California will reopen on June 15 without any capacity limits or physical distancing requirements for businesses or events, the state’s Health and Human Services secretary said Friday.
Gov. Gavin Newsom last month announced the expected June 15 reopening date, which state officials on Friday confirmed as COVID-19 case numbers and hospitalizations continue to drop and the number of people vaccinated continues to increase.
Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly on a call with reporters Friday said COVID-related hospitalizations are down to levels not seen since the start of the pandemic, while vaccines are available with no wait throughout the state for everyone ages 12 and up.
As a result, California will end its tiered system of restrictions for counties as it lifts the capacity and distancing limits on June 15.
“Those requirements of the past are no longer needed for the foreseeable future,” Ghaly said.
He said the state will be laying out recommendations and guidelines for vaccine verifications for businesses but will not be creating any sort of vaccine passport system.
Dee Dee Myers, a senior advisor to Newsom, said confirming the June 15 reopening date is “a really important milestone as we move forward” and “will allow people to really plan in detail” for their businesses or events in the coming weeks and months.
“We’re still in the middle of that transition, and not sure what the next normal is going to look like,” Myers said.
Ghaly said a priority will be working with local school districts to make sure K-12 schools are fully reopening for the new school year, and said while vaccines were recently made available for people as young as 12, vaccine eligibility for children ages 2-11 might not happen until the late summer or early fall.
As California reopens fully, public health officials anticipate that COVID-19 cases will rise, but Ghaly said he doesn’t think it will have a significant impact on the state’s hospital systems given current levels of vaccination, and there won’t be any new metrics counties will need to reach to stay out of further capacity or social distancing restrictions.
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Soooo cases may rise and people will get sick/die, but as long as we don’t clog up the hospitals, we can have restaurants again? Get the heck outta here!!!!
Pretty sure most of the people most susceptible to covid have been vaxxed, everyone has had the opportunity at this point, so to those still getting covid and landing in the hospital, tough luck, maybe they’ll slip you some Pfizer while you’re proned in the hospital and on a ventilator.
Another anti-vaxxer and science denier weighs in.
No thanks Paul, you can sit at home in bubble wrap with 5 masks on until 2030 if you like, rest of us got to get back to life.
I deny all “COVID SCIENCE” There is simply no way anyone with half a brain could believe the COVID HOAX. It’s all been fraudulent from day one.
Also the idea that there are more then two genders or that life doesn’t start at conception is not “scientific” in any way. So science ain’t science.
In conclusion, science is complete horse crap. Historically “science” is actually paganism and witchcraft. But by all means, take the magic potion. Have the town witch doctor or medicine man shove their concoction in your arm for protection from the super deadly virus that came to kill us all. You will now have a magical force field around you to keep you safe. Also never remove your helmet.
Hilarious…”anti-vaxxer” because maybe some of us don’t want to inject an experimental serum where there is ZERO data on long-term effects, and it offers a whopping 1% (0.7% for Pfizer) absolute risk reduction, for a virus that has a greater than 99.5% survival rate. And oh yeah, I don’t have to “get back” to life because we never stopped, have done more traveling and had more gatherings with friends/family over the past 15 months than ever before. Never wore a mask outside, already not wearing indoors in some places, which soon will be not wearing inside anywhere.
@A
thanks for showing how much hate you on the left feel for others who disagree with you. i hope you never face such evil.
people will always be sick, people will always unfortunately pass away….its silly and unreasonable to live in fear and strap useless things to our faces and live in this cartoon any longer
@A
sorry i mistook your position, left vs right, but i was spot on with the hate part clearly you demonstrated that with your latest comment
Excellent.
What about Masks ?
THE MASKS NEVER WORKED.
Feel free to get some hypoxia and bacterial infections if you like.
Anon, I agree with you
So @Anon, you believe that the mask can trap in a GAS, but not a water droplet containing the virus (cause it doesn’t survive outside the droplets)?
Also, I don’t know, maybe swap out your mask once a week or more…?
.Masks are for Halloween.
@eras
Oh look, now you are smarter then Stanford and MIT? Where will your arrogance end? Get over yourself. Lol swap out your mask once a week while you know, 15 days to slow the spread so hospitals don’t get overrun. Only in California will you find such brainwashing. Did you really fall for the COVID HOAX? Or are you shilling for the state? Science is fraud. Masks are for Halloween. The whole medical profession just lost all credibility.
@Sam
Did you actually read and understand the results of their studies? YES, the virus can pass right through the mask (as determined by the small particles in the tests), BUT the virus isn’t able to live out in the open air, and needs respiratory droplets to survive, and those are MUCH bigger and ARE trapped by the mask…
As for the rest of the paragraph you wrote, it seems like the same old cracked conspiracy sayings I’ve been hearing for the past year… Baseless and infantile.
