State Places Additional Restrictions on Certain Sectors; Takes Effect Locally Friday
Press release from the Humboldt County Joint Information Center:
California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a statewide order to close bars and transition six industry sectors to outdoor-only operations to limit spread of COVID-19. Local implementation has begun and will take full effect Friday.
The state is requiring all bars that do not have a permit to serve food to close, and these businesses should cease operations no later than Friday. Businesses in the following affected sectors should offer only outdoor services with safety precautions in place:
- Restaurants
- Wineries and Tasting Rooms
- Movie Theaters
- Family Entertainment Centers
- Zoos and Museums
- Cardrooms.
Outdoor dining, carry out, curbside pickup and delivery are still allowed with physical distancing and other safety precautions in place.
Humboldt County Health Officer Dr. Teresa Frankovich said she is hopeful that these actions will help the state avoid a move into stricter shelter-in-place measures. “We have talked since the beginning about the possibility for pauses or steps back to manage the pandemic,” she said. “I know this is challenging. At this time we need to use all of our prevention strategies so that we can reopen as soon and as safely as possible.”
Dr. Frankovich noted that this statewide action does not permit counties to take independent action on reopenings even though our county is “doing well” in terms of case counts and hospitalizations right now. “The governor is implementing this order to address the concerning increase in cases, hospitalizations and ICU admissions across more than 30 counties, which represent 80 percent of our state’s population,” she said.
Those businesses that already received certification to reopen from the Emergency Operations Center will not need to resubmit a Business Reopening Plan to offer outdoor services or to reopen once the state again allows these sectors to operate. Humboldt County is not currently on the state’s County Monitoring List and will not be required by the state at this time to fully close additional sectors.
To read the California Department of Public Health’s news release about the state’s actions, go to cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OPA/Pages/NR20-158.aspx. To read the full Statewide Public Health Officer Order, visit cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/COVID-19/SHO%20Order%20Dimming%20Entire%20State%207-13-2020.pdf. To read the Governor’s Executive Order granting the authority to issue health orders, go to gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/5.4.20-EO-N-60-20-text.pdf.
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Governors [knowingly] using false data to enforce draconian control measures.
Florida hospitals/labs busted for falsified results.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/florida-lab-admits-its-covid-positivity-rate-was-inflated-90?amp&__twitter_impression=true
This report from Florida shows the numbers.
So are the morgues in Florida lying also. I don’t get that people still can think this is a hoax. People are dying.
Must be mannequins in those body bags!
American Association of Surgeons and Physicians petitions the FDA to approve Hydrocloroquine.
https://mailchi.mp/aapsonline/hcq-petition-ford
Why is the cure supressed?
Just as a rebuttal:
“The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is a conservative non-profit association founded in 1943. The group was reported to have about 5,000 members in 2014. The association has promoted a range of scientifically discredited hypotheses, including the belief that HIV does not cause AIDS, that being gay reduces life expectancy, that there is a link between abortion and breast cancer, and that there is a causal relationship between vaccines and autism. It is opposed to the Affordable Care Act and other forms of universal health insurance.”
Thank you Cy Anse 😉 I was just about to respond:
“The quality and scientific validity of articles published in the journal [AAPS] have been criticized by medical experts, and some of the viewpoints advocated by AAPS are rejected by mainstream scientists and other medical groups.”
Thanks for that information.
“Why is the cure supressed?”
Because CNN is fake news.
Cy Anse, turn off CNN
Strange how we never had fake news before we had a fake president.
Which one-cigar Clinton or manchurian illegal Obama?
Are the heroin peddlers restricted to outside also?
To be clear, in this time of historic cultural change, peaceful protest riots will be allowed and encouraged.
🕯🌳Malaria is not caused by a virus or a bacterium but by a parasite from a mosquito. The drug you two idiot’s are trying to promote is made to kill the parasites shit that gets into the bloodstream that causes malaria. Taking Hydroxychloroquine can cause a severe heart problem. Do some real research and post real science. Thank you and have a nice evening. Plus if you believe in your potus that much you can order that shit right off the internet, all you have to do is have a doctor sign off saying you either have the virus or malaria. Peace out. 🖖🇺🇸
I can’t believe he is serious. Thank you for your common sense.
WILLIE you are believing fake news. HCQ safely used for half a century … and of course should be used under doctor supervision. Rare problems with heart … in fact I know an elder gent with heart problems who was saved from covid by his doctor’s EARLY prescriotion of HCQ + zinc. No adverse sude effects in his case.
“Do some real research and post real science”
says the guy who does no research and posts no science
Thanks to the local officials for keeping us off the shit list and keeping ya mongrels under control lol.
Don’t close your browser screen Gavin will find more ways to harass you in about 30 minutes it’s not even taking 24 hours for change orders now.
Does Humboldt, Trinity, Mendocino and Lake County really need this?
I think many people are getting dizzy trying to figure out if it’s a open day or a closed day.
Yes, we do.
Tent cities don’t have sinks and bathrooms.
🕯🌳Just think they just busted three people bringing heroin from Los Angels to Humboldt and let them go. Did they test them for the virus as they handle them? They did come from one of the areas of the biggest out breaks in the state. Could they now be infected? Or anyone they came into contact with? To many foxes are being called to the henhouse and then let go. 🖖🇺🇸
If masks work then open up. If social distancing works, then open everything up. If they are synergistic with each other then open up.If masks alone don’t work then why wear them? If social distancing alone doesn’t work why do it? If they don’t work in conjunction why do either?
Masks and social distancing work when people actually pay attention and follow the protocols. They don’t work when a significant part of the population gathers in groups (like family barbecues or weddings or trimmers working together) or spend extended periods in smaller indoor spaces with poor air filtration (like in bars and indoor dining, museums, etc.).
