Two New Cases of COVID-19, State Updates Guidance on Rallies and Protest Gatherings to Require Face Coverings
A young woman listens to speakers at a protest in Arcata on June 1 while wearing a mask that states, “I can’t breathe.” Both the dying words of George Floyd and the complaint of many who don’t want to follow Public Health Orders to wear masks.
Press release from Humboldt County COVID19 – Joint Information Center:
Humboldt County’s confirmed COVID-19 case count now stands at 571, after two new cases were reported today.
In related news, the California Department of Public Health updated its Stay Home Q&A website, which reflects state orders. The changes clarify that political rallies are subject to the same rules as political protests, and face coverings are required at both.
Humboldt County Health Officer Dr. Teresa Frankovich supported the updated guidance, saying that whenever members of different households are brought together, the risk of COVID-19 transmission increases. “It is incredibly important that we work to keep each other safe in every setting. Use of facial coverings, distancing and all of the prevention measures we have talked about have helped Humboldt County keep its positivity and case rates lower than most areas of the state,” the doctor said.
There are specific requirements for indoor and outdoor protests and rallies which may be found on the Stay Home Q&A site. Anyone organizing or planning on attending an event should review the directives carefully to keep themselves and others safe.
For the most recent COVID-19 information, visit cdc.gov or cdph.ca.gov. Local information is available at humboldtgov.org or during business hours by contacting [email protected] or calling 707-441-5000.
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Put that silly white flag of surrender right on your face so everyone can see it!! Keep it on during sex too
Maybe you should try to contract HIV, y’know, to boost our herd immunity.
Covid is not comparable to HIV , clown
Yeah, we have effective treatments for HIV.
Clearly there are effective treatments for corona orncovid or whatever u wanna call it too or else millions would b dead.. So…
There are ways to mitigate it’s transmition, like say WEARING A MASK for instance.
There are millions dead. Like worldwide
Over 1 million but less than 1,200,000. So no , not millions.
Yes but will be from our draconian lockdown economic suicide pact!
🕯🕯RIP JAMES BOND (SEAN CONNERY)Died peaceful in his sleep in the Bahamas. 🕊🕊🕊🕊🛐
Rules without enforcement are just suggestions. There is no enforcement of any of these health order rules on private citizens, kinda like humboldt does with drug laws and theft. So really, if they’re all just suggestions, maybe they’d get better results if they asked nicely.
Big second wave, apparently we’re not testing enough up here to keep up with the rest of the worlds spike. Cases up ,fatalities are not, equals young people unaffected. Covid is like the flu to them ,or is it the flu to them.
It might be like the flu, it might be like a systemic virus that will kill you twenty years too soon. We’re only privy to the cattle calls and shepherding.
Every school in the world needs to discuss what “orwellian” means, and how govt mandates over how to protest the govt fits in.
Cases on the rise just before election day? Imagine that. Bullshit, f#%*ing communists!!!
Exactly, and from the same people who banter about “voter suppression” whilst doing whatever they can to keep people away from the polls.
In the old days (last year) I think it was against the law to wear a mask at a protest.
😂😂😂😂😂
Don’t forget to keep it on between bites- moron
Newscum is being “tapped” for a Biden cabinet position – that should be interesting if Biden wins. Blind leading the blind
As opposed to the current administration where it’s the corrupt leading the stupid? You’ve got to love when even his own appointees call Trump “..a fucking moron..” (Rex Tillerson, former Secretary of State under Trump).
no ….means no. In Trump’s world
For all of you who haven’t got a clue about whats going on, some news. England right now is heading towards national, not regional lockdowns, even though they vowed never to do that again, as they are now past even their worst case scenarios. Infection rates are rising rapidly, with estimates suggesting up to 100,000 people a day may be catching the virus. Across the Channel, France has admitted its regional approach is not working, by announcing a new national lockdown. Germany, to a lesser extent, is also planning one. Numerous other EU countries are in lockdown or close. And its heading this way and getting closer. For a second day Oregon has climbed to new record highs in cases of the coronavirus. Hope some of the narrow minds out there finally get it. All of us are up shit creek if they don’t. We can still save California.