THE MASKS NEVER WORKED.
Feel free to get some hypoxia and bacterial infections if you like.
The state is waiting until June 15th to make a decision about masks.
Even if the state drops the mandate, some businesses still may want to enforce their own mask policies for non-vaccinated people. The state is already arresting people who are producing and procuring fake vaccination cards. Faking the cards is a Federal crime.
Businesses can’t even do anything about shop lifting…..good luck with some HIPAA violating “vaccination cards”.
Nobody is being arrested and it’s not a federal crime. Why lie natalie? Businesses who try and play this game don’t need money. Shareholders should love that. Good luck with your 2 tiers of freedom. Won’t work for even a day.
@Sam: The FBI has stated “the creation, purchase, or sale of vaccine cards by individuals is illegal” and is a Federal crime. The California AG has said it’s a Federal crime. There was just recently an arrest of someone in Clements, California who distributed fake vaccine cards. I am 100% not lying about this.
You can’t fake a card for yourself or for other people. You can’t download a fake card or purchase a fake card. If a person is caught trying to use a fake vaccine card, they could be subject to a fine. People caught distributing fake cards to other people could be subject to fines or arrest. There is only one legal way to get a vaccine card. It starts with rolling up your sleeve.
#N
“i am 100% not lying” – so all the other times you were lying….
jinx!! LOL
#Trump2022
The fbi says a lot of things that aren’t true. Nobody was arrested in Clements. Xavier Becerra is a BLM supporting anarchist, he will say whatever, it don’t make it reality. There is no crime associated with vaccination cards. Stop making things up. If someone identifies as a vaccinated individual, who are you to judge? You ain’t a bigot are you?
@ Natalie
HAHAHAHHAHA
It is a Federal crime to possess, transport, or sell marijuana too. How is that working out in California?
It is a Federal crime to steal mail. I dare you to show me how many times that has been prosecuted in 9th Federal Circuit Court.
The US Attorney General won’t prosecute bank robberies, also a federal crime, unless the jackass is a serial bank robber. Hell the FBI doesn’t even respond to bank robberies anymore.
Derek Chauvin violated Geo. Floyd’s constitutional rights under color of authority, a violation of 18 U.S. Code § 242 yet he was not prosecuted.
I don’t think counterfeiting a vaccination card is going to be a high priority for the Federal Government.
@N – yup, the feds are just waiting for people to display their fake cards so they can lock them up .
Look at all of the states that legalized marijuana – yet that’s a “federal” crime.
Riiiiiiiiight…..
@sam: Our AG isn’t Becerra anymore. There is a FBI office here in Concord. You can take your fake vaccine card there and ask them if its illegal. The vaccine cards have government seals for the CDC and the Dept of Health and Human Services. Misuse of the seals to falsify paperwork is a crime per Section 1017 of Title 18 of US code. It’s fraud.
@Janus: just this month a man from Fresno pleaded guilty in federal court to stealing mail. Local police can investigate fraudulent vaccine cards and issue a charge of fraud. It doesn’t have to be federal officers who do that. Take your fake card to the Concord police and see what happens.
@ Natalie
Walking into a cop shop, providing them with evidence, signing a confession in blood AND have it broadcast live on TV is about the only way it will ever get prosecuted by the Fed.
@ Natalie
What else did the man in Fresno pled guilty to? The mail theft was incidental to the real reason why he was prosecuted. Submitting false claims for pandemic unemployment assistance to the tune of $14K.
28 years as a police officer and I have NEVER had a Postal Inspector get involved in theft of mail caper and I’ve tried several times. I couldn’t even get them to call me back. The FBI and bank robbery prosecution isn’t much better. Serials or violence is about the only time they are interested and only after the locals arrest the jackass.
Saying a petty crime is against Federal statues is like saying it’s against the God’s Commandments. In both cases you can expected to be judged in the afterlife because it is not going to happen in Federal Court.
@ Janus-
Agree on Postal Inspectors, only once in 28 yrs myself was I able to get them to charge a guy federally. Guy stole a postal uniform from a post office and then went out following letter carriers to steal mail.
For bank robbery the FBI only got involved when the case had multiple bank robberies or they felt it would get good press.
Any business asking me for proof of anything other than being able to pay for goods or services will never get my money. The next several months will be interesting. Customers will be taking sides with their wallets.
Agreed!
Why in the world would anyone want to recall Newsom??? That would like benching Lebron James or Steph Curry.
