Certified Restaurants Can Do Dine-in, Churches Can Resume Services, and Salons/Barber Shops Can Submit Plans for Reopening
Barbara Sokolow of Cutten protested not being able to attend mass at a Open Humboldt gathering earlier this month. [‘Photo taken at May 7 Protest]
Restaurants that have been certified by the Humboldt County Emergency Operations Center (EOC) can begin dine-in services as early as this Friday. Places of worship may reopen with safety modifications in place.
Hair salons and barber shops, which California Governor Gavin Newsom moved into Stage Two today, involve higher risk to both employees and customers. These businesses can submit a Reopening Plan beginning at 8 a.m. Thursday, but they will be reviewed after those deemed lower risk.
The EOC Reopening Plan certification process was designed to ensure facilities had measures in place to limit transmission of COVID-19. Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal said, “All of these safety measures are done with the community in mind. Yes, we want to make it easier for businesses to open. We also want to make sure they do so as safely as possible.”
Restaurants interested in resuming dine-in services should submit a Reopening Plan here: humboldtgov.org/COVIDBusinessCompliance. Those restaurants that have already received certification can open to dine-in services with safety modifications in place on Friday, May 29. More than 650 businesses have been certified so far.
Humboldt County Health Officer Dr. Teresa Frankovich expressed appreciation for the business community’s thoughtful approach to this process. “Having a certification in hand is reassuring to employees and customers and represents a business’ commitment to keep our community safe,” she said. “I’d encourage residents to support these businesses and be patient as they reopen because services will look a little different than they did previously.”
Gatherings for worship and religious ceremonies have been linked to several outbreaks of COVID-19, including in neighboring Mendocino County. The state recently released guidance to assist places of worship in reducing virus transmission. According to the state, attendance must be limited to 25% of capacity or 100 people, whichever is lower. Places of worship should follow the published state guidance for faith-based gatherings and are encouraged to submit a Reopening Plan to the EOC, though it is not required.
The state today produced guidance for hair salons and barber shops to operate with significant modifications in place, including limiting services to those that can be provided with both the worker and customer wearing facial coverings at all times. “We were pleased to see the state move these services into Stage Two where we can follow local conditions to determine the timing of reopening,” Dr. Frankovich said. “We’ve been working to reopen lower-risk retail businesses and added restaurants just this week. Higher-risk businesses like hair salons and barber shops are next in line for review and certification.”
The following activities are not allowed, and a timeline for reopening has not been set by the state:
- Personal services such as nail salons, tattoo parlors, gyms and fitness studios
- Hospitality services, such as bars, wineries, tasting rooms and lounges
- Entertainment venues, such as movie theaters, gaming, gambling, arcade venues, pro sports, indoor museums, gallery spaces, and zoos
- Community centers, public pools, playgrounds, and picnic areas
- Cultural ceremonies
- Nightclubs
- Concert venues
- Live audience sports
- Festivals
- Theme parks
- Hotels/lodging for leisure and tourism.
For the most recent information about COVID-19, visit CDC.gov or CDPH.ca.gov. For local information, visit humboldtgov.org, call 707-441-5000 or email [email protected].
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bring tourists back to Humboldt…. you can’t stop COVID-19 only destroy our lives by shutting them down. Ignorance is killing us… open up and let nature take its course. You’re idiots.
G stone,
thanks.
It’s not about your health. It’s about control.
There is no 100% works. Masks work, but not 100%. Social distancing works, but not 100%. Standing in line at the grocery store, but not at the polling place, works, but not 100%. And so on. Everything you do, however, adds up. The more of the things we do, the closer to 100% we get. And the closer to 100% we get, the fewer infections we have.
For you it’s about paranoia
Nobody wants to control you.
Sure they do… They want to control him to go to work every day so they can profit off his labor. And these are the people who are funding the anti-lockdown protests. The wealthy elite became wealthy and elite by profiting off the labor of others, and they want people to go back to work so they can keep profiting. There’s been some excellent investigative journalism showing that all the larger anti-lockdown protests were directly funded (through advertising purchases, shills pretending to be local residents, bots spreading social media spam, etc) by groups ran by wealthy conservatives, many of whom have direct ties to trump as well. I love how all these people objecting to being controlled are actually being controlled and refuse to figure it out…
Nice conspiracy theory. Have you ever considered that people like to work, to have a purpose, and that in this world we need to work. The idea of suckling off the government tit instead of doing something is not palpable to most people.
