SB 51: the California politics thread

the first of many

Wow that was fast.

Vons firing unionized drivers, switching to Doordash “after the passage of Proposition 22, which gutted worker protections while making it easier for companies to shift financial burdens onto newly-designated independent contractors.”https://t.co/yyUYfZw9UY

— Kiera Feldman (@kierafeldman) January 4, 2021

good luck usa

I think this is good?

I agree that it is good, and a few of the public members are people I know and trust. Hopefully it can be built into something that has leverage.

Some restaurants in my area are switching back to direct delivery which I think is pretty cool.

CALIFORNIA. US Sen Dianne Feinstein (D) has filed FEC paperwork to seek reelection in 2024 to a six year term ... when she will be 91 years old. https://t.co/OQUWaDOCLB

— Politics1.com (@Politics1com) January 13, 2021

FFS

That’s so she can raise money legally. It doesn’t mean she’s running.

maybe instead of running again, Biden can make her an ambassador somewhere nice, like France.

or florida

I have a favor to ask. My Senator Feinstein thinks that Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley who spurred the insurrection should be allowed to remain in Congress. She doesn’t move on anything until she hears from 4000 voters. Call 202-224-3121 and demand their removal. Pls RT

— ChristineP (@ChristineParini) January 19, 2021

jfc what is newsom doing. he's going to get recalled at this rate.

BREAKING: California now has 942,588 backlogged unemployment claims — the sixth-highest total since the state started keeping track back in September. Just a reminder the state vowed to clear the backlog by Jan. 27 — which is now near-impossible. https://t.co/Y9vWj8rVr2

— Emily Hoeven💫 (@emily_hoeven) January 21, 2021

You could hire people to process unemployment claims and solve two problems at once.

You could hire people to process unemployment claims and solve two problems at once.

― Canon in Deez (silby), Thursday, January 21, 2021 11:23 PM (yesterday)

yes, this occurred to a lot of people back in April when they were literally calling 100 times a day to get through to anyone at the EDD. I guess it just didn't occur to the right people ...

it's the usual slow growth howard jarvis socal cranks leading the recall effort, but tbh i'd be inclined to sign up. wtg gavin!

https://i.imgur.com/E964OP9.png

congrats to california. no state delivered a smaller fraction of the vaccine doses they've been allocated. but tbf we're beating some but not all of the islands in the middle of the pacific ocean.

poor marshall islands

California needs to start getting its fucking act together. Newsom hasn't done a press conference all week. Now word is that we rank dead last in vaccine distribution.

My in-laws will be getting the first round of vaccinations on Monday.

London Breed is stated that all SF residents should be fully vaccinated by end of June.

*has

I still can't get over "London Breed", "Gavin Newsom" was unlikely enough

"London Breed is stated that all SF residents should be fully vaccinated by end of June."

I know LA county is a lot bigger, but their estimates are that even with their allotments doubling, it will take all of 2021 to vaccinate the county residents. Is Breed basing her goal on an anticipated surge of dosages? (I assume so, but without knowing what counties are basing their estimates on, statements like this are all kind of useless given how out of whack they are with each other)

Well, I'm watching the weekly UCSF Zoom town hall on where things stand from their perspective, and the sense there is definitely of a positive uptick on such fronts locally, including the amount of doses, but also the expansion of facilities. UCSF isn't the city or DPH, of course, but even so.

@akm: there are 3 mass vaccination sites that are ready to go and they are planning on increasing them given vaccine bandwidth.

of course the elephant in the room (tho maybe not? maybe they are working that piece out sooner rather than later) are the homeless residents of SF

DPH has definitely been thinking about that; I'd need to check on the details but IIRC this is probably part of their expansion of coverage via the clinics and other teams.

yeah, I don't hear Libby Schaaf making bold pronouncements and Oakland might have a higher % of homeless than SF

Breed also warned that we could run out of vaccine this week. Not sure if that is still the case since they re-approved the Moderna vaccine

I know LA county is a lot bigger, but their estimates are that even with their allotments doubling, it will take all of 2021 to vaccinate the county residents. Is Breed basing her goal on an anticipated surge of dosages?

This article gives some insight into what is going on:
https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2021/01/older-californians-struggling-vaccine/

It seems to me that, as the Trump Admin left details up to the states, California is doling everything out to local health departments and allowing them to set their own criteria, but not following up with info on how many dosages they will be receiving. So some counties changed to 65+, but did so without knowing whether they'd get any more doses. So basically, this is a big fuck up.

It’s hard for me to read this as anything other than an attempt to defuse momentum in the recall campaign - an action so craven that it actually does support a case for his recall. https://t.co/T8Occdmxok

— Scott Frazier (@safrazie) January 25, 2021

Yeah, lifting the lockdown confused me and this checks out.

this isn't lifting the lockdown, it's just rolling things back to where they were around Thanksgiving.

The most intriguing part about the rollback in SF was that it was announced the day after the deadliest COVID day to date (15 deaths). I am aware that local ICU capacity has seen some relief but the fact that deaths are spiking to all-time peaks and London Breed is like "Reopening sounds good to me!" is an extreme disconnect.

At least the weather will help with the record numbers of cremations that forced state legislators to announce a reprieve on the "Spare The Air" program.

this isn't lifting the lockdown, it's just rolling things back to where they were around Thanksgiving.

― akm, Tuesday, January 26, 2021 2:47 PM (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this isn't lifting the lockdown because there never was a lockdown worth the name in the state of california.

Just in case you guys were curious:

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no one has ever defined 'lockdown'. Schools are (mostly) still closed, indoor dining is still prohibited, bars aren't open, venues aren't open, most workplace offices are not open, and there are capacity limits on most indoor places still. For most people, that is still 'lockdown'

compare to south dakota where almost none of those things are happening or have happened

I’ll call it a lockdown when they close indoor shopping malls.

And if the bar is “taking it more seriously than South Dakota” then I don’t know what to say.

point taken, my point was simply that there are certainly places in the US where there has been little to no restrictions. California is not one of those places. There are many restrictions. I'm sure there could be more but it's silly to say there are none.

and people are taking the rollback to Thanksgiving level restrictions are acting as though Newsom lifted all restrictions and flipping out (or celebrating). He did not.

that was a bad sentence, apologies.

He’s unbelievably bad at his job. I’ll leave it at that.

lifting any restrictions is the opposite of the right thing.

Schools are (mostly) still closed, indoor dining is still prohibited, bars aren't open, venues aren't open, most workplace offices are not open, and there are capacity limits on most indoor places still. For most people, that is still 'lockdown'

People are free to move about from place to place, hang out with their friends, travel between cities, restaurants and stores are open. For most people, that is not 'lockdown.'

"lockdown" is a meaningless term for what is happening (or not happening), I think we can all agree.

I definitely agree

don’t know about other places but what I’ve seen is stores have been very restrictive and restaurants have not been open at all, even for outdoor dining. that seems like a lockdown to me

Facing possible recall, Newsom comes under fire from Democrats over COVID-19 response https://t.co/OhA8aLHLrQ

— Saba Hamedy (@saba_h) February 1, 2021