“LA County Supervisor dines at restaurant hours after voting to ban outdoor dining” (Fox 11, LA):
Just hours after Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl voted to ban outdoor dining at L.A. County’s 31,000 restaurants over COVID-19 safety concerns, she visited a restaurant in Santa Monica, where she dined outdoors, FOX 11 has learned on Monday.
During Tuesday’s L.A. County Board of Supervisors meeting, Kuehl referred to outside dining as “a most dangerous situation” over what she described as a risk of tables of unmasked patrons potentially exposing their servers to the coronavirus.
“This is a serious health emergency and we must take it seriously,” Kuehl said.
“The servers are not protected from us, and they’re not protected from their other tables that they’re serving at that particular time, plus all the hours in which they’re working.”
Kuehl went on to vote in support of restricting outdoor dining in Los Angeles County, which passed by a 3-2 margin of the Board of Supervisors.
In other words, reasonable minds can differ on whether or not restaurant dining is permissible. Everyone can agree that public schools for children of the non-elite, closed since March, should remain closed. From the LAUSD site (retrieved 12/1):
As the level of the virus in the Los Angeles area remains widespread, state guidelines say schools cannot reopen at this time, and we will not reopen schools until it’s safe and appropriate to do so. We are preparing to serve students at schools as soon as it’s possible, in the safest way possible. Our plans include the highest standards for health, education and employee practices at schools.
Meanwhile, in Frogland… “Positive Test Rate of 11 Percent? France’s Schools Remain Open.” (NYT) How about in “give the finger to the virus” territory? From “Sweden has kept schools open during the pandemic despite spike in cases”:
“I think it is good that they don’t wear face masks,” one mother tells FRANCE 24, as she leaves her children at school. “I think it is very important that they go to school, otherwise it would be very difficult for me to work.”
The teachers also believe it is very important to stay open, particularly for struggling students.
“They need a teacher in the same room as them to cheer them on and clarify things,” says Charlotte Hammarback, a teacher at the NYA Elementary School in Stockholm. “Most of the time these students will not ask for help, they will just sit and wait until someone comes up to them.”
No-mask Mom doesn’t #FollowScience!
Thank you for finally shedding some light on our former actress and current county supervisor Sheila Kuehl! Remember her name is pronounced “Kuehl”, rhymes with Cruel because she is!
Why would you want poor kids to be educated. I mean if they become educated who is going to trim your lawns and hedges and clean your swimming pools? Jeez Phil, show some class loyalty.
You raise an interesting point. Readers would like to know if our host Phil has a pool. I would be interested to hear about pool ownership in Massachusetts in the winter. Seems like a hassle. Your favorite Toucan does have a pool and and hedges. Fortunately for me, I live in a state that encourages unlimited immigration from our poor southern neighbors so I have no doubt I will always be able to find a pool boy and hedge trimmer all at a reasonable cost.
If Phil had a pool we wouldn’t be hearing gripes about gas ranges and washing machines. A washing machine that only lasts 10 years is a disappointment, but it’s mighty impressive for a pool pump. Maybe given his passion for flying then constantly replacing plastic parts on the pool vacuum will hardly register as an ongoing expense.
Gentlemen: A pool? We are lucky to have a functional bathtub here in the crumbling housing stock of New England (unlike Texas and California, unfortunately, our construction industry cannot draw on a huge supply of the undocumented and thus we are doomed to live in wood-framed housing that is beyond its design life).
Back in November, the Mayor of Austin (Steve Adler) told all his subjects to stay at home while he and his family took a private jet to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico for a vacation, after hosting a big outdoor wedding reception and party at a “trendy hotel near downtown” in Austin.
https://www.statesman.com/story/news/coronavirus/2020/12/02/austin-mayor-stressed-residents-lsquoneed-to-stay-homersquo-he-was-vacationing-in-cabo-at-time/115087704/
“WE NEED TO STAY HOME IF YOU CAN. [Emphasis mine]. This is not the time to relax. We are going to be looking really closely. … We may have to close things down if we are not careful.”
So “YOU” can stay home, and “WE” are going to be “looking really closely”. “WE” will be in Cabo, baby! Here’s looking at ya!
Hopefully this will be the downfall of this arse and damaging to Austin and Travis county democrats. They definitely turned that nice city into San Francisco-light, complete with homeless junkies and excrements in the streets. Not to mention hordes of obnoxious tech bros and skyrocketing cost of living.