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Officials with the Los Angeles County have implemented further restrictions in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus, prohibiting nonessential gatherings of any size within the county, including Santa Clarita.
On Saturday night, officials with the Los Angeles County announced stricter guidelines to the “Safer at Home” order that was initially issued on Thursday.
“Effective immediately on March 21, 2020 and continuing through April 19, 2020, all public and private group events and gatherings are prohibited anywhere within the Los Angeles County Public Health Jurisdiction,” the order reads. “All persons are to remain in their homes or at their place of residence, except to travel to and from Essential Businesses, to work at or provide service to a Healthcare Operation or Essential Infrastructure, to engage in Essential Activities, or to participate in an individual or family outdoor activity, while practicing social distancing.”
See Related: What Businesses Are Considered ‘Essential’ In L.A. County’s ‘Safer At Home’ Order?
The initial stay at home order for the county did not allow residents from gathering in groups larger than ten. Now, indoor and outdoor gatherings, with the exceptions listed above, are outright prohibited.
Additionally, the new restrictions extend the end date of the order to April 19 in order to align with the order that was also issued by the State of California on Thursday.
To read the full revised order, click here.
Ed. Note: This is a breaking news story, more information will be posted as it is made available.
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Well bless their bleating hearts. I feel safer already.
I work in the government building call center in Los Angeles and our stations are only two feet away from each other. The call center has about 200 agents. I’m very concern about going to work and don’t know how to protect myself from others. Please give me your advice on how we can protect ourselves in this situation. Thank you
DO U HAVE GLOVES AND MASK AND HAND SANITEZER ,, THAT WILL BE OK …….
Yes but government always gets an exemption or waiver I learned that after 20 + years of service
I work for a Northern California County and they have given us ZERO instruction or guidance except that they want us still to see clients face to face. Mind you, most of our clients are elderly….I feel your pain.
Your position may be an ‘essential’ function, but that doesn’t mean your employer doesn’t have a duty to evaluate the potential hazards and implement engineering controls, administrative controls, or PPE.
Melissa M, my husband is in a similar situation. I say everyone (who is not sick), should be wearing N95 masks. (surgical masks are only worn by people who are ill).
Address this concern with your HR department. Express your (very real) concerns about contracting COVID from your work environment since your work environment is in close proximity to others and non one has been given N95 masks for their protection.
It is a LIE that masks don’t work or help! COVID often aeresolizes and gets breathed in. Call OSHA, Labor Board, Govenor’s office or an employment attorney if they ignore your concerns.
They put all these restrictions in place to stop the spread of the virus but yet they are making people still go in to jury duty that don’t make much sense
Yes exactly! I have jury duty on April 2nd and that is just ridiculous.
Bill, government business continues as usual my wife works at Northrop Grumman making military airplanes. They have “cubbies they sit at, mechanics making airplanes, etc. They have to go to work because they have a contact with the government.
According to court websites they are not calling in any new jurors, courts were closed last week at least for a few days. If you consider yourself on the other side of the table, if you were sitting in jail “innocent until prove guilty” by a jury of your peers, you might consider this essential. It’s a very difficult situation, we have laws that mandate a speedy trial and whatnot, at the same time we need to consider public health. I would not want to be on a jury right now, nor would I want to be locked down with hundreds if not thousands of other inmates.
I feel as if this article singles out Santa Clarita and if you read the actual order is says nothing about Santa Clarita. This order is for all of LA County which includes Santa Clarita. The title of this article comes off as if Santa Clarita was discussed, when in fact, it was all of LA County. Bad choice of wordplay, I’m sure people of SCV came to this thinking SCV has more of an issue than most of LA, that’s simply not the case.
Maybe Santa Clarita feels Entitled. Which I know better than anybody else. Like you said.
Maybe someone should let those young Men at Central Park in Saugus know they are hurting us all playing basketball in a large group. Someone say something if you see this kind of thing.
I work in the acute rehab at a hospital. We often have more than 10 people including patients and therapists in the rehab gym. What we do?
