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Source: Office of Governor Gavin Newsom
As COVID-19 cases sharply increase across the country and California, Governor Gavin Newsom and state public health officials announced immediate actions today to slow the spread of the virus. The state is pulling an emergency brake in the Blueprint for a Safer Economy resulting in 94.1 percent of California’s population in the most restrictive tier. This change is effective tomorrow. The state will reassess data continuously and move more counties back if necessary. California is also strengthening its face covering guidance to require individuals to wear a mask whenever outside their home, with limited exceptions.
“We are sounding the alarm,” said Governor Newsom. “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. That is why we are pulling an emergency brake in the Blueprint for a Safer Economy. Now is the time to do all we can – government at all levels and Californians across the state – to flatten the curve again as we have done before.”
The rate of growth in confirmed COVID-19 cases is faster than it was in July, which led to a significant peak in cases. This requires a swift public health response and action from all Californians to slow the spread of the virus. Immediate action will help protect individuals at higher risk of severe illness or death from COVID-19 and will help keep the state’s health care delivery system from becoming overwhelmed.
“The data we are seeing is very concerning. We are in the midst of a surge, and time is of the essence. Every day matters and every decision matters,” said California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly. “Personal decisions are critical, and I am I imploring every Californian to stay home if they can, wear a mask whenever they leave their homes, limit mixing, practice physical distancing and wash their hands.”
The 28 counties moving back into Tier 1(Purple/Widespread) include:
| Alameda | Napa | Santa Cruz |
| Butte | Nevada | Siskiyou |
| Contra Costa | Orange | Solano |
| El Dorado | Placer | Sutter |
| Fresno | San Benito | Trinity |
| Glenn | San Joaquin | Tuolumne |
| Kern | San Luis Obispo | Ventura |
| Kings
Mendocino Merced |
Santa Barbara
Santa Clara |
Yolo
Yuba |
The nine counties moving back into Tier 2 (Red/Substantial) include:
| Colusa | Marin | Plumas |
| Del Norte | Modoc | San Francisco |
| Humboldt | Mono | San Mateo |
The two counties moving back into Tier 3 (Orange/Moderate) include:
| Calaveras | Sierra |
Today’s action will remain in effect until the State Public Health Officer determines it is appropriate to make modifications based on public health conditions and data.
California has taken steps to prepare the state for an increase in COVID-19 cases. The state has developed additional testing capacity to allow cases to be quickly identified, recently opening a new laboratory in Valencia that is already processing thousands of tests a day. The state is averaging 164,345 tests over the last seven days.
The state has been working in partnership with hospitals, clinics and physicians on the COVID-19 response. To support California’s health care delivery system, the state has an additional 1,872 beds available at alternate care sites outside of the system that can be made available quickly if needed to respond to a surge in cases.
California will continue to update the Blueprint for a Safer Economy based on the best available public health data and science. For more information about the Blueprint and what Californians can do to prevent the spread of COVID-19, visit covid19.ca.gov.
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November 16, 2020: Santa Barbara County Moves Back to Purple Tier
This has got to stop.
Thanks anti-maskers, conspiracy theorists, and those who just didn’t care. Experts said all along we would spike this winter – and many of you acted like everything was back to normal.
I make my living off the evening news
Just give me something-something I can use
People love it when you lose,
They love dirty laundry.
Well, I coulda been an actor, but I wound up here
I just have to look good, I don’t have to be clear
Come and whisper in my ear
Give us dirty laundry.
Kick ’em when they’re up
Kick ’em when they’re down
Kick ’em when they’re up
Kick ’em when they’re down
Kick ’em when they’re up
Kick ’em when they’re down
Kick ’em when they’re up
Kick ’em all around
We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blond
Who comes on at five
She can tell you ’bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye
It’s interesting when people die
Give us dirty laundry.
General, like you said, experts knew we’d have a increase in cases come winter. That increase is independent of mask use. If it makes you feel better by all means blame others, but even the most restrictive measures can not prevent its spread: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2029717
Only if we are in red again, not if in purple (or at least, high school and junior high won’t be allowed to…elementary could get a waiver).
SBSBSBSB – what? The restrictions? Why? Only way we can get things open again is if we ALL take this more seriously and wear masks and avoid close interactions. We got lazy and this is what happens.
Why did Newsom go to a dinner party with a bunch of people at a fancy Napa restaurant a couple of days ago? He’s doing an excellent job of making it appear that his own rules don’t apply to him. But he expect us to obey his rules.
Correct – it is not a liberal hoax.
Scolding the public is ineffective when you’re a crass hypocrite. He’s got dirty laundry.
