It hasn’t been a good week for Contra Costa Supervisor Karen Mitchoff, but it looks like she’s getting her way once again since she spoke to the manager of the health department.
On Tuesday, Supervisor Karen blasted Health Department Director Anna Roth for not issuing any fines or closure notices in November to businesses (mostly restaurants) who allegedly violate the county’s vaccine mandate rules.
Instead, Roth chose to educate businesses regarding the vaccine mandate order.
“It seems to me that the time for education is over, the time for providing information is over, under the ordinance, the ordinance has progressed to the area where we need to be citing or issuing documents to shut them down,” stated Mitchoff. “The press is watching this very careful as is the public and I would like assurance that this week those types of actions will be taken. We have done the informing, we have done the educating, and its not fair to those businesses who are complying. Its not fair to the employees of those restaurants, patrons choose to go there, but employees work there.”
Mitchoff’s harsh words came after Director Roth told the board no fines or notices were issued to businesses in the month of November, even though they received 99 complaints for 80 businesses in November. Instead of fines or closures, the health department worked on “educating” businesses about the vaccine mandate rules.
One day after Mitchoff came down on the department, Lumpy’s Diner in Antioch was shut down for not checking the vaccination status of its customers.
Below is a list of violations, fines and permit suspensions since Sept.24:
Notices of Violation:
Sept. 24 – Notice of Violation – Walgreens (Walnut Creek)
Sept. 28 – Notice of Violation – Fuddruckers (Concord)
Oct. 5 – Notice of Violation – In-N-Out Burger (Pleasant Hill)
Oct. 14 – Notice of Violation – Huckleberry’s Breakfast and Lunch (Concord)
Oct. 18 – Notice of Violation – MJ’s Downtown Café (Brentwood)
Oct. 21 – Notice of Violation – In-N-Out Burger (San Ramon)
Oct. 22 – Notice of Violation – In-N-Out Burger (Pinole)
Oct. 26 – Notice of Violation – In-N-Out Burger (Pittsburg)
Dec. 8 – Notice of Violation – Chili’s (Antioch)
Dec. 8 – Notice of Violation – Rocco’s Ristorante & Pizzeria (Walnut Creek)
Dec. 8 – Notice of Violation – Sylvia’s Country Kitchen (Antioch)
Dec. 8 – Notice of Violation – Vic Stewart’s Steakhouse (Brentwood)
Notices of Fine:
Sept. 23 – Notice of Fine ($250) – Lumpy’s Diner (Antioch)
Sept. 27 – Notice of Fine ($500) – Lumpy’s Diner (Antioch)
Oct. 14 – Notice of Fine ($250) – In-N-Out Burger (Pleasant Hill)
Oct. 19 – Notice of Fine ($250) – Fuddruckers (Concord)
Oct. 19 – Notice of Fine ($500) – In-N-Out Burger (Pleasant Hill)
Oct. 22 – Notice of Fine ($1,000) – In-N-Out Burger (Pleasant Hill)
Oct. 25 – Notice of Fine ($250) – In-N-Out Burger (San Ramon)
Oct. 25 – Notice of Fine ($250) – Walgreens (Walnut Creek)
Oct. 26 – Notice of Fine ($250) – In-N-Out Burger (Pinole)
Oct. 27 – Notice of Fine ($1,000) – Lumpy’s Diner (Antioch)
Dec. 8 – Notice of Fine ($250) – Huckleberry’s Breakfast and Lunch (Concord)
Notice of Immediate Health Permit Suspension:
Oct. 26 – In-N-Out Burger (Pleasant Hill)
Dec. 8 – Lumpy’s Diner (Antioch)
Currently, 1,336 people in Contra Costa County have COVID-19, and 46 are hospitalized. The population of Contra Costa County is 1.2 million.
For a full list of complaints from the public, click HERE.
**Thanks to our friends at EastCountyToday.net for acquiring the list and sharing it with us, and also for contributing to the story.**
ISWYDT 🙂
These poor businesses have suffered enough. Stop this nonsense already.
STOP THE SPREAD
Too many people are still not getting vaccinated.
DOH +1
@Doh
The people to whom you’re referring don’t owe you or anyone else anything. Whether they’re vaccinated or not is none of your business. You just take care of yourself and let everyone else do what’s best for them.
@Doh,
There isn’t a big enough facepalm in the world. It still spreads in highly vaccinated populations. (Like the Bay Area.) Go to Worldometers.info and click on ‘weekly trends,’ then sort by cases per million population in the past week. Lotsa highly, highly vaccinated countries among the top of that list.
And that’s okay! The vax still helps because it protects from serious illness. So just take the W. You are protected from severe illness and you can move on with life and stop worrying about other people’s choices.
Well said Led…so many people do not understand that and it makes it even worse.
Doh explain this to me:
Reuters News: dated December 10, 2021, 10:26 AM
“Most of the 43 COVID-19 cases caused by the Omicron variant identified in the United States so far were in people who were fully vaccinated, and a third of them had received a booster dose, according to a U.S. report published on Friday.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that of the 43 cases attributed to Omicron variant, 34 people had been fully vaccinated. Fourteen of them had also received a booster, although five of those cases occurred less than 14 days after the additional shot before full protection kicks in.”
