The latest bullshit from the county I live in.
BREAKING NEWS FROM THE CARMEL PINE CONE
April 6, 2021, 11:00 a.m.
MONTEREY COUNTY MOVES TO ORANGE TIER
• Businesses, gyms, museums, restaurants, etc. can expand operations starting tomorrow
With new cases of coronavirus continuing to decline and vaccinations growing at an impressive rate, the California Department of Public Health said this morning that a key threshold has been met that will allow Monterey County to move into the Orange Tier of the state's economic shutdown plan. This means that businesses, museums, restaurants, tasting rooms and other entities in the county can start operating under
Orange Tier rules effective April 7.(Whoop-de-fucking-do. Felt in my pants and checked if I'd done anything. Nope. No fucks given. - JS)
The change comes because more than 4 million doses of coronavirus vaccine have now been administered in what officials consider the "least healthy" places in the state. With that threshold having been met, the CDPH raised the score required for the Orange Tier from 3.9 to 5.9 — a standard Monterey County has already been in compliance with since March 16.
Among other things, the Orange Tier provides that restaurants and other businesses will be able to increase capacity to 50 percent from 25 percent, gyms can increase from ten percent capacity to 25 percent, and many types of indoor and outdoor gatherings that had been banned can resume.
For months, Monterey County was in the highly restrictive Purple Tier. On March 16 it moved to the Red Tier. Just three weeks later, today's move to the Orange Tier shows how rapidly the coronavirus epidemic has declined here, with about 100 new infections happening per week, down from more than 4,000 a week in early January. Meanwhile, nearly 200,000 vaccinations doses have been administered in Monterey County — a number that is increasing by about 4,000 every day.(But not me!

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CALIFORNIA EXPECTS ALL RESTRICTIONS ON BUSINESSS, ACIVITIES TO END JUNE 15
Dr. Marc Ghaly, head of the California Department of Public Health, said this morning that vaccination rates in the state had increased so much and Covid-19 had declined so rapidly, the state would end all restrictions on businesses and public gatherings effective June 15.(What a fucking joke, long as people still must wear masks. - JS)
"We are going to be moving beyond having capacity limits and focus on having as many Californians as possible get vaccinated," Ghaly said during a morning conference call with reporters. "The color-coded system as it’s devised now will no longer be in effect after June 15, provided vaccines are sufficiently available and all Californians over 16 who want to get vaccinated can get vaccinated, and provided that the low level of disease and hospitalizations that we've had continue."(STILL not getting vaccinated. STILL not enough to save Nazi Newsom from being recalled. They can go bite my crank. - JS)
People will still be required to wear masks, he said, and many of the state's social distancing recommendations will remain in effect, especially for very large concerts and conventions, "but activities will be able to resume and businesses will be able to reopen with common sense." (I don't give a flying fuck, I just want to do without the fucking mask. - JS)