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MY SISTER AND i ENJOYED A RESTAURANT SIT DOWN MEAL BEFORE RESTAURANTS IN CONTRA COSTA COUNTY WILL BE FORCED TO CURTAIL INDOOR DINING TOMORROW.


40 Calif. counties in massive rollback as COVID-19 cases double in 10 days


Amy Graff
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SFGATE
Nov. 16, 2020
Updated: Nov. 16, 2020 1:56 p.m.


California Gov. Newsom provided a sobering update on the COVID-19 pandemic Monday, announcing 40 counties are moving back in the state's reopening plan as cases have doubled in the past 10 days. Some counties regressed multiple tiers.

“We are sounding the alarm,” Newsom said in a statement. “California is experiencing the fastest increase in cases we have seen yet — faster than what we experienced at the outset of the pandemic or even this summer. The spread of COVID-19, if left unchecked, could quickly overwhelm our health care system and lead to catastrophic outcomes."



As of Monday, there are now 41 counties across the state in the most restrictive purple tier, compared to only nine counties three weeks ago. In the purple tier, many non-essential indoor businesses aren't allowed to operate.

In the Bay Area, San Francisco jumped from the least restrictive yellow tier to red. San Mateo and Marin counties are also in the red and all other counties are purple.

The state typically announces changes to the tier system on Tuesdays, but is making the changes early due to surging cases. Moving forward, Newsom said tier changes will be made as needed.

The state's system sorts counties into four tiers — "purple" (widespread), "red" (substantial), "orange" (moderate) or "yellow" (minimal) — that measure the spread of COVID-19 and dictate what types of businesses and activities are allowed to open. The structure allows counties to be more restrictive and move more slowly than the state in its reopening if they wish.

The county tier status is based on the number of new cases per 100,000 residents and the adjusted positivity rate. Last month, the state announced it's now also taking into account an equity metric to address the fact that low-income, Latino, Black and Pacific Islander communities have been disproportionately impacted.

Counties in the purple category are reporting more than seven new daily cases per 100,000 residents and have positivity rates above 8%. For a county to move into the red tier, it must report fewer than seven daily cases per 100,000 residents and a test positivity under 8% for 14 consecutive days. The orange tier requires fewer than 3.9 cases per 100,000 and a test positivity under 4.9% and the yellow less than one case per 100,000 and lower than 2% positivity.

In the past, a county moved backward by failing to meet the criteria for two consecutive weeks, but Newsom announced Monday counties will now move back into a more restrictive reopening tier after 1 week of data that doesn't meet standards for being in a lower tier.

The state is now requiring counties that move back to close required businesses sectors within 24 hours, rather than three days.

The troubling rise in cases in November has come at a faster pace than a spike in mid-June and could quickly surpass the peak of the hospitalizations at the time, health officials have said. The state became the second in the U.S. last week to surpass 1 million case of the virus as the U.S. has now recorded more than 11 million cases.

The new rules are certain to rankle business owners such as restaurateurs and gym owners who have been struggling to get back on their feet after lengthy shutdowns followed by reopenings that have at times been curtailed as cases have risen.

The state has blamed the spike in cases mainly on people who have grown fatigued coping with the virus and have ignored public health warnings to not socialize with friends and family members. Those warnings have been more forceful in advance of Thanksgiving next week.

Businesses have complained that they have played by the rules yet had to pay the price for residents who didn't do so.

Newsom himself has faced blowback after failing to follow his own rules by attending a friend's birthday party at the opulent French Laundry restaurant in wine country north of San Francisco.

Newsom said Monday attending the party was a mistake and more people were at the event than he expected.

"I need to preach and practice," he said. We're all human. We all fall short sometimes. I shouldn't have been there. I should have turned back around. You got to pay the price. You have to own it. This isn't a practice I've indulged in in the past."

Newsom and the governors of Oregon and Washington on Friday issued a travel advisory urging their residents to avoid non-essential travel and to quarantine for two weeks after arriving on the West Coast from another state or country.

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dales wrote:
Tue Nov 17, 2020 2:45 am

The state has blamed the spike in cases mainly on people who have grown fatigued coping with the virus and have ignored public health warnings to not socialize with friends and family members. Those warnings have been more forceful in advance of Thanksgiving next week.

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Newsom himself has faced blowback after failing to follow his own rules by attending a friend's birthday party at the opulent French Laundry restaurant in wine country north of San Francisco.
Beyond Newsom's annoying hypocrisy, if the cause of the surge in cases is driven by increased socializing, why are the governors limiting or shutting down businesses that have nothing to do with socializing and have low-to-non-existent COVID transmissions (like grocery stores and offices which are mostly empty anyway)?

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Because they can? Because they feel like they have to look decisive and closing these is the path of least resistance?

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Big RR wrote:
Tue Nov 17, 2020 8:52 pm
Because they can? Because they feel like they have to look decisive and closing these is the path of least resistance?
Because they are in a panic and thinking with their reptilian brains. Perhaps the dumbest cutback, here at least, is the reduction in the number of customers at grocery stores (State of Washington is at 25% of normal capacity). Not only will this not reduce COVID transmission, it will lead to panic buying and a return of the empty store shelves.

