Gavin Newsom Warns COVID Could Impact Labor Day, Halloween And The Holidays

LA county says that numbers are down though...

Even if I have to celebrate alone, my Halloween will be amazing.

But I'm sure there will be spikes.

Just concentrate on the number of dead people and open up everything. I need to cruise around now. Just let old fat farts self-isolate as long as they want and I don't give a shit. Let me party!!!!

Without a proper cure available no social gathering is safe.

Why bother doing anything any more?

All of these lockdowns and quarantines and masks and closures, and all the other bullshit has made life so unenjoyable.

There is absolutely nothing to look forward to any more, except for more restrictions, less fun, more layoffs and more misery.

This fucking sucks.

r5. Then get angry. Angry at Trump and the GOP for fucking up your life, your way of living by completely mishandling this Covid crisis. Use that anger to look forward to voting Trum and the Republican Party out of office.

Gavin is so hot, but he's such a little bitch. I'm from Cali and no one that I know likes him. In fact, "hate" would a better descriptor. We're still in the summer season, so what is Halloween? I don't know her.

He should just let the experts do the talking while he gets on his knees and starts sucking, that's all he's good for at this point. That, and signing his Mein Führer executive orders.

Of course it will impact those holidays.

It has already impacted the Fall school semester, and it's definitely going to affect the football season.

At this point, there will be nothing to do in the Fall but watch re-runs on television.

R8 are you one of those scientists whose prediction models were wildly off the mark? We have no idea what is going to happen in October. When it comes to a virus, that's light years away. Anything can happen between now and then.

California is the new rust belt. Anyone with the means to do so is getting out. We're going to spend the next ten years debating federal aid and redevelopment programs to clean up after Newsom.

Everyone who has some sense knew this. Of course, people will not listen and will go get infected anyway.

[quote]California is the new rust belt. Anyone with the means to do so is getting out. We're going to spend the next ten years debating federal aid and redevelopment programs to clean up after Newsom.

R10 = Deploraable

California feeds 70% of the nation, is home to many top ports in the world, Silicon Valley, Aero-industry, and now the factory capital of the US, countless of more attributes that the Rust belt never had/will never have.

It’s going to be the worst at Christmas time.

People, especially conservatives, will have a fit if they don’t get to celebrate Christmas. They will have gatherings not following precautions and spread the virus. If you thought 4th of July was bad, you don’t know what’s coming.

The Repugs act like we want their stanky asses in California

The more Repugs that leave, the faster our economic recovery will be. Let them go suck off some other state’s teat.

R13 The election is in November, Covid will be all but forgotten by Christmas.

Yeah, keep spreading your “it will magically disappear” bullshit, ashhole

R16 Oh hun.

It’s just the Asshole of Death, trying to kill more people with her science denial

R16

Yeah, and they said it would be over in the summer because of the heat. That was a crock of shit.

Gavin still has decently high approval numbers in the state. He did take a hit after the sharp spike in numbers that occurred after reopening (too soon) in late May, but he's still around or just under 60%.

I can't wait to hear what Newsom and Cuomo have to say about the malignant narcissist after he is out of office. Cuomo for sure will unleash, brutally.

WHAT HAPPENED TO HERD IMMUNITY?

Labor Day signals the end of Summer, which is just about a month away.

It feels like Summer didn't even really get started.

[quote] California feeds 70% of the nation

California can't even feed its homeless. Silicon Valley enriches those at the top while destroying wealth and income opportunity for the majority.

R25 Hollywood also inflates that number. There are many people in the entertainment industry living in their cars.

R25 He's talking about the massive agribusinesses that are kept afloat by dirt cheap illegal labor. Not as much of that available recently.

This is all the Repugs have left? Attacking California?

We’ll see when all this is done who bounces back faster. Until then, it’s just the usual bullshit artists spewing their bullshit.