Not seeing in this article where it addresses Q’anon and people not caring…..
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It’s not really clear from this report what’s going to change… Masks, social distancing, washing hands. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Doing all that already. My kid can’t go to school and is having horrible zoom classes and is bored out of her mind. The Y is closed. Can’t swim. Does this mean no more in-door dining? (Guess so.) Are private schools going to have stop in-school learning? (Hope so. Never understand why they were exempt in the first place.)
The Gov. has lost credibility on COVID, feasting at The French Laundry while telling the rest of us to shelter in place.
Loosecannon – from the state site on the different tiers (https://covid19.ca.gov/safer-economy/), looks like restaurants and bars need to close indoor seating and probably a lot of other businesses need to close or modify. Schools, if in session already, can stay open, but schools that have not opened to in-person (SBUSD, GUSD) cannot open until we’re back in the red tier for 14 days. BUT….. knowing the districts, they’re likely to just do the lazy thing and cancel school outright.
Public schools could have opened but didn’t have the will. Safer for their careers to not make a difficult decision. Either do what’s best for the kids and open, while pissing off the teachers unions and not getting reelected or, doing what’s best for their political careers and screw the children. That is why private schools are open and most public schools are not, private schools aren’t controlled by the unions and are free to do what’s best for the children.
You mean the smart, responsible thing.
4:13 – the governor deemed it safe to return to in-person school, so how was that the “responsible thing” to keep them closed?
@ 4:13 There have been no cases of spread from schools in SB county, I bet you’ll have a tough time finding any case in the US where schools have been a vector (not colleges and even then that spread wasn’t from class). This is backed up by the CDC and the WHO, so no, keeping schools closed was not the smart responsible thing (and ignores the numerous health and well being consequences for children when schools are closed).
Thank you for the correction, SACJON. The health authorities deemed it safe for the kids to be back in school, but the teachers (represented by their union) refused to return to work, exacerbating the divide between rich (with kids going to private schools, enjoying superior in-school instruction) and poor/not-so-rich (with kids “going to” public schools, with lamentable Zoom classes).
I stand corrected.
“My kid can’t go to school and is having horrible zoom classes and is bored out of her mind. The Y is closed. Can’t swim.” Sounds like a First World problem.
Except this town has been doing amazingly for mask wearing, limiting entry to stores, etc. It’s almost like all the masks and distancing are pandemic theater and we would have been in the same boat without them. Remember when all we cared about was flattening the curve? SB never even had a curve outside of the prison…we’ve been way below hospital capacity from the start, yet now our economy will continue to crater thanks to this crazy governor.
My kid is getting doing really well with Zoom – partly because i spend time in the evenings helping him like it were home work, but I’d do that during non-Covid times anyway. Does she get bored? Yes. So we go mountain biking, surfing, skateboarding, go on hikes, watch movies, go on picnics and many other things. Take a look around your home and see if there is something you as a parent can do better. Lazy parents are a societal problem with or without covid. Stop acting like everyone in Santa Barbara has your exact same issues.
Monkeyboy, you are 100% correct here.
@4:53, exactly, the school was closed and therefore not a vector for those added cases. From what I’ve read nearly all kids get it from adults but nearly all kids don’t continue spreading it.
Generaltree – how is concern about your child’s education (or lack thereof) and the inability to keep fit by swimming at a PUBLIC pool a “First World problem?”
They have no intention of re-starting school in January. It’s all a farce. We’re being strung along…
Loose – I think they really made it impossible by conditioning the start of in-person school on us being in the orange tier after the holidays. If we’re in the red tier and they still refuse to start, I think it may be time to consider legal actions to compel the start of school, but that’s another thread. The Governor, based on advice from scientists and disease specialists, allowed for in-person school, yet our districts refused to open. It’s been 7 months of zoom lessons since March and our kids are suffering. We need to ALL wear masks, social distance, avoid even family gatherings over the holidays, basically do our parts to get our numbers back down. If then, once we have and they still refuse, we need to do something more. We can’t allow our kids to fall this far behind the private and small-district schools. If we do our job of being safe and getting our numbers down, the district officials need to do their job!
This 99.98% recovery virus requires all of us give up every freedom we know and listen to King Newsom. #HailtheKing Americans are now left to beg politicians to let our kids go to school, for permission to eat dinner with other families and go into a store without a mask. I’ve got an idea. How about everyone who is scared of the virus lock themselves down and let the rest of us live? There’s no one forcing you to come out. Is this now the drill for every virus that comes from the other side of the world (of which there’s been at least 10x in the last 20 years). It’s honestly ridiculous and has nothing to do with our health or with science. Next we’re going to get locked in our house because global warming requires us all to sit tight for 45 days….