Just try to keep everyone 6 feet apart. Have less people at a time. Don’t line them up or keep them close together. Wear a protective mask and don’t get near their faces. Wash your hands a lot and make sure they wash their’s. And perhaps if some of them could be taught their Exercises they could do some of them on their own.
I workout at The Cardiac Rehab Facility at our hospital…. The Rehab gym locked down 100% last Thursday… Probably wise…. The nurses will soon be needed in the hospital itself and most people using the facility have some heart issue and 90% of the patients are over 60 (some in their 80’s)…. For the benefit of all this is the right thing to do…
Demand PPE. And fill out an Unusual Occurrence Report or Incident Report that your facility has to document your concerns. This is what I would do. ~40 years in healthcare
Ames, I agree with you regarding the negative outcome the guys you’re describing are perpetuating. But, I’m also a very big proponent that the government (state, county, etc.), parents, schools, etc. should not make rules they are unable or unwilling to enforce.
Unless martial law is put into place, the county or city can not order me to stay in my home for what they deem “non-essential.” “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” Am I the only one who sees this as a ridiculous over reaction and fear mongering? Am I the only one who has an issue with any government, big or small telling me I can’t gather peacefully with as many people as I want? The founding fathers did not write all these things with the exception of a virus. Are they going to start mandating vaccines? Are we going to start shutting down every flu season? Where have all these experts been when people have been dying in the streets literally from the spread of disease, i.e. San Francisco, Los Angeles? This is a very slippery slope we are going down. The repercussions of these actions and how we are reacting to them are going to be far worse than the people dying from Covid-19. There is already a mental health crisis in this country, isolation only worsens these “underlying issues.” Please look at the numbers and think logically for yourself. I hope and pray I am not the only one who sees this.
Carol,
Thank you for being the voice of reason when everyone else around us is acting like we finally reached the end times.
What you see is a loss of rights, I see as people caring enough about each other to not infect each other By staying home. We have no immunity to this novel virus. What part of this don’t you understand? Let’s make it clear—you can take walks outside. As long as you’re not in a group you can go wherever you want. When you get home clean up and disinfect. Don’t infect your mother your grandmother or your children. This is a time to be smart and not fall into conspiracy theories .
Thank you Carol!!! Thought I was the only one seeing clearly here smh… Lord help us
No Carol, unfortunately you are not the only one putting themselves above the common good.
This ain’t no party
This ain’t no disco
This ain’t no foolin’ around!
Oh Carol, people like you are the biggest issue in our country today. It’s all ME, ME, ME, and ME AGAIN. Get over yourself and don’t unnecessarily spread a virus that could kill others, is that really too much to ask?
It seems I am only one of few that is not talking about myself, I am talking about us and the future. I am trying to say we are going down a road which is setting a dangerous precedent and what we are allowing the government to control in the name of the common good.
You are one of the few who understands democracy. Next time idiots say, ” it’s for our safety” remind them of Benjamin Franklin.. ” those who would sacrifice their freedom for a little temporary safety, deserve neither freedom nor safety.”
In what way is prioritizing the well-being of the majority of the country’s citizens by rejecting the idea of destroying their quality of life and livelihoods “me, me, me, and me again?” Sounds like the polar opposite of that to me.
This has nothing to do with politics or your freedoms. This is TEMPORARY. We are trying to save lives. Quit being a cry baby.
Dear “stable minded,”
I think by your use of insults instead of actual facts proves my point. I am being logical. Look at the actual numbers for yourself. I know it is temporary, that is not my point at all. One of my points is the precedent we are setting and how we are going to act to future “threats.” Please read my entire post, you obviously did not since all you did was call me a cry baby.
every talking point you have was used during 2000 by the republicans to justify their ‘war on terrorism’. they were just “temporary measures”. I agree that the means of the many outweigh the needs of the few, which is why ruining the livelihood of 60% of people to save the 2% is insane when you actually think about it.
Carol, we are all being asked to make a small sacrifice for the greater good, why is that so hard for you to comprehend? No one is stripping away your rights or falsely imprisoning you. Talk about hyperbole, you sound self-righteous and self-important. Please take other lives into consideration, I know selflessness is a foreign concept to many people like you, but for once think outside of yourself. This situation we are in is not permanent, but willful ignorance is always inexcusable.
