“We need to live differently,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday after moving the state re-opening goalposts once again. Governor Gavin Newsom announced yet another new set of guidelines for re-opening counties in California, replacing the state COVID-19 watchlist system, and thoroughly confusing most everyone in the state.
Thousands of restaurants around the state have already closed, and many more are on the verge of closing if they can’t get back to business as usual. Following three more nights of rioting over the weekend, more restaurant owners boarded up their businesses to prevent more vandalism and destruction.
If anyone is still unclear about the governor’s actual goals: a county can average one “case” per 100,000 for three weeks and still not be fully open.
The California Restaurant Association said in a statement Friday that restaurants will continue to close permanently around the state because Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan will continue to keep most indoor dining rooms closed, while others will have strict limits on capacity.
The group called on Newsom to hold a special session of the Legislature to work on an aid package. Restaurant Association President Jot Condie said as many as 1 million restaurant workers have been furloughed or laid off during the pandemic, the Daily Mail reported.
But restaurants are not alone. The fitness industry has been very hard hit – and they don’t even serve food. Gyms have shown they can easily accommodate clients on equipment well-spaced out and cleaned after each use. But the governor and his advisors refuse to allow gyms to reopen.
The governor’s latest scheme is a new four-tier system which includes four color-coded tiers:
Purple (widespread), Red (substantial), Orange (moderate), and Yellow (minimal). Instead of varying metrics and factors between counties, only two metrics will be used to move states up or down tier levels: daily new COVID-19 case rates and positivity rates.
In his press statement, the governor says, “Blueprint recognizes that COVID-19 will be with us for a long time and that we all need to adapt and live differently to get through this.”“This Blueprint is statewide, stringent and slow,” said Governor Newsom. “We have made notable progress over recent weeks, but the disease is still too widespread across the state. COVID-19 will be with us for a long time and we all need to adapt. We need to live differently. And we need to minimize exposure for our health, for our families and for our communities.”
“The Blueprint builds on lessons learned from the first six months of the disease – and the new scientific understanding that has been collected – to create a new system for regulating movement and COVID-19 transmissions.” It includes:
- At least 21 days to expand activities beyond the initial tier to ensure California better limits the spread of the virus;
- Mandatory metrics – case rates and test positivity – to measure how widespread COVID-19 is in each county and guide what is allowed;
- A uniform state framework, with four categories instead of 58 different sets of rules;
- A more nuanced way of allowing activity: Instead of open vs. closed, sectors can be partially opened and progressively add to their operations as disease transmission decreases; and
- A new process for tightening back up again quickly when conditions worsen.
“Separating hair from nails-skin services is arbitrarily discriminatory, dividing our barbering-beauty industry along gender, racial and industry-sector lines,” said a statement from the Professional Beauty Federation of California, the Daily Mail reported.
With the governor’s newest arbitrary guidelines, counties are now recognizing they have no authority to re-open.
Modoc and Alpine county have zero positive cases, and a positive rate of zero, yet under Newsom’s new rules these counties must keep restaurants at 50%.
There will be no ability to watch live professional sports in this state until a county has zero new positive tests for five straight weeks.
California’s Growing ‘Speakeasy’ Economy
In order to survive and put food on the table, many businesses have had to go underground. Some bars have become speakeasies; gyms are operating in parks outdoors or from the backdoor via secret knock; hair stylists and manicurists are quietly making house calls; restaurants have moved outdoors if possible and deliveries and “to-go” orders are booming;
“Counties must remain in every tier but purple for a minimum of 21 days before being eligible to move into the next tier,” the governor’s new plan states. “Each Tuesday, California will update each county’s data for the previous week and make corresponding changes to tiers. In order to move into a less restrictive tier, a county must meet that tier’s criteria for two straight weeks.”
However, Newsom’s third set of re-opening plans was overshadowed by the Center for Disease Control which quietly updated COVID-19 numbers last week, now reporting only 9,210 Americans actually died from COVID-19 alone.
Does this mean Gov. Newsom is lying? Is the Secretary of the California Health and Human Services Dr. Mark Ghaly lying? Was the CDC lying? How much more can Californians tolerate?
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Time to physically remove this man from office. We can't wait until his court date in October.
He reminds me of Saddam Hussein i say this because he is messing everything up for the majority one man making decisions for the masses now he is destroying the state i love he thinks this is a dictatorship and he runs all the citizens of California's life we need to abolish him take him out of office before it's too late
It's time to get rid of this dictator!
you are right joseph and look out for this very dangerous being for with it's viperous tongue and poisonous luring many are enticed to believe that there is no danger. please let Californians know, some vipers sway their prey before striking. Look toward the future when this viper shows it's true colors and make a stealth move toward the White House to slither to become president in the latter 2020's . My hope is that a mongoose will be on watch!
