The State of California today placed Contra Costa County into the more restrictive COVID-19 “red tier.”
For the past three weeks, the county was in the “orange tier,” however, rising case counts resulted in a return to the “red tier” of California’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy from the less restrictive “orange tier.”
Outdoor bars are again prohibited, except where allowed under restaurant guidance with drinks as part of a meal; indoor dining returns to a maximum of 25 percent venue capacity or 100 people, whichever is fewer (down from 50 percent occupancy or 200 people); indoor movie theaters can operate at a maximum 25 percent occupancy or 100 people, whichever is fewer (down from 50 percent or 200 people); indoor religious services and similar cultural
gatherings back to maximum 25 percent building capacity 100 people (down from 50 percent or 200 people); and cardrooms and satellite wagering sites again cannot operate indoors.
At a minimum, counties must remain in a tier for at least three weeks before moving forward. Data is reviewed weekly and tiers are updated on Tuesdays. To move forward, a county must meet the next tier’s criteria for two consecutive weeks. If a county’s metrics worsen for two consecutive weeks, it will be assigned a more restrictive tier.
Click here to view which activities and businesses are allowed to open in the four tiers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TnkJ8_BmSI
@S Freaking hilarious!!!!
Lies, Lies, Lies……and your Savior Anthony Fauci said that the PCR test is Highly inaccurate, giving false positives.
Nice to know that “covid” has eradicated the common cold and the flu.
What ever happen to those 2? The cold and the flu, did it go on vacation or what?
Australia had an unusually mild flu season during their winter (our summer). It’s safe to assume that their lockdowns, masks and social distancing made flu transmissions much less likely than during a normal winter. It seems likely that we too will see a milder flu season this winter. Even so, my wife and I got our flu shots, just like we do every year.
Those damn trick-or-treaters! Those damn Halloween party goers! If everyone would just wear their masks we wouldn’t be in the red tier!
The people have been fully primed for socialism. Brainless, non thinking, conforming sheep.
twix are for twix
You do realize that Halloween was less than 14 days ago right …14 days being the inoculation period? Also, since our ‘trusted’ health department site shows the ‘spike’ (i use that loosely) on the 2-4th of November, it is likely NOT from Halloween.
@parent Why I’m just referring to our great dictator Newsomes thoughts on the rise in the numbers: “We’ve seen some early indication related to Halloween. I’m very sober about that and
that’s what I was elected to focus on.”
@ilovepopcorn,
Well said !
Delaying vaccinations for political points or until Trump is out of office ? ? ? ?
How many more Californians will needlessly die ?
13 October
“The governor announced the creation of a new group of physicians and scientists working with the California Department of Public Health that will “independently review” all federal Food and Drug Administration-approved vaccines”
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-19/newsom-california-statewide-plan-covid-19-vaccine-availability-review
Is he again merely knee jerk following New York Gov. cuomo, who made his motivation very clear, politics and political points is all that evidently matters.
“The good news is that the Pfizer tests look good and we’ll have a vaccine shortly,” the governor said. “The bad news is that it’s about two months before Joe Biden takes over and that means this administration is going to be implementing a vaccine plan.” — cuomo
They are unconcerned with collateral damage to humans so this is no surprise.
What they don’t understand is that 50% or so of the US population has lost faith in the electoral process. That is something they can’t weasel out of. The fact that Pfizer was not part of project warp speed is telling. They should have waited a few more weeks for their announcement just for appearances. However, as they believe Americans are stupid, then went ahead and announced six days after the election. A complete coincidence of course….
@ Fearless-
Pfizer was part of Warp Speed. As for the timing of the announcement- the CEO of Pfizer sold $5.6 million of his stock on the same day as the announcement. He had no control over sale as it was a pre-set sale, so he was selling whether the stock was up or down that day. But he DID have control over the timing of the announcement. Smell something fishy?
Nothing illegal here, but just sayin’.
On the stock sale timing thing, there is still to me a bit of a question. Pfizer said it is not insider trading because it was a pre-set sale, but it was set not years ago, but back in August. In August would they have already been able to know or be able to forecast a real or PR announcement.
@TP
No, the research and development of the Pfizer vaccine was not part of Warp Speed. I’m not sure what you mean by Pfizer having control over the timing of the announcement? The protocol called for interim analysis by an independent data monitoring board once there were 94 confirmed positive individuals in the trial. That happened on Sunday and the data was announced prior to the opening of the market on Monday. Clearly, Pfizer had no control over when the number of infections would have been reached. Pfizer could have delayed the announcement but that would probably not have been legal since the information was material.
