The Board of Supervisors approved sending a letter to Governor Gavin Newsom at last Tuesdays meeting. I was elated to hear Adams and Lavagnino lead a stronger pushback with the idea of keeping our county evaluated separately. However, Santa Barbara County needs to take even a stronger stand with a definitive timeline.
It is not the place of Grinch Newsom to continue trampling on constitutional liberties! People’s livelihoods are in peril, and people are dying from causes besides COVID, including mental illness and lack of medical care resulting from the lockdowns themselves! (Note: Suicides are at all-time highs, if you can even find the statistics on suicide as that information has not yet been released, but in 2017 we lost 55 souls that way. Would the data for suicides and other causes in 2020 so far not also be important? Why are COVID deaths the only stats that are released before the death data is actually official?)
As a county citizen, I have asked Das Williams, Gregg Hart and Joan Hartmann, “If you do not stop the lockdowns that are depriving law-abiding employers and employees of their incomes, why don’t you first surrender your own paychecks and your own livelihoods?” Why should they take away the constitutional rights of their constituents for the pretext of a virus that has a 99.8 percent survival rate? The data of deaths do not warrant the closures of businesses, and certainly not the discrimination of some businesses over others. We the people know what to do to prevent the spread of virus, because the Public Health Department has educated us. Besides, we have a flu season every year.