BANKRUPT. The hospitals in CA are EMPTY. There is enough knowledge about how COVID is acquired, and how to properly care for COVID patients, that the shelter-in-place is no longer about protecting our elderly and immunocompromised; IT IS ABOUT CONTROL.
Open your mind to the possibility that the government is enjoying this lockdown, because they CAN AND WILL threaten you over anything they dislike.
Your Civil Liberties have been taken away.
FREEDOM ANGELS:
MAYDAY MAYDAY – MAY 1ST – HIGH NOON
OPERATION GRIDLOCK
CALIFORNIA STATE CAPITOL
SACRAMENTO CALIFORNIA
This Friday folks……12 noon bring a flag and a friend, 18 wheels most welcome and train horns!!!!
The streets are empty. You’ll only gridlock yourself.
Copy of memo from Attorney General of The United States…..not Californicate.
AG Bill Barr – Balancing Public Safety
with the Preservation of Civil Rights
MEMORANDUM FOR THE ASSISTANT
ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR CIVIL RIGHTS
AND ALL UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS
FROM: THE ATTORNEY GENERAL WP BARR
SUBJECT: Balancing Public Safety with the Preservation of Civil Rights
The current national crisis related to COVID-19 has required the imposition of extraordinary restrictions on all of our daily lives. Millions of Americans across the nation have been ordered to stay in their homes, leaving only for essential and necessary reasons, while countless businesses and other gathering places have been ordered to close their doors indefinitely. These kinds of restrictions have been necessary in order to stop the spread of a deadly disease but there is no denying that they have imposed tremendous burdens on the daily lives of all Americans.
In prior Memoranda, I directed our prosecutors to prioritize cases against those seeking to illicitly profit from the pandemic, either by hoarding scarce medical resources to sell them for extortionate prices, or by defrauding people who are already in dire circumstances due to the severe problems the pandemic has caused. We have pursued those efforts vigorously and will continue to do so. Now, I am directing each of our United States Attorneys to also be on the lookout for state and local directives that could be violating the constitutional rights and civil liberties of individual citizens.
As the Department of Justice explained recently in guidance to states and localities taking steps to battle the pandemic, even in times of emergency, when reasonable and temporary restrictions are placed on rights, the First Amendment and federal statutory law prohibit discrimination against religious institutions and religious believers. The legal restrictions on state and local authority are not limited to discrimination against religious institutions and religious believers. For example, the Constitution also forbids, in certain circumstances, discrimination against disfavored speech and undue interference with the national economy. If a state or local ordinance crosses the line from an appropriate exercise of authority to stop the spread of COVID-19 into an overbearing infringement of constitutional and statutory protections, the Department of Justice may have an obligation to address that overreach in federal court.
I am therefore directing the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, Eric Dreiband, and Matthew Schneider; the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, to oversee and coordinate our efforts to monitor state and local policies and, if necessary, take action to correct them. They should work not only with all Department of Justice offices and other federal agencies, but with state and local officials as well.
Memorandum from the Attorney General Page 2
Subject: Balancing Public Safety with the Preservation of Civil Rights
Many policies that would be unthinkable in regular times have become commonplace in recent weeks, and we do not want to unduly interfere with the important efforts of state and local officials to protect the public. But the Constitution is not suspended in times of crisis. We must therefore be vigilant to ensure its protections are preserved, at the same time that the public is protected.
I thank you for your attention to this important initiative and for your service to our country.
The MEMORANDUM is here.
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Inciting a disaster.
Thank you, Face Palm. I agree with you.
I voted for john Cox. That’s how much I agree with Newsome’s agenda. However, I support this extended SIP, because it’s working. The number back it up. New Zealand has almost zero cases of Covid-19 now. ZERO. 12 reported deaths from a population of 50 million. Why? Closed the boarders and strict SIP. Stay home. The life you save may be your own.
The population of New Zealand is under 5 million. Comparing a geographically isolated island with a population that’s 1.5% of the size of the USA is not a valid comparison.
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AHA PO BABY DAT TOO BAD.
@ Susan
Your world view must be pretty small, and your circle of friends must be snorting the same bleach you are. Most people do not think this Shelter In Place should continue. Why are there counties in Northern California asking to reopen now? Why are Sacramento residents suing the Dictator to reopen? Why are people at the beach in Southern California?
Think! Do not just be a sheep.
Of the 3 million cases worldwide the US has 1 million.
What’s wrong, we don’t have one third of the population.
We’re not being smart and it’s going to get worse with some states opening without the scientific numbers to back it up.
Ozzie
Go look at the infection rate. No one is reporting the accurate numbers.
1. Not everyone is being tested.
2. Many people had it, did not know it, and are over it.
3. Maybe the US is being more aggressive in our testing, hence we have ‘reported’ higher numbers.
Smart?
From your posts
1. it is apparent you want the economy to crash.
2. you are not concern with a depresion to rival the Great Depression from the early 20th century.
