WEBVTT - California Extends Coronavirus Restrictions

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<v Speaker 1>It's Friday, May. I'm Oscar Mirrors from the Daily Dive

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<v Speaker 1>podcast in Los Angeles, and this is your daily coronavirus update.

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<v Speaker 1>California was one of the first states two issue stay

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<v Speaker 1>at home orders, and it could be one of the

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<v Speaker 1>last to fully open. There are many signs that coronavirus

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<v Speaker 1>restrictions could be in place for the long haul. The

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<v Speaker 1>cow State University program plans to cancel almost all in

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<v Speaker 1>person classes in the fall. In l A County, safer

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<v Speaker 1>at home orders have been extended indefinitely. Colleen Shallby, reporter

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<v Speaker 1>at the l A Times, joins us for more. Thanks

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<v Speaker 1>for joining us, Colleen. As a lot of states around

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<v Speaker 1>the country are starting to reopen, there's a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>signs that the coronavirus restrictions are here for the long haul.

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<v Speaker 1>In California, we were the first state to close, and

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<v Speaker 1>it seems like we could be one of the last

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<v Speaker 1>to reopen fully. Earlier this week, there was headlines all

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<v Speaker 1>over the place from Barbara Ferrare saying basically that stay

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<v Speaker 1>at home orders would extend, possibly through July. And you know,

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<v Speaker 1>everybody caused a big ruckus on that the California State

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<v Speaker 1>University System isn't going to do any in person classes

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<v Speaker 1>in the false semester. There's just so much going on

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<v Speaker 1>that seems like these restrictions are going to stay with

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<v Speaker 1>us for some time. Colleen tell us a little bit

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<v Speaker 1>about it. California has been taking a pretty cautious approach.

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<v Speaker 1>But I think what's really interesting is that we are

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<v Speaker 1>seeing varying responses at the county by county level. So

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<v Speaker 1>a handful of counties that are growing are easying up restrictions.

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<v Speaker 1>Some restaurants are allowing you for dying in right now,

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<v Speaker 1>versus other counties like l A County, which is the

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<v Speaker 1>most populous in the state that's still being hit hardest

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<v Speaker 1>by the amount of infections and the death toll, is

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<v Speaker 1>keeping restrictions loosening some while still trying to do it

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<v Speaker 1>in the most cautious way, I think, to prevent a

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<v Speaker 1>resurgence and outbreak. And that's kind of where some of

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<v Speaker 1>the mixed messaging is. We have the governor has their

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<v Speaker 1>own set of guidelines and this phase real being that

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<v Speaker 1>we're going through, and you drill it down and we're

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<v Speaker 1>talking about like l A County, as you mentioned, they're

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<v Speaker 1>not hitting any of those guidelines just yet. They haven't

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<v Speaker 1>met any of those thresholds to reopen stuff yet, So

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<v Speaker 1>we might see some reopening and some parts of the state,

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<v Speaker 1>other parts maybe not. So you know, Newsom when he

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<v Speaker 1>initially revealed this order basically had kind of clear guidelines

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<v Speaker 1>for what the counties needed to follow, and at the

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<v Speaker 1>time a lot of counties went beyond the order and

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<v Speaker 1>have since started to kind of dial back. And now

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<v Speaker 1>that Newsom is lifting restrictions even further, you've got some

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<v Speaker 1>counties that are allowed to continue on and to kind

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<v Speaker 1>of loosen things in a much broader way. And then

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<v Speaker 1>you have l A County and many of the San

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<v Speaker 1>Francisco Bay area counties that are not totally eased up,

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<v Speaker 1>even though the state technically is allowing it, although Newsom

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<v Speaker 1>has said that so many of the allowances are not

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<v Speaker 1>for the counties that are still being pretty significantly hit.

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<v Speaker 1>So in that regards, in l A County, we've got

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<v Speaker 1>retail businesses that are opening for curbside pickup. We've got

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<v Speaker 1>beaches that are reopening, but only for active recreations. You

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<v Speaker 1>can't sun babe, can't sit on the beach. You've got

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<v Speaker 1>trails that are reopening, but groups are still not allowed.

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<v Speaker 1>So they're really trying to reopen the economy slowly and

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<v Speaker 1>in this way, knowing that people are being pretty hurt.

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<v Speaker 1>Businesses are occurring right now, but while doing it in

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<v Speaker 1>this very cautious way, I think, because there's this real

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<v Speaker 1>possibility that if they go too quickly, since we haven't

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<v Speaker 1>seen a study decline over fourteen days, that things could

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<v Speaker 1>spike back up. Let's focus a little bit on l

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<v Speaker 1>A County. As I mentioned earlier, the county Public Health

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<v Speaker 1>Director Dr. Barbara Ferrare said that, uh, you know, she

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<v Speaker 1>told the Board of Supervisors that they would have to

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<v Speaker 1>extend the safer at home orders that we're supposed to

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<v Speaker 1>expire on the fifteen, and then she caused a fur

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<v Speaker 1>when she said, Hey, this is gonna be going on

