The Hill’s breathless headline wants you to know that this is a BIG deal:
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From the piece:
“Amid signs of improving COVID-19 conditions in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) lifted statewide stay-at-home orders Monday, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) said.
“The move allows restaurants to open for outdoor dining options and salons to resume indoor appointments. Outdoor church services are also permitted. Reopening options apply to regions including the San Francisco Bay Area, Central Valley and Southern California and marks the first reopening opportunity since December.
“The state will now revert to a county tier system, which eases lockdowns depending on case rates and gives local officials the option to set their own restrictions, KCRA reports.”
The third panel,
Are the Lockdowns Moving Cases Forward? Science and Treatments, was helmed by Dr. Jayanta (Jay) Bhattacharya, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, and Dr. George Fareed, whom I had the opportunity to interview.
Dr. Bhattacharya is a Professor of Medicine and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. He is a Professor of Economics and Health Research and Policy, and focuses on the researching the health and well-being of vulnerable populations. As Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Hewitt pointed out, someone with both an M.D. and Ph.D in economics “can relate to not only the damage to our health, but the damage to the health of our economy.”
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Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones has stones. First elected in 2010, and re-elected twice, he has the personal experience and political weight to ask tough questions, especially of other elected officials. Questions so tough that the paper of record, the Sacramento Bee, decided he needed to be fact checked.
If you’re taking flak, you must be over the target.
Lately he has
been the target, as one of the several California County Sheriffs who has chosen to disregard Governor Gavin Newsom’s latest safer-at-home orders. When Sheriff Jones contracted COVID in December, Newsom used a press conference to attempt to shame the Sheriff as a COVID denier, and cast aspersions on his leadership decisions: