Speaker 1: It's Friday, May. I'm Oscar Mirrors from the Daily Dive
Speaker 1: podcast in Los Angeles, and this is your daily coronavirus update.
Speaker 1: California was one of the first states two issue stay
Speaker 1: at home orders, and it could be one of the
Speaker 1: last to fully open. There are many signs that coronavirus
Speaker 1: restrictions could be in place for the long haul. The
Speaker 1: cow State University program plans to cancel almost all in
Speaker 1: person classes in the fall. In l A County, safer
Speaker 1: at home orders have been extended indefinitely. Colleen Shallby, reporter
Speaker 1: at the l A Times, joins us for more. Thanks
Speaker 1: for joining us, Colleen. As a lot of states around
Speaker 1: the country are starting to reopen, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: signs that the coronavirus restrictions are here for the long haul.
Speaker 1: In California, we were the first state to close, and
Speaker 1: it seems like we could be one of the last
Speaker 1: to reopen fully. Earlier this week, there was headlines all
Speaker 1: over the place from Barbara Ferrare saying basically that stay
Speaker 1: at home orders would extend, possibly through July. And you know,
Speaker 1: everybody caused a big ruckus on that the California State
Speaker 1: University System isn't going to do any in person classes
Speaker 1: in the false semester. There's just so much going on
Speaker 1: that seems like these restrictions are going to stay with
Speaker 1: us for some time. Colleen tell us a little bit
Speaker 1: about it. California has been taking a pretty cautious approach.
Speaker 1: But I think what's really interesting is that we are
Speaker 1: seeing varying responses at the county by county level. So
Speaker 1: a handful of counties that are growing are easying up restrictions.
Speaker 1: Some restaurants are allowing you for dying in right now,
Speaker 1: versus other counties like l A County, which is the
Speaker 1: most populous in the state that's still being hit hardest
Speaker 1: by the amount of infections and the death toll, is
Speaker 1: keeping restrictions loosening some while still trying to do it
Speaker 1: in the most cautious way, I think, to prevent a
Speaker 1: resurgence and outbreak. And that's kind of where some of
Speaker 1: the mixed messaging is. We have the governor has their
Speaker 1: own set of guidelines and this phase real being that
Speaker 1: we're going through, and you drill it down and we're
Speaker 1: talking about like l A County, as you mentioned, they're
Speaker 1: not hitting any of those guidelines just yet. They haven't
Speaker 1: met any of those thresholds to reopen stuff yet, So
Speaker 1: we might see some reopening and some parts of the state,
Speaker 1: other parts maybe not. So you know, Newsom when he
Speaker 1: initially revealed this order basically had kind of clear guidelines
Speaker 1: for what the counties needed to follow, and at the
Speaker 1: time a lot of counties went beyond the order and
Speaker 1: have since started to kind of dial back. And now
Speaker 1: that Newsom is lifting restrictions even further, you've got some
Speaker 1: counties that are allowed to continue on and to kind
Speaker 1: of loosen things in a much broader way. And then
Speaker 1: you have l A County and many of the San
Speaker 1: Francisco Bay area counties that are not totally eased up,
Speaker 1: even though the state technically is allowing it, although Newsom
Speaker 1: has said that so many of the allowances are not
Speaker 1: for the counties that are still being pretty significantly hit.
Speaker 1: So in that regards, in l A County, we've got
Speaker 1: retail businesses that are opening for curbside pickup. We've got
Speaker 1: beaches that are reopening, but only for active recreations. You
Speaker 1: can't sun babe, can't sit on the beach. You've got
Speaker 1: trails that are reopening, but groups are still not allowed.
Speaker 1: So they're really trying to reopen the economy slowly and
Speaker 1: in this way, knowing that people are being pretty hurt.
