Opinion: Gov. Newsom needs to fully explain pandemic decisions. He hasn’t been doing so.(Oh this can't be good...)

... swagger and surefootedness is what makes Newsom’s missteps in his response to the pandemic so hard to understand. He seems oblivious to an obvious truth about government: The public needs and expects swift, straightforward explanations, especially during an emergency. But he has been erratic in the state’s fight against the coronavirus.

The governor’s first-in-the-nation stay-at-home order March 19 seemed shrewd as COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus

His questionable decisions began three months later. Despite growing evidence that the virus was mostly transmitted when people spent time indoors with others not from their immediate household, the Newsom administration gave the all-clear to reopening bars

It would be hard to blame Newsom for the late-year family holiday gatherings that fueled a third wave of COVID-19 cases in California — if he hadn’t gone against his guidance by gathering at a Napa Valley restaurant for a friend who is a lobbyist. The hypocrisy was bad, but the state’s response — imposing a new stay-at-home order — was maddening to many. The state didn’t just order many indoor businesses to close. It shut down outdoor dining.

Now Newsom has added to the public’s consternation and confusion by scaling back shutdown orders statewide....many people were caught by surprise. He had imposed the lockdown because beds in intensive care units were full or nearly full in much of the state —

But last week, the governor’s office told the Associated Press that its decisions were based on more complicated metrics — metrics which it refused to specify for fear of confusing the public. And on Monday, when the governor’s office confirmed this scaling back of shutdown orders, state data still showed ICUs were packed in Southern California after a stunning surge in cases in Los Angeles County. What had changed?

California Governor Gavin Newsom is ~~set to lift~~ Done! The stay-at-home order across all regions tomorrow based on data that’s not publicly available,

Summit News: CORONAVIRUSGovernor Newsom to Lift Stay-at-Home Order Less Than a Week After Biden Inauguration Coincidence?

Published on 25 January, 2021Paul Joseph Watson

California Governor Gavin Newsom is set to lift the stay-at-home order across all regions tomorrow based on data that’s not publicly available, leading some to accuse him of playing politics.

“Multiple sources tell me Governor Newsom will lift the stay at home order on all regions in California tomorrow,” tweeted journalist Ashley Zavala. “All counties will go back to the tier system, sources say. Most will return to the purple tier— allowing the reopening of outdoor dining, indoor salons.”

She added that the decision to open up was “based off ICU projections for the next four weeks statewide,” but that the data is “not publicly accessible.”

This is apparently based off ICU projections for the next four weeks statewide, sources say.

Those projections are not publicly accessible.

— Ashley Zavala (@ZavalaA) January 25, 2021

Although COVID-19 cases in California have been falling in recent days, on January 21st the state recorded its highest daily death toll ever, registering 740 fatalities.

Given the timing of the decision, coming less than a week after Joe Biden’s inauguration, many respondents argued that Newsom had deliberately delayed opening up so as not to help Donald Trump, who was an opponent of lockdowns throughout the final months of his presidency.

“So obvious that the left used all of this as a ploy to win the election. Miraculously everything is fine 5 days after the inauguration. Don’t want old Joe looking bad do they?” commented one Twitter user.

“Covid is suddenly going away,” remarked another.

https://summit.news/2021/01/25/governor-newsom-to-lift-stay-at-home-order-less-than-a-week-after-biden-inauguration/

“So, everything is now just fine, not because of the numbers (they had their highest death count EVER just 3 days ago), but clearly because of a change in national administration makes making everybody scared and economically destroyed is no longer desired,” added another.

Others said that ICU capacity in many areas was still dangerously low and that Newsom had jumped the gun in making the call.

Back in November, Newsom was slammed for attending a dinner at an upmarket French restaurant while failing to follow his own COVID-19 protocols.

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