How exactly is the actions by the Health Department going to stop the spread when the majority of new cases occurred in fully vaccinated people and by fully vaccinated I mean 3 shots?!?
@Janus. Over 99% of cases in the US now are the delta variant. Omicron is coming and may take over soon, but the people now in the hospital and the morgue were infected with delta. The current vaccines are very effective against delta, especially after a booster.
@The Observer
Ok, I will ask you. How exactly is the actions by the Health Department going to stop the spread (Omicron) when the majority of new cases occurred in fully vaccinated people and by fully vaccinated I mean 3 shots?!?
If the Federal Government was not concerned about Omicron why did Joey ban travel to South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique and Malawi. Why did Jen Psaki say that “nothing is off the table” when it comes to controlling Omicron’s spread?
If Delta is so dangerous, why isn’t proof of vaccination required in all 9 bay area counties to eat in a restaurant? Why only Alameda, SF and CoCo Counties? Why is it not required in all counties in the state? Why hasn’t interstate travel stopped? If Omicron isn’t dangerous why is there a travel ban? If Covid-19 is so dangerous why are politicians constantly ignoring their own mandates … world wide?
I’m sorry that some people feel groundlessness due to lack of control but don’t force your phobias on me. Everyone of us is going to die and there isn’t a thing you can do about it. Take precautions you feel are in your best interest and I will do the same. Autonomy you should try it out sometime.
Is this where I say that “I no longer recognize the state I was born and raised in!”? And Karen is such a Karen.
Thank God we escaped Kleptofornica and now live in a Free State. Friends, throw off your chains and mask orders.
I feel the same way. Moved out of state 6 months ago and the freedom is amazing.
Since when Karen Mitchoff dictate what the county health department does. Maybe she can use her powers for something sustainable like building a windmill.
These harpies have no idea how much they are destroying their pathetic party lol keep doing it.
Justice may not be swift, but it’s coming for these low life tyrants, and the excuse “I was just taking orders” will not be allowed.
Ahh … did poor little Karen get triggered?
Karen should really worry more about her image .. how she is not recalled yet, is surprising.
1. She uses words on a live broadcast that violates the FCC rules … I wonder if anyone ever reported her …
2. She rants against the public for questioning her authority … Well, maybe don’t do anything questionable.
3. She complains that she is tired from a long day of meetings and work … Sorry you have a job to do.
4. And now she is complaining that the health department is not administering enough fines … Who is she to determine what the health department should be doing?
And why is the health department even recognizing her?
The reason that the Health Department is recognizing her is because upper Management including the CAO are at-will employees hired to carry out the directives of the BOS. If they don’t tow the line they can be dismissed unlike certain other department heads who are elected officials,
I can’t believe people have such a lack of meaning in their lives that they would report a local business like this. It’s truly sad and scary how the media has brainwashed so many people into thinking medical segregation is not only ok, but driving them to go out of their way to actively participate in the discrimination without even being paid!
I heard there were eighty complaints from the public last month. I agree it’s very sad, hopefully someday all this mess will end up in court and everyone that paid fines will get their money back.
Seriously. What kind of person files a complaint with the Health Department because nobody asked for their papers? Whatever happened to simply not patronizing a business where you didn’t feel comfortable? Does it make these self-righteous a-holes feel good when they get a restaurant shut down and put people out of work?
80 complaints .. how many unique individuals are doing the reporting? I wonder how many people made more than one complaint.
Completely agree. I was going to post the same thing as you. I cannot believe someone would take the time to file a complaint about a restaurant not checking vaccination status. Nest, some loser will try to bait a restaurant with a fake vaccine card and report them.
Thanks for giving me a list of businesses I will be sure to patronize! This overreach is ridiculous and insulting.
+1
+2
+3 (If I still lived there. But I live in a free state and we don’t have this issue.) Keep up the good fight!
+4
Time to go hit up In-n-out!
I’mma show my support!
+1
Karen Mitchoff, is a bully from the pulpit and an embarrassment to her constituents. it’s amazing that she has been in office so long (thank you Central Labor counsel and other Union organizers). The good news is that she has promised to retire at the end of her term. The bad news is that the other bully from the pulpit (John Gioia) isn’t going anywhere any time soon.
Her email address if you want to tell her how you feel. supervisormitchoff@bos.cccounty.us
THANK YOU, Karen, for caring about the health of all Contra Costans. Your efforts are greatly appreciated!
@Pat
What efforts are those, Pat? The efforts to shut down small businesses in Contra Costa County? Your post is total bullshi$.
Roth wanted to educate is excellent, Mitchoff wanting to penalize is overreach and shows she’s on a power trip. Some of these govmt officials see no value in businesses, disgusting.
Why Walgreens, do they serve food?
I’m curious of this too!!
Out of 1.2 million, 1336 have Covid, 46 hospitalized. I’m truly sorry for all of them, and hope they all get get better. I am vaccinated but when will the restrictions be lifted? No city, county or state will ever get to 0 cases. That reality is ridiculous. Seriously, 1336 out 1.2 million and restaurants are still required to check vaccine cards in CCC? I just don’t understand? Again I’m vaccinated, I get the seriousness but when will, all of us doing our part, be enough? 1336 out of 1.2 million seems like a pretty low number to me, compared to other counties, and states. These restaurants employ people who need to work for a living, to support themselves, their families. It’s a little out of hand. We didn’t ever go through this when the flu was killing more people.
