CoViD-19 & Black Lives Matter: More Facilities To Reopen As Covid Cases Continue to Rise | Faulconer's Lip Service | San Diego Budget Hearing

Starting on Friday, June 12th, places like San Diego Zoo may reopen in San Diego County.
(Whether they do or not is another story. Taken 3.9.2020)

I've only listened to a very small amount of the City Council meeting today, but after listening to about five hours of last week's public comment, most calls are to 'defund' the police. For some it means not adding any additional money for next year, especially not from the CARES Act monies, and other calls for significant reduction in current funding levels, or some to abolish the department altogether. And judging from the Mayor's briefing, he doesn't expect any of those roadblocks to stop his budget tonight, but there are still an enormous amount of calls before any motions will be made by the Council. Unfortunately I think that once the public is allowed to attend meetings in person, the ability to call in will likely be discontinued as repeated callers have ended their calls with "Fuck The Police" or one that called out Faulconer "to read a book, look at the world around you, instead of going to play putt-putt golf or whatever the fuck you rich white people do for fun." Yikes.

Anyway, things are moving quickly, things are opening quickly, and we're already reviewing the guidelines for the Casbah (perhaps without music), but in the meantime, all proceeds from Casbah merch sales this week will go to the ACLU. Bars and Zoos are on the list to open Friday and I'm not emotionally ready for it. I can't wait to go, at the same time, I my anxiety about the world around me and people not following the rules tells me that it might be awhile before I'm comfortable really leaving my cocoon.

• County of San Diego Media Briefing
• Openings are going to come fast; keep up to date with open industries
• May Reopen Immediately 
• Day Camps (includes same team youth sports)
• Smaller groups
• Maintain separation
• No competition
• Campgrounds
• RV Parks 
• Outdoor Recreation (Sports Fishing and Charter Boats)
• Must have hand washing and sanitization stations on board
• Beaches reopening on Tuesday for active uses (volleyball, football) within households
• Each jurisdiction may open piers and parking lots
• More industries may reopen Friday, June 12, based on state guidelines
• (if you're a business on this list, must fill out safe reopening plan and read guidelines)
• Schools
• Music, film and TV production
• Professional sports without in-person spectators. Office staff uses Office Workplace guidance. Retail operations use the Retail guidance.  
• Gyms and fitness facilities
• Community pools, including those in condominiums
• Restaurants, Bars and Wineries
• Hotels
• Card rooms, satellite wagering and racetracks
• Family entertainment, including bowling alleys and arcades
• Museums, galleries, zoos and aquariums
• Individual travel allowed
• No outbreaks have been seen from restaurants but have from private homes
• Dr Wooten says she can neither confirm nor deny an investigation into Hilltop Tabernacle Church outbreak. "We are aware of cases and we are investigating." (My note- this is total bullshit. We know the names of the skilled nursing facilities that had outbreaks and even their numbers. Why does this asshole church--who specifically flaunted the rules--get to be an exception?) 
• San Diego Mayor Briefing
• San Diego Budget is in the process of its final hearing right now in City Council
• Facing $350million deficit 
• "Revised budget reflects the needs of the community", "Real and immediate needs", "Lifting people up" 
• Mayor supports proposal by Montgomery & Gomez: Office of Race & Equity
• Public Safety
• Not really gonna report here. Just a bunch of platitudes about body cams (which they often refuse to share footage), policies and procedures are online (nothing to hold people accountable, ending carotid holds, held emergency meetings by CAB and CRB. "Police will continue to build on its relationship with the community by adopting deescalation policies." 
• "Next steps": effective, accountable, transparent, and have the trust of the public
• More reopenings (face coverings, same household, social distancing still required): 
• East & West Mission Bay park
• Fiesta Island to peds, bikes, sidewalks
• Tuesday: All piers and boardwalks
• Friday: Balboa Park Central Mesa & Lots at full capacity
• Reiterated County openings as listed above
• Today's Suggested Reading:
• How Law Enforcement May Be Worsening the Spread of COVID-19 at Protests: Using tear gas can help spread the virus, and law enforcement just seized hundreds of masks that could protect people.- Teen Vogue (6.5.2020)
• There's another San Diego City Council meeting on Tuesday. 
• The People's Business
• America Is Giving Up on the Pandemic: Businesses are reopening. Protests are erupting nationwide. But the virus isn’t done with us. - The Atlantic (6.7.2020)
• Excerpt: A brief glance at Covid Exit Strategy, a site that tracks state-by-state progress, reveals that most states are not actually hitting the reopening marks suggested by public-health experts. Yet state leaders have not stuck with the kinds of lockdowns that suppressed the virus in other countries; nobody has suggested that cases must be brought to negligible levels before normal activity can resume. No federal official has shared a plan for preventing transmission among states that have outbreaks of varying intensity. The Trump administration did not use the eight weeks of intense social distancing to significantly expand our suppression capacity.