I wish capitalism were just a conspiracy theory…
Oh, gee… if only we lived under the heavy hand of a, self-described, social utopia… then we could all sip lattes and finger paint landscapes all day. Then we can use the wisdom of the State to determine where it will force us to labor because choosing where and with whom to work is obviously a conspiracy to use us to enrich others. Sounds awesome!
You can always MOVE.
Lots of jobs in the essential worker industry.. quit suckling and go to work then.
I am essential. This fiasco has not changed my work schedule at all. Believe it or not my angst comes from the suffering of my fellow humans who have had their livelihood squashed by an overbearing administrative class.
There is a commonality of thinking among not a few that others who hold different ideas from themselves only do so because it is materially to their advantage. For example, if you don’t support mass quarantining, you must think you can’t get sick. Or if you object to socialist government, you must be a rich capitalist. Or if you think there is a good to working, you must be an employer. Their only alternative to not sharing their belief in their own thinking is to declare you too stupid to see they offer a better way.
Socialism’s goal always sounds wonderful. Quarantining’s goal sounds like a cure. The trouble with their ideas is that they can’t work in the real world. Example after example can be given of the failures and all they will say is that it was not done right previously but this time it will if they get the power to force people to behave. If only humans would stop being human, it would all work. There is nothing that can get through their shell of denial.
We live in an era where nuance of issues are overlooked in order to take “sides”. The manipulation of arguments to either be this or that is used keep people from thinking outside of the political box. The choice is red! No, it’s blue!… those are the options given and most people won’t look for another. I call it the pepsi/coke challenge. Neither company really cares which one is #1 or #2 as long as THEY are #1 or #2. It gives the sheep the illusion of choice.
Welcome to the consequence of 20th century education as planned by our good friends at the tax exempt foundations.
Anyone who claims intelligence should understand the wisdom of agendas that has changed the landscape of education over the last 70 years.
It’s obvious when you’ve listen to the people who exposed this years ago.
The MIKGRAM EXPERIMENTS are a case study in humans willing to inflict pain and suffering into unsuspecting people, when directed by authority figures.
I see this as a confirmation of Stanley Milgram’s work.
It’s not very surprising to hear people expressing their beliefs as molded by AUTHORITY, and would very likely inflict punishment on those they’ve deemed morally and intelligently lacking.
The second amendment is available to protect the first.
We are losing our appreciation for independent minded people who want to be unmolested in their pursuit of liberty.
Overbearing WHAT class??? Sounds as though someone ate sour grapes and did not get the promotion they wanted. Perhaps management (not a class, not a bad word either) saw the bitterness and decided to opt out. Wipe your nose, pull up your big boy pants and grow up.
Administrative = bureaucrats.
I’m self-employed and have not lost any work due to the lockdown. The economic trickle down will be huge because of administrative stupidity.
100% Agree with you Ullr Rover.
Thank You and RIGHT ON. And interestingly, those that are wealthy in our area are the libby Dems that do not need to work because of Mommy or Daddy or a home sale out of the area. They support others feeding off the trough though. Hypocrisy run amok.
“Only through the illusion of fear will the vision of freedom be suppressed.” (Me)
Oh Jesus —- there had to be at least one idiot in this thread. The problem is that if you open your eyes not many people actually social distance. They think that they can just walk by someone as normal and nothing will be transmitted. Stop being snarky and vain and wear the damn masks and if you go into a store – grocery or otherwise if you don’t want to protect yourself, PLEASE protect others. Snap out of the conspiracy theory…
Snap out of your programming.
There is absolutely no sound medical protection for wearing masks. The masks you tell people to wear are ineffective.
Not sure if you’ve ever read the fine print on an N95 mask, but ANY FACIAL HAIR, will negate its effectiveness.
People like you get promoted to jobs where you get to tell people how to do their job better.
You’d be better off advocating to remove JUNK FOOD from the supermarket shelves
I guarantee you will have a much better impact In this world, miss Julie, then lecturing adults on faulty medical gear.
Go deeper.
And you got your degree in epidemiology where?
Ignorance is ignoring a pandemic that has killed 100,000 US citizens.
Get it? IGNORance. It’s easy.
Knowledge? It’s a bit of work.
There may be a few who ignore it. Most do not. They just prefer keeping a level head in a crisis rather than doing something damaging just to get a sense of control because at least something is being done. It is like taking an aspirin to reduce a fever is good. Taking a whole bottle of aspirin with the idea that if a little is good, a lot more is better, is what causes problems. Trouble is that can kill you.
Covid-19 and the ignorance about it is killing people.
Let’s talk about high infection rates, and low mortality.
Then we can discuss low infection rates, and HIGH MORTALITY.
Censorship is unamerican, if you feel adequately trusting of the nature of government, you might just work for them.
