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- 15,544 total cases of COVID-19 in Contra Costa County.
- 55 cases added to the total number of cases since yesterday.
- 866 active cases of COVID-19 in Contra Costa County.
- 60 COVID-19 patients are currently hospitalized in Contra Costa County.
- 14,481 people have fully recovered from COVID-19 in Contra Costa.
- 109 of the 197 deaths were in long-term care facilities.
- There are currently 18 active outbreaks of COVID-19 at Contra Costa County long-term care facilities.
- There are currently 143 occupied ICU beds in Contra Costa County (both COVID and non-COVID patients). 53 ICU beds are currently available.
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The population of Contra Costa County is about 1.1-million.
Looks like people are waking up. This week, the Placer County Board of Supervisors voted to end the county’s COVID-19 state of emergency. “We’re over this. It’s time to get back to living,” said Supervisor Kirk Uhler. “Our emotional, financial health…all of those have been lost in great measure and severely damaged by these lockdowns.”
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Sorry but we are NOT over this. You have to understand that when things open up AGAIN. It could get even worse. Once people let their guard down. Everything will be shut down.
The pandemic is not a belief system. We’re talking a virus that has a death rate of less than 1%. That’s not exactly a pandemic. It’s a distraction.
It’s encouraging that you have to go back to July 8 to find a lower number of covid-19 patients in the hospital. Contra Costa has also gone six days without a death attributed to the virus. That’s the longest such stretch since May.
Hopefully, the extreme heat and smoke that pretty much ruined the Labor Day weekend will be found to have resulted in fewer new infections, since many people stayed home. We should know by next Tuesday.
Since a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled these draconian lockdowns illegal because they go against the Constitution and he had to state that nothing trumps the Constitution not pandemics not war nothing all the Democrats that are acting like dictators have to start opening everything back up. It’s interesting that the same ones that were calling Trump all these names turns out they are exactly what they accuse him of as usual
So let me ask you something. If the States didn’t mandate the face covering. Where do you think things would be right now? Do you not remember what happen in New York and the other countries. People dying left and right. We would be well over 2 million plus deaths and no room in hospitals still. Before you post things like this. Think of what actually would happen. This has nothing to do with Democrats or Republicans. It all has to do with how Trump handled things and how the states are trying to save lives.
UNCONSTITUTIONAL
@Me, I agree we shouldn’t lose sight of the damage this virus can do, and has done. But there is no way we would replicate the NYC experience, even if *all* Covid restrictions were lifted. Most people would still take action and modify their behavior voluntarily, as they did all over the country *before* any law or order told them they had to. NYC is a global hub with population density and public transit levels unlike anything else in the US, and Covid was spreading there while the nightlife and restaurant scene was going on like nothing could happen. All the state and county orders could go away tomorrow and that wouldn’t happen again.
More relevant comparisons are states that have never had as many or as harsh restrictions as California. We don’t have to guess, or just compare to NYC in March/April. We know what happens when basic social distancing plus masks are in place, but other restrictions are loosened. Just go look at what has happened in AZ, Florida, Texas over the past couple of months. They went up, and then they went down. And the death rate was a small fraction of what it was in the spring NE outbreak. Not as flat a curve as CA, but not anything like NYC.
I don’t think we are “over this”, but we aren’t going to eliminate the virus ever. A vaccine for the whole population may take another year, even if things go well. A responsible strategy would be sustainable, not kicking the can down the road hoping that a miracle will save us. It isn’t right to have an indefinite state of emergency for a slow burn like this. It’s a serious risk, that we know a lot about now, compared to February. And it can be managed with a much, much lighter touch than CA is using now – as a side benefit, we could go back to mainly normal governance rather than being ruled by Duke Farnitano and King Newsom.
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Then stay home while the rest of us accept the level of risk with which we are comfortable and get back to our lives.
Time to open California.
Open Contra Costa County! And let’s get our kids back to school! Active cases are only 0.07872727% of the County population.
All those who are still scared of this virus stay home with your masks and hand sanitizer. Quit pushing your fear on the rest of us who want our freedoms and rights back. Amazing to see how many sheep live in CCC.
Yes exactly!!