EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for April 27, 2020
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for April 27, 2020! Stay safe and healthy! Pick an action or two and commit yourself to doing them. As President Obama said in his farewell speech: Believe in your ability to bring change. Show up, dive in, stay at it.
Events
- Tuesday, April 28, 2020, 7:00 PM: Sierra Club NCG Community Presentation on Transportation via teleconference. Please contact EscondidoIndivisible50@gmail.com for Zoom link to the meeting.
Escondido City Council
- Watch replay of April 22nd City Council Meeting to interview District #2 City Council Member candidates.
- Read-up on City council deadlocks choosing successor to John Masson and the District #2 short list candidate applications: Babara Aguilar (No Party Preference), Tina Ostrem Inscoe (Republican), Richard Paul (No Party Preference), Scotty Lombardi (Democrats) and Vanessa Valenzuela (Democrats).
- Contact Escondido City Council and express support for a ranked choice voting process as proposed by City Councilmember Diaz for City Council District 2 appointment voting.
Local COVID-19 Response
- Read-up on Supervisors Split In Rejecting Plan To Reopen County By May 1 and Some North County Leaders Want To Reopen Businesses; County Says It's Still Too Early.
- Read-up on 'No Evidence' Yet That Recovered COVID-19 Patients Are Immune, WHO Says, County Task Force Will Plot Strategy For Expanded Coronavirus Testing, and Meet the Pandemic Decision-Makers [SDC].
- Contact Supervisor Gaspar and express disappointment in her support of re-opening San Diego County by May 1. She voted yes in a 2-3 vote on Apr. 21st. San Diego County has not met the 5 federal criteria for easing our local public COVID-19 health measures, and, in fact, we had 2 record days of reported positive test cases this past week: 152 on Apr. 22nd and 183 on Apr. 23rd along with 111 total deaths reached. We should not re-open until the county meets the 5 federal criteria and 6 key statewide indicators for easing our local public COVID-19 health measures.
- Contact Escondido City Council and let them know that you do not support any plans to re-opening San Diego County or easing our local public COVID-19 health measures without the county having met the 5 federal criteria and 6 key statewide indicators for easing our local public COVID-19 health measures.
- In-related news: read-up on New County Data Show Coronavirus Cases Rising In South Bay Cities and L.A.’s overcrowded housing raises fear of coronavirus spread.
- In-related news: read-up on Inside Smithfield, JBS and Tysons Food meat plants, fears grew of employees working sick, without protective gear, Essential Workers Are Being Treated as Expendable, and Essential workers take care of us. We’re not taking care of them.
Federal COVID-19 Response
- Read-up on Trump Quotes On Coronavirus: What The White House Has Said, Done and Why The U.S. Early Warning System For Spread Of Coronavirus Stumbled.
- Contact Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris and urge them to pass additional relief for COVID-19. See Urge Congress to Pass Additional Coronavirus Relief Measures, What To Tell Your Members of Congress to Do About Coronavirus and People's Bailouts.
- In-related news: read-up on 36,000 Missing Deaths: Tracking the True Toll of the Coronavirus Crisis and Tracking covid-19 excess deaths across countries.
- In-related news: read-up on Bipartisan Senate report says 2017 intel assessment about Russian interference and Trump was accurate and Trump owed tens of millions to Bank of China.
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