The New California: Police Arrest Shop Owners and Surfer While Releasing Hundreds of Inmates
Officials punish law abiding citizens while encouraging snitches to rat out neighbors, while homeless still wander streets
By Katy Grimes, April 4, 2020 11:42 am
This leaves many to believe the complete shutdown of American society over questionable health concerns is having the desired effect – tanking the U.S. economy before the 2020 Presidential Election.
This week Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti asked snitches to rat out their neighbors and friends, for a reward, those who dare to defy his shelter-at-home order. “If any non-essential businesses continue to operate in violation of the stay at home order, we’re going to act to enforce the safer at home order and ensure their compliance,” Garcetti said. “You know the old expression about snitches. Well, in this case, snitches get rewards.”
Who decided what California businesses are essential and non-essential, and then authorized police to arrest shop owners for remaining open, joggers on public trails and lone surfers?
It was the State Public Health Officer who designated the list of “Essential Critical Infrastructure Workers,” California Globe reported March 24.
And now we are starting to hear reports of arrests of those “violating” the stay-home orders, all while hundreds of inmates are released from jails and homeless still live on city streets, unrestrained, unsheltered, and apparently immune from police arrests or prosecution.
“Los Angeles prosecutors on Friday filed criminal charges against two smoke shops, a shoe store and a discount electronics retailer, accusing them of refusing to shut down despite orders imposed to fight the coronavirus,” the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.
The day before, a lone surfer in Malibu was arrested and hauled away in handcuffs for violating the shelter-at-home order.
More and more articles are reporting officials are “losing patience” with those who violate stay-at-home and social distancing orders. But there are few articles about American citizens who are losing patience with overbearing martial-law-style orders, over what many say is a deliberate attempt to kill businesses and shut down the U.S. economy.
Many are starting to conclude that the truth is not forthcoming about what is really going on with coronavirus in the U.S. and throughout the world. Is it a giant conspiracy or just gross government incompetence, or both?
Essential and Non-Essential Businesses
Public health officials are making decisions which are killing off businesses and tanking the economy, despite that in the U.S., a country of 329,227,746 million people, there are 239,279 total coronavirus cases and 5,443 total deaths, according to the CDC. The Worldometer coronavirus website says there have been 7,896 coronavirus deaths in the U.S. as of April 4, 2020.
According to the CDC there are an average 7,838 deaths in the U.S. every day.
According to the CDC: 0.2% to 1.8% of all U.S. deaths since February are confirmed or presumed to be due to COVID-19. And they are destroying the economy over this.
The Gateway Pundit reported:
According to the collected data:
** 79% (910/150) are over the age of 65
** 90% (1033/1150) are over the age of 55
** 3.5% are under 45
** 0.7 (9/1150) are under 35
“Like other reports the VAST MAJORITY of the coronavirus deaths are people over age 65 — nearly 80%.”
Additionally, the coronavirus recovery rate is very high. “The fatality rate from COVID-19 is not as high as experts have reported, according to a new analysis published Monday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. In the new analysis, the death rate in confirmed COVID-19 cases is estimated to be 1.38%, while the overall rate, which includes estimated unconfirmed cases, is calculated at .66%,” WebMD reported.
There was no lockdown or shelter-at-home order during the 2009 H1N1 flu. The numbers show approximately 60.8 million cases, 274,304 hospitalizations, and 12,469 deaths occurred in the United States due to H1N1, according the the Center for Disease Control and National Institute for Health. There was no political or media hysteria, and there was no 24/7 news coverage of it.
What’s the difference between the 2009 H1N1 flu outbreak and the 2020 Coronavirus outbreak? In 2009 Barack Obama was President, and in 2020 Donald Trump is President.
This leaves many to believe the complete shutdown of American society over questionable health concerns is having the desired effect – destroying Donald Trump and tanking the U.S. economy before the 2020 Presidential Election.
This could not have occurred without collusion between the left, the media, and likely globalists behind the scenes.
Are the Wrong Doctors in Charge?
The Washington Standard is reporting that an infectologist in Germany is asking questions CDC and NIH doctors haven’t. In a letter to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, Professor Emeritus of Medical Microbiology at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz asked:
Did the projections make a distinction between symptom-free infected people and actual, sick patients – i.e. people who develop symptoms. A number of coronaviruses have been circulating for a long time – largely unnoticed by the media. If it should turn out that the COVID-19 virus should not be ascribed a significantly higher risk potential than the already circulating corona viruses, all countermeasures would obviously become unnecessary.
How does the current workload of intensive care units with patients with diagnosed COVID-19 compare to other coronavirus infections, and to what extent will this data be taken into account in further decision-making by the federal government?
Has there already been a random sample of the healthy general population to validate the real spread of the virus, or is this planned in the near future?