Speaker 1: Businesses are occurring right now, but while doing it in
Speaker 1: this very cautious way, I think, because there's this real
Speaker 1: possibility that if they go too quickly, since we haven't
Speaker 1: seen a study decline over fourteen days, that things could
Speaker 1: spike back up. Let's focus a little bit on l
Speaker 1: A County. As I mentioned earlier, the county Public Health
Speaker 1: Director Dr. Barbara Ferrare said that, uh, you know, she
Speaker 1: told the Board of Supervisors that they would have to
Speaker 1: extend the safer at home orders that we're supposed to
Speaker 1: expire on the fifteen, and then she caused a fur
Speaker 1: when she said, Hey, this is gonna be going on
Speaker 1: for another few months or indefinitely. We're gonna have to
Speaker 1: practice this, and as I mentioned, it causes big confusion
Speaker 1: because we are starting to reopen certain aspects of it,
Speaker 1: and you know, everybody's eyes just kind of when they
Speaker 1: started hearing that, they're like, oh, no, we're in for
Speaker 1: three more months of this. But that's just kind of
Speaker 1: the reality that since Los Angeles County is one of
Speaker 1: the bigger hotspots for the state, they have to take
Speaker 1: a more cautious approach. Barbara fe Rare commented further on
Speaker 1: this yesterday joined the l A County briefing, saying that
Speaker 1: there's no end date to the health officer order, which,
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, it expires tomorrow, but it's since been extended.
Speaker 1: And really what's happening now is that we're being told
Speaker 1: that small gatherings are still not allowed, you know, events
Speaker 1: are still not allowed, but there are these flight modifications
Speaker 1: that we're going to continue to see. So while you
Speaker 1: could go to your favorite bookstore if it has not
Speaker 1: reopened for curbside pickup, you still can't go inside. While
Speaker 1: you could get take out from your favorite restaurant that
Speaker 1: might have been recently closed, you still can't go in
Speaker 1: for dining. And that's different from some of other counties
Speaker 1: which have not been as impacted and are loosening us
Speaker 1: a bit further compared to what's going on here in
Speaker 1: l A County, and you down even further. L A
Speaker 1: Mayor Eric Garcetti just put the new rules out there
Speaker 1: that every resident is required to wear a face covering
Speaker 1: just when you leave your home. So any retail business,
Speaker 1: exercising your neighborhood, writing on any public transportation, you need
Speaker 1: some type of face covering. And that's a bit of
Speaker 1: a change in the language from what the county officials
Speaker 1: have said. Even today, Barbara Ferrara said that all residents
Speaker 1: need to have a face mask on them at all times,
Speaker 1: but she seemed to imply that if you're doing solitary
Speaker 1: activity like you're going for a run, you perhaps you
Speaker 1: do not need to wear that face mask. But that,
Speaker 1: again is a little bit of a confusion in the language,
Speaker 1: even from officials from the city versus officials at the
Speaker 1: county level. So I think things keep changing day by day,
Speaker 1: and the messaging keeps changing, and I think everyone is
Speaker 1: trying to keep up. But there's definitely a very cautious
Speaker 1: approach here, and that's where a lot of frustrations set in.
Speaker 1: You know, there is no streamlined thing. You're hearing something here,
Speaker 1: you're hearing something there, and we're getting protest people demanding
Speaker 1: to have things rehopen. There's a certain sense of fatigue
Speaker 1: and frustration that sets in with all of this in California. Though,
Speaker 1: how many counties are we looking at that have met
Speaker 1: some of these thresholds to reopen. I know it's only
Speaker 1: a handful of them, but what are we looking at there?
Speaker 1: So there's been at least twelve counties that have reopened,
Speaker 1: I mean to be except that they're allowed to working
Speaker 1: with Newsom's office, and there's at least thirty others that
Speaker 1: are trying to work with Newsom to figure out how
Speaker 1: they can go about doing that. So there's quite a few,
Speaker 1: and it's expanding that will reopen over the coming days
Speaker 1: or weeks. But l A County and some of the
Speaker 1: San Francisco Bay counties are the ones that are kind
Speaker 1: of been instructed that they can't go too far just yet.
Speaker 1: And I think that beast could be even more confusing
Speaker 1: where you've got one county that's maybe more fully reopened,
Speaker 1: and you have people that either work there or live
Speaker 1: elsewhere or travel to and from that might not know
Speaker 1: the rule of a different county. So I think now
Speaker 1: what's going to happen is that everyone and just needs
Speaker 1: to pay attention to us clean on throughout the state
Speaker 1: if they have any intention of going outside of their
Speaker 1: boundaries exactly, or the people that want to get out,
Speaker 1: they'll hop over to another county just to enjoy something
Speaker 1: that's open and then go back home. There is gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot of confusion coming up and everything shut
Speaker 1: down so quickly, but this reopening is gonna be very
Speaker 1: slow and gradual, and a lot of these restrictions are
Speaker 1: going to be in place for some time to come.
Speaker 1: Colleen shall be reporter at the l A Times. Thank
Speaker 1: you very much for joining us, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: I'm Oscar Emiris and this has been your daily coronavirus update.
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