Curious to see how businesses handle this and how all the Karen’s out there react
Are Curry and James still playing? The Chicoms must be ecstatic.
Gavin must really be nervous. He should be.
I am vaccinated and ready for the mask mandate to be lifted but I will probably still wear my mask in any high risk situations. If everyone continues to wash their hands and stay home if they are sick we should be fine.
Belairium,
What are you saying??? You are vaccinated….
Basically, you are admitting that the non-vaccine Gene hack DOES NOT WORK.
So did you do it just to virtue signal?
agree the ccchealtha and cdc and who all said even the newscum and pelosi and the faucist and and binbiden and every dem politician athletic supporter
all said that a thin bandana worn will stop a airborn …hmm no wait they said it was ….a contact …errr oops no that wasnt it ….a particle transfer …hmmm was it though
they told us adamantly that it is from eating bats
and yet if a mask protects ….wait for it
and china is the most masked oppressed country behind alqueda
then why did it spread ????
think think think
hold on there is more
yet the committee of dem politicians who formed to get to the bottom and find out the origins so they could prevent and stop ….wait isnt that what the niaid does and faucist is the head
anyways none …none not them or any dem politician for a fact has no interest in finding the origins
ok back to the bats and masks and the false narrative
so if bats eaten by only chinese in woohoohan
and they say spittle is the transfer
then how did it spread from the china east across asia and through korea and japan and hit washington state then oregon and komifornia and did it within a few days
how were the entirety of china infected when they allready wear masks
again on to a simple theory of why all the dems ranted and scolded and bent over backwards crying and screaming and panting for trump not to close the boarders and stop any planes from asia
the dem media and dem politicians all said racism
food for thought ….chew on that and feel safer now after the proverbial wall
of june 15 is here
Trump countered their narrative by implementing the travel ban.
Trump countered their narrative by introducing hydroxychloroquine.
Trump countered their narrative with operation warp speed.
Trump knew exactly what they were planning.
Fauci said it would be years before a vaccine, Trump put a pink mask on that gremlin and took his voice. This “virus” event was scheduled to go on for many years and include many dark levels of totalitarianism. Because of Trump, You are free today
Barry and Honey Sherman of Canada were murdered. They were the largest supplier of hydroxychloroquine in N. America. Some people knew the event was going down. Everything about the virus is staged.
Fauci’s Claim That the NIH Never Funded Gain-of-Function Research at the Wuhan Lab Has Some Serious Holes
https://tinyurl.com/vw7hdhz2
US Grant to Wuhan Lab on Bat-Based Coronaviruses Didn’t Get Review, NIH Says
https://tinyurl.com/2z76t6c8
… so tell me again how President Trump wasn’t correct by calling it the “Wuhan virus”?
jinx! you just called me a xenophobic racist, did you? LOL!!
Should read “The Bay Area Reopening”, as when you go anywhere outside of loonsville there aren’t, and haven’t been masks, for at least the last six months. Funny how the “deplorables” are the only ones with enough brains to actually research science fact and realize masks were only an emotional band aid from the start.
People will continue to soak up whatever the idiot box tells them to believe.
Frickin CDC knew AT LEAST as far back as Feb 2020 that surgical/cloth masks do NOTHING, per a WHO-funded study that was a meta-analysis of 14 RCTs (Randomized Clinical Trials) looking at the effectiveness of nonpharmaceutical measures such as hand-washing and masks.
Basically a sneeze guard you wear over your face to provide others with a tiny bit of protection.
almost like the dems and the left used masks as a way of determining their level of control, like a poll that everyone took and was covered by global media so they could see almost real time what was happening
he dragged this out longer than was needed
#RecallGavinNewsom
Mayor,
Can you provide the link to the BOS COVID-19 meeting from yesterday, May 20, 2021?
Here is the Board of Supervisor’s Agenda of May 20, 2021.
Click on agenda topics that are highlighted in blue for meeting details.
https://tinyurl.com/4sdsfrvk
Wearing a mask does not protect the wearer. So if you’re wearing a mask, and you’re not sure if someone without a mask has been vaccinated or not, you’ll probably be alright if you just stay out of their face.
I have been with people who tested positive over the last 15 months. I deliberately went to see them and give them a hug, be in their air space and try to “catch” COVID. None of them were able to give me THE COVID. Science says one of two things is true. You get to pick only one.
1. I have god like superior genes.
2. COVID is a complete HOAX
While number one is likely true, I don’t believe it’s the reason I was unable to catch the super deadly, super contagious, highly infectious, death of all men pandemic hoax. Masks are for Halloween.
