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SF Chronicle Annoyingly Warns ‘COVID Cases in California are Climbing Again’
Oh no! Quarantine yourself. Shelter-in-place. Buy a box of masks.
By Katy Grimes, August 6, 2025 5:00 pm
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water again, the San Francisco Chronicle warns “COVID Cases in California are Climbing Again. “California is experiencing a renewed uptick in COVID-19 infections.”
Oh no! Quarantine yourself. Shelter-in-place. Buy a box of masks. Get the vax!
But it’s not what you think: “State health data shows that test positivity rates nearly doubled in July, from 3.94% on July 5 to 7.91% by July 26. While still categorized as low, the trajectory is concerning enough that public health officials are watching closely as fall approaches,” the Chronicle reports.
So, as families are coming home from excursions and vacations across the country, and across the world – gasp – some contracted the Covid flu.
Remember that “cases” are the number of people who tested positive for COVID-19, usually at the recommendation of their doctor.
“I think COVID is still on the way up in California,” said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease expert at UCSF.
What happened to “the Covid vaccine will stop the spread?”
The Chronicle says that “nationally, emergency department visits for COVID remain relatively low but are ticking upward, especially among children under 4 — many of whom remain unvaccinated.” They are still pushing people, and children, to take the vaccine – as if the “vaccine” prevented covid, which we know it did not.
Or to quote a noteworthy medical professional on MSNBC, “Now we know that the vaccines work well enough that the virus stops with every vaccinated person,” Rachel Maddow said on her show March 29, 2021. “A vaccinated person gets exposed to the virus, the virus does not infect them, the virus cannot then use that person to go anywhere else,” she added with a shrug. “It cannot use a vaccinated person as a host to go get more people.”
Viewers and observers demanded an apology from Maddow and MSNBC.
The Chronicle reports Dr. Chin-Hong’s recommendations.
- “Chin-Hong said hospitalizations and deaths are also expected to increase for those over 75 in the coming weeks, “especially if that group has not been recently boosted or taken Paxlovid.”
- He emphasized the importance of vaccinating older adults, especially those who haven’t had a shot or a recent infection in the past year.
- For people at higher risk or living with vulnerable individuals, early diagnosis is key.
- Chin-Hong reminds them not to overlook treatment options: “Paxlovid or early antivirals are a great option.”
However, I looked at the CDC data, every state in the entire country reports “very low” Level of Respiratory Illness Activity – including California.
Yet, the San Francisco Chronicle concludes, “For now, public health officials emphasize simple precautions: stay home when sick, wash hands frequently and, when in crowded indoor spaces, consider wearing a mask — especially with school buses rolling and concert crowds gathering.”
Remember when the California Legislature fast-tracked bills to force COVID-19 vaccinations for children for school enrollment, and another allowing minor children to make their own vaccine decisions away from a parent? Neither bill was signed into law. But they tried.
Just this week, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development – many mRNA vaccines will be terminated:
“We reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and acted. BARDA is terminating 22 mRNA vaccine development investments because the data show these vaccines fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like COVID and flu. We’re shifting that funding toward safer, broader vaccine platforms that remain effective even as viruses mutate.”
Government fear-mongering causes wide-spread panic, and serves up the public as sitting ducks for autocratic controls, as we witnessed and experienced 2019 through 2023 (in California) with lockdowns, closed schools and businesses, mandators masking, and mandatory shots. Media fear-mongering apparently sells newspapers and elicits clicks, and causes the world’s worriers a lot of unnecessary anxiety.
And the Covid flu hysteria and controls have conditioned many Americans not to believe the government the next time.
We need to ask our politicians and elected officials, why people in government want to cause fear. And notably, so do people running newspapers and media.
As Bjorn Lomborg reported in 2023, “A panic-stricken lockdown orthodoxy far too soon took hold, and those whose policy proposals deviated quickly were labeled ‘COVID deniers.’”
“Governments that went the farthest were feted by public intellectuals and in newspaper opinion pages.”
We sincerely hope that this San Francisco Chronicle article was only used to fill space and elicit clicks. No one needed another “news” article telling them what to do if they contract the Covid flu.
On X, the SF Chronicle posted the article about 4 hours ago, and has only two comments, but it’s the only notion needed: “So what?” and “Who cares?”
A California native and Navy mom, Katy lives in Sacramento, CA.