Free speech shouldn’t be censored, all the people who think they know what’s good for others, need to volunteer at nursing homes, and make sure it counts.
Protest local and State oppression!!! Friday, May 29th, 12:00 noon. Humboldt County Courthouse, 5th Street. Bring signs/ Flags. Pass it on!
Oppression????? Don’t like freedom, huh? It is not always easy or for the faint of heart. If you REALLY need a lesson about Oppression move —- Ukraine, North Korea, Iran, Iraq, China, Russia — all great places with lots of open green spaces, and lots of animals to eat and people with NO FREEDOM. Let the door slam you in the ass on your way out.
The progress toward normalcy is encouraging. If we had to wait for some magic bullet vaccine the outlook was grim. What has been true is that even the “experts” have admitted this critter is new and unpredictable. It has done damage below the waterline to the ship of state. We got a brief taste of what the “injuns” got when whole villages disappeared without immunity. The world of the virus is as dangerous as any army.
Sorry. The true danger is far worse than a flu bug. We will all pay the price, some already are and 100s of millions will follow. In another year, covid 19 will be the least of our problems. Hope your enjoying you new found normalcies.
Not really. At least not this time. Anything for which there is no immunity where 80% of the people who get it don’t know it is not the threat that ordinary small pox was with it’s 30% fatality rate or even the Spanish Flu.
For some native americans it was more like 100% and what is more many died before ever seeing a European. A similarity between now and then was the California “indians” largely escaped the contagion because they were scattered across a rural topography. It was only after the mission system concentrated them that they succumbed in large numbers to introduced disease. We are seeing that rural living seems to keep the virus contained. That population density has a huge effect on spread and that cities are incubators for sickness.
What’s the point of the story? Xenophobia is a rational fear?
The current estimates for people who get it but don’t know it keep decreasing, not increasing. They were around 50%, but now the estimates are around 35%. That is, about two thirds of cases are symptomatic.
Can you give a reference for that? It’s seem a natural consequence though of mass quarantining that reduces deaths by reducing exposure. The Swedes have at least a logic to allowing exposure for low risk groups while trying to isolate high risk groups but it has not gone xactly like their experts said.
Progress towards wisdom?
What is the obsession with hair salons and barber shops? There’s literally no difference in exposure compared to going to target. Actually I’d get exposed to more people within 6ft of me than a trip to get a hair cut….it’s total bs makes no sense. Give it a break we’re not in New York with millions of people stacked on top of each other. Go to Oregon no mask everything is normal and people aren’t dieing left and right.
Opening churches before services is just plain disgusting. There are few things less essential.
Bushytails, dope and abortions are far less essential.
If I just lost my job and the next year was going to be very uncertain, abortion would be looking mighty essential to me…
Condoms , birth control and abstaining from sex while your ovulating is a easy way to prevent 99 percent of unexpected pregnancies.
No arguments here about that, but it doesn’t change the fact unexpected things happen making it essential.
Sure is a lot of ” unexpected things “. Seems people have known babies come from sex for a long, long time and except for a very few birth control works.
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better layout at link.
This table lists each reason and the percentage of respondents who chose it.
Percentage Reason
<0.5% Victim of rape
3% Fetal health problems
4% Physical health problems
4% Would interfere with education or career
7% Not mature enough to raise a child
8% Don't want to be a single mother
19% Done having children
23% Can't afford a baby
25% Not ready for a child
6% Other
more
https://abort73.com/abortion_facts/us_abortion_statistics/
I could never classify murder as an essential activity. There are plenty of options before that finality.
Thank you. More babies are murdered every year in the name of “choice” than the numbers of people killed in World War II. It is disgusting.
I’m wicked pro abortion but if you have to get an abortion during a pandemic maybe you shouldn’t be allowed to tell other people what to do? Not because of the moral aspect but because if you are allowed to go to a clinic and potentially expose yourself and everyone else to a disease during a pandemic for what was a preventable situation maybe you shouldn’t be allowed to even have an opinion on how to tell other people to be safe? In sex or a pandemic.
And for that 1%… that’s why we have abortions. The only 100% methods are permanent sterilization or complete abstinence, and even the later isn’t guaranteed, due to rapes, or accidental exposure to your partner’s semen through activities other than penis-in-vagina sex.
They are most definitely an essential service, since the consequences of not getting one (being forced to raise a child you’re not ready to care for, medical danger to the mother, etc) are quite severe, and it has to be done in a quite strictly limited time frame, unlike many other medical procedures.
They are not required to raise the unwanted child. They can place the child for adoption and make a childless couple very happy.