Again, please read my entire post. It is not about the sacrifice, I am okay with sacrificing, it is all of you fear mongering panic stricken people that can not comprehend the consequences of our current reactions. I will ask again, are we going to start shutting down the economy every flu season? What if this comes back as some experts say it may? This is not about me, or you, it is about the common good and the future.
When the hospitals get overrun by this and doctors have to make decisions about who gets treatment and who is left to die, maybe you’ll be a little less concerned about your personal freedoms.
Thank you! I thought I was the only one thinking this!
I work for Spectrum cable. I understand that we are a telecommuting company and have a responsibility for customers to have the ability to dial 911. Spectrum is using this as a loop hole to have cable technician’s to perform full installation (video,internet phone) on a daily basis entering customers homes with in the same community. Technician’s are entering up to 5 to 6 homes on daily routine. This doesn’t not help our situation stoping spreading the coronavirus. Spectrum should only help existing customers that have phone service if they have no dial tone. Technician’s don’t feel that spectrum is helping the community, but only helping them self’s with new customers. Technician’s feel that spectrum is not worried about the well being of the technician’s and their family members. As spectrum has told their employees its business as usual.
My husband works for an large highend appliance company as a repair technician. They are using the same loophole. I’m sorry fixing a scratch in a dishwasher door is not an essential service. I get it if a refrigerator breaks etc…but they are not weeding out nonsense calls. They will reimburse for masks and gloves, but are not providing them…which with the hoarding going on has proved difficult for us to find…thus going ouf in search of protective gear rather than staying home. Their techs are going into 7 to 8 homes a day…putting themselves as well as clients at risk. The company doesn’t care… They are telling techs to use their sick leave and vacation days if they want but when those are used up, they must come back to work or be fired. Said labor decisions are being made by managers working from home btw.
The common good? I am looking at the common good and that is way beyond those who will die due to Covid-19. I will reiterate it is our right to assemble, the 1st Amendment does not state I have the right to go on walks, it states we the people have the right to assemble. I am not a conspiracy theorist I am a logical thinker who sees the numbers and sees the actual spread of this virus. It is you who is not looking at the common good which is what we are leaving our children and what we are showing them in our reaction. That is why I wrote about the precedent we are setting. The real numbers are not what is causing this panic.
Deeply appreciate you Carol. The percentage of people with coronavirus in Los Angeles County is 0.0007 as of March 20th.
I will not comply with a dictatorship.
In the end, “the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.”
Those who think this is for safety clearly never read Benjamin Franklin…” Those who would sacrifice their freedom for a little temporary safety deserve neither freedom nor safety.”
What I want to know is how they are going to enforce what people do in their own homes. So if you have friends over for a visit, are the neighbors going to call in a complaint and the Corvid Police are going to come and arrest everyone? Please explain to me how this is going to work.
Blah blah blah, nobody cares about this Fake Hysteria! I’ve seen people playing basketball, BBQing in the park are weekend. The only people that need to stay home are Old people and people with weak immune systems. Let’s just get on with our lives already.
It’s sucks yes but over 200 people are dying a day in Italy it’s getting so bad the are deciding to maybe give up on the old frail people so they have beds and and supply to save the younger ones
Do not worry about the errors in the orders or perceived unfairness.
Do all that you can. Flatten the curve. Stay away from others. Do not spread the infection faster than health system can handle. Give time to science to solve the riddle and make vaccines. The life you save may be your relative. We are in this together. We can slow it by our actions.
john
I know someone who works in La Liga Defensora in Los Angeles and they work in an office with more then 10 people don’t they have to shut down! It’s not okay to be exposing these workers!
President Trump and the Federal Government has postponed income tax day from April 15 to July 15.
Governor Newsom and the California Government has also postponed California income taxess
Supervisor Barger and LA County government has FAILED to postpone property tax day April 10.
If the county is making it criminal to not abide a STAY AT HOME ORDER, how can vulnerable individuals go out to banks and post offices.
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