@TDL
I agree that Pfizer could have seen in August that there would be an announcement later that year about the vaccine, however they could not have predicted the exact date of the outcome.
This is hogwash. Time to stand up for ourselves against the oppression of Newsom. He is drunk with power.
I hope everyone had a happy Halloween.
Eh, about like last year, sat around watching tv and eating a bowl of candy with the lights out…
According to CCC Health Department in the last twenty days four people have died in the county of the china virus. Three were in long term care facilities.
More lies and BS! So glad we’re moving out of this socialist crap state
I hope everyone here blaming Halloween parties and family gatherings was spewing the same vitriol at the crowd on TV celebrating the media’s decision about the election that was not socially distanced, was singing, chanting, and shouting, and also removing masks to pass around a bottle of cheap champagne and share with strangers.
So forgive my ignorance .. why have we moved?
You need to be under 7/100,000 to be in orange. We are at 6.x. That is below 7.0
Positivity rate is under 5.0 to be in orange. Even using the stupid *%& equity metric, we are at 4.4%.
O are we moving because the dictator is using the 7 days of data even thought our county website says “The most recent 7 days are not used because that data is still being reported.” So the dictator can use the last 7 days that our county says may be incorrect because it is still being recorded …
Well SCREW you dictator! Screw you health department. Your on/off again approach to this will only further kill small business in our community.
Just wait till our teachers union hears about this, little Brian Lawrence and his corruption buddies in the union, will lock the schools down now until 2022 based on this.
You need to be under 4/100,000 to be in the orange tier. If we move above 7/100,000 then we go back to Widespread.
I hope everyone enjoyed their Halloween and gatherings! Thanks to you guys we are going backwards and wether you like it or not more businesses have to close….so thank you!
Global
How does Halloween, which occurred less than 14 days ago, the incubation period, impact our numbers? Our ‘spike’ was on the the 8th of November … something tells me that Halloween was not the issue.
So global, quit fear mongering and if you insist on doing it, get your facts straight.
We need to be below 7 to be in the orange, not 4 for new cases. Cause if was 4, we never would have bee in orange. Check out the county website …
There are a few higher numbers in some cities -but for the most part – the rest of the county numbers are low, sometimes zero.They need to consider the closures based on zip codes – not restrict restaurants and churches in Danville because the numbers in Brentwood are up. That doesn’t make sense Contra Costa.
Walk through restaurants and bars in downtown Danville on any given Saturday night, you’ll know why they’re locked down too.
And therefore, folks need to make their own decisions as to whether they want to go in to dine. The numbers don’t support the government stepping in and making that decision for them.
@SmileWC
I agree that the closures should be based on zip codes as some cities in Contra Costa County like San Pablo, which has 327.9 cases per 100k last 14 days is obviously a hot spot. What’s not being reported is that all of our county is being held accountable for the Pomo Indian Lytton Casino for exercising their tribal sovereignty and opening without the Health Department consent.
I keep hearing that the biggest contributor to Covid spread is in-home gatherings so I’m not sure how restricting businesses is going to help with that.
Imagine lots of families going to the same business or representatives of those families. Get it?
Wow the followers are a plenty
Boasting their chests like good little hens
This is all about pay to play
Is Napa county or sf county being railroaded
Have you been to sf
With all the bums camps up and down the streets and off ramps
how can there not be an infestation of hep a b and c along with mutated Covid and hunt-a virus and overall filth
It’s laughable that bum ridden streets are safe and a smaller cleaner city is on lockdown
Same with Oakland
Filth and bums
Does the state put any effort toward cleaning it up
Nope they rather invite it and push it on us and take our money in guise of cleaning when it goes right into their pockets
This is the biggest heist of all time
Politicians taking everything why we are forced to stay in our homes
Hmmm like hitler did in the 1930s
Well I guess history being torn down and hidden away is what they wanted
So they can install another natzi regime
The socialist won
Always wondered how a maniac got to do what ever he wanted
I guess socialism is a wonder drug that puts people in haze of obedience
And makes them give away their rights and possessions
Have a feeling that you are back in grade school with hall monitors lurking? Why do people who work in government think the public will accede to these rules? If the only made these recommendations then maybe more might comply but now they seem to want to punish everyone like we’re bad people. Seems like they want to change our government to a totalitarian state with no regard to the fact that has never worked (well maybe in North Korea).