Essential? NOT. All unwanted pregnancies are NOT rapes – more like bad choices. Close your legs, take birth control (the pill DOES work), leave the relationship, room, etc…..
Me, I’m taking a wild guess that you are male.
BINGO Me.
Didn’t you hear? Jesus said that you are the house of the lord. Christian churches are, theologically, NOT essential
Tell that to the constitutions 1st Amendment then.
The first amendment guarantees freedom of religion as well as freedom from religion.
Churches should not be treated differently from any other social organization. No better, no worse.
Not exactly as religion is one of four things specifically mentioned as one of the things that government may not make a law upon, along with freedom of speech and assembly and petition. That raises it out of the class of ‘other” altogether.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion …”. One good summary of this is: “The First Amendment’s Establishment Clause prohibits the government from making any law “respecting an establishment of religion.” This clause not only forbids the government from establishing an official religion, but also prohibits government actions that unduly favor one religion over another. It also prohibits the government from unduly preferring religion over non-religion, or non-religion over religion.”
Opening churches prior to other types of gatherings is favoring religion over non-religion. If churches are to be allowed, then plays, concerts, fraternal and service organizations, in-person college lectures, etc, all of which share the same physical format (a group of seated people observing one or more standing people in a room, possibly with socialization before or after) would need to be allowed as well. That you’re gathering to share delusions does not make the activity somehow more essential than any of the other activities of similar physical format – quite the opposite, in fact. Churches absolutely should remain closed until all other forms of in-person gatherings are considered safe.
Only if you see the world divided into two parts- religion and everything else. And if you consider an order closing everything as not being a law. The exact wording is “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Prohibiting free exercise thereof. Guess what the government can’t do it. Specifically. Not soccer clubs, birthday parties, etc. Just religion.
Well, Congress did not make a law saying you could not go to in person church services. The current prohibitions come from the Governors, so you should be referring to the state constitutions and their restrictions/authorization on/of executive emergency powers, or their allowances for state legislatures to grant or proscribe gubernatorial powers.
Let me guess submit plans = fees to re open your business??? Land of the free by permitting extortion = permits
Do you know this for a fact? I’m actually just curious rather then wanting to guess.
Liberty,
well put.
Last I checked there we no fees, and the submission form was rather simple.
Lots of businesses are already required to have health and safety plans in place. Nowadays all physical businesses need one. Let me guess – you think all health and safety requirements are an infringement?
That attitude is sickeningly common… people claim OSHA is trying to destroy businesses, that market forces should be allowed to dictate safety regulations (that rather than businesses being required to provide safe workplaces, workers should make a decision themselves on the tradeoff between wages and safety, by not working for places they think are unsafe unless wages are high enough to make the tradeoff), and all sorts of other total stupidity…
Like almost every other thing in the universe, it is not so simple. I’ve known a worker who fell off her chair multiple times ending up on worker’s comp for over half of every year for a decade but, being a government employee, could never be fired and would never quit. On the other hand I have known a large Humboldt Co business who imported workers from Mexico for dangerous work and sent them back to Mexico with a small payout when they got hurt to keep worker comp premiums low.
Stupidity comes from thinking one side in a debate is stupid when there are always some humans to abuse systems on all sides. If it keeps being said, it is likely there is some truth to it.
“If it keeps being said, it is likely there is some truth to it.” No. Repeatedly saying something that’s false does not make it any more true.
The point was that if people keep saying something, they are all not making it up. If it keeps coming up, said by different people in different situations over different times, it is because there is likely some basis for it. Declaring something false or true doesn’t make it so anyway.
Explain your position on the Virus.
It sounds like you’ve been listening to the people who want strict adherence without any real financial support to those unemployed.
You are the same as the people who are still receiving a salary by telling others they cannot earn a living.
Yeah, it’s that simple.
So just like that polling showed that the covid-19 isn’t popular and California is lifting its restrictions to match other states that didn’t overreact. Well I’ll be damned. Whoever could of predicted such a thing.
Polling repeatedly shows that most residents, not just in california but across the nation, even in anti-lockdown states, support continuing restrictions.
There are some- actually many- things it is not reasonable to expect the popular vote controls behavior. It’s like pot smoking- it may be popular to tell people they can’t do it but there are enough who will violate the law that it clearly was not an effective tactic. Do you want to try to jail or fine people for doing everything? Oh wait… That is exactly what you want to do.