Good article from Vox
https://www.vox.com/21541967/covid-19-record-cases-us-coronavirus-winter-spike-surge
“The United States has reached a new terrible milestone in the Covid-19 pandemic. This past week, the country saw, on average, 75,561 new cases per day — the highest on record in a pandemic full of atrocious records. On Thursday, 89,000 Americans received a positive test result.
From north to south, east to west, the virus is spreading uncontrolled again. This is not a peak. We’re in the midst of a climb. Next week, we can expect yet another record: leaping from more than 9 million total cases to 10 million cases in a matter of a few days. The number of people in hospitals across the country is ascending, too, hitting 46,000 on Thursday. And this will likely be followed by rising numbers of deaths in the coming weeks. Why? Because this is the pattern we’ve seen in every Covid-19 surge during the pandemic. It’s not going to change now. There’s a momentum to this virus.”
While part of the increase in cases can indeed be explained by more testing, that’s far from the whole story. Look no further than the test-positive rate to understand why. The national rate has climbed more than a percentage point over the past two weeks, reaching 6.3 percent. That average obscures far higher test positive rates in states with some of the worst-controlled outbreaks:
This means a growing number of Americans being tested have the virus — and health officials aren’t keeping up with the rising demand for testing, nor are they keeping on top of outbreaks.
Covid-19 hospitalizations are also rising again, following a sharp drop through August and early September. Over the past month, the number of US patients in hospitals with the disease increased by more than 50 percent.”
I thought we were ’rounding the curve’! Clueless!
Its too late, its spreading at such a high rate now ,everyone is going to get covid no matter what we do. Its all over but the crying, reminds me of flu season.
At this high rate of infection, all of the United States will be infected in about 10 years.
Haven’t we all had the flu once or more? Will be the same with covid.
And is the “death” toll even accurate?
https://noqreport.com/2020/10/29/cdc-shows-again-how-pretty-much-anyone-who-died-with-covid-19-died-from-covid-19/
Good news though we eradicated the flu by week 15 apparently!
https://newtube.app/user/TonyHeller/D84FACc?fbclid=IwAR1lJHqHVnlPF5IsNNAedeU5RxUGPZmOMKYmzCRD10VCYGTsMRDPqkgn3Vo
Thanks for the report! Yes- this is what was predicted months ago so no surprise really. We don’t have a lot to go on as far as predicting but when looking at the last huge killer flu – the Spanish Flu Second Wave- it is intelligent to be concerned. I am expecting full lockdown in a few weeks. Glad I live here!
What are you doing to get prepared? Frankly, in a country where people assault clerks for forgetting to put catsup in the fast food order and are no longer horrified to children dying in crossfire between gangs, it wasn’t going to be anything other than what it already is. Chaotic and wearing.
But on a more cheerful note, it may be like the subsequent waves of flu in 1918. People who got sick in the first waves got sick again but were much less likely to die in subsequent waves.
The Spanish flu killed 50 million worldwide. This ain’t the Spanish flu. Quit being so dramatic.
How can we be expected to contain this virus when we still have both international and domestic flights still occurring in the U.S.? If this is so serious, why aren’t state borders restricted to commercial traffic only? We’re 8-9 months in. Is this an issue or not? I don’t mind, “I don’t know.” How about some intellectual transparency?
Rhetorical questions. Not interested in political blame game. I’m a little farklempt… Talk amongst yourselves.
Just in case someone hasn’t connected the dots, yesterday both the world and the US hit milestones in the covid fight. Not good milestones. The world hit 544,000, and the US hit almost 100,000. The virus is out of control and here is what the US is doing under the misleadership of trump.
The report; coronavirus.house.gov/sites/democrats.coronavirus.house.gov/files/InterimStaffReport10.30.20.pdf
From the article;
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/30/covid-19-infections-skyrocket-house-report-slams-trumps-pandemic-response-among
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis on Friday denounced President Donald Trump’s disastrous response to the pandemic, describing it as one of the “worst failures of leadership” in the country’s history…… entitled Inefficient, Ineffective, and Inequitable, the panel detailed how the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus crisis has caused a public health catastrophe, failed to alleviate the ongoing economic hardships endured by millions of U.S. households, and prioritized Wall Street recovery over Main Street relief.