AMEN to this !!! Count me in
Plastic smiles and and bullshit lies. Remove this mask mandate. You will not be re-elected
Exactly!
That says it. He must be taken out. He is Pelosi's puppet, and the Pelosi family is benefiting hugely by the school lock-down, since Janine Pelosi is one of the CEOs of ZOOM. Absolutely criminal what Mr. Newsom is doing in our state.
What are we waiting for? How close are we to recalling him? I read that each person needs to obtain
10 more signatures each week and they would have the quota. Is that true. Help. He's a horrible man
and speaks very robotic. What's with his jump after each paragraph? Got to go.
Whole-heartly agree with you!!
Let me know when and where. He is drunk on power. With his plan businesses will never open.
DeBlasio and Newsom are trying to set up socialized cities/states ..
Take him out of office and tar & feather this idiot
I wholeheartedly agree.
Welcome to the new state of Dystopia. The old saying was "when the last person leaves Kalifornia, turn off the lights". We don't have to worry about that because Newsom and his greens are turning the lights off before everyone has left.
Once each and every Californian that delivers a paycheck or receives a paycheck, or pays property taxes looks at their tax bill and asks themselves "WTF am I paying all this for?! What am I getting for my money?!"
Newsome will be able to balance the budget with an EXIT toll on the Interstates.
Very true. Almost a million Californians have already left the state.
Gov Gruesome is not only lying to us he is torturing us and he is doing it on purpose. This is how he operates; we have seen it many times before and we are seeing it again. He "gives" and then "takes away," pulling the rug out from under Californians randomly, arbitrarily, as if he has the right to do this, which he doesn't.
There is simply no way ANY county can meet these new guidelines, especially given the documented fudging of "case" numbers that has been done and will continue to be done as long as the phony "state of emergency" lockdown continues to benefit our politicians and bureaucrats. And it HAS benefited them greatly: They have been very busy and productive in the past several months checking off the items on their left-wing, money-grubbing, punitive, civil-rights-removing political agenda. Anyone who cares to look can see that, and many have seen it, because (DUH) it is right there in front of everyone's eyes.
In any event, "cases," also known as "positive tests," should NOT be the standard by which public health policy is made. The politicians and bureaucrats use "cases" because they know it evokes in the public's mind mental imagery of people very sick with COVID, when this is simply NOT TRUE; the vast majority who test positive and thus are referred to as "cases" have NO or MINOR symptoms. The correct standard we should be looking at, used historically by epidemiologists, is rate of decreasing hospitalizations and death, a number that has been plummeting since late April.
And, by the way, as Katy Grimes has pointed out, we see from the latest CDC "adjustment" of death-by-COVID numbers that the ones previously touted, some 150K (or more!) were WAY, WAY, WAY off. A number of under 10K deaths from COVID19 for the entire country is a significantly different number, isn't it?
The liars and their lies are unraveling now.
Thank you. So well written
the true number of deaths "from" covid19 is 9700 across a country of 331M people. the fix was in from the get go. how my people in cali actually believe the media. they have lied repeatedly since day one. who is standing up against newsom. the courts? the AG? the people who are set to lose everything? how about local media? anyone with a brain that has the bully pulpit to gain attention? sadly no one. auntie nan even had her hair done at a CLOSED salon and no ones standing. you cali people get what you deserve.
This isn’t true...we are on our 2nd attempt to recall Gavin Newsom, but he keeps using his “emergency powers” to bypass the legislation process and instead override any and everyone to make more and more obstacles in the way to be able to recall him. And our state representatives have even filed lawsuits against him and he gets them thrown out. When they were finally able to get a lawsuit to be heard in court by a judge, Gavin Newsom resigned that judge from the case because he didn’t have Newsom’s interests in mind. A judge who has been honorably serving the California Supreme Court for 30 years! And recently last week, he suspended all republican representatives because 1 tested positive for covid. So now it’s a one sided representative vote going on with the left being the only ones allowed...it’s complete tyranny! We Californians are literally doing everything in our power within legal means to stop him, but he is doing everything in his power, illegally, to stop any progress we do have to recall him or take him to court and hold him accountable!!! It’s not all of Californians faults and we do want him out and we the people and our state representatives are trying everything we can, with no avail...