We’re not voting our way out of this.
This is exactly my position. I am vaxxed and boosted but having restaurant employees check vax status is absolutely ridiculous.
@ Vics- you are right. All experts are saying this will never go away and will continue on like the seasonal flu…so I guess CA will basically be forever under restrictions. My family and I are all fully vaccinated and boosted but have now left CA. We just couldn’t take what has happened to CA between the no common sense government officials, the out of control cost of living, continued growth with nobody questioning where the water will come extra from and out of control theft and homelessness.
I lived there 54 of my 57 yrs in central Coco county and it saddens me to no end to see what’s happening.
I’ve only been gone a year and I still have additional family and friends there so I hope things turn around not just for them but for all the good residents of the state regardless of political stance.
This is exactly right. The bureaucracies and control addicts won’t give up ’emergency’- type restrictions and mandates until people just say enough. You can’t obey your way out of the biosecurity state. Enough people have to make it clear they are done.
It’s just disgusting. The hallmark of authoritarian rule is the declaration of an indefinite state of emergency. Here we are with an endemic pathogen, never going away, acute phase of the pandemic is over for the Bay Area, etc. etc. None of that matters if the people don’t stand up for responsible government.
Having watched her terrible rant the other day, one in which she did nothing but make one suspicious of her motives, this is yet another example to add to mine, and no doubts others suspicions of her motives!
Unfortunately, or rather I should say fortunatly for these people, they cannot just walk away from their actions anymore, they will follow them forever and when they slip, they will really fall!
Is there a better number to reach them (Co Co “health” dept) other than 925-608-5500 ? They are hiding behind voicemail like a bunch of COWARDS.
I too am curious as to WHY Walgreens is on the list.
Don’t give up or give into Tyranny folks. We Fight until Freedom Wins, PERIOD.
I’m just guessing, but I think Walgreens may have either been added to the list for either not complying with the mask ordinance or not mandating their employees to be vaccinated. —- not cashiers, but their pharmacists (since health workers were required to either be vaccinated or have a medical or religious exemption by October).
Sorry Karen, but you have lost complete perspective on the public you serve. Your outlandish and putrid approach to the public you represent has denigrated the service of those public officials who have committed themselves to strategies that are founded on fairness, equity, and respect for the citizens of Contra Costa County. It’s time to move on and do something else that may restore some greater purpose to your life and leave the citizenry of Contra Costa County in peace.
Restaurants should ban her. Tell her she can’t eat there because she needs to diet.
We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone should be used more often.
Those businesses are just lucky she didn’t send the flying monkeys!
I think we’ve found the perfect running mate for Kamala Harris in 2024!
And their campaign slogan: “No carrot, just the stick”.
VEE … HAV … VAYS . . . ! ! ! ! ! !
Any sightings of Sancho Panza ? ? ?
Now have a whole new list of places to eat.
Will patronize every restaurant they fine.
We’ve been going to Sylvia’s Country Kitchen for decades.
Does she have the governing power to require such a mandate as showing your papers? Under what code/legislation is she granted the power to mandate, fine and determine operability of a private company? She may have that power, and if she does, if that position does, then the citizens of the county have to determine a way to limit the level of overreach.
Mitchoff is a lizard person
The old Babylonian Talmud speaks of a race from the heavens from a planet or place called Nbiru
These lizard people were thought of as wise and brought forth the worship of Mammon the god of money and power
Seriously this lady is nuts
Time to resign
Click your heels three times and disappear.🤮
Again – Karen does NOT have the temperament to be in office. She ought to be 5150’d.
Nobody in that health office or on that board should ever receive a “spit free meal” in Contra Costa County again.
No respect for any of them.
This is beyond anything health related, it’s about control.
For 2 years they marched in lock step with the other counties, NOW they institute vaccine requirements to eat or go to a gym.
If it were up to me, they would all have their heads shaved, be stripped naked, and marched through the streets, as we all shout “SHAME, SHAME, SHAME”
Mitch,
That’s a horrible mental image.
Maybe just shave their heads before they’re marched down the street. For the love of all that is good, please keep them clothed!
What a bitter old bag…
Guessing she’s never run a business?
It’s all actually very simple: The restaurants need to just ban the vaccinated (see how they like Discrimination)…….seems they’re scared that their vax and 29th booster is not working.
I downloaded the spreadsheet = Total Whiners complaining who need to just cower-in-place until they find their brains.
And FYI, the ONLY thing you vaxxed have going for you is the Media is siding with you, NOT the Majority of America.
…. And all the Democrats in power fully support this Nazism. I think they’re getting practice on how to control us in all other ways too! What happened to the party of supposedly free speech and freedom????
Gone gone gone. Republicans represent that more now , and sticking up for The regular citizen.
Wow all those snitches who don’t give a dam if a person lose their job or the business goes under. May karma bring them chaos in their lives.
