Seems like Fuckery is a Foot for CA. FF incoming?

California is reopening too quickly, posing 'very serious risk,' health officer warns

A key architect of the nation's first coronavirus shelter-in-place order is criticizing California's increasingly fast pace of lifting stay-at-home restrictions.

In particular, Dr. Sara Cody, health officer for Santa Clara County — home to Silicon Valley and Northern California's most populous county — said she was concerned by the decision to allow gatherings of up to 100 people for religious, political and cultural reasons.

"This announcement to authorize county health officers to allow religious, cultural and political gatherings of 100 people poses a very serious risk of the spread of COVID-19," Cody told the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday.

Even if just one infected person showed up to such an event, the virus could easily be transmitted to many people and overwhelm local health officials' ability to investigate all related cases, she warned.

Cody has been credited with helping to spearhead the San Francisco Bay Area's regional shelter-in-place order. Issued March 16, the mandate that affected 6.6 million people in six counties initially stunned the nation. But it quickly became a model for the rest of California and other states, with Gov. Gavin Newsom enacting a statewide stay-at-home order March 19 and New York state following suit three days later.

Santa Clara County, with a population of 1.9 million people, is not required to relax its order — among the strictest in California — to the state standard. When local and state orders differ, the stricter standard applies. But Cody expressed concerns that California risks a surge in cases if it reopens too many sectors of society too quickly.

Since early May, "the state has shifted away from the stay-at-home model and has made significant modifications with increasing frequency," Cody said. "The pace at which the state has made these modifications is concerning to me."

Cody said it's important to wait at least 14 days — the time it can take for an infected person to show symptoms — after easing restrictions to see what effects the relaxed policy has on increased coronavirus illnesses. It would be even better to wait 21 days, she added.

Reopening so fast, she said, means there isn't enough time to implement new procedures to make reopened activities safe.

Within hours of Newsom's announcement Tuesday allowing counties to reopen hair salons and barbershops, some stylists already had customers in their chairs.

"Making changes too frequently leaves us blind. We can't see the effect of what we just did," Cody said. "Our social and economic well-being are best served by a more phased approach that allows activities to resume in a manner that allows people to actually be relatively safe while engaging in the newly open activity."

Experts say the Bay Area's early action dramatically slowed the spread of the highly infectious coronavirus in the region, which had been one of the nation's earliest hot spots of the virus.

As of Tuesday night, the six Bay Area counties had reported a coronavirus death rate of six fatalities per 100,000 residents; Los Angeles County has a death rate of 21 fatalities per 100,000 residents. Statewide, California has a death rate of about 10 fatalities per 100,000 residents. Across the nation, New Jersey's rate is 126 fatalities per 100,000 residents, while New York's is 149 fatalities per 100,000 residents.

The latest rules issued by the California Department of Public Health this week say churches that choose to reopen and in-person political protests must limit attendance to 25% of building capacity or a maximum of 100 attendees, whichever is lower.

New Jersey, by contrast, limits such gatherings to 25 people, and New York, 10, Cody said.

Newsom said Tuesday that he understood he would be criticized in deciding to allow religious gatherings to resume on a restricted basis.

"I know some people think that's too much too fast too soon. Others think, frankly, that it didn't go far enough," the governor said. "But suffice it to say, at a statewide level, we now are affording this opportunity again with a deep realization of the fact that people will start to mix … and that is incumbent upon us to practice that physical distancing within these places of worship."

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>>9344524

BHO has to be attached to this "Gift."

He was in CHINA.

Crimes Against Humanity?

When was Hussein in China?

Track events.

Timeline.

We are in control

W

(IIRC that W was a Typo)

'We Loved Each Other': Fauci Recalls Larry Kramer, Friend and Nemesis

“How did I meet Larry? He called me a murderer and an incompetent idiot on the front page of the San Francisco Examiner magazine.”

Speaking as he passed though a fever check on his way into the White House, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, recalled some of his fondest memories of his friend Larry Kramer, who died early Wednesday morning.

Nearly every anecdote in our brief interview had the same plot: the country’s best-known AIDS activist publicly abusing the country’s best-known AIDS doctor — and then privately apologizing afterward, saying he hadn’t meant it, that it was just how to get things done.

“It was an extraordinary 33-year relationship,” Fauci said. “We loved each other. We would have dinner. I would go see him in the West Village, he would come down to Washington.

“But even recently, when he got pissed at me about something, he said to some paper, ‘Fauci’s gone over to the dark side again.’ I called him up and said, ‘Larry? What the….’ And he’d say, ‘Oh, I didn’t really mean it. I just wanted to get some attention.’ ”

Nobody stirred up attention for a cause quite like Kramer did.

An open letter to the San Francisco Examiner in 1988, Fauci said, was the first time he’d heard of Kramer, a playwright who had founded two activist groups: the Gay Men’s Health Crisis; and Act Up, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power.

Addressing Fauci in the letter, Kramer wrote: “Your refusal to hear the screams of AIDS activists early in the crisis resulted in the deaths of thousands of Queers. Your present inaction is causing today’s increase in HIV infection outside of the Queer community.”

“I thought, ‘This guy, I need to reach out to him,’” Fauci recalled. “So I did, and we started talking. We realized we had things in common.”

Kramer’s name-calling wasn’t personal, Fauci explained.

“I was the face of the federal government. I was the one out there trying to warn the public, and he was, too. That was his way of saying, ‘Hello? Wake up!’ That was his style. He was iconoclastic, he was theatrical — he wanted to make his point.”

Over the years, they were often asked to appear together, often on television news programs.

“We were on ABC’s ‘Nightline’ and Ted Koppel asked me about AZT,” Fauci said, referring to the first anti-HIV drug. “And Larry said, ‘You guys in the government don’t know anything. You’ve got it all wrong!’ ”

Fauci would get in a cab to go home, and later the phone would ring. “It would be Larry saying, ‘How do you think we did?’ I’d say, ‘Larry, you just trashed me in front of 10 million people.’

“And he’d say, ‘Oh, I was just trying to get some attention.’”

As they became friends, Kramer tried to push Fauci into joining him in activism.

“During the administration of George H.W. Bush, he told me, ‘Tony, you should chain yourself to the gates of the White House,’” Fauci said. “I said, ‘Larry, how would that help? I can go talk to President Bush any time. He’s a friend.’

“He said, ‘You should still do it.’”

In 2001, with Kramer suffering from both hepatitis B and side effects of his HIV medication — he had the disease for at least six years before effective triple-drug cocktails became standard practice — Fauci became his doctor.

Kramer had told him he was not doing well, and doctors were baffled.

“I said, ‘Come to the NIH. We’ll work you up.’" Fauci recalled. “He was really at death’s door. We realized he needed a liver transplant.”

Kramer went on a transplant list. But there was a public debate over whether he should get a scarce donor organ, because patients with HIV had long been considered less likely to survive, despite the introduction of effective medications.

And at 66, Kramer was older than a typical transplant candidate. Nonetheless, he got a new liver that December at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

That not only set a precedent for HIV patients and older patients, but also abruptly reversed the decline in Kramer’s health.

“He really bounced back,” Fauci said. “It gave him multiple more years of life.”

The relationship between the two men played out in Kramer’s literary works as well as in his political activism.

Kramer’s autobiographical play in 1992, “The Destiny of Me,” includes a character based on Fauci.

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