The following is a list of the types of businesses and activities that have not been cleared to reopen in Contra Costa County.
- Bars, Brewpubs, Breweries, Pubs & Craft Distilleries
- Offices for Non-Critical Infrastructure Sectors
- Theme Parks & Festivals
- Saunas & Steam Rooms
- Recreational Team Sports
- Public Events & Gatherings (nightclubs, convention centers, concerts & live audience sports, etc.)
- Indoor Playgrounds (bounce centers, ball pits & laser tag)
- Professional Sports with live audience
Where is the health department’s daily update?
Numbers don’t meet their narrative.
@Ricardoh~There’s nothing to see here…move along, as the data is no longer fitting our narrative: 212 deaths in our county, 2.3% 7 day average positives, no deaths on the bar graph since 9/16 (not sure if that is correct). Take a look yourself:
https://www.coronavirus.cchealth.org/overview
Sancho Panza Good info Very interesting Not one death under the age of thirty. Twenty people died in Walnut Creek but only one not from a long term care facility. Then there was a few cities where that trend was reversed. Crazy virus.
@Sancho Panza – The county dashboard reporting of deaths by day has been wrong since they switched to the new system that uses the date the sample was taken rather than the date a sample was processed for reporting new cases. I know that new-cases has nothing at all to do with the deaths and have been puzzled. The total number of deaths being reported for everyone and LTCF continue to increase despite them not showing on the by-day table.
Here is the deaths by day since 9/1/2020.
C – Community deaths
L – LTCF deaths
CT – Community running total
LT – LTCF running total
Tot – Running total
And public schools under the control of the corrupt teacher’s union. Those are still pretty dang closed.
I wonder how much time you’ve spent in a MDUSD school in the last 10 years. The air filtration system is definitely not up to filtering this virus. The only time a significant number of the high schoolers use the trash is in the middle of instruction. At lunch and brunch, the grounds are covered in trash. You should see the stairs at Mount! I’m guessing there may be some families who agree with the WH that masks are not necessary. And social distancing?!?! How do you expect the teachers and stafff to manage teaching and COVID precautions under these circumstances?
ConcordRez—
Do you really expect the schools to have Covid filtration systems?
The Teachers Union is in charge. Taxes have been voted in and mismanaged. I have spent way more than $200,000 to send my kids to private school and I never complained that the MDUSD simply is not good. I’m a single mom with a limited income— but I have always believed education is the ultimate equalizer. I realized years ago that the MDSD would not provide that for my children. The Union is to strong and the reasonable parents don’t have a voice.
There’s no such thing as a COVID-19 filter for a building. The COVID-19 wards in hospitals deal with it by continuously pulling the air out of the ward and expelling it, unfiltered, via roof vents, They replace all of the air in the ward every few minutes. The intake of fresh air into the ward has HEPA filters but those are to keep smoke and other pollutants out.
Essentially, they replicate being outside on a smoke free day with a slight breeze. They also wear face coverings or masks in the wards but the intent of those is to trap the spray of droplets that we expel as we breath and talk. Masks don’t and can’t filter a virus. However, the virus is nearly always within the droplets that the masks can trap. If a virus were to float loose in the air then it’s quickly swept up by the air exchange system.
@Parent,
If you are going to complain that MDUSD is behind, at least use proper grammar in your complaint. The difference between “than” and “then” is simple, but I guess we can’t all understand it.
CS,
Be kind to Parent. Parent was obviously a student of MDUSD. I counted five errors in one sentence alone.
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@ CS and S
Since you cannot attack the basis of my response, you attack the grammar, okay. I assume that means you agree with my statements and you are just providing a critique in order for it to better received. Much appreciated!
@ S
Five errors in one sentence, yeah, nice exaggeration in your counting abilities. LOL
@ CS
My most humble apologies for the spelling error. I was unaware that I need to spell check and grammar proof everything that I wrote on this blog. I assume, since you called it out, that you are the resident expert in all things in the written English language.
@Parent,
I don’t agree with you at all actually. I attended MDUSD schools for my entire youth as did a majority of my friends. We all got into the same colleges as people we knew that went to De La Salle and Carondelet, without paying the outrageous tuitions. I very rarely had any of my teachers talk about their personal political views, instead encouraging us to do our own research and learn how to think for ourselves. Also, I’m no expert in English but my MDUSD education apparently taught me to proofread what I write before I hit the submit button.
