The “Water Cooler” is a feature on Claycord.com where we ask you a question or provide a topic, and you talk about it.
The “Water Cooler” will be up Monday-Friday at noon.
Today’s question:
Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday said he’s considering a statewide curfew in response to COVID-19.
QUESTION: Do you think there should be a statewide curfew?
Talk about it!
Sure, why not, it’ll be cheap entertainment.
Will they set up checkpoints ?
Rather than a massive educational program that would take effort on their part they resort to draconian threatening measures. Not examples of intelligent an inspiring leadership.
Ronald Reagan was spot on when he said,
“The best minds are not in government.
If any were, business would steal them away.”
Absolutely true, Original G! Reagan was right…
Educational program ?
If you haven’t got the mask/distancing/gathering message by now, there’s no hope for you !
No, of course not. The survival rate is 99.97 for the under 50 age bracket, we do not need to destroy our economy and our lives for such a minor amount of deaths.
Over 70? Stay home or wear a 95+ rated respirator. Immunocompromised? Stay home or wear a 95+ rated respirator. Everyone else? Live your life.
sounds like discrimination anon.. It’s the young people that are causing the spread. Everyone should use their own judgement and not be bullied by a Governor who thinks he’s God.
If you are protesting. Looting. Harassing. Vandalizing. Then you’re exempt.
@ Badger~
Oh So True.
Stop using a test that is NOT supposed to be used for “covid”. …..the False positives PCR.
Your numbers are bogus.
Honestly, at this point, I’m ready to do whatever the CDC recommends to rid the World of COVID.
Unfortunately, there will always be some fraction of Whiny Little B*tches who will cry… “BUT MY RIGHTS”!!! With your RIGHTS comes some grown A$$ DUTY and OBLIGATIONS!
Popcorn is that you?
Oh. I forgot. Unless I’m at the French Laundry having dinner. Then I’m exempt.
Cowards gonna cower.
here ya ‘ go Dave….
🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-agvP3W0JG8
AnonZ
And when this does not work, and it will not because there is not enough police to enforce it even if they were willing? What is next? Martial law and the suspension of habeas corpus?
@AnonZ. The whiny little b*tches are the ones who go rioting and don’t care about destroying small businesses during these difficult times. Those whiny little b*tches are so caught up in causing destruction that they don’t care about social distancing and wearing masks. They are the same ones who have been having a temper tantrum and being unproductive for the last 4 years because they are butt hurt that Trump won.
Yes, I wish HE would stay home in his mansion.
People with last names beginning with letters A through G get to be out from midnight to 4am. H through M get 4 am to 8am…..N (Newsom) through S get 8am to 5pm. T through Z get 5pm to midnight.
This is as arbitrary, dumb, and self-serving as any other dicta he might produce.
No.
Nor do I think it will go well if he tries to enforce one. Let’s be honest, many people will not follow the curfew. This will overwhelm local Law Enforcement. This will then require the activation of the National Guard to ‘enforce’ this curfew. I do not see that going over well.
I also do not think it is needed. What value or benefit would a curfew do for us?
It might be more effective to limit the number of people in California. What we need are policies designed to drive people out of this state. Anyone have any ideas?
@ Same
I think Newscum is already on that pathway. Wonder if he has created an executive order under the Ca ESA to tax those people who are leaving the state 50% of what they have today and 75% of what they will earn in the future. He is going to need money to run this place and with people being unemployed … he needs to find it somewhere.
@ Same – There are plenty of policies that are driving people out of the State. The problem is: the people who are leaving are the productive people. Pretty soon there will be no more “makers” … just “takers” in California. Including me! I just got back from a trip to look for property in a neighboring State. I’m outta here ASAP!!
absolutely not … recall!!!!
Absolutely! He must be recalled though I don’t think that will stop him from wanting to run for president. Scary thought.
Honestly I am not certain how that would help. I am a big proponent of being safe when out and about, wearing masks and using hand sanitizer but are people who are not being safe being less safe after hours? I feel like many people have established their “bubble” of friends or family that agree to come together and refrain from socializing in person with others.
Also this would mean grocery stores and pharmacies would be more crowded as people wouldn’t be able to shop their later in the evening.
NO! We are being treated as little children. Let the businesses decide when to close. Midnight is fine for bars but not before.
Stores closing early is taking it’s toll on everyone.
we need our freedom back. First 9/11 terrorist attack and now China virus.
We can’t let them ruin our economy and bring us down as planned.
Now there are Amazon spammers calling, trying to get into your accounts!
that’s a major NO! the restrictions are already ridiculous. you can’t control a virus. if even only 1 person still had covid it could/would start spreading again. oh, and good luck enforcing a curfew, can’t/won’t even stop rioters from destroying local businesses.
state and local dingalings can say what they want, all the free thinkers won’t and haven’t been listening to their nonsense for a long time.
