Nine New Cases Connected to Southern Humboldt Cannabis Grow
Yesterday, Dr. Teresa Frankovich, the Humboldt County Public Health Officer, continued her policy of not releasing information about even patient details that would seem to still leave the patients unidentifiable to the community. She would not confirm that information we received independently was correct. However, we have learned from an anonymous source that the nine additional COVID-19 positive cases which were confirmed yesterday were connected to one Southern Humboldt cannabis farm but those infected did not reside (or at least most did not reside) in the Southern Humboldt area.
Frankovich said in the video we posted early this morning, “As you know, we don’t comment on, you know, particular infections in specific workplaces unless it’s relevant to public safety.”
We requested information that would give us an idea in what general area the original residences of the persons infected were located. We asked, “Are the people testing positive from Humboldt County? From California? From out of state? Or from international areas such as Mexico? At this point do we have a sense of how widely they traveled in Humboldt?”
For reasons involving patient privacy, Dr. Frankovich declined to answer. She did say that if they lived in other parts of the county and traveled to Southern Humboldt, they would be listed not as Southern Humboldt infections but rather as infections in the areas they resided. So on Friday when the geographic distribution is provided, the new infections won’t show in Southern Humboldt.
Although Frankovich also declined to say how widely the new cases had traveled throughout the region, contract tracers will be working to identify those the nine people interacted with and reaching out to them.
Speaking generally, Frankovich noted that because some cannabis grows hire “people from all over, they have certain challenges.” She encouraged cultivators to contact the confidential communicable disease line at (707) 268-2182. She said, “We want to make sure that whether they are legal or not legal operations, that they understand we’d like to work with them. Basically if they have someone sick, we’d like to be able to help work with them to get people tested and to really just make sure everyone around them is safe.”
Cultivators who have people working on their farms, whether legally or illegally, should consider getting everyone tested even if no one is experiencing symptoms. Dr. Frankovich noted, If cultivators “are interested in doing some screening testing, we would be really happy to work with them on that as well. I think it’s an important population for us to keep healthy because it impacts not only the individuals but our community.”
Coincidentally, earlier this week there was a mobile unit offering free testing available in Redway. We don’t know when the next available free testing in the area will be available but the COVID hotline at (707) 441-5000 should be able to offer some answers. In addition, Redwoods Rural Health Care in Redway has testing for those experiencing more serious symptoms. Call for pre-screening first at (707) 923-2783.
Employers are urged to arrange work spaces so employees are at least six feet apart, ideally outside or at least with open windows. They should make sure that employees have personal protective equipment including masks. They should minimize time employees spend in enclosed spaces with others including minimizing traveling in the same vehicle. They should ensure that employees have access to water and soap for frequent handwashing. For more information, see here.
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9! What new thing has been added to the environment. Could it be trimigents. We we’re all fine until they showed up. Come on mom and pop help out you’re community a little. What next are they bringing in measles and chicken pocks. We need you but we don’t need them. Hire local.
We should have a matricula consular form for any who come into country to work as a migrant trimigant. It’s tough work and can create repetitive motion injury so it’s not something to do for a lifetime of living. Boutique trimming could be a sales point but….
9 yesterday, how many more today??
Is this the beginning of the end???
I don’t think mom n pop need NINE workers.
Thanks to people not wearing masks (muh freedoms !!) and not distancing Covid is on the rise everywhere again.
Thanks dumbshits.
it’s hilarious and frustrating, the people going apoplectic over wearing masks because of their civil liberties are the same people cheering on the abuse of civil liberties by the police.
it’s almost like they don’t actually have a coherent ideology or position, beyond kneejerk spite.
Give one example of someone “…cheering on the abuse of civil liberties by the police…” and was also “…apoplectic over wearing masks…”
The blatant cognitive dissonance is the MSM lauding “peaceful” (read:rioting and looting) protests as reasonable expressions of angst without any real risk of Covid infection while demonizing people protesting arbitrary lockdown orders, while actually being peacful, because they are going to spread the ‘rona.
If you don’t think that there are people out there cheering on the knee choking of black people you live in a parallel universe.
You might want to consider that African Americans have had it. They’re done. You would have them ask nicely after 400 years of abuse and oppression?
I’m sure there are too many racist assholes out there who cheer the abuses of the State, but that was not what the poster said. “max” used a specific juxtaposition and I wanted an example to know that it was more than imaginary hyperbole.
https://mises.org/wire/why-central-banks-are-threat-our-savings
They def had enough of libs and democrats pandering to them every 4 years!