Lawmakers should consider whether laws passed are reasonably enforceable from the end of a gun. If not, then it probably shouldn’t exist as a law.
https://angelusnews.com/voices/the-difference-between-wisdom-and-intelligence/
The yard stick to measure the competition
Hooray. Every law should have a funding for enforcement and maintenance built into it. Then there would have to be at least some limits on passing laws that are there to engineer society by threats and bullying.
This will not end well
Then
“ shelter in place the government knows what’s best for us”
Now
“ we shouldn’t be opening up guys government officials don’t know what they’re talking about LISTEN TO ME “
Me
I don’t trust a damn thing they’ve said the emotive time so there’s a big chance you’re right , i just hope that people realize that our government doesn’t know what’s its doing and political division is their ultimate weapon.
Pandemics never do. That the odd idea- that some people think they can force it to.
I don’t care as much about dine in and church services as I do that we can’t see the dentist or the vet without it being an ‘emergency’ and paying the emergency fee. It is very difficult waiting for issues to become ‘emergencies’ when a reasonably timed appointment would have taken care of it. No mention of this type of service still?
I suggest you find a new dentist.
Y..our comfort zone is on the chopping block.
Get used to it, or do something to defend Y…our rights.
Chris – you are absolutely right. Seeing the dentist , or attending other routine preventive health care, should be a much higher priority than churches or salons.
As you point out, the fees that are being charges by only providing ’emergency’ services is unfair.
Our “health care” system is a shambles. Not to mention, A Shame.
The doctors and dentists are greedy and your health takes a back seat to making money.
Maybe but the alternative of letting things go until it kills you is not so great either.
You really may want to find a new Dentist and a new Vet.
Are you saying that most other dentists and vets are open?
God says: Don’t let a few “want-a open stores” people get the rest of us sick and dead.
Stay home. That’s the choice.
Open up Humboldt.
Hair stylist should probably be tested a few times a month .As well as dentists by nature the close contact and number of interactions of these professionals on the daily really require it ,basic stuff. Opening churches is fine by me . I actually expect some members and pastors to die. I hate to say that ,but since it’s happening all over the country it’s highly likely . Idk at this point u might as well open bars to ( South Korea closed all nightlife after recent outbreak.) We can all just go the ”ignorance is bliss” route ..
https://www.foxnews.com/us/coronavirus-texas-death-church-priest-reopen
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/second-stylist-same-missouri-hair-salon-tests-positive-nearly-140-n1214036
Erik Chase is one of the 84 clients whose hair was cut by a stylist who was showing symptoms.
“Now I’m someone directly affected by COVID, and I never thought that it would be so close to home,” Chase told NBC affiliate KYTV of Springfield. “It’s a big deal. It definitely gives me great concern.”
Chase said officials have asked him to stay home until Sunday, which will be 14 days from the date of his Great Clips appointment. He also has been told to take his temperature twice a day and to check in with the health department. He’ll be tested for the virus this week.
Chase said that from the time he went to the Great Clips to the day he was notified of his exposure, he came in contact with 15 to 20 people.
“So I don’t think that the story is ending any time soon,” he added.
Then don’t go to a hair stylist. Don’t be an Erik. But if you do go, it shouldn’t be a surprise it’s a risk. One Erik down, 350,000,000 more people to go.
For anybody who wants current CDC best guess numbers:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scenarios.html
They present 5 different scenarios based on variables known and unknown.
To “Missing Mass”: take a walk in the redwoods. There is more spirituality there than inside any walls. And less chance of contagion.
That is confusing comfortable spirituality with uncomfortable religious discipline. Sort of like thinking being a spectator at a tennis match is the same as being a professional player. One feels good but doesn’t change you- the other is hard work but creates improvement. In theory at least.
yes, the Redwoods are my church, true cathedral. This old lady, with breathing issues, had this flu for the whole month of January. Bad but not scarlet or yellow fever, just a badass flu. This whole alarm reminds me of how they popped the Patriot Act on us after the towers went down. Another excuse for control of the mighty masses by misguided control freaks. Businesses probably didn’t need to shut down. Just stay home when sick. Now the economy is totally dumped just as it was looking better Common sense suffices for me and mine.
Where’s the logic in keeping tattoo shops closed??
A higher esthetics by keep poor decision makers from making permanent mistakes? Joking aside, it’s probably a simple idea that duration of exposure increases the risks of catching the virus. It is probably no more based on empirical science than the dismissing of the idea of herd immunity but TPTB do that too.
It amazes me how so many are such authorities on everything! It’s such a shame that we are not all as bright as you!
Where do you get your asinine information and your audacity to believe it correct?
Reopen everything.
Let us make our own choices and take our own risks.
The scared can cower in their homes!
Just let us who aren’t scared live their lives.