AnonymousSource: Public Health Department
Santa Barbara County remains in the Purple Tier (Widespread) in the state’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy. The county has been in the Purple Tier for one week and has not met the criteria for the Red Tier this week. Positivity rate and adjusted case rate continue to remain high. The positivity rate has increased .5% and adjusted case rate has increased .2% from last week. These small, but consistent increases indicate that widespread transmission of the virus that causes COVID-19 is happening in Santa Barbara County. The Health Equity Metric has not been used to determine tier status this week.
“We are continuing to face significant upticks in our local cases, and beginning to see increases in our hospitalizations. Very quickly, we have seen our metrics approach the Orange Tier metrics and then suddenly revert back to Purple Tier levels,” shared Public Health Director Van Do-Reynoso. “I urge you to please stay home and local this upcoming Thanksgiving Day and weekend. It is not too late to change your holiday plans. Although it isn’t the easy choice, it is in fact the right choice this year.”
Daily status reports will not be posted on Thursday, November 26, 2020 and Friday, November 27, 2020. Reporting will resume on Monday, November 30, 2020.
For general questions about COVID-19 and precautions currently recommended by Santa Barbara County Public Health Department, residents may call 211 or visit www.publichealthsbc.org.
It’s cold and flu season. SB cut the theatrics and open this town up.
If only the people who aren’t smart enough to follow the suggested health protocols would die, maybe that would be a good idea. As it is, though, such a policy would consign many more innocent people to death and disability.
You know what would change if we stopped this massive testing campaign? Nothing. Well, the news would have one less meaningless number to freak people out about unnecessarily. The virus is going to virus. Protect the vulnerable, stay safe, self isolate if you’re sick, open our damn schools!
You must be really proud of yourself 3:32.
Red states have hospitals near capacity with no extra ICU space for additional victims of the maskless nonsocially distancing ilk. We don’t want to end up like them. Get your Senate to pass additional help for small businesses if you care about them.
Who cares about the testing? Look at the hospitalization rates 2 weeks after Thanksgiving, and then 2 weeks after Xmas. We’re trying to avoid the fates of the red states.
Everyone listen up – the famed epidemiologist has spoken.
@ 3:10: OANN is off YouTube. What will you do for COVID disinformation in their absence? Although, I guess that’s easy if you do what they do – simply repeat the propaganda endlessly. For anyone to suggest an equivalence between colds or flu with COVID shows a distinct misalignment with reality.
I’ve never watched a minute of Oann. Nice try. Don’t watch YouTube either or “faux” or any of that. The hospitals are not full.
Barf- famed for? Having businesses locked down a second time? A two week lockdown turned into 8 months and now indefinitely? I think you mean failed!
Where the director of the CDC said schools are the safest place kids can be? I got that one.
Pit, compare the trends of states with similar latitudes / geographic areas and they’ll follow the same pattern regardless of whether they are red or blue or the severity of restrictions or mask mandates. Also, some of the worst state have been blue, so not sure what you mean by avoid the fate of the red states , unless you want high unemployment?
2 Georgia Senate races will be decided in January. They need to turn BLUE to get a decent amount of money to small businesses and the unemployed. Have you donated to these races? Have you committed to calling for them? It is time for CA Democrats to step up and do whatever they can to have these seats turn BLUE. We simply can’t have 4 more years of “Moscow” Mitch McConnell holding up bills and sabotaging the workers of America.
Shoveling horse manure as a significant activity died out about a century ago, except for some red state regions. It appears that the local COVIDIOTS are trying to revive it here, but nostalgia just ain’t what it used to be.
CDC COVID Data Tracker, last 7 days, cases per 100K population, 10 worst states, as of today, but sure to be worse tomorrow:
North Dakota__158.5
Wyoming_______154.3
New Mexico____127.5
South Dakota__122.6
Minnesota_____115.8
Iowa__________112.5
Montana_______112.3
Wisconsin_____110.9
Utah__________106.8
Nebraska______106.0
No significant latitude correlation, unless you just say Northern Hemisphere. I’ll leave it to you to judge red or blue predominance. It’s pretty obvious.
The gas station I go to? Turned me down for no ID and has no mask on when I return with it, and smokes near the pumps. (guess I’m not allowed to harm myself but he can harm the entire community)
The 7/11 I go to? Has no mask on until he’s serving me.
The liquor store I go to? Has no mask on, ever.
Albertsons? Unsurprisingly all have masks on (in the front store, at least).
The CVS I worked at for 6 months of this year? Masks in front store, none in the back or when managers are blatantly, deathly sick.
But, yeah, keep restricting my rights, when I interact with legitimately nobody, while businesses who interact with the entire community violate these mandates at no risk to the employees or employers.
This isn’t about safety. It’s about compliance. Hail Newsom.
Twitter – the font of all that is real, true, and good in the world. Talk about washing – you forgot to get the preshrunk version. Take a look at the real trendlines at the Johns Hopkins or CDC sites, and you’ll see what a load of nonsense 9:35 is dumping.
Hi all you “blue vs. red” commenters. Tell, me Illinois = blue and heavy restrictions, Florida = red and no restrictions. Please see the graph below, if blue was doing things so right and Florida so wrong, does “right” mean more deaths per 100k? Also Mac, a “trend” is a series of data points over time, and cases don’t mean anything; positive ratio, hospitalization and deaths are metrics to follow, but I wouldn’t expect you to understand anyway. This twitter feed with the graph is worth a read for those of you that aren’t brainwashed by the main stream media (i.e. not Mac, Pit, and Sac) ______ https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EnlgrupW4AAA1es?format=jpg&name=large
SB County, the Senate hasn’t been presented a bill without a TON of non-covid related pork. I’m for cannabis reform but there is no place for it in a Covid relief bill (among the many other unrelated items). Until then the Senate isn’t the hold up. You can’t really believe it’s just one side that’s “sabotaging the workers of America”, especially when it’s predominantly the blue states that are imposing restrictions that are closing small businesses down?
sorry, the prior link was just the graph I referenced. Here is the entire thread https://twitter.com/youyanggu/status/1331341646928207873
Stop paying a salary and schools will open next day. Of course we pay property taxes to support this nonsense with guaranteed incomes as the private sector shutters. All the restaurants, gyms, salons etc., having to tough it out on their own. 16 out of 100,000 people. 1.6 out of 10,000 people. Thats 1 out of 6,250 people. That’s like being at a Gaucho game in the Thunderdome and getting your name called to win a car. You’re not winning the car. Stop the insanity.
If that is the case, why are Florida and California’s virtually the same with drastically different approaches? The SECOND death in SB county was on hospice care. I’m willing to give some room when it’s diabetes. But hospice? Come on man
I think we can all (except for the school admins on here) agree that there was no reason or cause to keep schools closed in the FALL. The CDC, the WHO, virtually every government agrees that schools HAVE to be the absolute last thing (other than grocery/medical) to close. Our school board and teachers union though did everything possible to make make sure that schools were the last thing to open! So there was no reason or cause to close school…but they sure have had an effect!
New York Times article today saying 40% OF PRISON INMATES HAVE BEEN VACCINATED. Absolute insanity in this state
Pit – you obviously have the capacity to read. As such, if they are estimating 5.5 million years of life lost due to “virtual learning” in 2020… which was what 7 months of school loss? Do you honestly not see the correlating harm of “only” 3 more virtual months followed by a 2.5 month summer…?