It’s called citizens arrest. The penalty for “deprivation of rights under color of law” is 5 years in prison.
Everyone needs to stop complying with everything. This is the only way. It is our freedom and our country. This is not optional.
A story about Karen complaining to a manager… Are we sure this isn’t from The Onion (or the Babelon Bee)?
If only everyone knew how hypocritical and pathetic Karen’s life is. The BOS is all she has. My sympathy outweighs the anger!
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Fascism!
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She needs to face financial hardship, then she would sing a different tune. Give someone a little bit of power and some will abuse it, like Mitchoff. Unfortunately she does not get it.
Anna Roth, shame on you for caving in.
Mitchoff is a tyrant along the lines of Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler, and the Khmer Rouge.
I’d bet she’s love to start taking names and murdering people.
By the thousands if necessary.
She’s completely out of control and needs to be forced out of office.
I hope the CCC supervisors drop the hammer and send her into retirement and order her to get professional mental care.
Mitchoff is showing what happens when people have a little power and it goes to their heads.
She epitomizes everything she said she hated in her rant, and then some.
Go away Mitchoff, before you are carted away by the nice men with white coats.
What these resturants need to do is ask everyone for there vaccination card, if one can not produce one still let them in, that will keep the snitches at bay
Lumpy’s was shut down for not checking customer’s vax status?
What kind of BS is that?
Since when do restaurants have to act as Covid Police?
I hope restaurants sue the living crap out of the government for this!
I didn’t see Walmart on any of the lists. Why was Walgreens given a notice? I see many people not wearing masks throughout CCC and no one tells them to put on a mask or pull it up to cover their nose and mouth. Either enforce for all or none at all.
You’re not aware? Covid does not enter many many places, you know large box stores, Supermarkets etc, so you can join the 100’s, sometimes thousands of other people in there, without showing your papers knowing you’ll be completely safe. But, goodness me be careful entering a restaurant with 30 diners….. sitting 10ft away!
The arbitrary nature of these rules makes them a total joke, anyone getting fined or shut down will be able to pull this apart in court.
Problem with that is we the taxpayer will pay for it, Karen and co will waltz off into the sunset with a fat pension!
Can I sue people that voted them in… could you imagine, still this is California and crazy has become the norm!
@Bag-puss
I think the major difference is that one can wear a mask while shopping at a large box store, supermarkets, etc; however, a consumer can not eat with their mask on while at a restaurant – hence the requirement to show your vaccination status at a restaurant and not a store – imo.
The other part of this story is all of the people complaining to the health department about places not asking for documents.
Have I mentioned that I don’t care much for the bleeding hearts that swallow hook line and sinker all of the edicts spewed by the tyrants?
I’m sure they hate me too.
Doesn’t matter tho’,
what do I care if a sheep bleats?
Keep in mind that Karen did not miss a single paycheck (or meal for that matter) when so many businesses were forced to shut down and so many hardworking business owners and their staff were losing their livelihoods as a result.
@ Mr T. This cannot be overstated. Shortly before the pandemic began, I just happened to take my first ever government job. The pay is not good, but the work is not hard. I call it semi-retirement. That we would continue getting our regular paychecks was never in doubt. One would like to assume that having a guaranteed paycheck while millions and millions of fellow Americans are absolutely screwed would fill one with gratitude and humility, but go figure. And don’t forget that the CCC BOS are somehow allowed to vote themselves raises, and boy do they.
I’ve been going out of my way to spread the wealth. I patronize my favorite local businesses often, and tip generously. I’m pretty nice to the homeless, the beggars, the bums, the hobos, whatever you want to call them, too, but I’d much rather SAVE a job than have to help someone that LOST their job.
@rolaids – you seem to be one of the few county workers that take pride in your work and understand the role of government employees, whether elected or not. I have heard from a few other county employees who have the same sentiments; unfortunately, bringing that to light to get issues resolved means that one will be stick in a dead-end job with no future…. Unless specific examples are forwarded to the grand jury (which would be a hoot). For that, thank you for your service.
Unfortunately, I have seen WAY too many examples of what public service has morphed into – lazy employees, power trips, etc…. But I also blame the voters who elect and re-elect politicians in all levels. The politicians talk a good story and the voting public laps it up without thinking, and they get re-elected based on name recognition (or dark money) only. Nobody holds the politicians accountable for their actions.
MONSTER MITCHOFF is nothing but a TERRORIST, a government sanctioned TERRORIST, engaging in government sanctioned TERRORISM!!!
Seems like Karen has totally embraced the name! She’s acting like a miserable cat lady that needs to get laid.
Just wait until these same snitches, yes snitches, start calling the police if you have friends and family over for a family, friendly get together !
Shoplifting, larceny, disorderly conduct, receiving stolen property, driving with a suspended license, breaking and entering with property damage, wanton and malicious destruction of property, threats, minor in possession of alcohol, marijuana possession, possession with intent to distribute, non-marijuana drug
Today the US senate confirmed a woman as a Federal Attorney General who will not persecute the above crimes. She says it cost too much to keep them in jail. So you can lose big time but the government in her view can’t afford to keep them from breaking into your house. Before Kamila Harris broke the tie the vote was fifty fifty. Another loser nominated by Joe Biden.
