56 New COVID-19 Cases

No one. Just don't go in if you are scared silly.

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The health department

Big Brother.

Crystal, let people make their own decisions. As you said, these are "guidelines, many of which have changed and are useless. If citizens want to support that business they are free to do so. Why would we let the CDC, Fauci, Angsorm, and other non-elected "officials" to make laws up for us? We have enough of that already from Newsom and our city council? Stay home and wear a mask if that's want you want to do and have your supplies delivered. It's a dangerous world and there are risks out there so, people like you are free to "stay home and stay safe", otherwise you might get cooties.

Right on @11:14. Un-elected officials are making blanket rules for the state and nation to follow while our governor takes broad powers well beyond the authority granted to him in the constitution. How many lives and livelihoods need to be destroyed before we say enough is enough!?

Crystalandmuai, California has 29 codes that result in more than 30,000 laws. About 18,000 of those were passed during Brown's terms alone. Newsom is close to adding 1000 since then. In fact, we have almost double the laws of the next blue state, New York. How many do you think you break in the course of the day? I have heard the average citizen breaks three federal laws a day alone, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's 10 here. The CDC doesn't make laws, and many of the laws in California directly violate Federal law and the Constitution. Please let people get on with their lives and we desperately need herd immunity to do that.

The COVIDIOTs have spoken

WELL SAID !!!! I saw a great sign on DeLaVina that said: "Know Your Rights. A local mandate is not a law"

Edhat "people" have chosen a side. Probably not a perfect cross-section of our little town.

Wow, obviously you or a family member hasn’t had this virus, when you have someone in The hospital by themselves and hoping they survive this. Tell me then your about your selfish opinion.
I know your entitled to do what you want, this is the USA, WOW PEOPLE HERE TAKE EVERYTHING FOR GRANTED, EVEN LIFE. WELL YOU DONT HAVE THE RIGHT TO TAKE MY LIFE. DO WHAT IS NEEDED TO KEEP OTHERS SAFE AND YOURSELF.

Tell me about this. Was it sponsored by the city? Or was it individuals from Ventura who arranged a bus trip? Sounds interesting.

@ 11:00 am - No.

NOPE - not at all disturbed. Why should I be?

This should be reported. It would be great to get a photo of this next time. Visual representations seem to express people more than just words. Thank you for sharing this info. Shockingly stupid.

WTF!? Report sightings like this, preferably with a photo, to: [email protected]

Vista bus?

Every time you drive that car you risk killing someone. You going to stop driving now? Keep me safe right?

I can appreciate your concern, but maybe you should do your food, etc. shopping in the city of Santa Barbara where masks are required in the stores? (And, fwiw, 65 is the state law for max. speed except where it is posted differently.)

Crystal... you don't NEED to go to the store. There are plenty of available delivery services to get you what you need. How selfish are you to force other people to stay home, to close their businesses, loose their jobs so you feel safer going to the store when you don't HAVE TO go to the store. STAY HOME, stay as SAFE as YOU feel you need to, and get anything you wanted delivered. There are plenty of people who'll be desperate for a job delivering food as soon as the unemployment bonus ends.

You obviously have your own agenda, I did not say you have to close your business, I said keep people safe, have your costumers wear a mask, and limit how many Are in your store at one time. Obviously that’s to much for you.
Look Mr. Selfish, you can’t guarantee how this virus will affect people. So let’s try to be as safe as we can.

Absolutely agree @ 9:05! Let the shops decide what's best for their customers! LET THE CUSTOMER DECIDE WHAT THEY WANT!

Gary M, you don't understand. For all the damage we're doing to the economy, combined with the historic level of government stimulus - which has to be paid for by all of us through taxes - we would be way better off, and I'm talking orders of magnitude better off, if we set up a government paid free meals, covid-safe food distribution system so those with lesser means and/or at higher risk, medium risk, I don't care risk, or just plain don't want to get sick risk can stay in their home with free internet and meals delivered. Everyone else WHO CHOOSES, can go back about their lives. Why is you don't see the difference where one point of view gives everyone a choice, the other point of view forces a choice on everyone?

Sam, the squeaky wheel gets the grease. You and your pack of rabid canines can roam freely after you sign an agreement stating that A) if you infect anyone you will be financially responsible ($100k for trimming 10-13 years off their life) or B) if said infection leads to death you will be charged with murder. You are that confident in yourself, correct? Sign it and roam free!

SAM, if you really need to get to work so bad and get off of the dole - why can't you take a front line position? Are you too proud? Ego in your way? There are actually a lot of job opportunities in town for essential workers. Maybe get off your hide and get out there.