At present there is no official information on whether, at least in retrospect, more critical analyses of medical records have been undertaken to determine how many deaths were actually caused by the virus. My question:
Has Germany simply followed this trend of a COVID-19 general suspicion? And: is it intended to continue this categorisation uncritically as in other countries? How, then, is a distinction to be made between genuine corona-related deaths and accidental virus presence at the time of death?
Dr. Bhakdi calls the nationwide lockdowns “Collective Suicides.”
Random sampling is important. “John Ioannidis, a Stanford epidemiologist who is famous for debunking bad research, has been pushing for it,” Lisa Boothe at the Hill reported. “He told me that random sampling is needed and could be done with a couple of thousand tests. When I told him that I previously worked in the polling industry, he put it in terms that resonated with me. He said, ‘Random representative testing is like polling. We run thousands of opinion polls in this country. We should similarly get a representative sample of the population and get them tested. It is just so easy.’”
“As government and public health officials make decisions of enormous magnitude, shouldn’t we know how infectious and lethal the coronavirus is?”
What is Essential?
According to the California Department of Public Health, Essential services will remain open, such as:
- Gas stations
- Pharmacies
- Food: Grocery stores, farmers markets, food banks, convenience stores, take-out and delivery restaurants
- Banks
- Laundromats/laundry services
- Essential state and local government functions will also remain open, including law enforcement and offices that provide government programs and services.
What’s closed?
- Dine-in restaurants
- Bars and nightclubs
- Entertainment venues
- Gyms and fitness studios
- Public events and gatherings
- Convention Centers
- Hair and nail salons
- Anything fun
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Really appreciate this because it puts a lot of the questions so many of us have had into one handy place. Plus, if I had to choose between the two myth-buster doctor/researchers cited above and the combined opinion of all the conventional “experts” we’ve been seeing and hearing all this time I’d pick the myth busters every time because after the hysteria over the crisis-of-the-day dies down it always turns out the one or two in the minority were the ones who were correct.
I don’t think people are going to stand for this much longer. Not sure what that will look like but we SHOULDN’T be standing for it. It’s been pretty obvious from the beginning what our “leaders” and bureaucrats have been up to. Besides, Newsom, Garcetti and the Clones all have records of preferring petty totalitarianism in their governance, and there is absolutely no reason to believe their records would go away and they would suddenly become earnest and fair when an opportunity like this one comes along.
There must be an accounting when this is behind us. Or (God forbid) they’ll pull this trick again to get what they want!
Straight out of Stalin’s playbook and the manifesto. Release the felons and arrest the citizens and prop up the illegals with Gov Gel Hair sending tax monies to illegals … right.. resist !!~ and next election time.. really, really, really think about NOT voting for that slick talking demorat from your district..
100% agree, Newsom is a power hungry fascist.
When do the ankle braclets start ???
Exactly but I was thinking the test that proves we are immune could be given so people could start back to work. However, in order to prove it to others that we are immune would require a lenthly test so to solve that a chip will be inserted that could be quickly scanned. I believe this is the mark of the best Lord help us all!
Riverside County Public Health Officer Dr. Cameron Kaiser on Saturday (4/4/2020) ordered that no gatherings of any number of people may take place outside of family members residing in the same home.
Kaiser also ordered everyone to cover their face when leaving home, including essential workers. Those coverings can be bandanas, scarves, neck gaiters or other clothing that does not have visible holes, he said in a news release.
Law enforcement will have the authority to enforce the orders, which run until April 30.
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Enforce it how? No mention of any fines.
https://www.rivcoph.org/Portals/0/Documents/CoronaVirus/April/4.4.20_HO_order_face_coverings.pdf?ver=2020-04-04-172943-200×tamp=1586046633879
Dr Kaiser is the same one who did nothing to prepare this counties medical facilities for this so called pandemic.
Thanks to hoarders stores are limiting purchases.
I shop for myself, a 76 year old stage 4 cancer patient and her caregiver.
Yesterday by arriving at the store before it opened I was able to find one pack of paper towels and one pack of toilet paper. However they would only let me purchase one. I got the paper towels.
So today I again arrived before the store opened to get the tp.
One trip turned into two trips. Twice the exposure for myself and others. How is that helping?
Great column as usually.
Please place “churches” under “what’s closed?”.
I liked “Anything fun” on the What’s Banned list. No kidding.
Fuck California cops and law
Mrs Grimes, your articles are excellent
Donald Trump could win the next election if he came out and supported surfers and beach recreation in general. California has become a police state. I hope everyone remembers this and votes against Newsom and all his cronies in the next election, if we are even still allowed to vote.
Well, I can see now why Trump is so hesitant to issue a federal order. Could you imagine how bad it could get if that was done? Good ol’ Gavin Screws-‘Em. No wonder People are fleeing Calif. by the thousands since he was elected.