For business owners not enforcing this crap, know, that we know, and we’re all going to your businesses as much as possible, and not going to Nazi camp restaurants demanding papers. And, we’re telling and bringing our friends. Want to be part of the club? Don’t be a Karen.
Really? Tell me, which booster jab is the magical miracle cure for the flu…4th, 5th, 6th, 7th…?
Really? Tell me, which booster jab is the magical miracle cure for the flu…4th, 5th, 6th, 7th…?
Wondering if lawsuits naming county are next step ?
Hey matt, mind your own business. We ain’t doing masks or vaccines. You need to suck it up. This is a pandemic of the vaccinated per the atlantic.
We be keepin’ it real:
In the last seven days in the US, the average daily death toll is:
Covid: 11
Cancer: 1,600
Heart Disease: 1,800
A famous quote: “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?”
Actually, the daily average number of Covid deaths in the U.S. as of December 9 is 1,281. This is less than the number last summer, but it’s certainly not a trivial number. The tragedy is that most of the deaths could have been prevented by getting vaccinated.
Thanks for the list of places I am going to this week.
I’m going to double-down on my support for these business’s that have been fined,……..looks like it will be In N Out for lunch tomorrow, “I’ll have a (or maybe two) double-double animal style, and shake, please”.
It’s wild that people are still raging and fuming about the vaccine mandate.
It’s very tiresome to have to watch them continue to squall about how they shouldn’t have to follow laws they find inconvenient, knowing that they are going to continue to spread the virus and wonder why this whle debacle still isn’t over.
This is not a state or CDC guideline. It’s something this county chose to dio and it hadn’t been well received. The CEO of Pfizer said today that a fourth will be needed in the future, not sure exactly when it will be. How many will be enough? I’ve had three, not sure if I want anymore.
Down here in Socal right now…..no masks anywhere….no vaccine verification needed. CCC needs to stop with this nonsense already!
where in socal 🙁 I visited near Downtown and was surprised at how many people still wear masks and restaurants checking for vaccine proof :-\
Yep. Hubby travels to SoCal frequently and never has a problem eating out as a proudly unvaxxed.
So why is it only CCC?🤔 I went to San Jose last weekend and it was nice to not be asked to show my vaxx papers when going out to eat!
CCC and SF are the only 2 counties requiring the vaccine card to eat indoors! CCC follows whatever SF does from what I can see over the last year or so, yet we have some of the lowest cases, and highest vaccinated people, before even this latest mandate went into effect, according to posts on Claycord, from our Health Dept. It’s mind boggling. I’m vaxed, but I’m over the need of vax cards to eat indoors.
Why shouldn’t CCC brown nose & copy SF?
Just look at what a fine job SF has done managing their county…. and we are catching up to them fast!
Our homeless population & looter statistics are on track to surpass theirs soon.
Our homeless seem to find less obvious locations to have a bm than the SF tribes, but ours are becoming more feral with each passing week…. so wait & see!
Screw it! Civil disobedience! Starting right now!
how do we get rid of Karen?
Vote. Her. Out!
You haven’t been keeping up with current events.. Sweden is already using microchips in their hands for not only payments, but now vaccine proof. Peak NPC talking points, shirt shoe service, seat belt analogies from your latest CNN software update. This is all continuing because weak minded people like you still think people aren’t capable of lying for greed, power, and control. It’ll never go away for as long as you continue to simp for big pharma and government control. Time to do a testicular check. Once confirmed they exist, now use them and start pushing back.
Matt,
You’re in the wrong line of work, you’ve come across as though you seem to think that you know everything, that means you should be working in government. Monster Mitchoff is retiring in a year, you should consider replacing her, as you come off exactly like her, so it should be a smooth transition.
In the meantime, how about you tell us all what “popular restaurant you manage” so that many of us here can choose to not patronize your restaurant with take-out orders and/or in-person dining, both now and well into the future where we may choose to continue boycotting your place of work. After all, you’ve made it pretty clear that you have no respect for those individuals that disagree with you and we’d hate to continue making you so “tired” from listening to us, so just make it easy for us to avoid your “popular restaurant.” We’d really hate to have to boycott every Contra Costa County restaurant with a manager named Matt.
Chuq,
I strongly suggest that you don’t leave your home and that you avoid reading and posting your opinion on blogs like this so that you may avoid situations that you find so tiresome. After all, that is what’s best for your health.
Also, the “vaccine mandate” isn’t a law!!! You also seem to still be misinformed, vaccinated individuals spread the corona virus just as unvaccinated individuals do. “This whole debacle still isn’t over” because government hasn’t yet decided to end it, just look at Europe and Australia which have been much stricter than the U.S. has been and they aren’t over the corona virus either.
Yep, it’s County by County and used to be cities’ Code Enforcement was expected to police all these COVID measures – glad that’s not so much the case anymore. My question is why was Anna so gung-ho on issuing fines and closing businesses in October but decided “education” was o.k. in November? What changed? Not that I’m pro-vaccine mandate, but that would piss-off any superior.
Statistics bear out that this madness needs to stop though. Can’t wait for the “omygod” variant to come out which makes some people’s teeth itch requiring an immediate lock-down and 16 more boosters.