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Perhaps the dumbest cutback, here at least, is the reduction in the number of customers at grocery stores (State of Washington is at 25% of normal capacity).
I'm not sure what the actual rule here is - I think the governor has asked each store to work out its maximum capacity based on square feet or maybe linear feet of aisles. So the local Trader Joe's, where I do most of my grocery shopping, regularly has an orderly socially distanced line outside. Some days (especially if I get there early) I'm lucky and it takes a couple of minutes. One out, one in. Sometimes I've had to wait maybe 15 minutes. We all know the drill; no-one pushes in line or gives the employees a hard time. All in masks. I think the number is 35 shoppers which might be close to 25% of what it sometimes gets to on a busy normal weekend. Works well; I don't know if store profits are down. Of course it makes you plan a little better: TJ's is five minutes from where I live and I used to pop in sometimes for an item or two I had forgotten. No longer.

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There was a recent article in L. A. on the large number of TJ employees that caught the virus. There was also an amusing article in the NYT about stores that had apartments next to where the line gathers. People in the apartments were bothered by people in line shouting on their cell phones. Our store is next to nothing except a large parking lot. I hope TJ's doesn't get shut down. That is one of my only outside activities in the quarantine.

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State of play here...
4. Businesses and venues
Businesses and venues which must close
To reduce social contact, the regulations require some businesses to close and impose restrictions on how some businesses provide goods and services. These include:

Non-essential retail, such as clothing and homeware stores, vehicle showrooms (other than for rental), betting shops, tailors, tobacco and vape shops, electronic goods and mobile phone shops, and market stalls selling non-essential goods. These venues can continue to be able to operate click-and-collect (where goods are pre-ordered and collected off the premises) and delivery services
Hospitality venues such as cafes, restaurants, pubs, bars and social clubs; with the exception of providing food and drink for takeaway (before 10pm; and not including alcohol), click-and-collect, drive-through or delivery
Accommodation such as hotels, hostels, guest houses and campsites. Except for specific circumstances, such as where these act as someone’s main residence, where the person cannot return home, for homeless people, or where it is essential to stay there for work purposes
Leisure and sports facilities such as leisure centres and gyms, swimming pools, tennis and basketball courts, golf courses, fitness and dance studios, climbing walls, archery, driving, and shooting ranges
Entertainment venues such as theatres, concert halls, cinemas, museums and galleries, casinos, amusement arcades, bingo halls, bowling alleys, skating rinks, go-karting venues, soft play centres and areas, circuses, fairgrounds, funfairs, zoos and other animal attractions, water parks and theme parks. Indoor attractions at botanical gardens, heritage homes and landmarks must also close, though outdoor grounds of these premises can stay open
Personal care facilities such as hair, beauty, tanning and nail salons. Tattoo parlours, spas, massage parlours, body and skin piercing services must also close. It is also prohibited to provide these services in other peoples’ homes
Community centres and halls must close except for a limited number of exempt activities as set out below Libraries can also remain open to provide access to IT and digital services - for example for people who do not have it at home - and for click-and-collect
Places of worship, apart from for the purposes of independent prayer, for funerals or funeral commemorative events, to broadcast an act of worship, to provide essential voluntary services or urgent public support services, for registered childcare, and to host permitted gatherings.

These businesses and places will also be permitted to be open for a small number of exempt activities, including:

education and training (for schools to use sports, leisure and community facilities where that is part of their normal provision)
childcare purposes and supervised activities for children (in community centres and halls, and places of worship; and supervised activities for children in indoor sports and leisure facilities)
hosting blood donation sessions and food banks (in community centres and halls, places of worship, and libraries)
to provide medical treatment
for elite sports persons to train and compete (in indoor and outdoor sports facilities), and professional dancers and choreographers to work (in fitness and dance studios)
for training and rehearsal without an audience (in theatres and concert halls)
for the purposes of professional film and TV filming (in retail, entertainment and leisure venues, as well as visitor attractions)
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Something has to be done now, we can't wait for vaccines to be widely distributed. I don't my elder family members dying at an increased rate. Biden is in for an interesting time. ByeDon has given up.

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Over the next 6 months we will see American carnage, thanks to DJT. Hundreds of thousands will die from covid19 and tens of thousands more from the grief of their disrupted lives. The long term impacts will be significant and generations to come will feel them, both at the macro and micro levels. This is the very worst kind of history we are living - but no wait, DJT is trying to heap one more layer of horror upon us! He is trying to start a war on his way out the door.

I honestly have such respect for the courage Biden and Harris are showing by walking into this. Whatever they do they’ll be reviled by tens of millions. It will be impossible to recreate the 2019 economy and lifestyle in the next few years - if ever, and do we really want to? - and short of that tens of millions of Americans are too shortsighted and mired in grief to grasp and accept that the world to come will be very different, there is no avoiding that.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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BSG, I suggest using ByeDon as the handle for DJT. That offers some hope that things will change for the better.
By the way, my Internet connection has been down for two hours. One could get paranoid about calamities. We were ready to call the Internet provider until we saw one of their trucks leaving the neighborhood as we came back from TJ's.

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