Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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The Riverside County Sheriff's Department has lost one of its deputies to Coronavirus. Deputy Terrell Young died on Thursday April 2, wrote Eric Rose, Riverside Sheriffs Association Spokesman. Young was married for 31 years and had 4 children. They are now in self quarantine, along with their mother. Young last worked at the Riverside County detention center in Murrieta on March 23. It now has 11 inmates who have tested positive for coronavirus. Riverside has 25 sheriff's...
3/31/20: Seven Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies and staff have tested positive for Covid 19, reports LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva. 49 are under medical quarantine, 102 are under personal quarantine. "We have beefed up patrols--852 radio cars in the field. We are providing security for all the new hospital shelters, and all vacant stores," he says. "We are also keeping an eye on housebound elderly and disabled people. " By way of contrast, about 1000 members of the...
As California closed all DMV locations due to the Coronavirus, the Department of Homeland Security announced it would extend enforcement of travel ban on passengers without Real ID, one full year. The new deadline is now October 21, 2021. "Thank God they extended it, since most state DMV offices are now closed," said Max Yardley, a California resident. "I had an appointment to get a real id at the DMV, but it wasn't till June. They were pretty backed up," he said. After...
Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District won't reconvene on April 20th. The District had previously announced it would be closed until April 20th. Writing on behalf of the district, spokeswoman Gail Pinsker now reports schools will be closed until further notice. The full e mail is below: Superintendent's Message: Distance Learning and School Closures Dear Parents, Guardians and Staff, I hope that you and your loved ones are safe, healthy, and weathering this crisis as well...
Gelson's market in Pacific Palisades has closed, after an employee of the market there tested positive for Coronavirus. The market will be sterilized thoroughly and re-opened. Gelsons issued a press release saying how sorry they were, and how much they care about the employee, and about you, the shopper. Like medical care providers, Checkers and other people who work in markets are the unsung heroes of this crisis. They are exposed to viruses from hundreds of shoppers in a...
Here's a few updates about quarantine in Italy as promised. On Monday we'll be entering the fourth week of quarantine of the national lockdown and the sixth week for all students. Since the beginning of the ordinance we are allowed to leave the house for grocery, medical needs, work and walking the dog as close as possible to one's house. Breaking the ordinance has serious repercussions depending on the offense and it concerns individuals and business laws alike. If one...
If you live on the Westside of Los Angeles or in Santa Monica, you are well aware that many thousands of homeless people live in parks. Some residents have long complained that their homeless neighbors are not just poor, but also ill mannered, drug addicted and mentally ill. Others advocate for peaceful coexistence. It would appear that Sunday March 28, the international Covid19 crisis forced local police to finally move the homeless out of parks and boardwalks, and into...
Santa Monica's most distinctive feature, Palisades Park, looks out over the ocean from Cliffs up to 400 feet above the Pacific Coast Highway. To prevent crowds from spreading the Coronavirus, the City has announced that Palisades Park is closed this weekend. Santa Monica's 4 miles of beaches were already closed, by order of the Los Angeles County Dept. of Public Health. (LA County has jurisdiction over LA County beaches). Presumably, the parks will open to residents on...
You probably got the alert on your phone. "Danger! Beaches are closed to the public until further notice, due to Covid-19. Oh, and the Hiking Trails too." Avoid crowds, somehow get exercise, be safe. You should see the hate on social media (actually, you probably have. What else is there to do but look at Facebook?) Who the hell are these people anyway? Is it possible that our elected politicians are doing this to us? One woman speculated that this was a way to force the...
Update, Wednesday night 3/25/2020: LA County Health Dept. officially removed the boy who is the subject of of this article, from the official LA County list of Coronavirus deaths. It was reported Tuesday that the first minor in LA County died of Coronavirus. But the 17 year old boy's diagnosis is in dispute. In fact, he was never tested during his lifetime for Covid-19, despite his father having been so diagnosed. This according to Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris The Los...
The number of Coronavirus cases in California is now 4,040. Governor Gavin Newsom says we will be at the numbers of NY in less than a week. Since 5 p.m. Wednesday, the state has confirmed an additional 1,026 cases and an additional 19 deaths from COVID-19. Statewide, 83 people have now died from complications with the coronavirus. The Bay Area total grew to 1,439 with 252 new cases in its 10 counties on Thursday, with five new deaths pushing its total to 32. In California,...
"The coronavirus is scaring people because it is new and much is not known about it. But what we can tell so far is that this is no Ebola. Most people who contract it recover just fine. The fatality rate appears to be considerably lower than SARS and is probably much lower than it appears right now, since so many cases are very likely going unreported and mild versions of the disease are probably not being counted at all. Most fatalities are among the elderly and those with...
