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California Governor Gavin Newsom, Facing Recall Effort, Puts Essential Workers at Risk(They actually gave him extra attention with two authors)
NewsWeak ^ | 1-27-21 | WALKER BRAGMAN AND DAVID SIROTA

Posted on 01/27/2021 6:25:54 PM PST by Vendome

In response to the emergency—and to a recall effort around his handling of the pandemic and the economy—Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is lifting stay-at-home restrictions, removing essential workers from the state's vaccine priority list, and championing a complex deal that extends the state's expiring partial eviction moratorium but still allows landlords to pursue evictions. Newsom has long insisted his decisions are "lead by data and science," but his moves come just as new studies show that keeping workers out of the workplace and banning evictions play pivotal roles in reducing the spread of the deadly virus.

The first study, from University of Pennsylvania researchers, found that workers deemed essential and required to go to their workplaces have a 55 percent higher chance of being infected than those staying home.

Asked what he thought of his state's reopening, Democratic U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna told The Daily Poster: "We ought to be prioritizing public health."

The findings echo a November report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which found that working in offices and schools increases an individual's risk of contracting COVID

"Providing the option to work from home or telework when possible, is an important consideration for reducing the risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection," the report read.

A separate report from researchers at UC-San Francisco detailed which essential workers appear to be the most at risk. Topping the list were cooks, packaging and filling machine operators and tenders, agricultural workers, bakers, construction workers, and production workers.

Despite data showing that essential workers face extra risk of dying from COVID, California's new measures remove essential workers from the state's vaccination priority list, transitioning to a system based on age.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: go; let; my; people

1 posted on 01/27/2021 6:25:54 PM PST by Vendome
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To: Vendome

Recall the adulterous bastard Newsome.


2 posted on 01/27/2021 6:28:40 PM PST by Fungi
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To: Vendome

He could always get a job as a dishwasher at The Laundry.


3 posted on 01/27/2021 6:34:20 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Fungi

The most important reason to recall this political animal is to damage his goal of becoming our president. A recall will forever put this goal out of his grasp.
Stop this Jackass Now. Recall him to the sidelines of tyrannical history. In other words... End his Political Aspirational Shit before it stinks up the Whole Country.


4 posted on 01/27/2021 7:10:16 PM PST by Texas Hostage in a Blue State
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