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I am sure Gov. Newscum is preparing to declare another “State of Emergency” any minute now, and will be closing schools, churches, beaches, and “non-essential” businesses for the next three years. Target, Walmart and pot shops will remain open.
The maskers are playing to an ever shrinking audience. At this point all they have is crazy cat lady shut ins.
Oh no! people are getting colds…and the flu! I’m a pureblood who tested positive for “Covid” twice…I’ve honestly had colds that were worse. Got knocked on my ass by pneumonia. “Covid’ was nothing. certainly not worth being injected with poison that doesn’t even stop one from getting or passing “Covid”.
These people need to be in a rubber room for life and I’m not kidding, either. The “experts” AND the go-along press. Love (not) how they add insult to injury with their arrogance and their pompous “recommendations.” Unfortunately we’ve seen how well this crap works on the usual chunk of the populace who are still in a trance from the last time around. Gee, I guess we’re not getting our apology for the absolute outrage and wreckage caused by what was done to us for 3-4 YEARS OF OUR LIVES, are we? Meanwhile I keep hearing Pfizer Covid ads this summer directed at dumbed down young people; the ones they themselves dumbed down even more during Covid with their nonsense!
Never mind, let’s hope this is a very short-lived bout of annoyance anyway, like pesky late-summer horse flies or gigantic brown grasshoppers that gobble up what’s left of your garden.
Love “So What?” and “Who Cares?” Exactly.
The only people still getting Covid-19 are those who have been vaccinated and have repeatedly gotten it as a result. They are usually identifiable by their reliance upon paper masks for protection from . . . , themselves, turns out. The more boosters one has gotten, the more efficient a spike-protein manufacturer your body has become and the more frequently one is apt to get Covid-19 again, and again, and again until you die suddenly.
That little troll Fauci said masks do not work. He also said the 6 ft distance was something he pulled out of his A ss. The distance does nothing. Why would anyone take a shot for a flu with a survival rate of 98.6%. All I can do is shake my head. I refused the shot. It made zero sense to me. My entire family and extended family with few exceptions ran out and took the shot. Mom developed severe arthritis within 6 months and keeps getting worse, Brother has chest pressure, youngest son has chest pressure and autoimmune issues, cousin developed lung cancer and never smoked, other cousin and husband caught covid no less than 5 times, another cousin dropped dead, my boss dropped dead, my best friend of 45 years dropped dead, several friends I worked with dropped dead. Now we have cancers running over 5000%. I refused the shot. I never got sick, I never get sick, I never wear masks, and could care less about standing distance. I will never take the shot. No one will ever make me take the shot.
Darkoss, like you I refused to take the shot. I smelled a rat very early on. There are a number of culprits in this scam. Big Pharma is number one. The politicians are close behind. Covid gave them a reason to assume total power and control over the population. The public teachers unions got Mana from heaven. Their members were fully paid for doing next to nothing.
But I also blame the general population. Most of them when along lockstep like sheep being led to slaughter. To this day I still see people walking alone on a sidewalk wearing their useless masks.
I live in Napa County. During the covid lockdown there were 88 deaths in Napa Co according to CDC records. 88 deaths in over 4 years from a population of 138000! .0006% was your chance of dying yet these mouth breathers were driving around (alone) in their cars wearing masks. I asked the girl who does my hair if she had a guess as to the number of covid deaths in the county, her reply “I dunno, ten thousand?” These mouth breathers love fear porn.
Newsom and the rest of the Democrat politicians who brutally locked us down and mandated those lethal experimental mRNA shots all need to be haul before tribunals and be held accountable for their grievous crimes against humanity. They all need to be held accountable or they’ll just try it again. They’re evil.
Dr. Chin-Hong’s is a fraud and apparently hasn’t heard that neither the COVID shots or Paxlovid are effective against COVID and instead cause significant health issues.
YES. Thank you for adding that important “detail,” which is correct.
Not one person in that photo has a visible identification and certification.
“This is a bombshell: Dr. Ryan Cole”
https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/this-is-a-bombshell-dr-ryan-cole
Good, maybe this will help remove a bunch of liberal San Franciscans when they run out and reflexively get their clot shot in response…
Very glad to see you, CD9 —— I was a bit concerned because of the latest wildfire in your area.
Thank you for your concern and well-wishes, S&T!
The best to you, as well!!!