Just had In n Out KAREN. Add more places to shop to the list, I’ll make straight way there.
What would Sweden do ? ? ?
“if the adults would just act like adults instead of spoiled children who never get told “no” we could be getting in the other side of this already.”
This is just so obviously false by now that it is hard to believe people still can say this with a straight face. Go look at the situation of countries with near-universal Covid vaccination – are they on the other side of this? Nope, it turns out that it is hard to just turn off the authoritarian switch once you’ve activated it. And once people expect “success” to mean “the virus is gone” you’ve basically signed up for the perpetual version of all this.
The virus isn’t going away, it’s going endemic. At least half those people you are criticizing have already had Covid and have better immunity than vaxxed people.
Look at the end of your rant. Should people “feel safe” or actually BE safe?
Masks have marginal effect – cloth masks pretty much nil according to the only RCTs that have been done. So if you ‘feel safe’ in your job because people have cloth masks on, that’s just a feeling, and an incorrect one.
Anybody who has got vaxxed (and boosted if they want) has great protection from severe illness. If they want to wear a KN95 mask at work and fit it on properly, then they are super well protected. They aren’t being significantly endangered by their customers. If they are so immune compromised that they are *still* at high risk, that is unfortunate, but cloth masks and vaccine cards are not going to keep them from seeing the virus at some point. It’s endemic. It spreads even in highly vaxxed populations. Everyone’s body is going to encounter it at some point.
Bottom line, Covid is still real, and still here. But it isn’t going away, and individuals can protect themselves very well now. You’re no longer at the mercy of other people’s choices on this. You’re just not. If you think so, I suggest it is because you like having people to blame!
Guess what… The vaccine is not working while the Pharma make billions. This lady is a complete fake loser. Time to stand up to the paid morons like her.
What do you mean when you say the vaccine is not working? If we take a look at who gets hospitalized with COVID and who doesn’t the math makes it very clear that it’s working.
I had Covid twice and never really knew. I got the vax because people like you forced me to. Actually got sick. Maybe if you knew the science you would realize that natural immunity is key. But keep buying into big pharma… 75% of hospital cases with Covid are fully vax. Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Screaming Karen
Yeah, make sure to go after In-N-Out
Target those deplorable.
Large middle finger to the useless Health Nazis. Seriously, what will these looser do when the wuflu goes away? I don’t know anyone who has ever listened to or followed what these idiots say. Its so sad.
These vaccine passports for restaurants, bars , movies, gyms and bars are not justify, as of 12/5 there were only 16 hospitalized in the whole county, 2 days after board of supervisors buck up now 46 hospitalized, could they be inflating the numbers now ?? Even at 46 it doesn’t warrant this, also article didn’t mention that it’s mostly old people and that the most deaths in the last 60 days were people over 70 and over 55% of the deaths between 70-90 were fully vaccinated, so why divide the county ….this is about power and control by both the board of supervisors and the health department, the numbers do not justify this and if you look at the most vaccinated countries in the world are having the highest covid cases because the vaxxed are still getting it, spreading it and dying from it
Yeah bc there’s only a 99.8% chance you’ll survive the illness if we don’t do as you say 🙄
Btw Surgeons wear masks to protect the patient from the DR saliva ( there’s bacteria is in all saliva )
Anyone who goes to a restaurant and then goes home and takes the time to complain that they didn’t check their “papers”
Has major issues and prolly should pick up a hobby or two or three
Better yet volunteer somewhere
Let me know what popular restraunt you manage so I can be sure that me and all my friends and family don’t eat there, Sorry but we are not spoiled entitled brats we are people following the science not the lies and don’t want to play Russian roulette with the vaccine, my 31 year old daughters best friend died 3 hours after her second shot , 3 of my Co workers mother’s which were over 80 died within 2 weeks of the 3rd booster, Israel, UK, Taiwan have the most vaccinated countries but have highest covid cases 90-95% of the hospitalized are vaccinated 75-80% deaths are vaccinated, 112 world soccer players have either died, had a heart attack or stroke within 21 days of their vaccination and most under 32 years old, Cal State Berkeley football team had to cancel a game 2 weeks ago because 44 of them tested positive and the team is 95% vaxxed..those are facts not misinformation, so again we are not spoiled, entitled brats we just don’t want to take a vaccine that doesn’t keep you from getting it, spreading it or dying from it and 46 hospitalized out of 1.2 million people is not justification its about power and control something apparently you think you have by not letting people enjoy a meal
First name Karen-perfect, Last name needs the M replaced with a B and then we have complete perfection.
Well Karen Mitchoff, I am doing all I can to protect myself from spreading covid. Perhaps you could do the same. Did you know that overweight people are more likely to die from covid. Maybe hit the treadmill and work on yourself before attempting to police all of us….
She’s a socialist/communist…perfect requirements for any political office in Ca.
She needs to hit the road and pronto.
I would call her more a “Stalinist” since there are many varieties of socialism and communism.
According to reports the FDA says It now needs 75 Years to fully release Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Data. Allegedly the FDA spent just 108 days reviewing it before granting emergency use authorization to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
Curious what Karen would have to say about that.