@Lost Pride:
I have two children who have gone through MDUSD schools and received excellent educations. From my experience, you get out of it what you are willing to put into it. Stay on top of what is going on in classrooms and get involved. It is not an awful district by any means. I have never been one to rely on test scores, they are meaningless.
Oh look it’s your basic divide and conquer strategy. There will be no fun allowed. You’re on punishment for complaining to much and voting us out. The only way is Biden. If you vote Biden you may play again and he will get rid of the fires and hurricanes.
Contra Costa County: Tough on the Public, Soft on Crime.
The real question is, or should be: Which businesses will never reopen?
I’m sure there are quite a few that will never reopen. I also wonder if there is a way to find out how the county is doing with Gavin’s new equity metrics, as that can affect reopenings if the county doesn’t address that to the satisfaction of the health department.
CDC’s COVID survival rate by age statistics:
0-19 99.997%
20-49 99.98%
50-69 99.5%
70 + 94.6%
And I still see people driving alone in their car with a mask on. They really scared the crap out of everyone didn’t they?
It’s possible they just exited the drive thru and haven’t pulled it back down, yet.
Eh, I wear a proper respirator, sometimes if my next destination is 5 or fewer minutes away I just leave the mask on. Putting it on and off requires sanitizing your hands and all.
The public libraries are still closed. The county health department includes libraries in the “retail” section. If our libraries were following county health orders they would be open with limited capacity. Why aren’t the libraries open?
Lots of folks out there risking it all for us…but teachers are hiding under their desks.
Teachers like to put themselves on a pedestal, but in reality they have relatively low hours, long vacations, and if they make it a decade, a six figure salary. Look up https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/school-districts/contra-costa/contra-costa-county-office-of-education/
The guy working at the Walmart checkout today and since March is under far greater threat of catching the virus than a school teacher. The checker at Walmart deals with dozens or hundreds of new customers every single hour, meanwhile the teacher only has the exact same students every day in relatively low numbers.
Mr Mayor,
How come you no long post the daily report on Covid?
@KT~See first post above…we are no longer in dire straits…not newsworthy…click on link and you can get the information you seek.
It is egregious and hypocritical to allow wineries to have tastings but not breweries to sell beer. It is arguably classist, perhaps even if I were a race-baiting idiot, a little racist; a disprorportionate amount of whites drink wine at wineries, why are they allowed to continue while men and women of color (AND LGBTQABCZ+ PEOPLE) are not allowed to drink their favorite gender neutral, compassionately-priced fair-trade lager?
A cynic would point out that Gavin owns a winery, so he could be accused of using his position of authority to enrich himself, or at least save his business.
The entire closed-open, permitted-denied list is arbitrary and political in nature, which is consistent with single-party rule.
This article is disingenuous. Define “closed”… Churches can only have 100 people inside. What if the church is 600 people? It’s still closed. What about a movie theater that can sit 100.. only 25 people can come in. That’s closed! I’m starting to think that our leaders don’t want to fully open. Case in point: Disneyland is still closed, even thought EVERY OTHER DISNEY property is open. So, either the COVID strand here is SUPER LETHAL or our CA government is absolutely incompetent. I believe it’s the later. Also, NO, I’m not moving. I’m instead staying put here and working to rid our state, through the electoral process, of incompetent and corrupt politicians and some of the health officers.
Amen. They are using the same psychology as with gas prices. Raise them excruciatingly high, then bring them down a bit and people feel satisfied with that, even if it’s still much higher than in the beginning. We are just acclimating to the new norms.
Well, it is “settled science” if they like the results, and “open to interpretation” if they don’t. Kinda like blaming Trump for getting the Chinses virus (his fault) while calling people who get AIDS victims (not their fault). The double-standards of Liberals have double-standards.
So now California has added a “Covid equity” requirement that must be met before counties can reopen? Per ktla.com (among many other sources):
“California’s larger counties will not be permitted to reopen their economies further unless they reduce coronavirus infections in the hardest hit places where the poor, Black people, Latinos and Pacific Islanders live.”
Good luck getting CC county reopened!