“The virus is a global scourge,” said the report, “but it has been an American fiasco, killing more people in the U.S. than in any other country.”
“The Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus crisis has been a tragic failure.”
In addition, the report noted that the White House failed to protect millions of economically distressed households experiencing material deprivation and financial freefall.
Instead of extending enhanced unemployment insurance benefits and providing housing relief, for instance, the Trump aministration “exacerbated and extended an economic collapse of historic proportions, with tens of millions of Americans losing their jobs and at least six million Americans falling into poverty.”
To the extent that the Trump administration did respond to the economic crisis, the report noted that it intervened in ways that “benefited larger companies and wealthy Americans, while leaving behind many disadvantaged communities and struggling small businesses.”
Yeah, yeah yeah. Have you noticed that lockdowns make the poverty spread when you advocate for them? Or is good enough to just keep repeating the finger pointing of those who blame others for what the incompetence they determinedly created for years?
Wait? At four years in, Obama was assumed to be responsible for the country’s situation. When is Trump responsible?
Trump is definitely responsible for the spread of COVID-19, other countries have handled it much better. Now that it has proven unstoppable, he is to blame, too funny. I never blamed Obama for anything, except for getting health insurance canceled, but that’s ok, if it got a freeloader good health insurance I’m ok with it.
Commie Chinese spread the virus. Commie Chinese were blocked by Trump, Biden and Pelosi called him racist, said he should not stop travel from China. Seen a trump rally? Thousands and thousands of people chanting “we love you, we love you!” The pig governor of Minnesota said only 250 could show up at his rally there, 25 thousand showed up! At a Biden speech, maybe a couple hundred show up, and the idiot kamala is lucky to get 50 people. Biden and Kamala would want to take our guns, we would not let them, so easy to stop anyone from taking them, stop the oil industry, ruin our economy, and hurt so many people. Vote trump, vote freedom, vote prosperity.
Dude smoke a joint mellow out.🤔
Stop smoking joints and after a month be quite a bit sharper. We already have enough people who can’t find their own rear ends with both hands. Dumb does not need chemical enhancements.
Smoking pot is bad for you. Causes schitzophrenia, lung cancer, and memory loss. Causes you to make poor decisions, and is detrimental to our youth. kids who get high before class fuck up the rest of the class. If that china slave Biden gets in, and it doesn’t appear he will, based on the 10’s of thousands who show up at Trump rally’s, instead of a hundred at Biden’s, your taxes will go up $6000 a year, no more school choice, gas $6.00 a gallon, state run health care with death panels, loss of thousands of jobs, you would be servants of China, billions of dollars lost to the Paris deal, They will try to take our guns, they will not be able to, religious persecution will be rampant, gays Jews and Christians will be the main targets, and food shortages. Fuck Biden, fuck antifa, Biden’s army. trump gives us freedom, wants us to do our own thing, leaves us alone. Don’t be stupid people, a vote for Trump means prosperity for all.
The Russian economy runs on oil… a vote for Biden is a Russian wet dream.
Lol, trump gives you freedom. Name 1 thing that he’s done for this country that wasnt a byproduct of Obama’s presidency?
142 judges that Obama left open is great, Trump filled them and another 150 more federal judges who aren’t liberal pigs. Obama said manufacturing jobs would never come back, Trump brought them back, plus 9 million more jobs Obama couldn’t do, thousands of economic development centers, none from Obama, billions of dollars to black colleges and universities, Trump lowered taxes by 6000 a year, lowered drug prices by 35% Obama did none of those things. He sucks, Biden sucks, and we all know Kamala sucks, ask Willie Brown’s willie, lol
Wow, he did all that? Gosh, I better vote for him them. But what has he done for you? Are you really better off? You seeing that $6000 tax cut? Or are you bot not paying taxes like him?
No new wars? Realizing meaningful peace deals between middle eastern countries? Those are two I can get behind.
God I can’t wait till November 4th to hear you Trumpers shut up. Notice I did not say Republicans, there is a huge difference between Republicans and Trumpers IMO.
Why should you expect anything after almost 4 years of Clintionites deafening whining? Obviously a large part of the country has embraced hating the other parts of the country.
