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The greatest trick that Newsom ever pulled was convincing the world that COVID mandates would no longer exist.
To the surprise of absolutely zero Californians, Governor Gavin Newsom has announced that the state will retract its plan to fully reopen on June 15.
The Golden State will continue to enforce statewide COVID restrictions indefinitely.
News of the update released on Friday when asked about the upcoming date in an interview. Originally proposed by the governor back in May, the projected end date for the Draconian measures was scheduled for mid-June amid improving vaccination efforts and plunge in COVID-related infections and deaths throughout the state.
“The emergency remains in effect after June 15,” added the governor. Declaring a state of emergency in March 2020, Newsom remains at the helm of when California can fully reopen.
“The one thing I am certain of is: There’s uncertainty in the future,” he added.
According to the Fox report, Newsom has issued an estimated “47 executive orders to alter or suspend 200 state laws and regulations.”
Continuing to enforce restrictions opposite ongoing reopening efforts in states like Florida, Governor Newsom is optimistic that ongoing limitations imposed on a state with high unemployment rates and shuttering small businesses will help mitigate the effects of the virus during the upcoming season.
“This disease has not been extinguished. It’s not vanished,” Newsom commented.
Reports remain unclear as to whether the governor was referring to COVID, or his upcoming recall election.
What in the absolute blue fuck is wrong with this guy???
The voters of California have the leadership they elected and, most importantly, deserve.
Well said. I hope Californians drown in misery.
Well said. What a shithole state
Remember that California has more registered Republicans than any other state in the union. Gotta suck to be them.
Yup. Hell I live here still, for now at least, and agree 100%. This state sucks, period. The Republican Party is useless here and if you need proof just look at how they’re pushing a fucking tranny as the favorite in the recall election who on top of suffering untreated mental illness, isn’t even a real Republican but just yet another in a long line of RINOs.
This is what they wanted. You reap what you sow, no complaining.
Not every asshole in that state voted for Newsome. I feel for those people.
Objectively being cruel just to get back at those who signed the recall petition.
The sad part is people that are tired of Cal move to TN. Hope they don’t bring that liberal shit with them!
COVID-19 might never be completely eradicated. If he is waiting for that he will be waiting forever. Polio still exists in Asia and that doesn’t transmit as easily as COVID.
I still see people that have been completely vaccinated walking around with masks on at work. They dodge me like they’re Pat Mahomes when passing them in the hall even though I’m vaccinated as well. It really shouldn’t bother me just as man buns shouldn’t bother me but it does.
Some (most?) of these libs are sad to see the mandates go. They can no longer yell and sneer at people not wearing masks. They loved wearing their masks everywhere and being righteously indignant at everyone who didn’t “comply.”
Get vaccinated if you want. Don’t get it if you don’t want it. Move on.
Remember that no state has more registered Republicans than California. They are getting choked.
Sadly many Californians are applauding Newsome for this. They love it.
If you are a Democrat and live in California, DO NOT MOVE. You did this, you elected this idiot. Don’t move to another state and start f’ing that one up too. I don’t care what he does to you’re f’d up state, just don’t spread more of it to mine. It’s bad enough already.
*your* (damn autocorrect and whiskey)
I have friends in California. They are largely quiet and compliant. I don’t get it. I bolted five years ago.
Speaking for myself as I have a number of friends like you, I just can’t make the same amount of money doing what I do if I leave the state. Granted, making what I make I’m taxed to hell so it almost balances out. If I hadn’t gotten my house years ago there’s probably no way I’d still be here.
Sell your house in that vermin-ridden hell hole and move to another state and buy three times the house. Your job will with hold up because of the reduced tax rate!
Man I thought Wolf in PA was bad. He’s term limited next year and even HE opened up the state.
People need to read history.
I love the weather here, run and ride around Coronado in the middle of winter in shirt sleeves, ditto drinking beer at night in open air bars downtown San Diego at night in shorts, sweatshirt, flip-flops when half the country is under a foot of snow. I have kids and a grandkid here, I’m a bit stuck. That said, half the people are certifiably crazy, the politicians are ass clowns, I can’t even think about selling most of my stocks because of a draconian state tax rate, and I try my best to stay in the lowest tax rate possible now that I’ve retired. I’ve seen three waves of people leaving the state starting in the 90s, the first two were blue collar, this one is white collar…. But I love being outside, riding along the beach all year round.
Oh, and Newsom is acting like a child, he’s gunna show us who’s boss… what do you expect, he’s related to Pelosi… eradicating Covid? How stupid is that? Loser.
Bud, you get all of those amenities (weather, open bars, etc.) and much more in many areas of the South — without of the other disgusting horse shit.
I live in Del Mar and you can believe no one hates this bastard more than I, but this story is horribly out of context. He never said he wasn’t easing mandates and protocols, he said he intends to keep the state of emergency in place. Different context. Does not mean he is walking back what he said on mandates, just keeping the federal tit in place to fund anything else covid related he wants. This guy is no doubt a POS, but this story is inaccurate. Now, let the hate on this asshole continue, but at least get the story right.
I’ve actually read elsewhere, not just here, that he is in fact extending the mandates due to still being in a “state of emergency”
I suppose that has more to do with who actually writes it than what is being reported. Context. He cannot be quoted as saying his mind has changed regarding mandates and protocols, but he is accurately quoted to saying the state of emergency is being maintained.
https://ktla.com/news/california/this-disease-has-not-been-extinguished-newsom-says-he-wont-lift-covid-state-of-emergency-on-june-15/
Elections have consequences so glad I left that state years ago a once really beautiful state has been driven into the ditch by one bad policy after another
‘The voters of California’….
highly likely that their votes are not actually being counted, much like the November election. Trump probably won California BIG, but Dominion voting machines are doing their job.
Most of California is actually ‘red,’ believe it or not. I know it’s tough to believe, with all the bs headlines Pelosi, Maxine and Governor Gavin direct and produce…
If election reform and repair actually ever happens, this state and country will move in a positive direction again.
I’m still hoping that Mike Lindell’s prediction ‘that Donald Trump will be back in the White House by August’ comes true!!
A few reasonable solutions are: open up and defy him, move to a different state and don’t vote for politicians like him. The GOP and moderate democrats surely need to be able to convince them to vote something else, otherwise, they’re incompetent.
He must have seen some polling that he’s going to win the recall (spoiler alert: he will). He’s going to be on a tear after that.