To all the Karens - in California and elsewhere - who are deflecting their own complete inability to follow basic public-health guidelines onto Gavin Newsom (who, until the anti-shutdown and anti-mask movements gained steam, was doing a pretty good job of keeping numbers down):

We see you.

Ha! I remember there were a couple of threads on DL boasting about how well CA was doing and how shitty NY was doing LOL

Who's laughing now?

What's with his voice?

R30

We just spiked at different times. And CA has much more Republicans who pressured Newsom to reopen too early. Still, I don’t think it’s as bad as New York was.

R32, just you wait

[quote]Ha! I remember there were a couple of threads on DL boasting about how well CA was doing and how shitty NY was doing LOL Who's laughing now?

New York is not doing better than California and California did provide aid to New York at their peak.

New York has 32,000 deaths to California's 9000, and flu season has not even arrived yet. I don't think New York, especially NYC, knows how fucked they are going to be again in a few weeks.

There is a lot to be hopeful for.

The rapid saliva tests are proving MORE accurate than the nasal swabs for catching active infections and soon they'll be widespread.

That is going to enable the economy to go back close to normal. And we might have a vaccine soon.

Anyone who thought Corona was only going to be one wave and over by June was always an idiot who wasn't paying attention.

It might be 2 years before we have a vaccine, widespread rapid testing, etc. and everyone should have just prepared themselves to use masks, distancing, telework and telecourse schooling for 2 years at least.

Recent studies show that COVID antibodies are disappearing from the body in as little as 2 months after the infection, r23, so herd immunity might not be viable.

Squeezing the infection out with lockdowns might work, but only if everyone in the U.S. did it.

r16 = Deplorable, willful idiot.

DUH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I agree with R35. People think that fear is the best tactic to get people to follow the rules, yet I don't see why we can't stress caution while also being realistic. The treatments are working to bring down the mortality rate. And they are only going to get better. It really doesn't make sense to advocate for lockdown until there is a vaccine when the risks of an extended lockdown start to outweigh the potential benefits. More effort should be spent enforcing common sense guidelines.

This fucking year is a total bust, and it just keeps getting worse.

R39 It's the election. If this had happened last year, even, much more level-headed decisions would be made across the board. This has been elevated to a battle of worldviews.

[quote]Covid will be all but forgotten by Christmas.

I'll take that bet.

[quote] If this had happened last year, even, much more level-headed decisions would be made across the board.

Oh bullshit. Dump would have fucked this or any other crisis up no matter when it happened during his term. He has shown nothing but incompetence. On any issue.

If anyone other than dump had been elected, the virus might be gone by winter. But since you evil assholes thought it would be cute to hire a narcissistic grifter clown to the most powerful job in the world, we are all fucked.

You have blood on your hands, Asshole of Death. And you just keep gleefully adding more pestilence and carnage.

When they update the "new cases" number are they counting everyone that actually got sick with the "flu"

or are they counting those who recently tested positive AND actually got sick with the "flu"?

I don't trust these motherfuckers and I bet you they are counting anyone who tests positive as a COVID case, whether they get sick or not.

Anyone who tests positive for COVID, symptoms or not, is a COVID case, you moron

R44, using that same “logic,” then HIV-positive people shouldn’t be counted (or treated) unless they become sick. Right?

[quote]I bet you they are counting anyone who tests positive as a COVID case, whether they get sick or not.

Ummm ... I don't even know what to do with this. Are you Donald Trump, by chance?

We could already be at herd immunity and that is why so many are showing positive.

That is why is distinction between new cases who are sick and healthy people testing positive is important to know.

We should separate out those numbers.

So many people are showing positive because so many people are positive, dipshit

And stop with the “herd immunity“ bullshit. If Sweden doesn’t have it, nobody does.

Meanwhile, deaths keep spiraling up. Sort of blows the herd immunity theory.

Amazing how willing you sheep are to believe whatever they tell you.

The US is doing pretty well compared to the rest of the world when you factor in its population, geography, extreme wealth inequality, and diversity.