Don't you know about the recall? http://www.recallgavin2020.com. Many people are standing up against Newsom and signing the petition...and if you live in CA, you could too. I am distributing the petition among my friends. You can print the petition off the recallGavin website, sign and distribute it or go to one of the many sites around the state who have the petition in their stores for the public to sign. All the info is on the website http://www.recallgavin2020.com
Where can I get one if I don't have a printer?
I'm glad that I got the report from the CDC report about the REAL NUMBER OF COVID19 DEATHS 9,700. SO WHY ARE YOU POLITICIANS PLAYING IT OFF LIKE WE THE PEOPLE CANNOT GO BACK TO WORK, SCHOOL AND CHURCH? Just resume our Normal Activities? Stop the mask wearing BS & let We the People go get our hair and nails done like your Aunt Nancy Pelosi did without a mask on!!! That's why she won't sign the bill to get money to Americans who've been out of work, and you can't pay the extra $600./week because you've misappropriated funds and the money for unemployment insurance benefits are depleted Thanks to you screwing with the money that's been paid in or paid by the Federal Government???????
You can guarantee that you will be a one-time Governor especially now that the House Republicans have been excluded from what's going on in this State! If you did that on the Advice from Auntie Nancy Pelosi, you've been taking bad advice from her. She too will lose her seat and Speaker of the House will be in that shithole she calls home SF!
You made a huge Mistake about the State Bill and not making Pedophiles register as Sex Offenders, You Know The One!
You've done a lot of Damage in this State & You're Well Known By Voter's Across the Country. So I Hope You Found Another Career, Because Afterwards All The Damage You've Done Here You Won't Win a Seat In The Senate Or As POTUS!!!!!
Not all of us califronia's voted for these worthless thieving liberal slugs. There are a lot of conservative Californian's who can't stand the sight, sound or image of newsom, feinstein, pigliosi and all of the other liberals running this place into the ground and in fact most of us wouldn't spit or piss on any of the aforementioned if they were in fire.
Whole-heartedly agree with your post...
There's a lab at the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine that can't get its data published.
In a nutshell, SARS-coV2 is not an exogenous infectious particle, it is a HERV ("Human Endogenous Retrovirus"). Basic mistakes in epidemiology were made and continue to be made. HERVS are part of the 8% natural human genome transmitted from mother to child and they represent ancient infections that have been "disarmed." Their role in cellular communication is unclear, but what happens is when a body is under stress or cells are undergoing division or apoptosis, HERVS recombine with the genes gag, pol, and env to become exosomes. This triggers an antibody response. These particles are indistinguishable from exogenous "viruses" under a scanning electron microscope, and because not one paper has satisfied Koch's posulates, nobody has ruled out the possiblity they are testing for an endogenous phenomenon.
In other words, due to nonspecific pneumonias, researchers are "testing" for antibodies to a particle that was expressed as a natural phenomenon of the body due to that pneumonia and then mistakenly assuming that the particle caused the pneumonia and came from an external source. The "deaths" are simply reclassification of normal pneumonia deaths that would have happened anyway. It's improper to say "comorbidities" because they're just simply morbidities.
Newsom is using a the thoroughly discredited Royal College of London model. This isn't science. If the math doesn't match what you see in the real world, you have to discard your hypothesis.
Best comment to date!! Wow
Best info ever! I heard at the beginning of this that some viruses have some kind of evolutionary origin and you have explained it perfectly. Thank you!
The COVIN lie has been exposed!!
CDC Admits Only 9,000 Have Died From COVID Alone!!
https://www.infowars.com/watch-live-cdc-admits-only-9000-have-died-from-covid-alone/
Where does this align with school's re-opening? Can this get anymore confusing???????
No kidding. It's so confusing they probably don't even know themselves.
Long story short some retired relatives opened a gym in LA..2 months before COVID-19.
They are really hurting financially and cannot even sell the equipment because all the gyms are closed.
Went to the CDC webpage and couldn't locate any revised numbers of deaths. Still posting 182K. Can anyone provide a link to that correction?
Hi Carrie - that number (9,210) must have been taken from the main data set which is sorted by state and county here: https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Death-Counts-in-the-United-St/kn79-hsxy
The main comorbidity page is listing national figures: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/#Comorbidities
Hope that helps!
And what about the AB5 bill and crack down on the gig economy? Freelancers out of work and closed businesses who used them are still unaware that they can't go back to the way they operated before, even if they reopen. If lockdowns and riots don't kill you, AB5 will.
Majority of AB5 workers are illegal aliens. Do not support them
that is absolutely a false statement!! where do you come up with that comment? document this!
I told my wife two months that Slick and the legislator would kill the economy,because they had to have the last say on Covid19. Hence the economy is tanking.