It’s going to be…. Déjà Vu All Over Again!
There are even spontaneous Trump parades in Beverly Hills and LA.
The Dems will be wearing masks and the Repubs will be wearing earmuffs.
I’m listening to Joe right now and every speech is like an extended funeral for Beau and a plan for an extended funeral for our Country, yet he never mentions Hunter.
Geez that man is a mess.
Trump parades in California that is so cute. Like CA matters to the electoral college. It all comes down to about 6-8 states and CA ain’t one of them.
Yes indeed. Obama rarely got blamed for anything in the press even those things he was responsible for directly. However Trump was blamed for everything, even things that did not ever happen, before he was sworn in. There is a peculiar mindset among those who really think that blaming is the name of the game. They hate Trump for blaming others while thoroughly out Trumping Trump at it.
Trumps admisnistation is responsible for the corona response or therefor lack of, but if you blame him for not shutting the country down then you cannot simultaneously blame him for the failing economy. It’s an oxymoron. The only positove thing I foresee about Biden getting elected is the pandemic will wane. Wane- have a progressively smaller part of its visible surface illuminated so that it appears to decrease in size.
Dear Mike.
The politicians work for the people who own this country. Those people are the 1%.
The 1% take orders from the richest people in the world.
The workin fools who pack the arenas to cheer their favorite political football team are just too damn busy to do anything but piss and moan about the players on the opposite team committing foul after foul, cause the refs are getting paid off or threatened by their all expense paid trip to some resort In the American VirginIslands.
It’s a testament to our mandatory participation in a system that is well beyond our control in any real sense of the mind.
It’s sheer insanity to watch the blind ignorance of the masses.
Who keep getting abused by the system that says you can’t work if you are not a team player.
And yet he was reelected to continue ruining America. One can be thrilled there are term limits for president. I can’t believe American citizens don’t realize all political offices should have 2-term limits. The House and Senate would be forced to actually work to get things done if limits were applied.
I completely agree. I said this same thing about Hillary, before trump was elected it was the same three families in charge of this country for what, 7 terms? That’s 28 years? I consider Biden to be part of the same “family” even though his name is different. At this point if you want Biden why not just go ahead and “elect” a king. People that say trumps a dictator don’t take the time to thing that the system has been run by the same people for a long, long time now and it’s not by mistake. I’d sooner elect a dancing monkey than the same people again and again with the same results. You support BLM? Elect someone who isn’t part of this system, you want less separation between the classes? Once again a dancing monkey will more likely achieve that goal than the Same dude that hasn’t done it his entire career. But alas, as some old dude who wrote books one time said, “if voting mattered they wouldn’t let us do it”
Term limits in California are bad news for rural areas. Before limits a representative from a rural district if he or she did a good job and were re elected they built seniority and had a chance to influence outcomes through committee membership and leadership roles, Now its all about cities and suburbs.
Totally agree.
[edit] term limits are the only good thing in politics. I guess that you like communism and kings.
People who believe that it takes more than two terms to be ineffective at best and crooked at worst should contemplate the idea a politician who knows he is out in 6 to 8 years will spend his time taking what he can immediately and spend his time in office pleasing those who will provide for him shortly when he’s termed out? There are no magic bullets to fix a poor set of principles or morals. It’s better to have a politician who likes the perks of the office and is at least going to face the voters many times than to have lobbyists or the office staff in Congress running things because a new Congressman hasn’t even learned yet where the toilets are.
Term limits remove choice, making the voters less and less important.
Trump’s responsible for Europe’s skyrocketing infection rate? Or our southern border porosity? Or California and Humboldt Co calling themselves sanctuary places where illegals are protected? Or the state of pot? Or the riots in liberal run cities? Or the prisons opening their doors to protect the prisoners from the disease that requires lockdowns to prevent (oh the irony.) or the wildfires that have run rampant in out State since beforeTrump was elected? Or the failure to create enough doctors while having more lawyers per capita than any other place in the world?
Trump got Cuomo his damned ventilators, kept desperately wanted American made PPE from being shiped overseas. He arranged for field hospitals, emergency declarations for wildfires, for Europeans to increase their share of payments for NATO. Increased employment. On the other hand, his opponents had their accomplishments too- they protested, rioted and looted, tore down statues, complained about everything for the Rose Garden to Trump’s xenophobia that never existed.