3. You are not concerned with mental/social impact on our children and elderly from this Quarantine that has been imposed upon the healthy.
Yes, people are going to die. They already have. That is a hard unlikeable fact. Nobody wants anyone to die. But people will die from this. People will continue to die as we open up. No, I don’t want my family to die, but the vulnerable in my family are being smart. They are staying inside. They are protecting themselves.
Part of the issue is that hospitals are given incentives for patients with Covid. They can receive around $10-40k additional per patient.
And btw, Why is it assumed that a shelter-in-place is the “smart” way to deal with this? The order has had no benefit or even a negative benefit on the virus. The secondary, economic and social harm caused by the quarantine only makes the idea worse.
Ozzie, the rest of the world wasn’t the target, the U.S. was. The virus is doing what it was designed to do.
Andy. That’s deep man.
I’m just curious how the dictator is getting is hair cut.
Good Point…I know he has no problem finding grease.
people this is a virus
if your not exposed you cant fight it
we get viruses all the time the body is a virus fighting machine
as long as you keep it healthy and uncompromised
the establishment of over 40 years is flexing its socialist muscles
you have allowed this to happen ….
no one to blame but yourselves
corruption breeds absoluteness
The curve has flattened. SIP did what it was supposed to… It bought us time so that hospitals & health care workers could prepare for large number of sick people. Only thing is, the hospitals are empty & furloughing/laying off employees.
They need to gradually re-open California, not tighten the noose.
Let those of us in the “high-risk” category decide for ourselves.
The virus isn’t going away. More will be sick, but that is what hospitals have been preparing for.
Brother Thraxx is of course correct . This is sometimes like a refuge for people writing strange things.
I see a lot of posters who have never had it tough and probably have a lot of participation trophies.
I didn’t vote for Newsom , but some posters might note we were early and our stats reflect our success.
The virus has killed more people then we lost in Vietnam , and it’s done it in two months.
So ho ahead with your “ you aren’t the boss of me “nonsense , fortunately the vast majority support science .
CDC site is a confusing mess of ‘facts’. Accuracy is severely in question.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm
60% of the people in California don’t feel a need to get tested. How you going to trace the spread?
Huh?
In CoCo County, we have 1,080,000 residents. Only 23 people have died of COVID. The Shelter-in-place has served it’s purpose, to allow hospitals to prepare, obtain employees, materials, ventilators, isolation, etc in place. We now have more streamlined COVID testing.
The elderly and high risk, immunocompromised, pregnant and new babies should absolutely continue to shelter in place as best as they can, however,
OUR ECONOMY IS COLLAPSING!! Small businesses, family run services and self-employed “non-essential” companies haven’t earned a penny for nearly two months. It has been previously stated that most families live paycheck-to-paycheck.
So REOPEN CALIFORNIA! We can start carefully, limiting the number of customers inside a restaurant, but let’s start! Waiters, hair stylist, Carpenters and workers of all types need their income back and to have a purpose to their day.
Governor Ken Doll is going to run smack dab into that pesky old Constitution real soon. You can only impinge fundamental rights (Google the list, folks. It’s not short) by the least restrictive means and only to serve an “essential governmental purpose”.
That means Shasta and Los Angeles counties can’t be under the same lockdown conditions much longer, and it means that Ken Doll can’t use unproven risk to fine you for moving about (a fundamental right).
I think any business where the risk to the workers and public could reasonably be lowered should be allowed to function if they can.
A big problem seems to be the lowest wage earners, most seem to be low skilled individuals who are desperate for work and accept any wage offered them. This squeezes out citizens who won’t accept the very low standard of living Business owners capitalize on this to maximize profits.These people need to form unions so they can put pressure on companies to pay fair wages and provide paid leave. Fast food franchises have wide profit margins and anybody who eats fast food can afford to pay an extra buck or two for their meal.
From FB: “On May 1st – 12:00 Noon – Californians will gather for a peaceful in-vehicle protest, circling the State Capitol in Sacramento, California – calling for the re-opening of the Golden State.
Millions of California families are currently struggling to figure out how they will put food on the dinner table, pay for urgently needed medicine for their families, and restore a sense of purpose and relevance to their lives.
The situation became more acute as money ran out for small business loans (via the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program). It is estimated that small businesses account for upwards of 65% of new jobs created in the U.S., and as new jobless claims and unemployment figures skyrocket, small businesses are needed now more than ever to save California’s economy.
“We call on Governor Newsom to hear our cries for help. We all want to practice intelligent behavior of social distancing and regular disenfecting – and we can do that while beginning the desperately needed process of re-opening California,” said Tien Lam, a Novato, CA restaurant owner facing bankruptcy.
Supporters of the “Re-Open California, End The Lockdown” vehicular protest will safely circle the California State Capitol building on Friday, May 1st at 12:00 making their voices heard while remaining safely inside their vehicles.”
Sadly Galvin is on a power trip good luck!
Covid 1984 in the Soviet State of America. Out of the oven into the frying pan.