Newsom chides California beachgoers: 'We can't see images like we saw'

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Source: politico

OAKLAND — Gov. Gavin Newsom chided Californians who flocked to beaches over the weekend, saying they could delay an otherwise imminent start to reopening the economy.

“We can’t see images like we saw, particularly on Saturday, in Newport Beach and elsewhere,” Newsom told reporters, adding that coronavirus “doesn't go home because it's a beautiful sunny day around our coasts.” Flattening rates of infection and death have California poised to begin lifting restrictions on social activity and economic life. Newsom said Monday that the state is “weeks, not months" away from relief in the form of “meaningful modifications” to the state’s stay-at-home order. But he warned that backsliding on social distancing could undermine that goal.

“The only thing that will set us back is our behavior,” Newsom said, adding that “the only thing that can stop that is more images like we saw this weekend.”

The governor noted that officials in coastal Orange County were looking at “augmentations” to limits on beach use and he suggested the California Highway Patrol could “avail ourselves to more aggressive enforcement.”



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[captain queeg]

1. Check their IDs and record them for cross referencing at hospitals

Even if they can’t be prevented from getting treatment the information would be very useful.

[Dustlawyer]

2. Our Texas beaches are packed as well.

It’s bad here already but with this it will be much worse, especially if they allow it to continue.

[still_one]

3. Stupid fools. If our numbers go up that will delay opening things up even longer

[rocktivity]

4. The way to slow the spread of the virus is to find the infected by mass testing

and get enough of them off the streets so that the herd immunity of the uninfected can kick in.


rocktivity

[mr_lebowski]

9. Yes, we need to keep infections down, until there's a vaccine ... (nt)

[orleans]

5. "we can't see images like we saw"

doesn't exactly sound like a strong warning to me

people won't give a shit.

a $500 ticket and citing them with "putting the public welfare in danger" going on a permanent record would probably have more of an impact.

[ancianita]

7. Agree. Irresponsible individuals are a danger to whole communities. That applies to all reopenings.

[Steelrolled]

16. Yep

He did his duty by saying something, but I don't think he is that worried about it. You can maintain safe distance on a beach, and those who don't are likely not being that careful in other places.

[rpannier]

6. If they want to use the beach like that they should have to inject disinfectant first

[Talitha]

8. My idiot trumpanzee brother said going to the beach won't spread the virus because

the virus is coated in fat, and the hot beach environment will melt the fat and kill the virus while it's inside of you. Scariest of all - he's got a Masters degree in Science and taught it in high school for 25 years. Thank goodness the fool is retired.

[mr_lebowski]

10. While it's inside of you? Our temperatures don't go up significantly just cause we're at the beach

That's kinda how being a 'warm-blooded animal' works.

Apparently, he was not a Biology major.

I suppose one could reasonably speculate that the heat might kill the virus BEFORE it gets in you, but once its in you ... nah.

[Talitha]

11. Welcome to my world.

I never went to college but even I know better than that. Just like shitler though, these trumpanzees think they know everything - and there's no point in trying to educate them.

A few years ago I commented how glorious the Milky Way looked on the previous night and he immediately shot back with a laughing dismissal: "We're in the Milky Way - you can't see it from where we are!"

Sigh... all you can do is walk away from these people.

[mr_lebowski]

13. I'd have responding by putting a plastic bag over his head

Holding it around his throat and yelling 'Ok, you're IN THIS PLASTIC BAG ... CAN YOU SEE IT? HUH?!? CAN YOU SEE IT?!?'

That's just me

[Igel]

12. I take it to mean outside.

Either way, perception of high temperature isn't the same as a high temperature.

110-115 F is where we start feeling pain from things like hot metal and hot water. Our perception to pain, like pitch and volume, aren't linear.

[mr_lebowski]

14. I took it to mean what the person reporting the story ... said happened.

Cause I have nothing else go by

[MosheFeingold]

15. I guess I am in the minority here

Transmission outside, in the Sun, and the wind is highly unlikely.

Assuming people don’t pack themselves together like sardines, there is zero danger here.

Now, if it is a crowded mess and there are choke points, that’s a different ball of wax.

But hanging out on the beach reasonably spaced is about as low risk as things get.

[Steelrolled]

17. That was my thought - the camera pictures I saw were not that concerning.

I think the governor just had to say something.