Wow… this might be the dumbest thing I’ve ever read in the comment section of this website. And most of the commenters here are borderline illiterate so that’s saying a lot
Be thankful for your job.
Your health depends on it.
No, guest said the smartest and the most correct thing in these pages. You are correct about illiterate people, but, that is not important. What is important is guest and other like minded people tell the truth here, and Kym allows all speech, unlike the pig at Twitter and Google and the fake news who lie everyday, she may not agree and like some stuff, but she lets it roll. She is a real American.
Funny no one cares if the Auto Mechanic is literate when they need their car fixed as long as the job gets done.
Or, the firefighter, plumber, etc.
A little college snobbery goes a long way.
You must not read the comment section of this website very often then.
to answer Miss left loving Kym -Trump can be blamed when he does something wrong. Hasnt happened yet. However with YOUR last president he did enough wrong to last a lifetime. Mr Free shit for everyone who doesnt want to work and Mr. tax the hell out of the people who work hard to make it happen. its called Socialism
and the health plan was the biggest job killer in America.
Saint Trump. Amazing…
Just a reminder that I don’t have any objections to someone changing their moniker but when they do it multiple times in one thread then that becomes a form of deception. Stick to one name per post in the future, please.
..”it has been an American fiasco, killing more people in the U.S. than in any other country.”
We are FAT.
We eat a nutrient void crap diet. And we feed the same garbage to our increasingly FAT and LAZY children.
We are alcohol swilling, tobacco puffing, sedentary blobs of diabetic , coronary disease riddled weaklings!
So LOGICALLY it has been an “American fiasco,” because it’s not the germ/virus , it’s the terrain.
Whoa Boy ! A truthful commentor is always welcome here.
A target-rich environment should yield a lot of easy pickens.
Americans today are the least capable of physically fighting back against anything … virus or you name it. Soft and flabby.
Sitting in the basement only makes you fatter!
No matter what your diet is.
Food in needs to equal Energy expended.
Correction:
We have been sold crap food for the last 70 years.
The corporations who create toxins should be held liable for crimes against humanity.
Choice?
Hardly debatable if you are honest.
Stop the spread. Not happening here. From the article;
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Stanford-study-Trump-rallies-deaths-super-spreader-15691006.php?IPID=SFGate-HP-CP-Spotlight
“Researchers at Stanford University believe President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign rallies — which are not socially distanced and mask wearing is sporadic — are responsible for 30,000 COVID-19 cases and 700 deaths across the country.
In a paper published Saturday, the four researchers examine infection patterns in 18 separate counties before and after they hosted Trump rallies between June 20 and Sept. 22. The researchers conclude the rallies “ultimately resulted in more than 30,000 incremental confirmed cases of COVID-19” and “likely led to more than 700 deaths.”
To isolate the impact of the rallies, the researchers monitored the trends in counties that did not host rallies that were on “similar trajectories” to the 18 rally counties. They found a clear link between rallies and increased community spread of the virus.”
How many deaths from the super spreader blm protests… just sayin
…how about maybe don’t?????
probably an order of magnitude less than Trump’s rallies. more than likely a second US shutdown will be all his and he will likely thinks its great because he will have lost. he will likely say things like we deserved it and some how try to make himself look great in the process. everyone will lose everything if a second shutdown hits, you and other’s that don’t take this serious should be proud of yourselves. Boris just shutdown England for a second time. Monday will likely bring change.
People have already lost. Being a vocal spectator in this arena is irrelevant if the name Stanley Milgram does not ring a bell.
what will internet trolls do without the internet. dude your life will come unglued, but no one will really know.
“I had grasped the significance of the silence of the dog, for one true inference invariably suggests others…. Obviously the midnight visitor was someone whom the dog knew well.”
~ Sherlock Holmes – The Adventures of Silver Blaze
Boris is shutting down his country? California’s been shutdown this whole time. The only known 100 percent effective prevention method is to wear a BLM shirt.
I’ve noticed the same thing.
What does”shutdown” mean to you, Mike?
wonderful !
More FUCKING political BULLSHIT!!! Hey Stupidvisors, Frankenstein RESIGNED, WTF??? “RESIGN” ‘voluntarily leave a job or other position’. She needs to be shown the door, and you all need to grow some stones.
Broad testing and masking of the healthy!!
It’s asanine.
I know it’s like talking to brick walls-
BUT
IF there are these untold millions of “asymptomatic” individuals, and of course the increasing number of “positive cases” (notice there is no differentiation between actively Ill and simply “positive” by somewhat unreliable testing) do the math.
Just do it.
The actual death rate, (when you factor in the fear/reality everyone is potentially carrying it and all the bogus positives ) is significantly lower! Like way lower.
Like no need to mask and test and lock down our country lower.
Like wake the fuck up lower.
We like superstition over actual logic.
Now that’s a different topic … and I like it.
Seriously, the stuff people have made-up about this virus is right out of a Steven King novel/movie. Go back and reread “The Stand”. I really enjoyed how the entire outbreak started with the exact same cause/effect.
Correct, we just dropped under the 1% percent fatality rate mark, but some people have gone into full lock down stage , too funny. You would think if people follow science so close , they could also do math. Apparently not.
All they care about is what the left feeds them. Scary really. Democratic party has very few FREE THINKERS they are like sheep. Its sad the media as fake and left Biased as it is has so much control.
Crazy to think people are so dumb to beleive the crap when a little research and fact checking would open so many eyes.
Slovakia just did mass testing of half of its population of 5 million . The reports are that about 1% tested as positive for the virus at that time. The idea was that everyone who tested positive or didn’t take a test were to be quarantined. A repeat mass testing will supposedly take place in another two weeks. This was done with the intention of avoiding a total lockdown of the whole country. Turns out that more people would be quarantined under this procedure than not as half would be quarantined because they did not take the test plus the one percent would did test positive. Then there is the little niggle of the people who have the infection but not currently at a high enough level or location for the test to catch them.
It’s like watching a fly repeatedly bang into a window. The fly sees its way clear to getting where it wants to go. But after several attempts and smacking its head into what it can’t see, it moves over to try at a new place. Usually another place on the same window and repeats its activity. Why so many dead flies end up on window sills. Still enough find their way that flies are in no danger of extinction.
Lockdowns are like that- it’s a path to reduced infections but not to eliminating the infections. So, although head smacking is hard on the body, the temptation to repeat is overwhelming as it offers a way forward. Sooner or later some will succeed in getting to where they want to go.
Another article indicated that the level of fatality of covid-19 is in our own genes.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/nov/01/covids-effect-on-health-blamed-on-tiny-genetic-variations Maybe this is the window glass that we keep trying to break through. That who you are is most important. The infection can be reduced to negligible levels but to keep it that way, the lockdown must be followed by the strictest border controls and continual vigilance indefinitely bcause the same vulnerable individuals will be there to be infected as soon as the guard drops. Grabbing the tiger by the tail means never letting go.
Covid will end Nov 4th. 2020
Thank god for president Trump. He is a GOD!!! Love that guy. he doesnt even take a salary from us tax payers. putting up with the mess he inherited and fixed. Goodness what a saint.
Just another billionaire who might realize late in life that there is something more important than selling out the hard working tax payers for foreign goods and services that could be here.
The pathology of his detractors is that of corruption personified.
If there was an analogy, it might be the infection in your left foot that Dr Fauci and his ilk, say will require amputation of both feet and hands, making sure that you are life long ward of the state.
Trumps Doctor will quickly give you zpak and antibiotics so you can get back to making this country work for you and your family.
We are not a racist country, but Obama taught us that your race is irrelevant to doing business with the Chinese.
I’d like to meet Obamas investment team.
3.2 million over 8 years was invested in some good stuff.
They got a $65 million book deal…https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/3/2/14779892/barack-michelle-obama-65-million-book-deal-penguin-random-house
Covid won’t end Nov 4th.
But….
Mexico will pay for the wall
&
Obamacare will be vaporized
&
FOXCONN will go from 180 jobs created and an empty warehouse to 13,000 jobs and theLCD-screen-making boom that Trump promised!