I know more people who have lost their jobs and/or business than I do people with or have passed away from COVID. A lot of businesses will not survive a third closure, a lot of people did not survive the first or second closure. ‘Oh what a tangled web we weave/When first we practice to deceive’
But those restrictions are the reason we have been able to keep COVID cases and deaths low. Which would you prefer?
Chuq, there is no real proof of that. It is all supposition. There are no control groups to prove such a supposition. Covid has been turned not only into political cause but also a religious like belief system. And there is still that very small percentage who have died under it and even then they might have died without it too. Like one top epidemiologist said when asked what we’ve learned from the pandemic replied “that people die”.
Let’s not let our officials turn this country into an totalitarian state. Haven’t we learned anything in the last 100 years?
This doesn’t make sense. We can go to an outdoor bar that serves food because the virus doesn’t dare come to this establishment. But we can’t go to an outdoor bar that doesn’t serve food because the virus shows up at these establishments.
That restriction has never made sense to me. It’s unreasonable to keep bars closed this long when restaurants and liquor stores can all operate.
C’MON PEOPLE! How hard is it? Wear the mask, social distance (that does NOT mean partying w 100 people in one room). That’s the only way we’ll get back any semblance of normal.
Well said JazzMan.
I guess people want to exercise their freedom to keep this pandemic going, making people sick and hurting the economy.
Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
“Calling Doctor Bombay, come right away!”
I loved that show…I Dream of Jeannie…perhaps she can nod her head with ponytail flailing to take us back to another time…out of this nightmare!
I would vote for Dr. Bombay, he couldn’t muck this up any worse than Newsom and his compensated cronies.
The virus is real, but we have been lied to over and over and over.
I like Dr. Elmer Hartman (on Family Guy).
I think that was Bewitched!
This is because of all the Biden super spreader celebration’s in the streets. Shame on you Joe for not telling your followers to follow Covid 19 rules. I wonder how many deaths you are now responsible for?
Of course you say that! The count is from the past 2 weeks! Why don’t you educate yourself a little more before accusing people? It’s not all about politics! It’s about people not caring! Period!
No B’s Pleas
Biden has blood on his hands.. Impeach him now ! And the Dems made it all about politics…Game on Lola, educate yourself.
@the wizard,
I wonder how many lives have been lost due to super spreader rallies that Trump held in the past couple of weeks…
@The Wizard,
This not because people were celebrating in the streets 4 days ago, it has everything to do with Trump rallies held around the country 4 weeks ago!
What the state of California also did was close the Walnut Creek DMV permanently. If you want to you can drive to Pleasanton where they will have two offices. What a crock.
They claim they lost their lease. I call B.S.! Walnut Creek has so many vacant properties and is so far down on revenue DMV could have negotiated a screaming deal. They probably want the site for low income housing.
Ricardoh… I was at DMV in WC today… is this a future plan?
Don use the B word. We are slammers.
Don’t care, doesn’t affect our daily lives routine at all. We still go out and eat, still go wherever we want when we want with who we want.
Don’t care what colored tier we are in don’t mean a damn thing to our family.
Dr. Bombay was on “Bewitched”. Not “Jeannie”,
That’s right, Otis…my bad! I recall watching both of those shows as a child in the afternoon…oh the great memories.
To show our intelligence is to stand up tp gavin newsom. So let’s do it.
This is great, but Gavin doesn’t go far enough. He needs to add a “BLACK” tier for the really, really bad counties. In this tier everyone gets their windows and doors boarded up until they comply.
Well California voters keep voting for these Nazi fascist. Everybody complains but nobody does anything they keep voting for the same old people. Hi myself voted against all incumbents except for Bart. They vote for higher taxes. Lol Well we get what we deserve. I dont have kids, but I do think its funny that schools are closed. You people voted for lockdown Joe and Himmler Harris. What did you expect?
I found something else funny. Pet stores can operate a blow dryer for dogs, but hair salons couldn’t operate a blow dryer for people. But aren’t people the ones operating the blow dryer? STUPID.
He is doing this because we just won an extention to collect signatures for his recall. The extention was granted because it was hard to get signatures because of the lockdown from “covid”. Now he is putting us back into more “restrictive” lockdown to make it difficult again to get signatures. But we will prevail , this POS dicktator has got to go !!! Spread the website: recallgavin2020.com. You have to download the petition , sign it and turn it in. If you signed before June 10, 2020 it does not count. Please sign again from this website. And get others to sign too!!! We are living in socialism right now, we have the right to choose if we want to go out , not the government. If some people are worried about the virus , they get to choose to stay home. Fight back ! They bank on people cowering in fear because of a virus .
We are all free to make our own choices.