Sac, I hate to break it do you, but what this virus has shown us over the past 8 months is that it is going to spread no matter how many of us wear masks, wash hands, avoid family, etc. You’re being conditioned to blame someone else for something we can’t control. If cases go down, “mask are working”! If cases go up, “people aren’t wearing masks” (but then what happened to the flu this year?). That is NOT science.
Anyone who opines that mask usage isn’t critical to controlling the spread and severity of the pandemic is not capable of rational thought.
I’m with you LFG this is beyond crazy. It is so simple, at-risk, stay home stay safe. Simply want to stay home and stay safe, that is okay too! No need to force your will on everyone else. Many are stuck in March 2020 and think millions of California’s are going to die…. that would have never happened even if we ignored covid (yet Newsome used that as the justification to start this unconstitutional power trip). Fear not Facts.
@5:33 nope. While masks are helpful in certain situations, if they were so critical in controlling the spread we would have beat this already.
Let us know when you two decide to pay any attention to facts.
It absolutely to stop. Do not comply in outdoor areas do not cover your mouth and reduce your breath. This is the beginning of socialism. I understand the liberals in this town who have lived privilege lives their whole entire life have no clue what socialism is like.
Talk to immigrants that have left Vietnam, Cuba, Panama, Venezuela, and you’ll understand why. Go support your restaurants and businesses that are about to be shut down again.
VOR, I know facts are problematic but masks do work and this has been demonstrated all over the world. In the US the highest infection rate correlates with the lowest mask usage. Carnegie Mellon: https://delphi.cmu.edu/blog/2020/10/12/new-and-improved-covid-symptom-survey-tracks-testing-and-mask-wearing/
I think people aren’t on the same page about mask wearing. Many people are out and about outside not wearing one. It would be nice to see people wearing masks at all times, whenever outside of the home and car.
“Facts.” What a funny word in today’s world of disinformation. FACT: “Just two weeks to FLATTEN the CURVE.” FACT: We did in fact flatten the curve. the hospitals were not overwhelmed. We did the mission. FACT: Mission changed from flattening the curve to eradicating a virus, something we still haven’t done with polio and we’ve been trying for 100 years (The multibillion-dollar global effort to eradicate polio hasn’t just stalled. It’s moving backward according to NPR). FACT: We have viruses around us, among us and it has been so for 1000s of year. I’ll trust my immune system to get this one. But with your facts you can stay in your house. With my facts I choose to take the “risk”. According to the natural laws of selection and evolution, the rest should take care of itself. Fact or fiction?
Ah yes, you are correct, SACJON.
The Independent reports:
“For parents in Santa Barbara, this regression does not necessarily mean that in-person schooling is out of the question for their children. The schools in the area that have already made the shift to some form of in-person education may continue despite the tier change because they switched to in-person learning in a red tier.
For those in the Santa Barbara and Goleta Union school districts, it’s more dicey. As long as the county is currently in the red tier or better the week that school starts — January 19 and 11, respectively — then school may resume on campus as planned. Otherwise, they will have to remain in distance-learning models.”
So the rich people applied for the waiver BEFORE we shifted back into purple, and that cannot be rescinded. Not exactly sure why (LMAO). Clearly, it has NOTHING to do with public health concerns. So rich kids get to be in school and the other kids, including mine, can go to hell.
Is this why I have been supporting unions all these years, to see them allowing this kind of class divide.
It’s disgusting beyond belief. And it shakes my faith in the health authorities that it’s one rule for the rich, and another for everyone else.
[INSERT MIDDLE FINGER EMOJI]
For some facts about polio eradication efforts that don’t include the delusional spin:
https://www.who.int/news-room/photo-story/photo-story-detail/10-facts-on-polio-eradication
VOR – I disagree. Yeah, most people are wearing masks, but the hot spots are places and situations where they are NOT wearing masks and in close proximity (large rallies, IV, house parties, etc). If we curbed those large, indoor/even outdoor, mostly un-masked events, then we’d be in a better place. You can’t seriously deny that.
Sacjon because in lesser developed countries parental concerns go well beyond public education and public swimming.
When there is one rule for one set of people and another set of expectations for another group, is it any wonder that there is a problem with COMPLIANCE?
What a JOKE!!!
VOR – while the school wasn’t the vector for these high school students, multiple house parties WERE. This is what I can’t believe you’re ignoring. These unmasked gatherings are what’s causing our numbers to go up. STOP THE PARTIES, etc. Enforce the rules or just shut everything down. This is ridiculous.