To quote General Anthony McAuliffe at the Battle of the Bulge when asked to surrender by the Germans,
Governor Newsom, NUTS!
I would like to see a 24 hour curfew but only for politicians and the Governor himself. Everybody else, be free!
well considering that wen ever they post a question like this
its allready coming
so yeah welcome to 1930 germany
your now behind enemy lines
the curfew is so you cant see what their doing
as in re education camps and well the others off to the showers or rail cars
well done communist voters
signing off ….
its been fun
god bless america while its still here
Absolutely!!!
No protests after 3 pm because it is “settled science” that protests are safe until this time.
No politicians on the streets at any time until they give us back our freedom, no exceptions.
Of course not. All of Comrade Gavin’s lockdown orders are unconstitutional, as are the local health “experts” in CoCoCo attempting to “order’ the same. Neither have the ability to order private businesses to shut down on a whim. The solution to this is massive, widespread disobedience on the part of the public and business owners everywhere.
Absolutely not.
It’s the same old baloney, the “slippery slope”.
The curfew is a prelude to Martial Law.
I just cannot comprehend how so many people can willingly forfeit their freedoms.
So is Trump to be blamed for every other country? They have high numbers of cases also.
No that is plain stupid
Curfew Newsom instead. Don’t let him back into the governor’s office.
And BTW, I’m over 70 and doing just fine as are many of my peers. I don’t get out and about that much because I mostly don’t need to and have worked at home for years.
Ha, you were better off asking
“Would you take a daily cookie every night at 9 pm if the state asked you to stay in your house for two weeks?”
Is SARS still around? How about MERS? West Nile? Why haven’t we managed to get rid of those?
Why? It wouldn’t apply to rioters/peaceful protesters!
What’s the reason? All night life activities are shut down. No one is out anyway.
Do you see what we’re being primed for? Oh no, that’s right, that’s conspiracy talk.
He just got caught violating his own rules, again!
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-11-16/gavin-newsom-apology-french-laundry-dinner-covid-19
Don’t listen to these liars. They want to control you and gain more power. Wake the F up!
Yes – for every elected official and unelected bureaucrat that’s still receiving a paycheck.
Only if it legislated. This rule by fiat that our Governor thinks is the same as law has just about run it’s course. In the press he gets a little more like Captain Queeg each time he makes a declaration. Counting strawberries at the French Laundry……
Oh Yes Absolutely, bring in military or foreign troops to enforce it, I love and trust my government and I know that they love me. I get all of my news from headlines and bumper stickers.
Gov Statement
Schools can’t open, it’s not safe.
Gov reality:
I put my kids in private school where they go in person.
Gov Statement
Don’t mix with other households.
Gov Reality:
I went to 50th birthday bash for my lobbyist friend with multiple households.
Gov Statement
You must stay home after 10 pm.
Gov Reality
We will only enforce curfew against those that have already extracted more than their share of CA wealth.
Newscum is also planning on not enforcing a curfew for those philanderers, like himself. Like Aunt, like Nephew.
Once more. There have been three deaths in CCC in the last 26 days. All were in long term care. Keep everything open and wear a mask and keep your distance. Old people like me stay home. This info is from the CCC health department.
The Fairmont Kea Lani in Maui is in the news with some really bad optics. Sounds like they hosted their annual conference with politicians from numerous states, including CA. So that’s cool.
@ Andy~
It’s too late,….it’ll be around for years and maybe forever even with a vaccine. Too may people have it, and may not know they do, because they don’t get sick. Flu shoots don’t even work every year and people die from it too. No real cure for AIDS or some Cancers yet either.
Trump the Devil,…WTH?,…he didn’t bring this virus here, and it’s worldwide. This is our ‘New’ Real World, and need to live, instead of dying at home locked up,…just be safe on outings.
Oh,… and the curfew is a joke to the rioters and looters.
Be my guest and try to keep them home after dark.
This will never “go away”. Once government takes something, they never GIVE it back. It can only be TAKEN back.
Demographic change made this a one party state follow the path of who made this so. We had a governor in the 1990s that tried to pass proposition 187 so illegal immigrants couldn’t get any benefits here. However the ninth district court overturned the will of the people who voted yes and now we have a one party state …that’s what did it A major influx of millions of people who vote 80% left Wake up! Liberals are literally traitors to the core and sick in the head. They sell out their own that’s all you need to know when choosing sides
Illegal immigrants are just unregistered democrats. The only latinos who vote Republican are Cubans, the rest vote Democrat like clockwork. Dems knew that by flooding the state with Mexicans, they would forever destroy the odds of a Republican California. And with Mexican birthrates, the result is what you would expect.
I’ll say it every day if I have to:
Sign the petition!
Say it forever if you like. But I have already forgotten what petition you are talking about. Who are you mad at?
@ Roz-YOU GO GIRL!!!
HAHAHAHA!!! HAHAHA!!! OMG I CANNOT!!!! HAHAHA!!!
