Posted on 12/04/2020 6:55:01 PM PST by moviefan8
Health officials are tracking the state by five regions: Northern California, Bay Area, Greater Sacramento, San Joaquin Valley and Southern California
Regional Stay at Home Order takes effect Saturday; affects regions with less than 15 percent ICU availability
Regional Stay at Home Orders will require Californians to stay at home as much as possible, close operations for certain sectors and require 100 percent masking and physical distancing in all others
Schools currently open can remain open and retailers can operate indoors at no more than 20 percent capacity to reduce exposure risk
New order is a modification of the state’s initial Stay at Home Order signed in March and builds on the Blueprint for a Safer Economy
SACRAMENTO – As COVID-19 case rates and hospitalizations continue to rise at an alarming pace and threaten to overwhelm the health care delivery system, California health officials today announced a Regional Stay at Home Order that will be triggered if Intensive Care Unit (ICU) capacity drops below 15 percent in a given region. State health officials are tracking the state by five regions: Northern California, Bay Area, Greater Sacramento, San Joaquin Valley and Southern California. No regions currently meet this threshold but some are projected to within the next week. Residents are required to stay at home as much as possible and minimize mixing to reduce unnecessary exposure, while still being able to do important things like go to the doctor, buy groceries, pick up take out, go on a hike, or worship outdoors. K-12 schools that are already open can remain open and retailers can operate indoors at no more than 20 percent capacity to reduce exposure risk.
The public health order takes effect at 12:59 p.m. on December 5. Thereafter, if a region falls below the 15 percent ICU threshold, it will have 24 hours to implement the Stay at Home Order.
The five regions are:
Northern California: Del Norte, Glenn, Humboldt, Lake, Lassen, Mendocino, Modoc, Shasta, Siskiyou, Tehama, Trinity Bay Area: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Monterey, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, Sonoma Greater Sacramento: Alpine, Amador, Butte, Colusa, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, Sierra, Sutter, Yolo, Yuba San Joaquin Valley: Calaveras, Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, San Benito, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Tulare, Tuolumne Southern California: Imperial, Inyo, Los Angeles, Mono, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura Regions will remain in the Regional Stay at Home Order status for at least three weeks once triggered. Counties are eligible to come off the Regional Stay at Home Order after three weeks if their hospital ICU capacity projected four weeks out reaches 15 percent. Counties will return to the Blueprint for a Safer Economy tier determined by their case rate and test positivity after they are eligible to exit the Regional Stay at Home Order.
“We are at a tipping point in our fight against the virus and we need to take decisive action now to prevent California’s hospital system from being overwhelmed in the coming weeks,” said Governor Newsom. “By invoking a Stay at Home Order for regions where ICU capacity falls below 15 percent, we can flatten the curve as we’ve done before and reduce stress on our health care system. I’m clear-eyed that this is hard on all of us — especially our small businesses who are struggling to get by. That’s why we leaned in to help our small business owners with new grants and tax relief to help us get through this month. If we stay home as much as possible, and wear masks when we have to go to the doctor, shop for groceries or go for a hike, California can come out of this in a way that saves lives and puts us on a path toward economic recovery.”
“We know what a struggle this pandemic has been for so many California families, but our actions have saved countless lives,” said Dr. Mark Ghaly, California Health and Human Services Secretary. “This targeted action will preserve vital ICU beds for people who need them — whether they’re COVID-19 patients or someone who has suffered a heart attack or a stroke.”
“Staying home for three weeks is a sacrifice, but if every Californian did that for a month, we could stop this disease in its tracks,” said Dr. Erica Pan, Acting State Public Health Officer. “This public health order strikes the balance between saving lives, providing essential services that we all rely on and still allowing Californians to participate in lower-risk outdoor activities that are crucial for our physical and mental health.”
The terms of the Regional Stay at Home Order closely mirror the March order, with some variations.
What does the Regional Stay at Home Order do?
The Regional Stay at Home Order would be in effect for 3 weeks after the trigger and instructs Californians to stay at home as much as possible to limit the mixing with other households that can lead to COVID-19 spread. It allows access to (including travel for) critical services and allows outdoor activities to preserve Californians’ physical and mental health. This limited closure will help stop the surge and prevent overwhelming regional ICU capacity.
