EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for March 16, 2020
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for March 16, 2020! Be safe and practice social distancing! Check out San Diego County’s website on Coronavirus Disease 2019 and Escondido City’s COVID-19 as well as What Kids Want To Know About Coronavirus: An Original Comic, The dos, don’ts, and rules of social distancing and The difference between quarantine, isolation, and social distancing, explained.
Census 2020
- Share info about Census 2020: What Is the 2020 Census?, Ways To Respond, Questions Asked and Sample questionnaire in English and Spanish/Español.
- Take the Census 2020 if you have already received an official invitation from the Census Bureau (invitations started being mail mid-March).
Covid-19
- Share San Diego County’s website on Coronavirus Disease 2019 and Escondido City’s COVID-19.
- Read-up on Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to “flatten the curve” and Coronavirus Lessons From Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
- Read-up on Infighting, missteps and a son-in-law hungry for results: Inside the Trump administration’s troubled coronavirus response and Inside Jared Kushner’s coronavirus research: A wide net on a giant Facebook group
- Read-up on U.S. Coronavirus Response Was Marked by Overconfidence, Delays, Reporter: White House Knew Of Coronavirus' 'Major Threat,' But Response Fell Short and Exclusive: White House told federal health agency to classify coronavirus deliberations - sources.
- Contact Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris and express concerns about the Trump administration’s slow responses to prepare, contain and disseminate information about Covid-19. Tell them that you support legislations such as H.R.6201 (or Families First Coronavirus Response Act) which “responds to the coronavirus outbreak by providing paid sick leave and free coronavirus testing, expanding food assistance and unemployment benefits, and requiring employers to provide additional protections for health care workers”.
- In related-news: read-up on Fact-Checking President Trump's Claims on the Coronavirus and A Map Of The Coronavirus Exposures In Trump’s Orbit In Just Two Weeks.
2020 Election
- Read-up on Carl DeMaio Concedes To Darrell Issa In 50th Congressional Race.
- As of March 13, 2020, the voter turnout for this 2020 Presidential Primary in San Diego County is on-track to reach 49% based on 833,538 ballots cast and 60,000 outstanding ballots left to be counted. This is 2% less turnout than in 2016 which had 51% turnout and 12% less turnout than in 2008 which had 61% turnout (the highest turnout of the last 20 years for a Presidential Primary).
- In the Congressional 50th District, Ammar Campa-Najjar (D) receives 36% votes (68,284) while former 49th Representative Darrell Issa (R) receives 24% (44,137). Republican candidates totaled 57% votes while Democratic candidates totaled 42% votes and no/other parties totaled 4%. In the 2018 General Election, former Rep. Hunter won only by a 3% margin (5,867 votes).
- In related-news: read-up on Trump ordered to expand document search in suit alleging he endorsed pyramid scam, Justice Department must disclose secret Mueller grand jury evidence to Congress, appeals court finds and A Conservative Agenda Unleashed on the Federal Courts.
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