Sacjon – I was responding to someone else. Apparently you are the self appointed hall monitor. Yes it may get shut down again going back to the purple tier- but the fact is that they were trying to open. Had you followed along that is exactly the point I was making.
NAMASTEYOGI – YOU are the reason our kids can’t go to school and people are losing their businesses. YOU and people like you who refuse to make the effort to be safe and contribute to slowing the spread because of some whackjob conspiracy theories are why we’re in this mess. Stop spreading this nonsense.
Hit the nail on the head, couldn’t have said it better VOR.
@VOR Nope! Right back at ya’. The pockets of virus spread are coming from group gatherings of “extended families” and younger people (college types and the 20 something’s) that are Not wearing masks. I’ll put my house on it. There are a lot of people not wearing masks, but it’s not at Trader Joe’s or Gelsons.
Good luck trying to stop a virus. You’re wildly uninformed regarding humanity’s success at stopping viruses. Let me guess. this is the one. Again, stay inside my friend. I’ll give you updates from the outside.
Ever heard of smallpox? Have any clue about the polio epidemic? Chicken pox and shingles? Of course not. Facts that don’t fit your internalized reality don’t count.
Mask up whenever outside your home or car? Wondering if this is supposed to include in your own yard? Seems like a walk on a street with no close people or your own yard should be okay to be without a mask. My doctor says its pretty hard to catch it outside, unless you are right by someone for a period of time. Of course with the density of housing in many neighborhoods your own yard or house might be less than 3 feet from neighbors. And the virus could hitch a ride on air blowing into your home from the neighbors. So if the ventilation of outside air doesn’t prevent viral contagion, seems the guidelines should be to wear a mask even in your own home in order to have low risk. What a fun life we all have ahead.
LFG, we are not “giving up every freedom we know.” We’re trying to get through a virus that doesn’t respect politics. It’s like a war. People might have complained about hitting the bomb shelter during WWII, but doing so prevented them from getting blown up! Freedom should be for everyone, and if people do not take proper precautions and follow rules of hygiene, they are infringing on the rights of others to be free of the virus they are spewing and blubbering into everyone’s air space.
I agree SACJON. At least in schools there is the ability to implement some degree of control over hygiene and behavior. Not true of big parties. And I get to witness their spreading potential first hand on a frequent basis. The vacation rental next door to me and the student party house down the block have never been busier. Never a mask in sight on the throngs spilling out onto the sidewalk, constant loud and saliva spewing bloviating, and social distancing of about 2mm. They don’t care that they are likely spreading the virus, and the police don’t care to stop them.
So we should shut down every small business in the county because we have 2 people currently in the ICU? And upon closer examination, those two people have underlying conditions? That’s the new norm? My social responsibility to make sure no one catches any virus ever because it may get passed on to someone that may die. Or this is just the exception? You’re lying if you think this is an exception. This is a government precedent.
So we should shut down every indoor small business in the county because we have 2 people currently in the ICU? And upon closer examination, those two people have underlying conditions? That’s the new norm? My social responsibility to make sure no one catches any virus ever because it may get passed on to someone that may die. Or this is just the exception? You’re lying if you think this is an exception. This is a government precedent.
You mean when my parents put me in a bathtub with all my siblings so we could trust our immune systems to fight the virus off? They were uneducated buffoons. Only superbly intelligent people understand facts and their realities of Covid-19 facts are the realities of truth and those who disagree with their conclusions are “clearly idiots – for I myself am not an idiot. Therefore since you arrive a different conclusion than mine, LFG, you must be an idiot.” After all, 2+2 is four and this is as simple as that. There’s not possibly any other narrative related to Covid than governors looking out for our very best. As some guy in history once said, “When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.”
I’ll never wear a mask outside. Ticket me or fine me to death I don’t care. Humans were not meant to wear a mask. 2 weeks to slow the spread, 8 months later and over 75% mask compliance and we’re in a another spike? Give me freaking break. Now the CDC and Fauxci say even after vaccine distribution we will still require mask & social distance for an unknown period of time. How many times does the goalpost have to move for you people to wake and realize this is is not going to stop unless you make it stop.
LFG- thank you for the laugh and dose of truth. Glad there are still some reasonable people out there. I was getting worried.
Let’s take your train of thought (Thought may be an overly generous term, but we’ll use it for convenience.) to its logical conclusion: Why even have a medical profession? Just let people die. And those other accoutrements of civilization like houses and clothes? They just delay the inevitable.
Incoherent ramblings don’t change reality. Scattershot verbiage with no truth involved.