Ever notice that most of the BLM ers are white brainwashed college Bernie Sanders idiots?
Plus his more radical Marxists.
Maybe 1 out of 10 are actually Black.
They are the force Joe is their puppet.
🕯🌳You sir with the bow and arrows. 🌬🖖
Umm thats just not true. Mayne a couple.. But i cant stand anything the state does or says. Be it masks or police brutality. Folks like you that categorize everyone as you did here are part of he problem
Oh, didn’t you know, they’re going to fight the oppressive masks and lack of a haircut because 🇺🇸MURICA🇺🇸!!!!
No one is going to tell them what to do!! They’re rugged individualism is the stuff of legend. Science is for Sissies and Trump haters!!
Thanks Covidiots, back to square one for EVERYONE because of your stubborn ignorance. It’s no surprise that Trump is your guy, the most moronic imbecile alive.
Oh go look at the biologist/ President of Tanzania. He took random covid test kits and a paw paw and a goat both tested positive.
Yes, the tests are soooo reliable.
lol (at both lamestream parties. One does not want to acknowledge we were weaponizing covid and the other ones want us to go to war with bad China)
Then both want us to wear masks all over like Berke Breathed’s Bill the Cat cause it is good for corporations.
“Oh **** it!”
For the record, humboldt county cannabis policies encourage the larger grows who need 9 plus workers, often coming from elsewhere so they can take advantage to cut their costs in order to afford the 4-5 different taxes etc. While those same county policies wipe out smaller mom and pops. Ma and pa do not need to leave their property during quarantine, because they do all the work themselves on modest sized farms. Small farms cannot justify the permitting complexities or costs or enforcement risks and fees. End the abatement program! Let people grow food and medicines and survive the pandemic!
yeah!, Yeah!
You nailed it.
The war on mom and pop is forcing the corporate model down rural agriculture based homesteads.
Rural lives matter.
That’s true to a point but many “moms and pops” have hired foreign workers.
great articles, kym. cheers…
The whole freak show of the last 4 or 5 months has been great birdwatching for sour grapes social observers like myself.
I never would have believed the worlds greatest superpower was this weak and pathetic..
Maybe it’s all planned out in some “internet of nations” pact, who knows.. but wait!
the circus becomes more ghoulish and macabre as America’s internet babies cry out for justice in a smart phone soundscape found only in dreamland!
I can only imagine what it would be like to live in a consensus based activist group house with any of these cool kids, oh my god.
It’s as old as the hills, forgive me for spitting on my own boot as I hightail it away from this little busted sewer main.
Carry on wise humans!
Well said!
You are responding to the consolidation of power in the media.
To few minds control whatever public consumes.
Apple and Google are actively censoring independent minded people.
They are operating on a different paradigm to most people’s real needs.
The very first rule of fight club. ..?
In Eureka everyone wears a mask. SoHum has people in stores proudly not wearing them. Just remember, I am way deadlier than the flu, don’t make me sick.
Scooter, that was not my experience shopping in Eureka last week. WInco and Safeway both had 20-30% of customers not wearing masks. Staff yes, customers no.
Not true. Everyone in Winco wears a mask.
My experience at Safeway yesterday was everyone was wearing masks. No one likes them, but we wear them because we are helping to limit wholesale spread (even if not perfect).
I agree with a comment on another covid article. If you refuse to wear a mask, you should be the one to stay home. Your selfishness should not infringe on others rights to get their groceries, etc. as safely as possible at this time. Grow up and quit acting like a two year old.
So you want to kill people?? Calm down bud
Anyone see the guy mentioning his bill from a Seattle hospital for his stay ? $1.12 million dollars detailed by a 180 page bill. People who want to opt out on being socially responsible should also be opted out of “socialism” paying for their hospital stay in the unlucky event they or their loved ones end up needing hospital care.
I second that opinion
Best recent commercial article on face masks I could find. https://examine.com/topics/coronavirus-masks/
Was it the most recent you could find, or the one you could find that supports your position on the matter? I notice it isn’t the Mayo clinic or JAMA website.
Skimming through it, it seems reasonable and in agreeance with other recent publications.
Same happening in Trinidad, read in Times Standard yesterdays paper, that the town is being overrun by out of towners, tourists, that don’t wear masks and get in your face if you request they do so.
Stupid F**&%!
