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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,442 posts)
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 08:00 PM Jun 2020

LA closes beaches ahead of Fourth of July weekend as coronavirus cases rise

Los Angeles is shutting its beaches for the holiday weekend around Independence Day as the number of new coronavirus cases spikes, county officials said Monday.

Beaches will be closed to all recreational activities from July 3 through July 6 at 5 a.m. to prevent crowding that could spread the coronavirus.

The county is also prohibiting fireworks displays over the holiday weekend, officials said.

"Closing the beaches and prohibiting fireworks displays during this important summer holiday weekend was an incredibly difficult decision to make, but it's the responsible decision to protect public health and protect our residents from a deadly virus," Barbara Ferrer, director of public health, said in the announcement.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/la-closes-beaches-ahead-of-fourth-of-july-weekend-as-coronavirus-cases-rise/ar-BB1684lo?li=BBnb7Kz

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LA closes beaches ahead of Fourth of July weekend as coronavirus cases rise (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2020 OP
Newsom is announcing new rules tomorrow. BigmanPigman Jun 2020 #1
Lots of people are going to be unhappy, but it's the right thing to do. nt crickets Jun 2020 #2
Maybe it will finally sink in, Wear a Mask! Social distance! SammyWinstonJack Jun 2020 #6
looks like Ventura county is as well.... dhill926 Jun 2020 #3
This sucks more than anything that has sucked before. Initech Jun 2020 #4
And the sheriff is saying he won't enforce it tishaLA Jun 2020 #5

BigmanPigman

(51,651 posts)
1. Newsom is announcing new rules tomorrow.
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 08:22 PM
Jun 2020

He will be enforcing them too...with $$$ to counties who enforce them and no $$$ for those who don't. He doesn't even want families to gather together, even indoors. He can't enforce that though.

"It’s family gatherings,” said Newsom, “where people let down their guard.” The governor was most concerned about people taking off masks, giving family members hugs and kisses. “Then all of a sudden, you see a spread,” he said."

"Asked about mask order enforcement the governor said, “We’ll be doing more to focus on enforcement in this state. Primarily local enforcement. We have conditioned $2.5 billion in our state budget on [local officials] applying the spirit and the letter of the law. If local officials are unwilling to enforce and being dismissive, we will condition those funds on compliance.”

"After rolling back coronavirus reopening measures twice in three days, Newsom said on Monday that the positivity rate in the state has, in seven days, risen from 4.4 percent to 5.5 percent, even as the state upped its testing to over 100,000 a day. Newsom revealed that, in the past seven days, positivity looks even worse at 5.9 percent."

https://deadline.com/2020/06/california-coronavirus-governor-gavin-newsom-tougher-regulations-enforcement-1202974163/

Meanwhile in San Diego...
"In the first graph, notice the “Daily positivity rate” of an astounding 7.21%. Also notice the upward-moving curve of daily positive cases."
https://obrag.org/2020/06/san-diego-covid-numbers-for-today-june-30/

dhill926

(16,387 posts)
3. looks like Ventura county is as well....
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 09:19 PM
Jun 2020

and folks in my beachy community are pretty happy about it. Last time LA closed their beaches down first, we were overrun with people...bathrooms were closed. You can imagine...

tishaLA

(14,176 posts)
5. And the sheriff is saying he won't enforce it
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 09:33 PM
Jun 2020

because he's having a temper tantrum about people wanting to cut funding to his department. He needs to be voted out of office because he's no better than Baca.

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