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18. 20-474 Ordinance to Prevent the Spread of the Novel Coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, and the Disease it Causes, Commonly Referred to as COVID-19. To receive public comment on its intent to adopt an ordinance entitled "An Ordinance to Prevent the Spread of the Novel Coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, and the Disease it Causes, Commonly Referred to as COVID-19," which was first adopted by the Board of Supervisors as an emergency ordinance on July 27, 2020 (Ordinance No. 20-E(5)). The ordinance establishes: (1) limitations on the number of persons at food establishments, farm wineries, limited breweries, and limited distilleries; (2) limitations on the number of attendees at gatherings; and (3) requires persons to wear face coverings in public places. The ordinance also includes definitions, specific provisions for when and how the above-described limitations apply, and imposes criminal penalties for violations.
This statement in the ordinance is false: "WHEREAS, at this time, there is no known cure, no effective treatment,..." This infection has a 95% recovery rate. The vast majority of positive cases do not even require hospitalization. This infection does not warrant such drastic control measures any longer. This entire ordinance should be ended now instead of being dependent upon a high test positivity rate which could be due to multiple causes, such as constant retesting of the same infected individuals. The masks are obviously not effective, or the virus would have stopped spreading by now, but it's a virus --- short of living encased in a plastic viral filtration bubble, there's no escape from it.
This statement in the ordinance is false: "WHEREAS, at this time, there is no known cure, no effective treatment,..." This infection has a 95% recovery rate. The vast majority of positive cases do not even require hospitalization. This infection does not warrant such drastic control measures any longer. This entire ordinance should be ended now instead of being dependent upon a high test positivity rate which could be due to multiple causes, such as constant retesting of the same infected individuals. The masks are obviously not effective, or the virus would have stopped spreading by now, but it's a virus --- short of living encased in a plastic viral filtration bubble, there's no escape from it.