BTW what’s the total overall death count this year for all reasons? Are we pushing 250,000 yet? If you can’t see how the statistics are all lies then I have a bridge for sale paired with a nice piece of Arizona ocean front property.
@Sam, So you’re saying you actually know people that had Covid? Seems to blow your whole “COVID is a complete HOAX” argument out of the water…
Also, let me introduce you to two terms:
Asymptomatic – Someone who is asymptomatic has the infection but no symptoms and will not develop them later.
Silent Spreader – Someone who is infected and asymptomatic that spreads the virus unknowingly to those around them.
So if what you say about trying to catch the virus is actually true (and I feel its BS for clout), THANKS FOR THE LAST YEAR!
Wearing a properly fitted, high quality RESPIRATOR does in factor protect against the virus, or other repsiratory ailments. Or pollen. Or just foul odors.
Wearing a bandana or a cloth mask or a neck gaiter does very, very little.
You don’t know what a respirator even is. You think a dust mask is a respirator? Give me a break. This is first grade level knowledge. No a napkin with a string ain’t doing nothing for you except telling me you are subhuman.
@anon
Well they do what they’re supposed to, notice how the inside of the mask gets humid, thats because the mask is trapping in the respiratory droplets (along with a bit of heat). Those droplets are what covid needs to survive outside your body. So they do work for what we need them for…
Those “droplets” wouldn’t even form without a mask. It’s called condensation. Again this is first grade level conversation.
“so they do work for what we need them for”
Who needs them for that? Not me. logic would say NOT to allow any “droplets” to form yo begin with. You said we need to trap droplets that are created by the mask, then without the mask YOUR COVID can survive.
Your logic is flawed. You’re now talking in circles.
No mask= No droplets= NO HOAX
***YOUR COVID can’t survive.
Wow @Sam… You COMPLETYELY misunderstood all of that… The mask doesn’t form the droplets, you do… Every time you breath out moisture is leaving your body (in the form of micro droplets), the mask simply catches those (and the virus inside them) and keeps them contained.
Condensation is the collecting of water in the air, not the creation. When you have a cold soda, it doesn’t create water on the outside, it just collects it from the air. “First grade level conversation” really…
Oh and the ONLY way to stop the droplets from forming is not to breath…
@ER
you forgot “super spreader” and a bunch of other BS medial like terms the left and the media use to scare people.
so riddle me this, if a person is asymptomatic does that mean they are infectious? careful the half truths in your comments are showing… LOL
Normally I don’t interact with crazy but I’ll play a little longer..
Moisture dissipates before it has a chance to form your elusive “droplets” The only way a droplet could possibly form is if you create a barrier to trap it. Which you could with a mask *(along with a bit of heat) If I remember you right.
You are literally talking in circles of half truths. How does it feel to be on the wrong side? You are wrong 100%. Nothing you have presented here has any foundation in any science. The only “Sciences” that apply to COVID HOAX are political science and computer science.
Why can’t you stop shilling for masks? What is your motivation? Are you paid to spread mask hysteria? I don’t understand your lack of interest in obtaining real knowledge. You just spout off total lies.
Good to hear California is finally allowing life to go on. Other states have been up and running for some time. Vaccinated will still get covid – so there should be no surprise, there. Hope the segregation doesn’t continue for those who can’t be or decline vaccination. Hope it doesn’t become forced on citizens. Look at Texas! https://www.fox4news.com/news/dallas-county-reports-506-covid-19-cases-8-deaths-among-fully-vaccinated-people
“Dallas County health officials say the eight fully vaccinated people who died were immunocompromised, on immunosuppressant medication or had high-risk underlying health conditions”
Basically they wouldve died from the flu…
Around 78% of people who were hospitalized, needed a ventilator or died as a result of COVID-19 were overweight or obese, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“Germ theory” Is not even proven science to begin with. So what you have is a theory, on top of a theory, on top of a theory to get to where masks somehow “protect”
I’m not sure how many leaps of faith you have to take to believe this mumbojumbo.
The COVID HOAX cannot survive. It is rooted in complete conspiracy theories. Some of you clowns are so backwards thinking ANYTHING over the last 15 months is based in FACTS.
It’s time to stop the ignorance. That starts by you learning.
if they learned they’d be sad because the world is a harsh place with no regard for life or it’s “feelings”, so i wouldn’t hold my breath that anyone who doesn’t understand already with ever learn anything. they’d rather be happy and ignorant instead of “mad” and knowledgeable.
just saying
God bless
Somebody is trying to stay in his position. You better believe we would stay in lockdown if the recall wasn’t going to happen in November. He is power hungry!
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