Posted on 05/14/2020 5:54:16 PM PDT by thecodont
Alameda and Contra Costa counties are likely to move into Stage 2 of California Governor Gavin Newsom's reopening plan next week, meaning every Bay Area county except one will be in line with the rest of the state.
An Alameda County spokesperson told SFGATE Thursday that barring a big spike in cases over the next few days, retail for curbside pickup as well as associated manufacturing and warehouse work will be permitted to return sometime next week, but a specific date was not provided. A Contra Costa spokesperson also stated that the county is considering revising the health order to allow for all retail curbside pickup plus all "associated logistics" and manufacturing next week. As with Alameda County, a specific timeline was not provided.
San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin counties will bring back retail and manufacturing on Monday, meaning five of the six counties originally under a stricter order will all likely be in Stage 2 sometime next week.
Santa Clara County health officer Dr. Sara Cody was the driving force behind the original six-county order, and told her county's board of supervisors Tuesday she has no immediate plans to modify the order.
"The conditions really haven’t changed in our county," she said. "We don’t suddenly have a vaccine. We have exactly the same conditions we had in March,” Cody said. “If we did ease up, we would see a brisk return of cases, of hospitalizations, and a brisk return of deaths, to be quite blunt.”
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Some of the stalinist POS types realize that if there are no taxpayers, there is no $$ for corruption and bribes.
Goose/golden eggs.
Santa Clara County health officer Sara Cody is a POS. (I live in SCC.)
Politicians have zero common sense. If no businesses are allowed to operate, and people are not allowed to work. There is zero income tax revenue to be used to support the homeless, drug addicts, felons, and illegal aliens.
The DIMS/Leftists the voters elected have discovered their inner fascist. Enjoy the suck. Hahaha.
In Santa Clara County we’ve had a total of 134 deaths due to this (presumably) in a population of 2 million. That’s one death per 15,000. We peaked a month ago, and currently are down to approximately 1 death a day (again, in a population of 2 million.) This is so frikin incredibly stupid. And criminal.
Thanks.
She’s just one more cog in the machine jamming it up for the rest of us..
Apple is in Santa Clara county so they have lots of techies working from home.
So is Google, unfortunately.
So keep the county closed until next year at the earliest, maybe till 2027 if necessary, to save just one life. They just keep moving the goal posts from flatten the curve so we don't overwhelm the hospitals to "make sure no one dies."
She is crazy. She is destroying dental Practice, small business.
who is actually sick enough to be in the hospital?....that is what we don't know....
yeah but how many people have died from strokes? heart attack?
Here are some of Cody’s quotes from the Los Angeles Times article from May 12th. These were made at the Board of Supervisor’s meeting.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-12/silicon-valley-will-also
“The conditions really haven’t changed in our county. ... We don’t suddenly have a vaccine. We have exactly the same conditions we had in March,” Cody said. “If we did ease up, we would see a brisk return of cases, of hospitalizations, and a brisk return of deaths, to be quite blunt.”
Cody said she wanted to reopen society for many reasons, “but we need to do so in a safe manner. So our goal, again, is to go slow, to make sure that it’s safe.”
“Trying to choose between health and the economy is really a false choice. Because unless we make our community safer, and reassure everyone that it really is safe, and they and their family members and customers are not at risk, I don’t think that we’re going to see the [economic] results that we’d like,” Cody said.
She also warned that the pandemic was disproportionately sickening and causing deaths among communities of color, particularly among Latinos in Santa Clara County. “The only tool that we have at this moment to protect vulnerable communities,” she said, “is to bring down community transmission across the board.”
Forgot to add this one.
But Cody described Santa Clara County as precariously balanced. The outbreak is steady — neither seeming to grow dramatically or reduce considerably. For every one person infected, that person on average infects one other person. If that number, known as the basic reproduction number, rose slightly to 1.1 or 1.2, that would cause a significant rise in deaths, Cody said.
Cody said she wanted to get that reproduction number below 1 before easing stay-at-home orders.
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