Posted on 11/19/2020 7:05:46 PM PST by EdnaMode
In light of an unprecedented rapid rise in COVID-19 cases across California, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday announced a limited stay-at-home order. The order requires “generally that non-essential work, movement and gatherings stop between 10 PM and 5 AM in counties in the purple tier.” That means basically every county in Southern California and 94% of the state’s population.
But Newsom’s office told Deadline on Thursday that the order (read it here) did not apply to entertainment industry workers, who are on the list of essential workers and thus an exception to the rule.
The governor’s original Stay-at-Home order (read it here) from March includes the following passage, which still applies:
In accordance with this order, the State Public Health Officer has designated the following list of Essential Critical Infrastructure Workers to help state, local, tribal, and industry partners as they work to protect communities, while ensuring continuity of functions critical to public health and safety, as well as economic and national security.
On that list of exemptions, under “Industrial, Commercial, Residential, and Sheltering Facilities and Services,” there is essential worker designation 15 which reads, “Workers supporting the entertainment industries, studios, and other related establishments, provided they follow covid-19 public health guidance around physical distancing.”
The guidance does indicate this exemption only applies if remote work is not possible, but with film and TV production it is often not.
Film and TV production employees were not included on the essential workers list during the first California shutdown in March. Their addition to the list speaks to the success and strong protocols on set since then. The document was last updated September 22.
See the full list of essential workers here.
Court jesters are essential workers.
Gov. Nuisance is exempt as well, no doubt.
Further proof of one of the multiverse’s Prime Directives: The ONLY standard for leftists is a double one.
May they rot in Obamaville.
Does that include Adult Entertainment?
That’s what I thought the “entertainment industry” was.
I did think the COVID-susceptible would not be particularly active in this field, but what do I know?
Apparently it did under Governor Gretchen
Are politicians essential?
Hollywood exempt? I are shocked.
It seems the Deep State runs itself. Politicians are a nuisance.
For nice contribution to the guv and the democrat party, you too can be exempt from draconian dictats and free to earn your living.
Exceptions For Sale!
an article today on AP said there are 79,000 people hospitalized with CCPVirus. On the average, that’s less than 2,000 people per state.
CalMatters, who tracks hospitalizations in California, reports 4,523 “confirmed” CCPVirus hospitalizations as of Nov 18 - up 5%. Non-ICU patients numbered 3,368 an increase of 207 from the prior day, and ICU patients numbered 1,155, up 7 from the prior day. There are 793 “suspected” CCPVirus hospitalizatons as of Nov 18, an increase of 3.5%.
California’s population is about 40 million. 4,523 is 0.011% percent of the population. Total ICU beds in California total 7,345. An occupied bed rate of 1,155 is just under 20% of total ICU beds available.
Math doesn’t support a curfew, lockdown or martial law, whatever term is politically acceptable. Math also supports that Newsom is an idiot.
They have to make sure teevee people can continue to get their narrative out to the DGIs
My “Liberal” daughter calls him Gov. Newssolini.
The only thing the math suggests is that the people who compile the “charts” need to have their meds adjusted.
The math without the spin for Imperial County is 67 people with covid out of 182,000. .0368%
Riverside is 362 out of 2.4 million, which in reality is .0148% of a crowded county.
The other important question.... why are there not thousands upon thousands of homeless people dead from COVID? It seems unlikely that they would mask-up, social distance or haul around a bucket of hand sanitizer.
/heavy sarc
worst of all, FakeNewsMSM worldwide are considered ESSENTIAL!!!
I would wager a bet that the math doesn’t justify shut downs, in any of these states.
I wonder if there’s a national site that tracks national hospital CV/other numbers, by state.
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