Legislative hearings will be delayed in California after a coronavirus outbreak in the Legislature, put the state Assembly’s return to work from a scheduled summer recess on pause indefinitely.
Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D) made the announcement after Assemblywoman Autumn Burke (D) and four others who work in the state capitol tested positive for the coronavirus, which is suspected to have spread as staffers and legislators met in Sacramento to pass the budget last month. The capitol is now closed for disinfecting, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Burke said in a tweet Monday that she was informed of likely “mask-to-mask” exposure to COVID-19 when the Assembly conducted its meeting in person. She tested positive for the virus on Saturday.
“Currently, my daughter and I have no symptoms, but will be remaining in quarantine until released by a doctor,” Burke wrote in the tweet.
The news comes as California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) confirmed on Monday that the number of hospitalizations due to COVID-19 has increased in the state by more than 50 percent over the past two weeks as infections continue to rise and he reverses plans for the reopening of many businesses.
Many state legislatures had closed their doors earlier this year as the pandemic began to spread across the United States. California lawmakers, missed nearly two months of work after the legislature’s first unscheduled recess in 158 years, according to the Associated Press. Since then many states have allowed legislatures to resume work with some restrictions to limit the virus’ spread.
California lawmakers were originally scheduled to return from summer recess on July 13 and work through to the end of the legislative session on August 31.
Hmmm, how could the virus be used to hinder or stop the election? Some red states will try this.
O/T - Epstein and Deutsche Bank bifecta, re: “Co-Conspirators 1-3”:
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New York DFS has published its investigative findings on Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship with Deutsche Bank. DB has agreed to pay a $150 million penalty for “significant compliance failures.” Press release: https://dfs.ny.gov/reports_and_publications/press_releases/pr202007071… Consent order: https://dfs.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2020/07/ea20200706_deutsche_bank_consent_order.pdf…
And in other news: Herd immunity may be unachievable by “natural” means…
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31483-5/fulltext
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Slightly less O/T:
On a Wednesday a couple of months back my company had me layoff 8 people and then that Friday they laid off me.
Now I find tucked away in the Paycheck Protection Program information released by Treasury yesterday that shortly thereafter my company applied for and got $350,000 in funds to of course “protect jobs.”
Capitalism can f*ck all the way off.
This is unhelpful language by Burke. It feeds into the plague rats’ narrative that wearing a mask is unhelpful/dangerous. The point of non-N95 masks - to moderately mitigate the vapor plume from a person’s mouth & nose and reduce risk to those outside the 6’ ‘social distancing’ radius - needs to be hammered home by every non-stupid elected official and medical professional in every tweet and utterance.
Also, I’m keen to hear how De Vos and others pushing for a re-opening of schools think it can actually be done safely, in any way, given these sorts of indoor outbreaks which happen in spite of (presumably) responsible adults taking precautions as best they can. Is a classroom full of 3rd graders going to be more responsible than a state legislature?
Okay okay, that actually is a fair question…