Politico: Governor Newsom Given High Marks for His Coronavirus Response (San Diego: bars, estimate)

[2sleepy]

Originally Posted by Mike930

I’m still going with the restrictions, even if I don’t want to. Funny what you said about seeing less people with masks. I’m actually seeing the opposite in stores. I used to see many people in stores without masks or wearing them improperly. Now, it seems like everyone has one on.

I was just at Costco and everyone I saw had a mask and was wearing it right. Maybe they’re getting used to it or encouraged at the reopenings.

At least here Costco requires masks, but we were in a Sam's Club and it's just an estimate but it looked like less than half of the customers were wearing masks and several of the people working there had their masks pushed under their nose. Same thing in the local Winco - lots of people without masks.

[Mike930]

Originally Posted by 2sleepy

At least here Costco requires masks, but we were in a Sam's Club and it's just an estimate but it looked like less than half of the customers were wearing masks and several of the people working there had their masks pushed under their nose. Same thing in the local Winco - lots of people without masks.

I forgot that the counties make their own rules. In San Diego, we’re required to wear masks if we’re out in public and within 6 feet of anyone. Every store here requires a mask to come in. I’ve seen a couple of stores deny entrance to anyone without a mask.

I was in a bakery and a man in his 70’s came in without a mask. They offered him a disposable mask so he could stay in.

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by seain dublin

The one billion dollars he gave to China to make masks for CA residents. Well where are those masks? Why would you deal with China after what happened, and how about some concern about if they would even be safe?

The one billion dollars(and that is outrageous he did that) would have come in handy now don't you think?

It looks as if California was not the only state that got screwed when trying to purchase face masks.

State officials in Mississippi paid nearly $500,000 to a company whose owner was convicted on federal fraud charges after he resold to grocery stores food that was intended for animals or meant to be destroyed.

The state of Georgia paid a company nearly $7 apiece for masks that normally cost less than half that.

Trevor Brown, a professor of public management at Ohio State University, said states and cities where coronavirus outbreaks emerged after heavyweights like California and New York had entered the market were at a distinct disadvantage. The domestic market had been picked clean. And while large states and the federal government were buying masks from China in the millions, smaller ones struggled to get sellers’ attention.

State purchasing records show that Washington, where the virus first established a deadly toehold in America, worked with sellers offering millions of N95 face masks for $3 or less.

When other states jumped into the mask market weeks later, prices had doubled.

The possibility of a second viral wave this fall has led some researchers to study ways states and cities might avoid the price gouging, fraud and failed deliveries that affected whether many Americans received adequate protection in the early days of the outbreak.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/sto...es-got-screwed

[2sleepy]

Here's an update on the California mask contract:

June 5, 2020 at 12:28 p.m. PDT
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is giving a Chinese manufacturer it contracted with for hundreds of millions of protective masks one more week to get federal certification after the company twice missed the deadline.

California signed a nearly $1 billion contract in April with BYD, a Chinese company with Los Angeles-area offices, for 200 million protective masks per month. They were set to start arriving in May. But the company has twice failed to get certification from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health for its N95 masks, the tight-fitting respirators used by health care professionals and none have been supplied to the state.

The latest deadline in the contract was May 31. If the masks weren’t certified by then, the state could have sought a refund on roughly a quarter-billion dollars it had paid up front. But state officials on Friday amended the contract to give the company until June 12, said Brian Ferguson, a spokesman for the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services. https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...792_story.html

[V8 Vega]

What are they going to do with hundreds of millions of masks? there is only 40 million in the whole state. Are they going to provide everyone with a a car full of masks. This whole thing is unbelievable overblown especially compared to previous flue's. How much did this farce cost the taxpayers? It should be all over soon. Unbelievably stupid waste of your money.

[CA4Now]

I actually feel bad for Newsom. He'll undoubtedly take a lot of flak about Disneyland not reopening as it was scheduled to July 17, as a result of needing to wait for updated state guidelines.

[Mike930]

With all the new cases, he mentions the possibility of reverting to tighter restrictions and still no mention of the protests.

That’s a failing grade in my book. He puts politics ahead of public safety. Nice job you nitwit.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/abc7new...-2020/6265068/

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by Mike930

With all the new cases, he mentions the possibility of reverting to tighter restrictions and still no mention of the protests.

That’s a failing grade in my book. He puts politics ahead of public safety. Nice job you nitwit.

I don't get the politics part, Mike. Protesting peacefully is a first amendment right. What could he possibly have done to stop people? (If you're talking about the riots, that's a whole different issue.)

I wasn't all that happy when Newsom ran for governor, but I still think he's doing better than most of the other state governors. Look at that poor Greg Abbott in Texas.

[As Above So Below...]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

I don't get the politics part, Mike. Protesting peacefully is a first amendment right. What could he have possibly have done to stop people? (If you're talking about the riots, that's a whole different issue.)

I wasn't all that happy when Newsom ran for governor, but I still think he's doing better than most of the other state governors. Look at that poor Greg Abbott in Texas.

To me what is fascinating is that despite Newsom and Abbott having different responses to reopening, yet were in the exact same boat. Our cases are exploding here in Texas just as they are in Southern California even though the opposite was done in both place. The big question is why?

[V8 Vega]

Restrictions on everyone but the protesters. If the danger is so bad why is there suddenly no danger when you're protesting?