EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for December 14, 2020
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for December 14, 2020! Stay safe and healthy! As the first shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine begin in the U.S., let’s highlight:
- Your Top COVID-19 Vaccine Questions Answered As FDA Gives The Green Light and San Diego's First COVID-19 Vaccines Will Go To Frontline Health Care Workers
- The Chinese Scientist Who Sequenced the First COVID-19 Genome Speaks Out About the Controversies Surrounding His Work (and The Pandemic Heroes Who Gave us the Gift of Time and Gift of Information)
- The Husband-and-Wife Team Behind the Leading Vaccine to Solve Covid-19
- How the leading coronavirus vaccines made it to the finish line
- And note: Pfizer Covid-19 Vaccine Funding Came From Germany Not Operation Warp Speed and Coronavirus vaccine supplies fall short of Operation Warp Speed promises
Events
- Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020, 6:00 PM: Escondido City Council Meeting via teleconference. Agenda includes item #17 on city council committee assignments. From SDUT: “In open session at 6 p.m., the council will give final approval to a master development plan for the Nutmeg Homes project on the south part of the project site. The council will hold a hearing on a tentative subdivision map and condominium permit for 10 units at 245 E. El Norte Parkway, developed by Habitat for Humanity. All units would be reserved for low-income households.” Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form.
Trump Abuse of Power
- Read-up on ‘This Must Be Your First’: Is Trump Trying to Stage a Coup? and ‘An Indelible Stain’: How the G.O.P. Tried to Topple a Pillar of Democracy.
Escondido City Council
- Read-up on Olga Diaz steps down from Escondido City Council after 12 years and Escondido council swears in two new members, one incumbent. Note that the Republican Escondido City Council majority used the budget deficits/budget savings to close the Escondido East Valley Public Branch Library in 2011 and outsource the library operations of Escondido Public Library to an out-of-state company, Library Systems and Services in 2017.
Local COVID-19 Response
- Read-up on New Data Shows Evictions Increasing During Pandemic.
- Read-up on Tracking Coronavirus Hospitalizations In California By County, Some ICUs at California hospitals are completely full: 'It is the worst we have seen' and Some Orange County ambulances with patients are ‘waiting hours’ for ER beds.
- Contact the Board of Supervisors and express support for the regional stay-at-home order. Tell them that you’re concerned about increased community spread of COVID-19 (we’re at 27 case rate, 9.1% testing positivity rate, 52 community outbreaks, ICU capacity down at 16%, and 5-7% upward trajectory of influenza-like illnesses and COVID-like syndromic case).
Federal COVID-19 Response
- Read-up on Stealing to survive: More Americans are shoplifting food as aid runs out during the pandemic, Social Inequities Explain Racial Gaps in Pandemic, Studies Find and True Pandemic Toll in the U.S. Reaches 356,000.
- Read-up on The two competing stimulus proposals, explained and As Year-End Looms, Lawmakers Still Seek Deal On More Coronavirus Aid,
- Contact Senator Feinstein and urge her to also pass additional COVID-19 relief such as proposed by the HEROES Act. See Relief Can’t Wait: Demand Congress Pass a COVID Relief Bill and Urge Congress to Pass Additional Coronavirus Relief Measures.
Harvest Hills (in San Pasqual Valley)
- Read-up on Sierra Club North County launches new ‘Stop Harvest Hills’ campaign and watch Sierra Club’s Stop Harvest Hills (formerly Safari Highlands Ranch).
- Contact the Escondido City Council and express opposition for the Harvest Hills sprawl development. See Say NO to the Harvest Hills (Safari Highlands) Sprawl Development.
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