Posted on 12/13/2020 8:07:11 AM PST by RightGeek
This week a Los Angeles County judge ruled that a local ban on outdoor dining at restaurants, ostensibly aimed at reducing transmission of the COVID-19 virus, was "not grounded in science, evidence, or logic." Around the same time, California Health and Human Services Secretary Mark Ghaly admitted that the same thing is true of a state ban on outdoor dining that currently applies to all of Southern California, including Los Angeles County. Ghaly said that ban, which is one of many restrictions that are triggered when a region's available ICU capacity drops below 15 percent, is "not a comment on the relative safety of outdoor dining" but is instead aimed at discouraging Californians from leaving home.
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Ghaly was responding to a reporter who asked whether there are "any data" to support a ban on outdoor dining, such as evidence of outbreaks linked to that specific setting. His answer implicitly conceded that there are no such data. The ban, he said, is based not on a determination that outdoor dining is especially dangerous but on a desire to keep people from leaving their homes.
That high-handed rationale has to be galling for restaurateurs who have invested in expanding outdoor dining and complying with government guidelines. Many of these businesses are barely hanging on, and the ability to offer outdoor dining has been crucial to keeping them viable.
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Restaurant owners like Turner and Combes jumped through all the hoops the government set up for them, and Ghaly concedes their safeguards created environments where the risk of virus transmission is low—so low that neither the county nor the state has been able to cite any evidence suggesting that outdoor dining poses a significant public health hazard. Yet now the government is telling them all the effort and expense was for naught...
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There must be bodies everywhere.
Yes but there is a political basis for it.
I’ve got news for the judge. Liberal ideas are “not grounded in science, evidence, or logic.”
Magically, after Jan 20th, there will be no more lockdowns, because, Biden will be president.
Liberal governors and mayors want to make sure that the economy doesn’t recover before Biden takes office. Don’t want any time of recovery that brings back jobs and businesses, otherwise, Trump would get the credit. Once Trump is gone, any type of recovery will be attributed to Biden, even if the environment for recovery was created by Trump.
Commies gotta commie.
Oh, there’s a basis all right.
Find a judge and overrule Gavin Newsom’s ban on indoor dining. Simple!
So then, tell Gov. Nuisance to stop F**king with people’s liberties. They are tired of being on virtual House Arrest.
The Dominion voting machines that got him into office will keep him in office.
Until the puppetmasters and programmers determine that their idiot is no longer useful.
Question - Why are there any “homeless” left alive in America?
Here is a group that have poor diets, poor hygiene, many with health issues and live and gather in close proximity, yet they do not seem to be dying as if there was a real pandemic.
I’m not so sure about that. Politicians seem to adore these restrictions and I don’t think they’ll let go of their monarch-like control so easily.
Great point!
Democrats will cheat any method of voting. Voters need to vote and sign a White House petition to count signatures on petition (privacy issues?), even if unofficial.
An obvious fix.
Fauci is laughing his arce off. Close dining places and bars but said nothing of protests and riots.
Here is a group that have poor diets, poor hygiene, many with health issues and live and gather in close proximity, yet they do not seem to be dying as if there was a real pandemic.”
I have asked that from the beginning. They are exempt from all restrictions (masks, distancing). The local government ,SF, claims a very high rate of “positive” tests if you want to believe the PCR results, yet no bodies other than the occasional normal ones. Such as drug overdoses, stabbings, shootings, being hit by a car.
All I get is massive cognitive dissonance and occasional verbal attacks. People are like a hive mind zombie from the old Star Trek “Return of the Archons. “Hail Landru are you one with the body”
Not going to happen, other freepers have said after the election covid restrictions will go away.. nope slo joe and the ho will make them worse..
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