Remember Gov. Newsom’s 2020 Thanksgiving Stay-Home, No ‘Gatherings’, and Curfew Order

It was only three years ago when Governor Gavin Newsom defied his own idiotic COVID edicts as he partied at the French Laundry restaurant in Napa, one of the few restaurants he failed to force out of business. Shortly after the governor’s hypocritical idiocy, he issued a stay-home order for Thanksgiving 2020.

Gov. Newsom claimed to be following science when he and his Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly issued tyrannical orders to the 40 million residents of California for Thanksgiving to stay home, no singing, no shouting, no music, no parties, eat outside and keep a mask on.

Around the state, Sheriffs said they would not enforce Newsom’s absurd order, including then-Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones. The Sacramento Sheriff issued a statement stating that the Sacramento County Sheriff’s office will not be enforcing Governor Gavin Newsom’s holiday “gatherings”  orders to stay home… alone… and eat chicken instead of a large turkey. (Actually the chicken statement was LA Mayor Eric Garcetti’s directive).

Sheriff Jones’ statement was as delicious as homemade stuffing:

“The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office will not be determining—including entering any home or business—compliance with, or enforcing compliance of, any health or emergency orders related to curfews, staying at home, Thanksgiving or other social gatherings inside or outside the home, maximum occupancy, or mask mandates. Further, we will not dispatch officers for these purposes—callers will be advised to call 3-1-1 and be routed to County Health. Of course, if there is potential criminal behavior or the potential for impacts to public or personal safety we will continue to respond appropriately.”

Sacramento residents were very thankful for the Sheriff that Thanksgiving.

Newsom’s order was patently ridiculous, and dangerously authoritarian:

Gov. Gavin Newsom and California Department of Public Health Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly just issued new stay-at-home orders and a curfew for the State of California, effective Nov. 21st through December 21st, for the 41 counties in the restrictive purple tier.

“Non-essential businesses and personal gatherings are prohibited between 10 PM and 5 AM beginning Saturday, November 21 at 10 PM,” the statement says. 

“Does the virus go dormant after 10:00PM?” we asked.

Calling it a “limited Stay at Home Order,” the CDPH says this is justified because of an “unprecedented rate of rise in increase in COVID-19 cases across California,” the CDPH is taking “immediate actions to prevent the spread of the virus.”

Gov. Newsom was the first Governor in the country to declare a COVID emergency, install himself as a virtual dictator by seizing this unilateral power, and completely ignore the democratic process.

As the Globe reported at the time, Gov. Newsom announced that California was “pulling an emergency brake” on reopening because of rising COVID “positivity” cases. Not deaths. And he did a soft-sell on hospitalizations. Newsom admitted that California is nowhere near the national average on “positivity” or hospitalizations, but said he was still moving 41 California counties back into restrictive tiers.

Claiming that stay-at-home lockdowns work, Health and Human Services Secretary ghoul Dr. Ghaly said:

“We know from our stay at home order this spring, which flattened the curve in California, that reducing the movement and mixing of individuals dramatically decreases COVID-19 spread, hospitalizations, and deaths. We may need to take more stringent actions if we are unable to flatten the curve quickly. Taking these hard, temporary actions now could help prevent future shutdowns.”

Right. Only a corrupted doctor could have pushed these perverted orders on the general public.

Here was our summation of the restrictive orders in Nov. 2020:

• The governor has put more than 94 percent of California’s population in the most restrictive tier.
• The governor ordered beefing up the face covering guidance to require individuals to wear a mask whenever outside their home, with limited exceptions.
• The governor issued a travel advisory, along with Oregon and Washington, urging people entering the state or returning home from travel outside the state to self-quarantine, and also warned against non-essential out-of-state travel, asks people to self-quarantine for 14 days after arriving from another state or country, and encourages residents to stay local.

What Totalitarian state and country was this? Forced business closures, countywide lockdowns, stay-at-home orders, mandatory mask-wearing outside, a 10:00PM curfew, limiting holiday gatherings with family and friends in private homes… while Gov. Newsom and his wife attended a large birthday dinner party in Napa Valley violating his own restrictions? It was evident that Governor Gavin Newsom did not believe in the veracity of his own orders.

Never forget.

There was a little bit of joy – Newsom was savaged on Twitter:

Is this gathering essential? Asking for you — the governor in this photo without a mask with lobbyists from the healthcare industry at a restaurant that many unemployed Californians can't afford to eat at. pic.twitter.com/6Bw3Xtj2pA

— Dave McCulloch 🇺🇸 (@dtmcculloch) November 19, 2020

One of the Globe’s readers described Newsom’s torment:

“OMG, if only we had known that the illusive Covid19 comes out between 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. we could have avoided the pandemic.! How many lives over the age of 75 and in nursing homes could we have saved sooner? Darn old folks they sneak out and party all night! ????????????

Seriously it gets more ridiculous! Newsom and his cronies must have concocted this new form of control while sippin’ on Silver Oak and munching on 800.00 dollar bites at the French Laundry. After all, most of his dining partners were from the California Medical Association.
Maybe he keeps a notebook, 1001 ways to control my citizens.”

The sane voices were cancelled on social media by corrupt tech giants and toxic members of the legacy media.

“We’re at a place where our civilization is at risk, where the bonds that unite us are at risk of being torn,” Dr. Jay Bhattacharya with Stanford said. “We shouldn’t be afraid. We should respond to the COVID virus rationally: protect the vulnerable, treat the people who get infected compassionately, develop a vaccine. And while doing these things we should bring back the civilization that we had so that the cure does not end up being worse than the disease.”

Isn’t it curious that Gov. Newsom could have consulted Stanford’s Dr. Bhattacharya – an actual epidemiologist – but chose instead to go with the ghoul. 

California was even named the most restrictive state of 51, with the most COVID restrictions (lockdowns, mandatory masking, mandatory vaccines) in a survey of all of the states (including the District of Columbia).

It was only one year later in November 2021, while California was still locked down and Gov. Newsom had ordered all students ages 5-11 to receive vaccinations in order to attend in-person school, and mask mandates and vaccine requirements were still in place, that Gavin Newsom and his family vacationed in Cabo San Lucas in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur for Thanksgiving. The Globe received several photos and a now-removed Tweet from sources who were there and took the photos.

Gavin Newsom’s French Laundry moment wasn’t confined to dining out – besides multiple vacations out of the countrywhile he locked down Californians, in Feb. 2022 he starred in “MaskGate” at the NFC Championship game in Los Angeles – despite his own face mask mandates. 

Newsom and other government tyrants want to do it again – they want to lock down the people as a control measure, as the Globe reported in February:

Newsom’s SMARTER Plan will maintain California’s operational preparedness to address the next phase of the COVID-19 pandemic and will continue to guide the state’s work to support communities across the state. Additionally, COVID-19 vaccines, testing, and treatment continue to be available at sites within local communities across the state.”

The SMARTER Plan should give you chills, as Newsom’s Covid19.ca.gov website explains:

“The SMARTER Plan is not just for COVID-19. We can use these strategies and systems for future emergencies.”

This Thanksgiving 2023, we still have much to be thankful for, no thanks to Gavin Newsom.

If you need a Newsom refresher course, be sure to read the Top 50 Disasters Gov. Gavin Newsom Has Ushered into California. And yes, that is my cat Eleanor Rigby sitting on top of the Brannigan Turkey.