They aren’t perfect and they don’t really protect the mask wearer from the virus — only the N95 masks and face shields provide some protection there.
If we want to knock the virus occurrence down it’s fairly simple — don’t travel or go out to public spaces where there are other people unless it’s essential (like getting food). Don’t go visit family or friends. Wear a mask and keep your distance.
If we could do that for long enough (New Zealand took about 6 weeks), we’d knock it out to the point where we could resume a normal existence because the incidence level would be low enough you could aggressively track, trace, isolate.
The problem is we won’t. Someone (a bunch of someones) will think they don’t have to follow anyone else’s rules because it’s all a government hoax and keep re-introducing the virus back into the community. Or that their personal desires are more important than some stupid virus. And it happens over and over again. Which tends to defeat the cumulative effort of most of the people in dealing with the shutdowns and isolation.
Success depends on people using their social conscience to put the health and well-being of society above their own selfish desires.
Short answer — we’re screwed. Longer answer — we’re really screwed.
“If we want to knock the virus occurrence down it’s fairly simple”
Gee, why didn’t the world just consult you? Problem solved.
Science (or Cy Ance) should include a great deal of skepticism. Which is totally lacking on both the universal social isolationists and the no mask ever groups. Remember just a few months back where “modeling” was called science and people who did not accept it were called “science deniers”? While those citing models of catastrophic deaths in the millions were called Chicken Littles? Yet neither scenario has proven itself, not because strict quarantining was implemented but because there are natural limits to infectivity not accounted for by modelers. An up front example is Cuomo of New York. On the progostication of modelers, he demanded huge numbers of ventilators and sent covid-19 infected not needing ICU care back to nursing homes and the infection rate turned out not to be the worse case scenario of the models. Turned out it was not a good thing to put so many on ventilalors- most never got used- and the death rates were sizably increased by infecting nursing homes. But then places who did nothing to slow the spread could not cope with the results either- an unchecked disease caused panic with accompanying paralysis. There is always a middle way where reality is a matter of trial and error, recognizing that those who sound like grand experts frequently are only so sure because they can’t see their own problems. And that mistakes will be made. Spend less hysteria and anger over them and develop some flexibility in coping with them.
Because something can theoretically reduce infections doesn’t mean it’s helpful in the real world any more than cosmetic surgery gives every patient an ideal life. And because something that doesn’t work perfectly does not mean that it not helpful. A steady government course, recognizing what can be maintained would be the best compromise between those fearful who demand control of what can’t be controlled and those angry at government who demand hands off. Neither are rational and can’t be expected to approve of most anything.
People don’t leave their masks on in bars or at indoor dining places, hence the closures of these particular places. Makes sense to slow the spread.
Where are these supposed non mask wearing people? I ate at Bayfront today plenty of social distancing, temp check and mask all around. Then to Winco, didnt see one person employee or customer without one? Old Town was busy with mask wearing people outside patronizing the farmers market. Seems to me that we had a few clusters from a trim scene and some folks that traveled out of the area. Community spread has remained consistent for weeks even during the uptick and deaths are stagnant as well. This unwarranted shut down of our local business is going to kill some. The whole idea of shelter in place was so the State could get its health care system and testing act together neither of which has happened. Eight to ten days for a test result or even longer and now the Redwood Acres site cant even take an appointment. The State has failed us on so many levels and its the small business owners that will pay the freight. Thanks to Supervisor Bohn for having the brass to stand up to the State. It time for people to take some god damn responsibility for themselves. If your afraid stay home. If you do go out wash your hands and wear a mask when your inside a crowded store. This aint going away anytime soon so we better figure out how to live with it and shutting down again aint it.
Where are these supposed non mask wearing people? I ate at Bayfront today plenty of social distancing, temp check and mask all around. Then to Winco, didnt see one person employee or customer without one? Old Town was busy with mask wearing people outside patronizing the farmers market. Seems to me that we had a few clusters from a trim scene and some folks that traveled out of the area. Community spread has remained consistent for weeks even during the uptick and deaths are stagnant as well. This unwarranted shut down of our local business is going to kill some. The whole idea of shelter in place was so the State could get its health care system and testing act together neither of which has happened. Eight to ten days for a test result or even longer and now the Redwood Acres site cant even take an appointment. The State has failed us on so many levels and its the small business owners that will pay the freight. Thanks to Supervisor Bohn for having the brass to stand up to the State. It time for people to take some god damn responsibility for themselves. If your afraid stay home. If you do go out wash your hands and wear a mask when your inside a crowded store. This aint going away anytime soon so we better figure out how to live with it and shutting down again aint it.
The best part is Humboldt county isn’t even on the state list of counties that are required to close. Apparently are county health department has chosen to go above and beyond the states requirements, let me guess, closures is making them some bucks on the backside, typical politics. Everybody got to make something .
You misunderstood. Humboldt isn’t on the list that is required to close more fully but they are required to restrict some. Humboldt County however is choosing to allow businesses until Friday when the Governor appeared to indicate this should take place immediately.
If I paint my hair purple, scream out commie slogans, maybe smash a few innocent business owners windows out and then rail on about the evils of capitalism, then can I go get somethin to eat?
“No soup for you!”
Close the churches! They seem to be the cause of at least half of the >20-person outbreaks…
Hmm… Unfortunately for that bigotry, religion, like free speech and freedom of the press, has specific Constitutional protection. The founders recognized the history of religion persecution, which includes apparently atheists persecutions..
Thanks for pointing out the bigotry against the religious. It is the same as any other type of bigotry.
People still are more likely to die from normal wear and tear than covid. Its a little absurd to close down because a political foe was up major. It was effective at pushing biden up. Who cares. Milly Vannilly gone get da milly.