In keeping with the
Los Angeles Times, the state has averaged greater than 14,000 instances a day for the final week, a 55.6% improve. Hospitalizations are at a report excessive, up 100% from simply 14 day in the past.
That celebration got here simply sooner or later after Newsom and his spouse had attended a dinner on the restaurant — a 50th birthday celebration for political marketing consultant and lobbyist Jason Kinney. They have been two of a dozen individuals on the occasion, which was held at an out of doors desk within the courtyard of the restaurant. Pictures obtained by
Fox 11 in Los Angeles confirmed Newsom sitting carefully full of different friends — and none carrying a masks.
Newsom apologized when information of the dinner got here to mild. “I made a nasty mistake,” Newsom stated 10 days after the dinner. “I ought to have stood up and … drove again to my home. The spirit of what I am preaching on a regular basis was contradicted. I would like to evangelise and follow, not simply preach.”
Yup!
The identical, in fact, holds for Breed, who’s extensively considered one of many greatest rising Democratic stars within the state. Whereas she did not violate the particular Covid protocols governing the realm through which the French Laundry is positioned, it would not look good — AT ALL — when Breed, three days after she dined on the restaurant,
announced that indoor dining would be prohibited amid rising cases and positive tests in the city.
“We’re seeing an uptick,”
Breed said of the decision. “It has pressured our metropolis to make some very laborious selections.”
The issue, in fact, is that Breed herself did not seem like making these “very laborious selections” in her personal life. Which, properly, hypocrisy alert!
Newsom and Breed aren’t the one California Democrats who appear to be in “do as I say, not as I do” mode with regards to the coronavirus.
Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl voted to ban out of doors eating on the greater than 30,000 eating places final week however was noticed — simply hours later! — eating outdoors at a restaurant in Santa Monica. “She did dine al fresco at Il Forno on the final day it was permissible,”
a spokesman for Kuehl told a Los Angeles local TV station. “She loves Il Forno, has been saddened to see it, like so many eating places, undergo from a decline in income. She ate there, taking applicable precautions, and sadly won’t dine there once more till our Public Well being Orders allow.”
Uh huh.
Then there’s the case of San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo. On November 25, Liccardo
tweeted this: “Circumstances are spiking, partially as a result of we’re letting our guard (and masks) down with household & mates. Let’s cancel the massive gatherings this yr and concentrate on preserving one another secure.”
Good recommendation! Which he didn’t observe! His workplace confirmed that
he traveled to his parents’ home for Thanksgiving where eight people from five different households attended. “I perceive that the state rules, issued on November 13th, restrict the variety of households at a personal gathering to a few,” Liccardo stated in a written apology issued Tuesday. “I apologize for my choice to collect opposite to state guidelines, by attending this Thanksgiving meal with my household.”
Taken collectively, the bevy of Democratic politicians keen to bend and even break the principles they’re asking their constituents to heed in hopes of mitigating the unfold of Covid-19 is an avalanche of hypocrisy. And it’s a very dangerous look.