4% of the world's population. 25% of the world's cases. 22% of the world's deaths.

You can try to spin that anyway you like, [R52], but it's an unmitigated disaster.

You have lots of people in the US living in third world conditions but it's just so much easier to blame Trump.

[quote] Amazing how willing you sheep are to believe whatever they tell you.

Says the asshole who keeps spitting out the Repug talking points, no matter how many times you’ve been proven wrong

Oh no, what will I do if I can't celebrate holidays during a pandemic! We have to live our lives, etc etc

[quote]You have lots of people in the US living in third world conditions but it's just so much easier to blame Trump.

Vietnam poverty rate, 2018: 23.6%. Covid deaths: 8

US poverty rate, 2018: 11.8% Covid deaths: 156,922

[quote]blah, blah, blah ... but it's just so much easier to blame Trump.

Oh don’t worry. We don’t just blame the orange jesus.

We also blame you assholes who keep pushing this evil nonsense.

Some of us actually have friends and family that we like to spend time with, R56.

Unlike you.

[quote] Some of us actually have friends and family that we like to spend time with,

Do you like them enough to live or are you ok with them potentially getting sick and die so that you can hang out with them?

R57 Those numbers are as realistic as Russias. California's poverty rate is higher than the national average despite its booming economy. We should ask ourselves why the poverty rate is as high as it is. Perhaps one of the reasons is that the richest among us are paying their workers slave wages.

You haven't proven anything r55. You just keep spitting state sponsored talking points.

Show me your proof that any of what they are saying has any truth to it except that they say so.

Does the governor have a sex tape we can review?

DeBlasio just cancelled the Radio City annual spectacular as well.

Why the fuck are we opening schools then? It makes zero sense if we're closing everything else down but opening schools.

[quote] Why the fuck are we opening schools then? It makes zero sense if we're closing everything else down but opening schools.

Trump wants to declare Martial Law when angry parents are coming for his head when kids get sick and die.

The Russia trolls are in full gear it seems. They can't stand California and must trash it and spread propaganda or else they feel inferior.

Well, they are inferior.

R5 is right. There IS nothing to look forward to. I’m in Manhattan and walked through the theater district and Times Square. Past theaters where we excitedly lined up to see shows, and now it’s a fucking zombie apocalypse. The bedraggled dirty nodding-off homeless outnumber regular people 2 to 1. There’s no Radio City Christmas Spectacular. (Mary!) Even though we could have predicted that correctly, if asked, it was a blow to hear it.

I’ve warned my kids that although they’re starting the school year with a few days in their actual schools, they need to be prepared to learn from home again (prepare the noose).

[quote]I’ve warned my kids that although they’re starting the school year with a few days in their actual schools, they need to be prepared to learn from home again (prepare the noose).

No noose. It's a stupid fucking idea to begin with.

First off, kids aren't going back to any kind of normal in the schools, despite what dipshit deplorables want. There will be no art or music. You can forget gym, not happening. They're going to sit at their desk the ENTIRE day with a face mask on, unless they have to use the bathroom. No getting up to sharpen pencils or grab a piece of paper. Everything will be done and turned in on computers from their desks.

Lunches will be delivered in the classroom, where they will have to eat at their desks. Which, BTW, completely obliterates every other practice of social distancing, since germs will be spread as kids are eating with their mouths open and talking to each other. Unless schools implement a no talking policy during lunch.

Oh, and BTW, fire drills and shelter in place drills are still expected to happen, during which all of these social distancing rules are not going to be applied. Particularly, shelter in place drills, where kids will be huddled together for AT LEAST ten to fifteen minutes together.

Sounds like a blast, doesn't it?

They should have parents pickup books and kids learn from home this year. Reopening will close again by Oct latest.

The school kids- I feel bad for them. 😕

R68 I am so glad I'm not in grade school or college right now.

I would be so fucking miserable.

It's miserable at work for sure, but work has always been miserable.

School should be fun. But right now it sounds like pure hell.