@7:40, I have a job. I'm being vocal for others, for my community, because I don't want to see the city I grew up in with all the hard working small businesses I work with, are friends with, or patron completely destroyed.

@12:50 Not sure what color the sky is in your world, but you cannot halt the economy. Have you not seen the lines of cars waiting to get food across this country? Businesses are closing, people are losing their livelihoods. You cannot halt the economy forever because you are scared. Who do you expect to pay for food, rent, healthcare and the essentials you mentioned so the country can stay at home? Life is hard, there are risks. Those at risk should stay home, those that can work should be allowed to go back to work. The prison is grossly inflating our numbers here. There has not been one instance of our hospitals being over capacity. We have 450,000K people in this county, 11 have died. We are not New York City. We need to get our lives and our city back. And before you start judging, I despise Donald Trump and his corrupt cabinet. Thinking that everyone has the luxury of staying locked up forever is ignorant, impractical and impossible.

Agree.

Its unfortunate the face covering issue has been made political. It’s a proven way to reduce spread of droplets, and thereby reduce disease transmission. Why not open most businesses but require face coverings? The more vulnerable people can wear N95s masks for the best protection, or continue to stay home, get deliveries. Less vulnerable can get back to business, and if we test often we can pull back before spikes get out of hand. Dine-in restaurants, bars, and hair salons may still be a problem, but many businesses could be managed to operate with low risk. But it seems the “open now” crowd has too many “masks are a communist plot” nuts.

@ 12:50 I can't tell if you are completely insane, the biggest master of sarcasm the world has ever seen, or just a troll.

@ 12:50, you're calling for a revolution and to toss out what quickly made our country the greatest and strongest in the world, and has kept us there for hundreds of years. With how poorly our elected officials have managed this country the past 10-20 years, on both sides of the isle, the ever increasing partisanship with little interest in coming together and doing what's best for all their constituents rather than just the one side or the other, YOUR ANSWER IS TO GIVE THEM MORE POWER OVER OUR LIVES?

You're on track Ahchoo, no one is saying open up recklessly. regarding :But it seems the “open now” crowd has too many “masks are a communist plot” nuts. There is no middle grown for many on here, it's either you're with them and toe the line of what our all knowing Democratic leaders say, or your a AR-15 carrying, camo wearing, MAGA fanatic, it's either one or the other. For a group so adverse to putting labels on people they're great at putting them in one box or the other. We should always be questioning our government and ensuring their actions coincide with our best interest and not their latest power grab. The Democrats historically have been the one to question our government, but now they talk down to those who choose take a common sense approach and speak out when they feel their rights and livelihoods are being threatened not by a virus but by the political response to that virus.

Agreed Ahchooo. I actually feel safer wearing a face mask. If we are going to open up and get the economy booming again we MUST do it safely. The communist plot in my book is not giving us a chance to open safely, when we did indeed flatten the curve and are not having any overcrowded hospital issues.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandrasternlicht/2020/05/17/new-cases-spike-in-reopened-states-though-some-say-its-due-to-increased-testing/#4de1ecb46bc9

Shasta Guy--Spike in cases would not show up until about two weeks after opening.

Far right talking point - you need at least a couple weeks after the reopening to see a spike.

Yes Let Me Go, increased positive tests go hand in hand with increased testing and not indicative of a spike. Focus on the number admitted to the hospital due to covid-19.

I think Georgia is starting week 4 of their lockdown easing. Texas and Florida are starting week 3 I believe. The sky is not falling, but feel free to stay in your hidey hole as along as you want.

Yes Georgia - woo hoo really healthy state. Get out there and touch all those doorknobs and then go to a birthday party. In Georgia over the last 14 days (4/30-5/13), the average daily increase in newly reported deaths was 27.50. Over the last 14 days, the average daily increase in newly confirmed cases was 654.79. Over the last 14 days, the average daily increase in new patients was 80.14. Now mind you this is while schools are closed - and while the governor extended the stay at home order for the elderly and medically fragile until mid-june. So you can't really substantiate your opinion as the state is not fully open.

“In the latest bungling of tracking data for the novel coronavirus, a recently posted bar chart on the Georgia Department of Public Health’s website appeared to show good news: new confirmed cases in the counties with the most infections had dropped every single day for the past two weeks. In fact, there was no clear downward trend. The data is still preliminary, and cases have held steady or dropped slightly in the past two weeks. Experts agree that cases in those five counties were flat when Georgia began to reopen late last month.”