California Gov. Newsom is about to see a mounting number of countries in his state move to defy his orders to keep virus related restrictions in place….
Governor’s across the country are under increase pressure to relax virus related restrictions as the summer comes closer…
Whta was just a political movement to support Donald Trump push to reopen the country has become a more widespread embrace of Americans wanting to return to some sort normally that they had months ago….
There ARE still some virus related deaths in some of these places and the Governor is trying to weigh health concerns against the protest actions…
Picture of cops and people facing off does little help the politics of the state…
And the governor and county officials WILL have to deal with budget issues from the loss of tax revenue in the future…
Not a place I’d want be in right now…
Sutter and Yuba counties became the latest and largest jurisdictions set to defy Gov. Gavin Newsom’s stay-at-home orders, issuing a health order Friday that will reopen businesses still banned by California — and possibly lead other counties to follow suit, one lawmaker said.
The order by Yuba-Sutter Health Officer Phuong Luu will allow certain nonessential businesses that remain shuttered — restaurants, malls, gyms, salons, massage parlors and tattoo shops — to reopen Monday under “appropriate business modifications” that allow for physical distancing.
The move by the adjacent counties governed by a single health officer marks the clearest sign of cracks in the statewide lockdown order Newsom imposed in the middle of March to help curb the spread of the coronavirus. Thousands of protesters converged on the state Capitol and held rallies around the state Friday calling for the governor to lift the order and allow businesses to resume operating, pointing to a flattening infection curve and economic desperation.
Newsom on Friday said the state could start easing its restrictions within “many days, not weeks,” but has made clear that counties cannot allow activities to resume that are prohibited by the state order. Some of the Yuba-Sutter businesses slated for reopening are not even considered safe enough for Newsom’s initial reopening stage; the governor indicated Tuesday it could be a while before salons and gyms can open.
On Friday, Modoc County — a small northern county of 9,600 residents with no confirmed Covid-19 cases — became the first to defy the state order, reopening virtually all businesses including bars, restaurants and churches with physical distancing restrictions….
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Newsom has not indicated whether the state would enforce its current guidelines in jurisdictions that defy his order, and the governor’s office did not respond to a request for comment Friday. The governor previously has said he would rely on social pressure to enforce his directives in a state of nearly 40 million people. That approach that has largely worked for the past six weeks but is starting to falter as reports spread of businesses going rogue…..