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<v Speaker 1>for another few months or indefinitely. We're gonna have to

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<v Speaker 1>practice this, and as I mentioned, it causes big confusion

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<v Speaker 1>because we are starting to reopen certain aspects of it,

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<v Speaker 1>and you know, everybody's eyes just kind of when they

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<v Speaker 1>started hearing that, they're like, oh, no, we're in for

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<v Speaker 1>three more months of this. But that's just kind of

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<v Speaker 1>the reality that since Los Angeles County is one of

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<v Speaker 1>the bigger hotspots for the state, they have to take

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<v Speaker 1>a more cautious approach. Barbara fe Rare commented further on

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<v Speaker 1>this yesterday joined the l A County briefing, saying that

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<v Speaker 1>there's no end date to the health officer order, which,

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<v Speaker 1>as you mentioned, it expires tomorrow, but it's since been extended.

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<v Speaker 1>And really what's happening now is that we're being told

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<v Speaker 1>that small gatherings are still not allowed, you know, events

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<v Speaker 1>are still not allowed, but there are these flight modifications

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<v Speaker 1>that we're going to continue to see. So while you

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<v Speaker 1>could go to your favorite bookstore if it has not

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<v Speaker 1>reopened for curbside pickup, you still can't go inside. While

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<v Speaker 1>you could get take out from your favorite restaurant that

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<v Speaker 1>might have been recently closed, you still can't go in

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<v Speaker 1>for dining. And that's different from some of other counties

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<v Speaker 1>which have not been as impacted and are loosening us

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<v Speaker 1>a bit further compared to what's going on here in

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<v Speaker 1>l A County, and you down even further. L A

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<v Speaker 1>Mayor Eric Garcetti just put the new rules out there

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<v Speaker 1>that every resident is required to wear a face covering

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<v Speaker 1>just when you leave your home. So any retail business,

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<v Speaker 1>exercising your neighborhood, writing on any public transportation, you need

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<v Speaker 1>some type of face covering. And that's a bit of

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<v Speaker 1>a change in the language from what the county officials

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<v Speaker 1>have said. Even today, Barbara Ferrara said that all residents

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<v Speaker 1>need to have a face mask on them at all times,

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<v Speaker 1>but she seemed to imply that if you're doing solitary

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<v Speaker 1>activity like you're going for a run, you perhaps you

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<v Speaker 1>do not need to wear that face mask. But that,

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<v Speaker 1>again is a little bit of a confusion in the language,

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<v Speaker 1>even from officials from the city versus officials at the

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<v Speaker 1>county level. So I think things keep changing day by day,

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<v Speaker 1>and the messaging keeps changing, and I think everyone is

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<v Speaker 1>trying to keep up. But there's definitely a very cautious

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<v Speaker 1>approach here, and that's where a lot of frustrations set in.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, there is no streamlined thing. You're hearing something here,

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<v Speaker 1>you're hearing something there, and we're getting protest people demanding

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<v Speaker 1>to have things rehopen. There's a certain sense of fatigue

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<v Speaker 1>and frustration that sets in with all of this in California. Though,

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<v Speaker 1>how many counties are we looking at that have met

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<v Speaker 1>some of these thresholds to reopen. I know it's only

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<v Speaker 1>a handful of them, but what are we looking at there?

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<v Speaker 1>So there's been at least twelve counties that have reopened,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean to be except that they're allowed to working

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<v Speaker 1>with Newsom's office, and there's at least thirty others that

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<v Speaker 1>are trying to work with Newsom to figure out how

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<v Speaker 1>they can go about doing that. So there's quite a few,

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<v Speaker 1>and it's expanding that will reopen over the coming days

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<v Speaker 1>or weeks. But l A County and some of the

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<v Speaker 1>San Francisco Bay counties are the ones that are kind

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<v Speaker 1>of been instructed that they can't go too far just yet.

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<v Speaker 1>And I think that beast could be even more confusing

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<v Speaker 1>where you've got one county that's maybe more fully reopened,

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<v Speaker 1>and you have people that either work there or live

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<v Speaker 1>elsewhere or travel to and from that might not know

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<v Speaker 1>the rule of a different county. So I think now

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<v Speaker 1>what's going to happen is that everyone and just needs

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<v Speaker 1>to pay attention to us clean on throughout the state

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<v Speaker 1>if they have any intention of going outside of their

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<v Speaker 1>boundaries exactly, or the people that want to get out,

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<v Speaker 1>they'll hop over to another county just to enjoy something

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<v Speaker 1>that's open and then go back home. There is gonna

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<v Speaker 1>be a lot of confusion coming up and everything shut

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<v Speaker 1>down so quickly, but this reopening is gonna be very

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<v Speaker 1>slow and gradual, and a lot of these restrictions are

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<v Speaker 1>going to be in place for some time to come.

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<v Speaker 1>Colleen shall be reporter at the l A Times. Thank

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<v Speaker 1>you very much for joining us, Thank you for having me.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm Oscar Emiris and this has been your daily coronavirus update.

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