Hermosa Beach announced that it will follow the lead of cities such as Los Angeles and Santa Monica, and close beaches and beach parking lots to the public. Like other West Coast urban areas, authorities have struggled to convince people, young people especially, not to gather in groups or socialize in public areas designed for them to do exactly that. The press release from the City of Hermosa Beach follows: The Sooner, the Better: City Acting to Avoid Another Weekend of...
From the LA Co. Health Dept daily briefing on 3/26: 421 new Covid-19 cases were reported, and nine new deaths, bringing the total to 21 deaths, and 1216 cases in LA Co. today. They removed the teen from the original stats, saying Covid-19 may not have been the cause. Another person was removed because they did not live in LA Co. Director of LA Co. Public Health, Dr. Barbara Ferrer, says if we don't curtail the spread, there could be a million cases in LA Co. in a few weeks!...
Today was a great beach day in Santa Monica, and thousands of people came to the beach. This is behavior the city of Santa Monica wants to discourage. "This will last for weeks," said city manager Rick Cole, referring to the Coronavirus emergency declared by City, State and national governments. "Maintain social distancing wash your hands and find a way to exercise 6 feet apart from others." The 100 year old Santa Monica pier was closed a few days ago, the first time since a...
On Friday, March 20, local authorities urged the stay-at-home populace to go out hiking for exercise and mental refreshment. The hundreds of miles of trails in the mountain recreation areas surrounding the Los Angeles basin seemed like a safe place to send people, where there might be room to spread out and abide by the guideline to stay 6 feet away from others. It didn't work out. The trails and parks became so crowded that they were closed by Monday, March 23. The relatively...
3/23- At a live-stream press conference today, LA Department of Public Health Director Dr. Barbara Ferrer reported 128 new cases of known Coronavirus patients in LA County. Since Tuesday, March 17, the number of new cases per day had been holding fairly steady at between 40-60. Today's number shows a marked increase. The total number of known Coronavirus cases in the county is 536. Two recent deaths have brought the total number of fatalities to 7. Dr. Ferrer added that 80 per...
Former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, who is serving a prison sentence for sexual assault and rape, has tested positive for the coronavirus, according to the head of the state corrections officers union. Weinstein, 68, has been placed in isolation at Wende Correctional Facility, said Michael Powers, president of the New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association. Powers said he learned that the test came back positive on Sunday morning and is concerned a...
In an encouraging sign, the Los Angeles Superior Court has announced that it will reopen tomorrow for urgent matters. 36 courthouses will open, including some that do not do criminal law. It had been debated how suspects arrested, who must be arraigned within 48 hours or must be released, would be handled. The press release from the superior court is below. The Superior Court later issued a different press release noting that public counters would not be opened, and that the g...
District Attorney Jackie Lacey Directs Deputy District Attorneys To Help Reduce Jail Population During Pandemic Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey announced today that she has directed her deputy district attorneys to take steps to reduce the number of people both in local jails and courthouses as part of her office's response to help curb the spread of the coronavirus. "I have asked my attorneys to consider the health risks in every decision they make,"...
Proving that he is in fact, a badass governor, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered all of the States 40 million residents to stay at home. He is hoping to delay "the inevitable:" his prediction that half of the State's residents will contract novel coronavirus. 25 million people, he said, will develop the disease under a projection from Johns Hopkins University. California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday issued a statewide order for all residents to ‘stay at home’ amid a c...
Does this make any sense to you? Vons grocery company has decided that its shoppers must line up outside the store, so that only 10 or 50 are shopping inside at any one time. Trouble is, they are close enough to breath on each other. Gelson's has done likewise. We saw a Vons and a Pavilions (a division of Vons) in Santa Monica, where the shoppers were lined up within three feet of each other rather than the recommended six feet apart. Coronavirus is a serious thing, but has le...
An Apple Store worker on the Santa Monica Promenade has Coronavirus. The unnamed employee, who has been on leave since March 2, tested positive late yesterday. In response, Apple said they deep cleaned the Third Street location, and it is open for business. They did, however, cancel their "Today at Apple" sessions, and spaced out appointments at the Genius Bar. Three employees at it's Irish HQ's tested positive earlier this month, and Apple has closed down all of it's...
City of Santa Monica Issues Emergency Order for Temporary Business Closures to the Public the Slow the Spread of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Today, effective at noon, City of Santa Monica issued a supplement to the local emergency proclamation that requires two week closure of the following businesses: All bars and nightclubs that do not serve food will be closed to the public. Any bars or nightclubs that serve food may remain open only for purposes of continuing to prepare...
At a streaming press conference today, LADPH Director Barbara Ferrer announced the second death to occur in the county from the COVID-19 virus. The individual reportedly lived in a small community near Pasadena. He was between 30-50 years of age and had an underlying health condition. Ferrer had other new information to relate regarding the testing and quarantine protocols recommended to slow the spread of the virus. Ferrer made clear repeatedly throughout the press briefing t...