@Matt Care to share your model establishment’s name, just so I can make sure I avoid it.
Thought not!
Thanks
@Matt, you sound really scared. You need to find a good psychiatrist for help. By now many of us have figured out the “pandemic” is 10% a cold virus which there really is no way to vaccinate for because cold viruses mutate and 90% coercive psychology to stress out people’s immune system. Don’t fall for the “great culling”.
Hi Black Knight a few things.
Vaccinated to vaccinated infection is less likely than unvaccinated to vaccinated. Can confirm this based on experiences in my own family, information from nurses and like ya know… the recommendations of experts. As opposed to the people here who will just make anything up. Vaccinated folks tend to have milder symptoms than I vaccinated.
Speaking of just making things up, the frothing conspiracy theorists were all certain that COVID would vanish once Biden was elected because the whole thing was a ruse to get him votes. If they cared at all about the community they would encourage one another to get vaccinated. But they don’t.
Matt, so tell us which “popular restaurant “ you manage. I’m sure everyone here would like to know…. So we can take our business elsewhere. BTW, ever hear of “freedom of speech?”
Whether or not the virus is a problem isn’t the issue. It’s how “science” and politicians have handled it. It’s about tyrannical control without the benefit of no political FACTS and the desire of petty tyrants to be certain control. Then there’s the issue of HOW she handled it, which was preceded last December by her rant via zoom that contained a litany of inappropriate language (by the FCC) which was broadcast over regional TV….for which she apparently NEVER received a warning from the FCC.
Nope – she doesn’t have the temperament to be in any kind of “leadership” or elected position. Nothing but a petty tyrant. She’s forgotten that she works for the people.
Time to kick her mouthy a$$ to the curb.
We’re still waiting for you to post the name of your “popular” restaurant. It’ll probably go the way of Hilda & Jessie’s in SF. No great loss . The food is probably overpriced and mediocre at best anyway.
Meanwhile, we’ll wait to see the name of your restaurant.
Control, Control, Let people run their own businesses!
All you do is heras! Your job is not to shut businesses down!
Recall these out of control politicians! Or you will always be in their CONTROL!
Do not SUBMIT You have rights. LAWYER UP!
GET A BACKBONE FOR HEAVENS SAKE!!
Matt – So tell us where you got your medical training…
Or are you just parroting what “science” (ie, politics) is saying?
That’s why her name is Karen.
I must say that Rocco’s was in severe violation, with a super ho stifledt bar and packed to the brim with no masks to be seen on any server or manager.
Rocco’s needs heaters outside when it’s s cold to encourage people to distance from the bad bar scene.
Walgreens did not deserve a fine. I always saw masks and social distancing there.
People are just tired of being controlled and businesses failing, it’s their choice.
that was “hot” not ho. 🙂 oops
If you don’t like it, don’t go to Rocco’s.
We go every week, and will continue to do so.
Got to support the businesses that aren’t bowing to these RIDICULOUS, UN-AMERICAN LOCAL MANDATES.
Appears lots of complaints against STARBUCKS
But no actions against Starbucks.
Is this “rule” being affected equally under equal protection due process principle?
Or is it being used to harass people; either by allowing who-knows-who to target businesses by filings complaints, or by Karen choosing who she wants to go after?
Unless Karen M and County Health are going to compensate the restaurants for enforcing their rules, I do not feel they’re obligated to check the customers’ papers.
Maybe that’s what restaurants should do. Each time they have to turn away a customer, send a bill to the County advising they expect to be compensated for lost sales and the staff time to perform this work which isn’t their legal responsibility.
Shop and dine at businesses that don’t violate their customers’ civil rights. Ignore Karens.
Yet the border remains open and unvaccinated illegal aliens are flown and deposited all over the US by the thousands.
The Biden administration is clearly pro-Covid, and our elected officials are clearly pro-Biden. Peculiar kinship.
I went to two different restaurants in central California this week and no one asked for vaccine cards. The covid numbers are better there than here.
I will have to eat at those restaurants more now… Good for them!. This requiring proof of vaccination has gone on long enough.. And has no effect on the transmission of the already boring virus..
What has Mitchoff as a member of the Board of Supervisors and the Health Department done to assure Contra Costa cities are not practicing “Sanctuary City” policies with regards to illegal aliens crossing our Southern border? Seems a much better place to start.
Tyrants!!!!!!!!! These people are on the same power trip as the BAAQMD. Can’t wait for them to start fining us for fires. Tyrants. I’m saving up money to give to anyone who runs against them in the next election. We can’t put up with tyrants like this. Dr. F. and Ann Roth are spineless comrades.
I’ll add that those that are reporting these things need to grow up. Don’t go if you don’t like it. Stop being 1st graders.
I notice Matt is back to hiding after he got called out. Still hasn’t posted which “popular restaurant” he “manages.”
Quote from a Hungarian Jew from the documentary “The Last Days.”
“People wonder how is it that we didn’t do something.” We didn’t run away, we didn’t hide. Well things didn’t happen at once. Things happened very slowly. So each time a new law came out, or a new restriction, we said “well just another thing, it will blow over.”
