It’s clearly past time to make George Orwell fiction again.
Gov. Gavin Newsom and his California Department of Public Health issued another “new” set of social distancing guidelines prohibiting gatherings that include more than three households at any time.
The Oct. 9 document, “Mandatory Requirements for All Gatherings,” explains that all private gatherings must limit the number of attendees and are required to be held outside.
“Gatherings are defined as social situations that bring together people from different households at the same time in a single space or place. When people from different households mix, this increases the risk of transmission of COVID-19.”
Despite the The World Health Organization’s special envoy on COVID-19 urging world leaders this week to stop “using lockdowns as your primary control method,” the governor continues to discuss at his daily press conferences the people with “infections,” or “cases.” But these are not “cases;” actual practicing medical doctors refer to “cases” as those in the hospital, in the ICU, or those who have died as a result of COVID-19.
California’s COVID-19 numbers tell the rest of the story:
- 16,191,341 COVID-19 tests given
- 850,028 people tested positive for COVID-19
- 15,341,313 people tested negative for COVID-19
- 16,572 deaths attributed to COVID-19
- California’s total population is 39,512,000 million
California has a 0.04% mortality rate for COVID.
Unsure of the details telling Californians just how to gather with friends?
The CDPH explains:
Keep it short
- Gatherings should be two hours or less. The longer the duration, the risk of transmission increases.
Rules for Singing, Chanting, and Shouting at Outdoor Gatherings
- Singing, chanting, shouting, and physical exertion significantly increases the risk of COVID-19 transmission because these activities increase the release of respiratory droplets and fine aerosols into the air. Because of this, singing, chanting, and shouting are strongly discouraged, but if they occur, the following rules and recommendations apply:
- All people who are singing or chanting should wear a face covering at all times while singing or chanting, including anyone who is leading a song or chant. Because these activities pose a very high risk of COVID-19 transmission, face coverings are essential to reduce the spread of respiratory droplets and fine aerosols;
- People who are singing, shouting, chanting, or exercising are strongly encouraged to maintain physical distancing beyond 6 feet to further reduce risk.
- People who are singing or chanting are strongly encouraged to do so quietly (at or below the volume of a normal speaking voice).
- Instrumental music is allowed as long as the musicians maintain at least 6-foot physical distancing. Musicians must be from one of the three households. Playing of wind instruments (any instrument played by the mouth, such as a trumpet or clarinet) is strongly discouraged.
Be sure to stay away from those dreaded wind instruments. As for requiring gatherings two hours or less because “the longer the duration, the risk of transmission increases,” this is totally arbitrary. And do riots and protests count as “gatherings?” Should they also be limited to “three families, two hours or less, no singing, no shouting?”
Gov. Newsom’s rules are sounding eerily like a chapter out of George Orwell’s Animal Farm: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
As California Globe reported last week, more than 30,000 medical practitioners and medical & public health scientists recently released a letter called the Great Barrington Declaration, telling politicians who continue to keep people in lockdown, they are causing more health issues and deaths than COVID-19:
“Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health.”
“Schools and universities should be open for in-person teaching. Extracurricular activities, such as sports, should be resumed. Young low-risk adults should work normally, rather than from home. Restaurants and other businesses should open. Arts, music, sport and other cultural activities should resume. People who are more at risk may participate if they wish, while society as a whole enjoys the protection conferred upon the vulnerable by those who have built up herd immunity.”
The most compassionate approach that balances the risks and benefits of reaching herd immunity, is to allow those who are at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally to build up immunity to the virus through natural infection, while better protecting those who are at highest risk. We call this Focused Protection.”
While Gov. Newsom continues to convolute and extend the state’s COVID guidelines, killing off more businesses, the Great Barrington Declaration doctors say he is also putting more of the state’s residents “at risk for lower childhood vaccination rates, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health – leading to greater excess mortality in years to come, with the working class and younger members of society carrying the heaviest burden. Keeping students out of school is a grave injustice.”
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Why is CA being dictated to by an unelected task force group put together by a governor who is high on Control??? Why are the citizens of this state surrendering to this?
ARGH!
OMG. I was thinking the same thing. Just left Cali in July, and wow, just wow. When will people stand up on their hind legs and kick this tyrant to the curb?
Settle down
Settle down? Are you friggin kidding? I heard about this and thought it was a joke, seriously!!!!! People worried about big tech? Crap no, it is big government I am worried about. Hmmmmm, 250 years ago, didn't we take care of this kind of abuse of power?
