The fastest way the Covid-19 virus resurgence of infections has thru bars and eateries…
People have to take off their masks to eat….
Health officials’ sin California have told governmental officials if you want to stop the wildly increasing spread of the virus?
You HAVE close down the bars and eating establishments….
You can do curtsied pick-ups….
But THAT is it….
This has put local officials in a vise….
Local business owners are pushing hard to overrule the states’s orders that they close for an ‘indefinite ‘ period of time, until the infections drop…
Local area’s are even thinking of starting their own health departments to issue their own local rules on virus restrictions…
THAT would take time and money…
Economics vs Health is proving to be tough one for Governor’s around the country as the pandemic drags on…
Until late last month, outdoor dining — no masks required — was the closest thing to pre-pandemic normal for the 10 million residents of Los Angeles County. But amid a record-busting surge in hospitalizations and cases of the coronavirus, the county’s health department recently said outdoor dining must come to a complete halt for the first time since May.
This time, angry at the order and worried it would be the death knell for many of the 30,000 eateries sprawled across the vast county’s patchwork of 88 independent jurisdictions, several cash-strapped municipalities have pushed back and banded together — with votes to form their own health departments.
“It’s kind of like a mini secession,” said Raphael J. Sonenshein, the executive director of the Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs at California State University, Los Angeles. “Their complaint is the county has a one-size-fits-all prescription.”
The discussions speak to the growing frustration over a countywide order that many elected officials said was inherently a hyperlocal issue.
While largely symbolic because there is no process for local jurisdictions to easily create their own health departments, city councils across the county have in recent days passed resolutions to do exactly that — or to annex and join a city that already has its own…
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Across the state, daily case reports have tripled in the past month, with more than 25,000 new infections reported on Tuesday. About 8,500 of them were in Los Angeles County, which now has more daily cases than at any point in the pandemic, setting daily records for nearly a week straight. On Tuesday, the county had about 3,000 people hospitalized, with nearly a quarter in intensive care units.
Gov. Gavin Newsom recently issued a three-week lockdown order, which went into effect for much of the state on Monday, that also banned outdoor dining and superseded the Los Angeles County restrictions….