“When we had to wear the yellow (think mask & covid passport) star to be outside, we started to worry.?
It’s strange how people who are ugly on the outside are so often ugly on the inside.
I know that a lot of people don’t really know what covid is. I don’t even know if they ever told anybody what covid is.
My question is is how can they make a vaccine for something that they don’t know what covid is? Well I’m here to tell you what covid is and then you can use your choice of how you should handle it. But in all reality every one of the whole wide world covid is energy that is created from mold and toxic waste it’s mold bacteria parasites and fungus and it is everything it is we are made of it people are made of it animals are made of at plants are made of it everything is made of it and it’s the holy Ghost in nature’s form it is our messiah in this true form he’s actually under a curse and if you read between the lines and all of these religion Bibles in the different ones you will realize the way they write it you will see it for what it actually is it’s super important to read no matter what you believe in the main thing is you have to believe that you have a creator so the deal is last year everything was essential there’s a lot of religion a lot of prayers all that stuff nonstop so this year it’s trying to tell you you know use what we told you use the advice we gave you and then we’re supposed to figure it out the airborne bacteria can only be fought with another airborne and you can either fight or you can calm down essential oils thieves oil blend from eden’sgarden.com is the one that I absolutely believe that it’s the sweet smelling oil that John the Baptist parents diffused twice daily to keep the townspeople well it calms the airborne down and keeps it at Bay and a-ok. You have to diffuse it with a dry air diffuser bamboo charcoal or just a dry air diffuser no moist air no water. We have too much moisture now as it is we have bronchitis and pneumonia running rapid. So what you need to do in order to make the airborne comfortable and and happy is give it sweet smelling oil we should be diffusing in Mass amounts right now message me at my email if you would like the recipe of making your own thieves oil blend you just ordered the oils from eden’sgarden.com it’s lemon oil clove oil cinnamon bark oil eucalyptus oil and rosemary oil and if you email me I can give you the how many drops keep it in the dark bottle and the cool place so my point being is that if you give it vaccines and if you give it more refinery toxic air toxic water toxic dumping the oils in the ocean I mean God knows who did this but the karma on you is going to be hard the people that usually have like another place to go there’s the ones that probably don’t care and do these terrible horrid things to our Earth but the problem is we’re breathing it in we’re eating and drinking it our kids are getting deformed because of it they’re having disabilities like none other my daughter had a stroke all because I gave her an epidural or had an epidural at her birth and it was like a German nerve warfare block or whatever. It’s no joke and it’s rushing roulette with all of this it’s rushing roulette with any medication right now so the thing is is the vaccines may have different effect on each and every single person cuz everybody’s singly different you can’t give something and expect everybody to have no you know reaction because things are going to react whether you can see it on the outside of your body you’re going to definitely feel it on the inside of your body scary to take that vaccine cuz I don’t even know what’s in it and they don’t really mention that. For a government to mandate that these restaurants are going to close if they don’t do the vaccine that’s super super bad crossing the line I’m not quite sure our government is really happy with us or you know they don’t talk about all these murder and rape and molest and abductions and sacrificing and all this gun shooting all over the place they don’t talk about any of that we’re all dealing with it and every single solitary city across the United States every day. The homeless amount of people have just skyrocketed we’ve got homeless camping out in the in the national for the national forest and the national parks there’s huge homeless camps out there and no cops even go out there. So with everybody getting robbed everyday and home invasions and murders and rapes and kidnappings in every city and now they’re making it mandatory that we do this covid shot they’re taking away our guns does that kind of paint a picture? Mr Trump do you know what’s going on here does anybody know what’s going on here because if you add up in my detective book and my little detective world six and four and 17 and 18 and 24 and 32 and 92 they are not adding up. It concerns me. And I really believe that it would be super smart to find out what covid is until the people to me it is the gases from the earth when you are fracking and they’re doing it around here because they’re blowing out the the walls of all the mining going on below for hundreds of years all the mines the tunnels underneath us they’re blowing out with high pressure water those caved walls and then they hit sinkholes that haven’t been opened up yet so the gas is released and it kills people or it makes you very sick but it’s the same stuff that come out of them tombs when the archaeologist would breathe it in and die. So I call it the holy Ghost in nature’s form because John Muir definitely mentions it a lot in his books and he says on the plaque of his statue it says John Muir and the date he was born in the date he diedand then it says I live only to entice those to look at nature’s loveliness I want to think show oil refinery for the last 75 years of contribution to the city of martinez. I thought he was a tree hugger and I don’t understand why he’s thinking the gas station unless he’s not a tree hugger because actually he’s a Sawyer a sawyer is a person who cuts trees down. A Shepherd is a person who leads the lambs to slaughter they protect them until it’s time to slaughter correct. So I think that something’s not right in Denmark folks and we just need essential oils for the covid if you just can help me diffuse you know 40 just diffusing non-stop all day long just try to get the oils and diffuse in your area the sweet smelling oils will calm the airborne virus down and that is how you communicate with an airborne virus. Good luck l
@Janine Davis…..Ahhhh, I remember the old Orange Sunshine days watching the Dead at Winterland….don’t worry the effects will subside in 8 hrs. or so, drink a little chamomile tea and enjoy the ride.