Posting some signs promoting the benefits plus making sure there is a ready source for obtaining masks would help. This is a sea change in behavior for western countries and demanding compliance will probably a contrary effect. Also the benefits of wearing a mask when not in crowds or inside is not so clear. Maybe leaving peoplealone outside when they are just passing might reduce the negative interactions.
If only there was some sort of safe safety camp for everyone to be safe. Maybe fema can help?
I have encountered numerous people who say they’re from Oregon, and they’re not wearing masks up there. 🤷
this is what is see coming:
massive 2nd wave – just like before and for the same reasons.
it cripples the economy.
trump loses election.
everyone’s 401k dissolves to depression levels.
trump blames biden for everything.
we are witnessing realtime the greatest shitshow in 100 years.
the virus we have in the US came via Europe and i just read trump has ended federal testing.
The virus “we” have came mostly from Europe on the East coast. It came from China on the West Coast.
People wondered what it would be like when the participation trophy generation grew up. Well, here it is. The pandemic does cripple the economy but panicked, demanding overreactions are ten times worse.
The first west coast cases were from China but the main outbreak was driven by travel from Europe and the east coast because of the complacent response to the outbreak in Europe. Witness the Barcelona crew who caused the Westhaven outbreak, as has apparently been confirmed.
And the strain from Europe is more virulent than the strain from China.
I live in So Hum. Went to Eureka for medical reasons. The only places where they were wearing masks were in Costco and Eureka Health no place else. Went to Fortuna yesterday again for medical reason. Every person in Safeways had a mask on. Went to Ace but left because NOT one person in there had a mask on. The worst was the medical office next to the hospital. Not one person, zero who worked there had a mask on! In So Hum everybody wears a mask. The only ones who don’t are the out of towners and tourists. I was at Redwoods Rural Health and every person working there had a mask on! At the protest march a few weeks ago one lady wore no mask. She said “i’m a rebel” and the most radical person there told her she wasn’t a rebel but STUPID. We all stayed away from her. We all smile but with masks on!!!
“Wear face coverings when out in public and NOT able to maintain social distancing”
It’s not hard to put six feet between you and the next person.
You know, I’m pretty sure you’ve been shopping at least once in the last three months, and thus know what you just said was false.
It’s pretty easy to maintain 6 feet. If not then put on a mask, if it makes you feel better.
It would make me feel better if you wore a mask as they are helpful to catch other people’s infections from spreading, not to prevent the wearer from getting infected. I wear a mask to protect you, not myself, and think it’s a pretty minor thing to do as a social grace.
The last place I shopped last week for groceries in Eureka, everyone was wearing masks, and trying to keep 6 feet apart (not easy when the aisles are not wider than 6 feet), and were lining up (long lines) keeping to the 6 ft markings. I do admit to being irritated at some medical facilities being less than helpful in trying to avoid infection.
Examining the current evidence for thetwo-metre rule, Prof Heneghan and Prof Jefferson looked at 172 studies cited in a recent review in The Lancet and found just five had dealt explicitly with coronavirus infection in relation to distance. Only one mentioned coming within six feet of a patient, and that paper showed proximity had no impact….
Sir Iain Duncan Smith, the former Conservative leader, said recent research showed that reduction from two metres to one metre would raise infection risk just slightly, from 1.3 per cent to 2.6 per cent….
(in the current era of widespread abuse of percentages that would be headlined “Risk of Infection 100% greater at 3 feet than 6 feet social distance”) 😉
Passing by someone with or without Covid symptoms on the street at 3 feet or 6 feet is not the predominate way that contagion usually occurs. Proximity to the sick, and sustained exposure for more than a passing moment are the key factors for risk.
England is considering dropping the 6 foot rule and going to a 3 foot social distancing.
Any reports of the viral load of recent cases lessening. That would seem to be important information to share….
We don’t have any info on viral load that I know of.
Thank you Kym.
The 100% greater risk citation would be accurate, regardless of your sneering. You may scoff because of the “small” percentages, but when you multiply that by the number of interactions that happen in public places, the risk grows proportionally. Please have some consideration for others, in particular those who are compelled to work with the public.
repost- looks my last one was deleted.
uh, no it’s mandated in the state of California. Not “if it makes you feel better”. Just because our local sheriff refuses to enforce it doesn’t make it less so. It’s not about you.
https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/COVID-19/Guidance-for-Face-Coverings_06-18-2020.pdf
“[…] mandates that face coverings be worn state-wide in the circumstances and with the exceptions outlined below.
