Posted on 11/21/2020 5:29:55 AM PST by Kaslin
Californians have suffered greatly in our crazy war against the China virus.
Our economy is a wreck. Restaurants are dying off by the hundreds. Schools are half closed. Disneyland is a ghost town.
And now things here have gotten worse.
Because cases of new positive infections and hospitalizations have jumped lately, Gov. Gavin Newsom has pulled the "emergency brake" on reopening the state's economy, imposed a new limited "Stay-At-Home Order" through Dec. 21 and issued a bunch of idiotic rules to ruin Thanksgiving and Christmas for 40 million people.
Newsom and his public health experts call their edicts "small gatherings guidance," but we know it's really "California's Thanksgiving Mandate."
Like the Thanksgiving rules issued in other Blue states, they are an insane blend of bureaucratic stupidity and unscientific tyranny.
Here are some of them:
- Gatherings cannot have people from more than three households.
- Gatherings should only be two hours or less.
- All gatherings must be held outside. People can go inside to use the bathroom.
- Gatherings "may occur in outdoor spaces that are covered by umbrellas, canopies, awnings, roofs, and other shade structures provided that at least three sides of the space (or 75 percent) are open to the outdoors."
- Seating must provide at least 6 feet of distance (in all directions - front-to-back and side-to-side) between different households.
- Keep physical distance from others and practice hand hygiene.
- "Singing, chanting, and shouting are strongly discouraged."
- The host should collect names and contact information of attendees for contact tracing.
Of course, it's a given that everyone at your family gathering should be wearing a mask, indoors and outdoors, at all times, including between bites of turkey and sips of wine.
Please excuse me, but I don't get the science behind these "guidelines."
To stop the spread of the coronavirus, I'm told by the public health experts that I can't eat a turkey dinner in my own home with my family or friends unless I follow their nutty rules.
But it's OK to get on a plane at LAX with 200 other people I don't know and fly five hours to New York City?
And it's OK to protest or celebrate with thousands of people in the streets, or eat at a high-end restaurant in Napa Valley with a dozen maskless friends, but you shouldn't have Grandma over for Thanksgiving because you might kill her?
Another question: If masks are so effective, why are so many additional people becoming infected with the virus?
Social distancing and hand-washing have become ingrained in the culture and something like 85 percent of Americans are said to faithfully wear masks.
So does that mean that the 15 percent who don't wear masks are the ones who are catching the virus? Or do the cloth masks that most people wear really not do the job of protecting us, as a recent study found?
I don't know the answers, but the bottom line is, people are doing more today than ever to protect themselves from the virus, yet more people are catching it.
What all this tells me is that mask or no mask, social distance or no social distance, plastic shielding or no plastic shielding, the virus is in the driver's seat. It's acting like a virus.
It does what it wants to do when it wants to do it, and the only sure way to stop it is with a COVID-19 vaccine, which, thanks to President Trump's Operation Warp Speed, is just around the corner.
Meanwhile, while we suffer another statewide lockdown and wonder if Christmas and New Year's will be outlawed altogether, I hope Newsom won't do to us what his fellow emperor in Oregon threatens to do to her state's Thanksgiving scofflaws.
There, if they catch you with too many people in your home eating turkey and mashed potatoes next Thursday, they'll arrest you. Then they'll put you in jail - which is a real safe place to be, eh?
Have a happy Thanksgiving, America - if you dare.
I give thanks on a regular basis I live in the state I do...with a governor that has common sense and is not drunk on power. Haven’t heard the 1st thing about lockdowns or T-giving restrictions here.
I wonder if these insane restrictions are making folks rethink their political affiliation? I would not say Texas is completely open but it isn’t locked down and people go about their business. The same is true in Florida. They don’t seem to be doing any worse than California or NY.
No mention of grocery stores being open. Maybe the plan is to starve people into submission.
So much of what is happening today was considered conspiracy theory just 9 months ago.
So once they’ve successfully killed off every vestige of Western Civ (holidays, sports, schools, churches, families, you know the list), what will replace it?
Yes, the State of course. But who/what will be the face of it? Will they try to supplant God with a person (ala the “great leaders” of yore?). Or will it be Gaia?
Just some idle speculation.
I certainly would, but with some people you never know.
Why would anyone give this “directive” the time of day? What should be happening is lawsuit filings up the wazoo and a huge middle finger to newsom whilst the lawsuits wind their way through court. In the meantime, enjoy a huge thanksgiving gathering with whomever you choose. Holiday celebrations have nothing to do with politics so politics should have nothing to do with holiday gatherings. Not their business
_ itchmore topped Newsome—ony two households can meet here. Did not hear about any restrictions on Black Friday.
My family gets together once a month to play games now, there are not many variables for Thanksgiving so would not make a difference.
"Social distancing? That's only for the hoi-poloi."
“In America we are all being seduced out of our birthright. What we see in America today is the same thing that preceded the Nazi Holocaust.” - Roy Masters
Nobody is going to file any lawsuits over this because nobody takes the orders serious enough to waste even one dollar of their money on it. The “orders” will be routinely ignored, and nobody is going to do anything about it.
Why these restaurants and anyone else puts up with this I do not know. If I lived in a smallish town and had a restaurant I would contact as many owners as possible and band together to open . I would get popular opinion on my side. Of course it might be derailed by employees who refuse to work but my gosh they’re going to comply until they die.
It’s ridiculous to limit the number of households.. One household, where people are out and about, are just as likely to spread it to each other. The number of households is meaningless. It’s more divide and conquer.
It happens...I frequent them, and employees are happy to work and pick up MAGA tips. Cops allow it.
It’s only wrecked if you let him wreck it. Ultimately, they can only do what we let them do.
I’m old enough to remember bra burning.
Mask burnings are an awesome idea!
“Mask burnings are an awesome idea!”
Talk about air pollution!
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