In any region that triggers a Regional Stay at Home Order because it drops below 15 percent ICU capacity, all operations in the following sectors must be closed:
Indoor and Outdoor Playgrounds Indoor Recreational Facilities Hair Salons and Barbershops Personal Care Services Museums, Zoos, and Aquariums Movie Theaters Wineries Bars, Breweries and Distilleries Family Entertainment Centers Cardrooms and Satellite Wagering Limited Services Live Audience Sports Amusement Parks The following sectors will have additional modifications in addition to 100 percent masking and physical distancing:
Outdoor Recreational Facilities: Allow outdoor operation only without any food, drink or alcohol sales. Additionally, overnight stays at campgrounds will not be permitted. Retail: Allow indoor operation at 20 percent capacity with entrance metering and no eating or drinking in the stores. Additionally, special hours should be instituted for seniors and others with chronic conditions or compromised immune systems. Shopping Centers: Allow indoor operation at 20 percent capacity with entrance metering and no eating or drinking in the stores. Additionally, special hours should be instituted for seniors and others with chronic conditions or compromised immune systems. Hotels and Lodging: Allow to open for critical infrastructure support only. Restaurants: Allow only for take-out or pick-up. Offices: Allow remote only except for critical infrastructure sectors where remote working is not possible. Places of Worship: Allow outdoor services only. Entertainment Production including Professional Sports: Allow operation without live audiences. Additionally, testing protocol and “bubbles” are highly encouraged. The Order does not modify existing state guidance regarding K-12 schools.
The following sectors are allowed to remain open when a remote option is not possible with appropriate infectious disease preventative measures including 100 percent masking and physical distancing:
Critical Infrastructure Non-urgent medical and dental care Child care and pre-K When does a Regional Stay at Home Order end?
The Regional Stay at Home Order will be implemented regionally once there is less than 15 percent ICU capacity remaining in the designated region. After three weeks from the start of the Stay-at-Home Order, the following criteria would apply:
End for a county in a region if the region’s ICU capacity projected out four weeks (from three weeks since the Stay-at-Home Order started) is above or equal to 15 percent. Each county in the region would be assigned to a tier based on the Blueprint for a Safer Economy. Remain in effect in a county if the region’s ICU capacity projected out four weeks (from three weeks since the Stay-at-Home Order started) is less than 15 percent. The order would remain in effect until the region’s ICU capacity meets criteria (1) above. This would be assessed on a weekly basis. Non-Essential Travel Lodging
Except as otherwise required by law, no hotel or lodging entity in California shall accept or honor out of state reservations for non-essential travel, unless the reservation is for at least the minimum time period required for quarantine and the persons identified in the reservation will quarantine in the hotel or lodging entity until after that time period has expired.
Can people go outside?
Members of the same household are encouraged to maintain physical and mental health by safely going to a park, hike, walk or bike ride when safe to do so and socially distanced. Californians are also encouraged to keep connected with loved ones virtually.
The Regional Stay at Home Order can be found here.
Well this should kill the economy already on life support.
EXCEPT for the PIGS who dine at the French Laundry at $500 per person.
REPEAT...PIGS, PIGS, PIGS.
More B.S. Expect this to become the norm everywhere if Biden gets sworn in.
We understand the current orders may be confusing; here is what's happening in Santa Clara County.Restaurants all over are investing heavily in outdoor tents, heaters and outdoor furniture. These are all new investments the past couple months -- so now that investment is wasted? They won't survive another four weeks.To curb the rapidly escalating surge in COVID hospitalizations, Santa Clara County has implemented the State's Regional Stay Home Order that starts 10PM Sunday, December 6, 2020, through Monday, January 4, 2021.
What changes? The Regional Stay Home Order prohibits private gatherings of any size, closes salons, barbershops, and personal service, while critical infrastructure and retail can remain open at 20% capacity, and requires 100% masking and physical distancing in all others. Restaurants must also close outdoor dining and may only operate take-out or delivery. Playgrounds and park restrooms will also be closed.