How many times do fools have to be told that if they don’t continue to follow the health protocols, the infections will explode? It’s really simple, but the dolts out there remain clue resistant.
Science denial and mask resistance are just parts of the huge problem we have with people who don’t have any BS filters in their brains.
No national plan….
Ongoing PPE shortages. https://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/us-faces-another-shortage-of-ppe-including-masks-as-virus-surges/GOZYMR3GTRAWTMYLBZCEVCLNAU/
The truth shall set you free.
Really, trump has a plan. A magnificent plan. It’s part of his overall healthcare plan, announced shortly after he took office to be coming out any day now. It’s almost ready. It’ll be great. Magnificent! Terrific!
I’ve had the same thoughts Andrea. I think the reason people who wear masks contract the virus is because the vast majority of masks are not very good ones. A lot of what is being done is pure theater. If government really wants to help, N95 or equivalent type masks must be widely distributed and made available. Also, I feel badly for people who work in stores, etc. It is so hard to wear a mask for 8 hours that is really thick, tight and effective, so easy to understand why people wear real thin ones or let them slip.
LFG, welcome to the extremist crowd here on Edhat. Too bad your Darwin theory isn’t efficient enough to really weed out the anti-mask crowd before they can spread it to the rest of us at-risk people. Plus many probably have already pro-created so have passed their individualistic I-me-mine mindset to their kids. We all hang together, or we all hang separately.
seriously a small piece of cloth over your face hole is really that bad? seriously stop this dribble….. no where I repeat NO WHERE in the constitution does it give anyone the right to endanger others. NO WHERE. get off this.
no where in the constitution does it say you can endanger others, no where. thanks for playing “voice of reason”.
PSTARR it isn’t the mask, it’s these idiotic non science based requirements like wearing a mask when you’re outside unless you’re eating or drinking then it’s “safe” to not wear a mask? The government has gone overboard with their micromanaging control trip, even that wouldn’t be so bad if it actually worked, but it isn’t working and it isn’t because of the few mask rebels.
Yes LFG, that is what their saying. Crazy world where personal responsibility has gone away in our push to eliminate ALL risk from our lives.
RHS, I know you know correlation is not causation.
420, our halfway shutdowns are clearly not working. Hospitals have more covid patients than ever. I had one strain of it, I survived it, so I figure I probably won’t die if I get the other strain going around. But I feel sorry for the people who are losing relatives to this because they really miss them. I will do whatever easy or semi-hard stuff Fauci recommends to try and help my community out.
Sad to see a people follow blindly the unlawful dictates of an authoritarian. We should be given updates and recommendations and we make decisions accordingly. Newssolini doesn’t have the legal right to dictate these rules.
This is especially galling when he celebrates with many people himself and has his kids in private school with in-class teaching.
Also, we prefer to call it following “science”. Just take a look across the country and the number of folks dying.
Do any of you people realize that “at risk, stay at home” isn’t actually an option?
– Cancer patients have to get chemo
– Elderly people need to get groceries and medications
– Millions of people with pre-existing conditions have to actually go to work
It’s almost like you live on a different planet. This is not rocket science. Other countries have actually done far better than the US. There are solutions. But “We’re #1 US” just can’t have that.
Newssolini? Didn’t you get the extremist memo, it’s supposed to be Newscum? He celebrated with 12 people from 4 households. There is no limit on the number at a gathering, but “Limit gatherings to no more than 3 separate households attend (including the host’s).” https://covid19.ca.gov/stay-home-except-for-essential-needs/ But if you want to make it sound like he attended an IV kegger, that is consistent with the misinfo that you and your buddies propagate.
Hard to take the Gov seriously as he’s the same person who used science to say that within the first couple months of this pandemic up to 25.5 million Californians were definitely going to be infected and a huge percentage of us would perish. Then he goes on an excursion to The French Laundry with a load of friends and other customers without a mask. He took a bit of heat, but that’s not enough. Both of our senators Pelosi and Feinstein have been busted in public without masks as well. (According to Pelosi, she was set up by the “far right” when she had her locks lopped). Hey, I’m going to take care of myself and family, but how dare these “leaders” tell us to do what they won’t do.
11:51 What you’re really saying is, if we don’t allow the media to control our thoughts and ONLY follow the advice of scientist & doctors that you approve of (even though there are just as many out there that disagree with lockdowns and certain protocols) we’re just bad people, dolts, fools, uneducated even. Got it.
You’ll be hard pressed to find any epidemiologist that agrees with your delusions.
That is correct, Newsome didn’t block classes from restarting…the teachers union did.