Today our moronic Goober finally released his reopening plan for counties as they get off his "Watchlist". Well, sort of. See he just completely dumped his Watchlist (worthless thing that it always was) and has shifted the state to a four (4) tier system based on colors. The colors are purple, red, orange, and yellow. So let me ask you... which is worst? Red? Nope, Purple. Why? I don't know, and he's on third (sorry an inside joke for lovers of Abbott and Costello).
Anyways let's just say that this clears everything up [I can't figure out how to type that sarcastically, so just hear it in your head that way]. It is still a morass. So let's say I run a Gym. What can I do? After spending quite a bit of time hunting around I was able to find one decent website (here) that sorta let's you know. Type in your county and then select the business type. Click the 'Get Latest Status' button and then all you have to do is scan through the entire list of counties to see what applies to San Diego. Turns out that if you enter the Business first, then enter the county (which is to the left of the business) then you only see the result for San Diego county. Yes, that's very unintuitive - but very California, where everything is backward. So to answer my previous question as an example: for San Diego (red = "Substantial Risk") Gyms can have 10% of their normal capacity indoors and presumably as much outdoors as they can handle.
One might wonder how does a county move up or down in the risk levels from worst = purple = "Widespread", to red = "Substantial", to orange = "Moderate", to the best = yellow = "Minimal"? Well here is the explanation:
"Every county in California is assigned to a tier based on its rate of new cases and positivity. At a minimum, counties must remain in a tier for at least 3 weeks before moving forward. Data is reviewed weekly and tiers are updated on Tuesdays. To move forward, a county must meet the next tier’s criteria for two consecutive weeks. If a county’s metrics worsen for two consecutive weeks, it will be assigned a more restrictive tier. Public health officials are constantly monitoring data and can step in if necessary."
That's clear, right? To clarify a bit, the metrics currently for San County are that the new cases are 5.8 cases per day per 100,000 people and a test 'positivity' rate of 3.7%. Those are actually in the ranges for red and orange respectively, but you get the higher tier, so SD County is red.
It is of note that the Goober's justification for this system is that it is Statewide, Simple, Slow, and Stringent. I'd argue that it is also Stupid, Silly, Sucky, Strained, Serpentine, and Severe. But so what? It is a convoluted and complicated set of rules that absolves everyone from thinking, without one iota of reasoning behind the various rules as to what can happen under the various tiers. Sorry Gruesome Newsom, but if this is the best you and your advisors can up with after more than 7 weeks, I think this just shows, yet again, that you are a small minded petty tyrant who wants to destroy California.
I will henceforth be ignoring everything I can with regard to this insanity and just live my life as a peaceful example of civil disobedience to it.
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