Settle down? haha!! You "Bill" are an idiot
Those of us in the Central Valley (though our numbers are small compared to the bay area and southern California) are trying! We are fighting the good fight.
Working on a recall.
Why are YOU surrendering to this ?
Did YOU vote for this corrupt , gutless , wanna be pos dictatator ?
Absolutely did not. But there aren't enough of us left to get California back on track.
NO!!
He’s busy with making rules like this that can’t be enforced when his state is a mess . So many homeless people , businesses closed , unsafe roads , bad forestry management... he needs to go
MOVE TO TEXAS, GEORGIA OR FLORIDA
No dont move there. Californians stay and fix your BS.
Yes move to the east but don't bring that ridiculous mess with you! Remember you voted that POS into office we don't need that kind of governing over here
Because ppl love him. He gives them $$ to be lazy and not enough ppl to protest. Just sad because he thinks he is a king!????
Who is going to follow these ridiculous "rules"?
My family has never chanted before, but we are going to this year! lol
Ahahahah I’m going to make my family this year too. ????
I’m in ca and I wish I new the answer. :( I want out of ca
Because you live in a state that is 99.999% democrat. They love to control ever aspect of your life and the stupid people that keep voting for these morons get what they vote for.
I signed the petition to remove Newsome.
If you think a leader like Newsome, who takes away your democratic rights can’t happen - look at Nazi Germany, Communist Russia, Communist Cuba, China, Korea, and many other countries.
It can happen and is happening here
The comedy continues. No one listens to this clown and, hopefully, his reign of terror will come to an end with the court date of October 21.
Where will HE GET ALL THE POLICE TO ENFORCE FAMILY GATHERINGS FOR CHRISTMAS AND THANKSGIVING??? Who is going to monitor him and Nancy pelosi ????? You think covid 19 is the danger???? You want to drive people to drugs suicide and their death with all of these lockdowns! I for one am planning on leaving California as soon as I can!!!!
NOTHING this mentally-ill megalomaniac has "mandated" is legally enforceable. He has NO power to order ANY INDIVIDUAL to do ANYTHING . His power is limited to overseeing state agencies only, he CANNOT make law or regulations. He can only make "Recommendations" . THERE IS NO LAW REQUIRING MASKS, only a "Recommendation" or "Guideline"... Take off the &^$*@$^!(! Masks!!!
What’s the Oct 21 court date ?? The Recall Campaign is growing I know.
Newsom is being sued by Assembly Members James Gallagher and Kevin Kiley who are requesting an end to the "emergency powers" under which Newsom is issuing all if his executive orders. Michigan courts have already ruled the powers unconstitutional.
Newsom is hopefully on his last legs! Recall this jerk, such a waste of breath.
We just signed the removal petition to remove the slime. He/it, won with cheating and lieing votes, illegal voters.
The whole soros fandamily is worse than any desease or virus.
The Fox News is strong with this one..
He also won because John Cox was a terrible candidate. I thought newsom would have to face villaraigosa because I thought he was very popular, but he proved to be a terrible candidate as well. Newsom ruined San Francisco when was mayor. A lot of their problems were because of him. The California government is as corrupt as the federal government.
Newsom missed his true calling. He needs to take his act to Comedy Central.
This dictate is clearly aimed at limiting 1st amendment freedoms, more specifically I suspect this is aimed at birthday parties and weddings.
Hahahaha!! So true! He’s ridiculous!
Oh. Fuck you, first amendment..singing is protected. You're not a governor, You're a dictator!
Newsom is a corrupt controlling narcissist. ACT NOW download, print, follow instructions, print name, address, fill in Circulator portion, SIGN and mail to PO address at bottom if the petition! recallgavin2020.com ????????❤????????
Guess what Newsom.....we aren't following your rules, you know why? You have taken it too far.
Hopefully the lawsuit outs you in your place at trial next week. I just wish it were a criminal trial that would put Newsom behind bars for the rest of his life.
RECALL GAVIN NEWSOM!!!
Newsom is an evil corrupt controlling narcissist. ACT NOW download, print, follow instructions, print name, address, fill in Circulator portion, SIGN and mail to PO address at bottom if the petition! recallgavin2020.com ????????❤????????
Is it inappropriate to ask if there is a category called "Silly Totalitarianism"?
Gruesome and the Gang may have created something new. Their only accomplishment.
Comrades
Don’t ya love it.....a new phone book of rules to protect us.....balance...equity......
The block commissars, cameras and drones are next.....