[…] People in California must wear face coverings when they are in the high-risk situations listed below:
•Inside of, or in line to enter, any indoor public space;”
You live in So Hum? Have you been to Redway? NO ONE wears masks. Go to Shop Smart, none of the cashier’s wear masks. Do you drive past the river? It’s packed, not a mask in sight.
Not everyone in SoHum wears a mask. Go into the PO or Shop Smart in Redway, Many Shop Smart chashiers aren’t masked. Shop Smart has lost my business.
Not releasing identification of people in regards to health information isn’t a ‘policy’ and isn’t Dr Frankovich’s policy as you infer. It’s the law… HIPPA.
But they can tell where these people have visited!!!! I remember one case that told people if they were at a certain mini mart at a certain time they should get tested………. We in So Hum would really like to have that information!!!! It’s no law and it’s not HIPPA…..
Releasing location information is not the same as releasing health records. The HIPPA argument is wrong.
Absolutely. I never understood how they got away with disclosing Alder Bay cases the way they did.
Dot, no one is asking Dr. Frankovich to identify the people. But stating that a number of those who have positive tests are in the cannabis industry would likely wake up some of the complacent growers and get them to take at least minimal precautions. This will likely save lives. So I did it.
Stating that a number of those testing positive are marijuana industry workers in no way identifies which individuals have it any more than stating that “4,913 US workers in 115 meatpacking plants have tested positive for COVID-19” identifies the individuals involved. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/05/more-4000-us-meatpacking-workers-have-covid-19
Is it fact it was froma grow or just rumor?
I don’t post rumors in the news section. The group were connected to a grow.
Where are some facts to back this up?
That I don’t post rumors? Or that these cases were related to a SoHum grow?
Ok enough with the bullshit from the county . This plan to not really tell the community anything about the infected Is obvious amateur hour- stigmatized businesses should not be a heath departments concern during a pandemic .trim season gonna be nuts with shared air,bathrooms and food …
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https://www.npr.org/2020/05/02/849535944/south-koreas-tracking-of-covid-19-patients-raises-privacy-concerns
We know about patient 15 because South Korean health authorities legally use cellphone data, credit card histories and surveillance cameras to trace infection routes. The government posts data, including patients’ age, gender, nationality and occupation, online and sends it to residents via cellphone alerts.
Makes me wonder how long it will take for COVIDphobia to be a medical diagnosis just as Mysophobia (Germaphobia). One difference between the two is that Germaphobes have not historically demanded everyone else to stay home because of their condition.
And before you jump on my a** for being a “bad person without community care …. I have had no visitors since 2/24, have left home approx 8x for necessities, have practiced “safe” behavior in respect for others, and just made my first trip to laundromat in 4 months. All out of abundance of caution. But I cannot breath in a mask and will only wear when absolutely necessary.
I know as someone who deals with anxiety to a disabling level, this whole situation is doing woooooonders for my mental health….
Marine, lots of folks use cannabis for anxiety. Have you tried a CBD tincture?
High-THC cultivars with energetic terpenes should be avoided. Cannabis with lots of myrcene (the couch-lock terpene) is sedating and calming.
Start low, and go slow.
US Marine no fear no filter no fks, your name is flipping awesome.
I’ve got anxiety, too… so much, plenty to share, lol! I smoke mad bowls. Good walks in the evening help me very much, also. Or just a really nice dinner for one… I splurge. Or sometimes, I give myself a nice foot bath, with aromatherapy. I escape with music, books, or good documentaries. Best wishes to you on your journey to peace… peace of mind and body. Cheers 🙂
Face shields are also effective
Face shields are not effective
Ohio State Rep testing air with mask
https://youtu.be/MxaY28cS5QQ
Easy enough to prove/disprove.
I used my oximeter that I use to monitor my severe asthma to see if I had a lower blood oxygen level wearing a mask. Without the N95 mask it was 95% spo2 with the n95 mask it was 95% spo2.
I think I’ll wear a mask.
That is called stress?
Third World, good to know! That’s helpful info.
Another difference is that Germaphobia is the unrealistic fear of germs. Covid, sad to say, is real. ICU’s are filled to capacity with dying people, or haven’t you heard?
There are many reasons why this may appear to be so. As hospitals reopen for general procedures, they are testing for Covid and get many asymptomatic positives. A friend in the AZ health system who admits there is an apparent increase in cases, tells me this.