We want to remind residents that non-essential work, movement, and gatherings must stop between 10PM and 5AM. This will remain in effect until December 21, at 5AM.
The video of the young female restaurant owner in Los Angeles a little while ago is absolutely heartbreaking. She invested heavily in outdoor tents, furniture and heaters, but is shut down. Not 50 feet away from her a movie production company erected the exact SAME SETUP and is exempt from the regs.
The democrats are counting on destroying the middle class.
They and their friends will buy up property at a big discount. Remember Warren Buffet buying 10’s of thousands of foreclosed homes during the banking scandal from the Bush & obama years.
‘A Slap In My Face’: LA Bar Owner Livid In After City Lets Hollywood Studio Set Up Dining Tents
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/slap-my-face-la-bar-owner-livid-after-city-lets-hollywood-studio-set-dining-tents
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And the REVOLUTION gets closer.
People around me are ALSO talking about the blatant hypocrisies.
1 ) WalMart and Home Depot can stay open, but the shop next to them, can’t.
So, 400 people gathered together in WalMart, is NOT dangerous, while 12 people gathered in the nearby shop, IS ?????
2 ) The large corporations are feeding at the pig trough, getting Billions in cash, to survive. But, the little mom & pop shops are being strangled and left to hang in the wind.
3 ) The workers at the little shops ( which employ 50 % of nation ) are left to dangle in the wind. Pay your rent, pay your mortgage, don’t miss those 15 % credit card rates, OR ELSE. Not having a job or any income because of the government’s orders to stay home.......IS NOT AN EXCUSE.
4 ) The banks pay us 0 % ( YES, 0 % ) on OUR money, but charge us 15 % on any money we use. By the way, that money you use in your credit card is OUR MONEY sitting in the bank that is being paid 0 %. So, we are paying 15 % to borrow our own money, then not paid one dime on that use. The banks keep the entire profit.
5 ) It goes on and on.
The ENTIRE system is corrupt.
The people are waking up.
This ought to start getting interesting in another 12 months.
When this whole system crashes, the politicians, and the bankers, better have somewhere to hide.
I ordered from a pizza place tonight and the delivery guy had a face mask on and was like a timid mouse as he scurry away from me as he handed me my food then had to walk past me on the balcony. Frighten he was. I should have said BOO!
In Europe millions have spilled into the streets to protest this unconstitutional Bs. Will califorinans have the guts to do the same? Newsome is way over his head, who made him King?
There must be bodies everywhere.
Here is the translation for the Canadian lady......
There must be bodies everywhere.
It is going to get real ugly.
I am not scared of Covid. Covid is scaring a lot of people where I am.
This whole thing brings out all kinds of emotions in me. It is maddening.
At least I still get to go into the office and not stuck working at home like pretty much everyone else starting Monday.
I don’t really think anyone will protest where I am. People are scared to death of Covid. Not kidding.
Wasn’t it 2016 when they set up tents at some California hospital for overflow flu patients???
Absolutely true. I’ve seen the fear in people’s eyes.
More lies. Hospitals are not being overrun.
So what do you do? Just let the hospitals become overwhelmed which wi result in more deaths when the regular car crashes, heart attacks, and other life threatening medical emergencies can’t be treated in a timely manner?
I know they are in my area if Ohio. Have friends and family that work in the two local hospitals and both ICUs are over 90% capacity. Unless they are all a part of a conspiracy to make me believe that Covid is worse than it is?
Exactly. There are no hospitals being overrun.
They are going to shutdown as an excuse to avoid having hospitals being overrun. This what they are doing in the San Francisco Bay Area (https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/press-release-12-4-2020-new-regional-stay-at-home-order.aspx)
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Ohio must have limited hospital capacity. None in my area, Metro Nashville, are close to full. Nurses still furloughed.
This is propaganda. Hospital administration is not happy when ICU has more than 15% unoccupied. In a normal winter, hospitals routinely eclipse the 15% threshhold.
I am not scared of Covid. Only God knows when I will die.
I don’t like my rights taken away. My coworkers don’t care if their rights are taken away. They are will willing to trade away rights for safety from Covid.
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