Giving a curfew is a laughably stupid idea but what else could be expected coming from Newscum!
So, I guess the virus only comes out in a schedule. The virus schedule is as follows: Mon-Fri 7:00am-11:00am (with an hour lunch break) 1:00-4:00pm. Sat-Sun: All day.
Scary how there are those who would agree with this new idea coming from Newscum.
Let’s not forget that curfews and social distancing are not for politicians, celebrities, and rioters.
I mean… given that studies have clearly shown that the rate of Covid transmission is highest in all the lotharios and whatsabouts that patron the world after 10pm… this is clearly a homerun.
Thank god we have Newsom to follow the sci… bwahahahah, I almost made it to the end.
NO.
And how, exactly, would that be enforced?
Curfew on what? other health experts and other state representatives said on the news it made little / no difference and couldn’t tell if it was measurable in any way. IMHO, this sounds like he is threatening punitive measures after he was “reprimanded” for attending a work party at the French Laundry restaurant by the media, citizens, etc. He is guilty of the “do as I say not as I do” mentality…
So this curfew is supposed to be implemented on business and restaurants.
They just keep tightening the screws. If they are going to have a curfew, they should make it for rioting and looting, not Covis-19. That is the element of social strata that needs a curfew,
spot on Giddyup. That’s what makes this whole thing look very suspicious.
p,s
COVID-19 has squashed most holiday and vacation plans this year amid travel restrictions and quarantine recommendations to slow the spread of the virus.
California lawmakers have TRAVELED to Maui this week for the California Independent Voter Project’s annual policy conference.
But urge us not to travel?
Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article247224439.html#storylink=cpy
What a slap in the face to Californians:
CA Lawmakers Travel to Hawaii Despite Covid19 surge
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/California-lawmakers-Hawaii-Independent-Voter-15734205.php
As Daffy Duck would say to these politicians, “you’re despicable!”…
I read some interesting comments by an ex-professor at UC Berkeley who does virus work. He said it is a form of thought control, so while the curfew itself is useless, Gavin’s curfew is purposely disruptive to get us to think the “right” thoughts about using masks and such. Recall the book 1984 and the Thought Police. We finally arrived.
Absolutely, we’ve been running around all willy nilly out here, when clearly only politicians should be able to. Lock it up! Lock it up! Gavin and Nancy don’t want to risk getting sick when they are going about their privileged daily lives by rubbing elbows with us peasants.
Why not, they already have us worn down and discouraged. What more damage can a curfew do.
The issue at least in Contra Costa County is the disease is NOT widespread. The rising numbers are all coming from very specific parts of the county – the trouble is the positive rate is also rising. So imagine we have an outreach program that starts to test out in the areas that have populations who do not have good access to health care or there status is in question, and then once we get a large number of those already sick. We need to address the at risk populations and they are not all in Nursing Homes!
Just tell me when I can leave my house.
I’m not sure what this is supposed to accomplish other than making night owls and shift workers even more miserable. With more people out of work, social gatherings will just shift to the daylight hours instead. Meanwhile, grocery stores are going to be even more crowded due to limited hours, enabling more spread.
How about actually enforcing the existing rules instead?
Weird: The entire White House and now Sen. Chuck Grassley all have or have been exposed to COVID-19. It’s almost like arrogant and idiotic anti-public health stances don’t work to protect one from public health issues like the coronavirus pandemic.
Stop with the Covid BS!!!
Get over the fake news BS people, it’s cold and flu season and no reason to flip out over the Covid BS the government is pushing.
We are ignoring as always the stupid scare tactics.
Unless you are attending a birthday party at the French Laundry
Try it! Just try it. He as already violated our rights and is on his way to impeachment. I wish he would try and put a curfew on free people.
Sorry, Sam, the court of appeal just stayed the judge’s injunction against the governor.
Good. Do you think cases start off in the Supreme Court? Of course they don’t. The sooner the lower courts rule, the faster we move to the highest court.
No. We are supposed to be a free country. The Declaration was against the prohibitive jackboot of the monarchy. More and more, elected, but self declared kings/queens are treading on our individual liberties, under the guise of helping or saving us. I just hope Newsom doesn’t repeat his “its going to happen, whether you like it or not”
You are not free people. Free people do not live like this. Constant threat from your government is not how free people live. Is it really that hard to understand?
The theory that 98% do not die from this Covid is not comforting to me. The young are not dying as much but there are a whole lot of people over 50, in fact, over a 1/3 of the country. I don’t want the feeling of not being able to breathe, can you dig that?
When you are old like me you make your own curfew, shelter in place, wear a mask and avoid crowded places. The data is out about the Virus and its consequences and there is no way I want to catch it.
No need for a curfew, if people want to catch the Virus it’s up to them to suffer the setback. Can’t wait for the vaccine so we can go back to a normal again.