They are testing these in-patients every day and counting each positive test into the tally, until the patient tests negative. Even though they originally entered hospital for ACL surgery or other non CV19 issue, if they test positive they are listed as a Covid hospitalization. Kind of skews the figures doesn’t it?
I’m rather sure asymptomatic check-ins for other procedures are not being counted as covid ICU cases.
Yeh .. I’m sure you think so well of fellow citizens you assume they’d make this up just for giggles. Whats wrong with you BT?
What makes you rather sure of that?
I don’t know if that is true but I do know that you can get tested multiple times and test negative and every test counts.
No, positive tests subsequent to the original positive test are not counted as separate cases.
How do u know that?
We are all in this together, new worker arrival quarantine for 14 days is strongly advised by our local health authorities.
Here is a free COVID Community Safety SOP resource for farms and cannabis businesses created by Oxalis. You can download the guidance SOP from the linked article.
https://mailchi.mp/545592096124/covid-19-cannabis-and-community-safety?fbclid=IwAR2gek9m6Y4ecWBsnYKvtN6YopLyZHn3scSPwpF6wKwv781CLFekYtOGmSc
Maybe we should build a wall to keep the virus infected out.
Y’all are talking about trimmigrants, but i wonder if these 9 people work for the temp agency, Dark Staffing, that employs kids to work on ganja farms and processing facilities all over the county. What I have heard from kids working for them, carpooling is a huge thing. People aren’t wearing masks y’all.
Lost coast outpost is not credible unbiased news anymore it’s just corporation owned censored trash now I really appreciate this news outlet.
Sonoma has an excellent reporting system. https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/1edbb41952a8417385652279305e878d/page/page_11/?views=view_25
INFO PLEASE:
We need to know if these 9 ppl have been circulating around the community, and for how long. This wld be good information, so pls, if any of you 9 ppl, or anyone who may know, pls comment on this. It won’t compromise your identity to say if & where you/they were shopping,& if masks were worn.
THANX!
That’s what contact tracing is all about.
The owner of the legal and Illegal farm needs to stay home and stop going into stores in SoHum. If your workers are sick you may eventually be also. Please be responsible.
Amazingly these 9 cases don’t pose a public health threat. Dr Frankovich said so.
“As you know, we don’t comment on, you know, particular infections in specific workplaces unless it’s relevant to public safety.”
5 more cases today 6/25/20
And, again…have these ppl been circulating around the community? Being that it takes a week to get results, were any of these 14 ppl ( last 2-day total) out& about? If so, where& when? Really…not too much to ask! Information will empower us. It’s best to stay home, but , for sure, wear a mask to help out your community. Its lovely to cooperate& be on the same team!
2020 SCAMDEMIC…………….WOW……………….GO TO vacinfo.ord……….pow
That website seems to be a mishmash of anti-vac info and half-baked conjecture. Don’t believe everything you read. It says you can’t get sick from germs. It says the 1918 Spanish Flu was caused by vaccines. For every bunk there is a debunk: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-vaccines-caused-1918-influe/false-claim-the-1918-influenza-pandemic-was-caused-by-vaccines-idUSKBN21J6X2
btw I am wary of vaccines and would not take one tomorrow.
Curious if this might be related to the worker at The Ganjery who tested positive? Yes- The Ganjerie closed down. But do we know if this worker was working with customers or packaging? No we don’t and we will never be told. Why? HIPPA….I think privacy is important. But at this point I think the lack of pertinent information we are allowed to have is detrimental. Perhaps some parts of HIPPA need to be relaxed in a pandemic like this. We don’t need to know the actual people but some further info would be helpful. I know we are supposed to always be super careful and behave like covid is everywhere but it seems to me like we are all suffering some fatigue from constant attention combined with minimal info. We deserve to know more- like why am I the guy telling you about the worker at The Ganjerie? I wish the guy the best of health and a full recovery. But I’m also needing to tell people who shopped there to be aware? Or is it better to say nothing about anything and just let people know nothing- like HIPPA would have us do? I think we all deserve more information than we have been allowed to get….
No one knows cuz no one knows. Just live your life. You 99% plus wont get sick and die of “covid.” Your chances of dying from other things is better.
1% of our population is over 3 million people. It amazes me people find this to be no big deal
Covid19 is the leading killer in the U.S.
https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/covid-19/coronavirus-becomes-number-one-cause-death-day-us-surpassing-heart-disease-and-cancer
Aside from the personalities and the politics, the obvious covid-protective strategy is to support mom n pops.
As if.