EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for May 18, 2020
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for May 18, 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, May 19, 2020, 9:00 AM: Board Of Supervisors Regular Meeting via teleconference. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at sandiegocounty.gov here. Agenda includes item #05 on SDC COVID-19 response updates and proposed actions. Public comments may be made via eComment service or via email to [email protected].
- Wednesday, May 20, 2020, 6:00 PM: Escondido City Council Meeting via teleconference. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Agenda includes item #16 & #17 on COVID-19 Emergency Business Recovery & Extension of Eviction Moratorium. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form.
Escondido COVID-19 Response
- Read-up on the Escondido City Council’s meeting agenda, item #16 & #17 on COVID-19 Emergency Business Recovery & Extension of Eviction Moratorium.
- Contact Escondido City Council and express support extending the eviction moratorium due to on-going COVID-19 pandemic. Express also your concerns about the rising number of COVID-19 cases in Escondido.
- Note that Escondido currently has 186 total positive cases or 122.2 per 100,000 population. We have currently around the fifth highest number of COVID-19 cases among the cities in San Diego County, 48 new positive cases this week, and previously, 62 total positive cases on April 16th (or 40.7 per 100,000 population).
San Diego County COVID-19 Response
- Read-up on San Diego County Will Seek State Approval to Reopen Faster and 'Not Realistic Standards': San Diego Politicians Want To Decide How To Reopen Businesses.
- Read-up on How flat is San Diego's COVID-19 curve?, San Diego County coronavirus cases: Tracking the outbreak and California coronavirus cases: Tracking the outbreak.
- Contact Supervisor Gaspar and Board of Supervisors and express your concerns about the county’s intention to accelerate plans for re-opening San Diego County. From the LA Times: “San Diego has the second highest number of coronavirus cases among the state's 58 counties and the third most deaths.” We are not ready for an accelerated re-opening of our county. We should follow California’s directive and plan to reopen California and with stricter public health measures specific to San Diego County as necessary to contain the spread of COVID-19 and to ensure that workers do not, for example, unnecessarily risk their safety without protective gears such as face masks and gloves provided by their employers.
- Note that in 7 days from May 10th to May 16th, San Diego County had 910 new positive cases, 149 new hospitalization cases, 35 new intensive care cases and 34 new death cases. We’ve reached 209 total death cases this week (6.3 per 100k), and 5,836 total positive cases or 176.7 per 100,000 population.
California COVID-19 Response
- Read-up on Lawmakers Propose Sweeping Relief To Homeowners, Renters.
- Read-up on Two reasons California coronavirus cases won't decline soon and California coronavirus cases: Tracking the outbreak.
- Contact Assemblymember Waldron and State Senator Jones and express support for legislation providing relief to homeowners and renters such as those proposed by Senator Toni Atkins and Assemblywoman Monique Limon.
Federal COVID-19 Response
- Read-up on Ousted Scientist Says His Pandemic Warnings Were Dismissed As 'Commotion', How Trump and the CDC Failed the COVID-19 Test, 60 days in, Trump still doesn’t have a coronavirus plan, and Inside Trump’s coronavirus meltdown.
- Read-up on Coronavirus Relief Packages: Details For Businesses, Individuals, Health and House passes $3 trillion coronavirus stimulus package.
- Contact Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris and express support for additional COVID-19 relief such as proposed by the Heroes Act. See Call your member of Congress and demand they pass the HEROES Act.
- In-related News: read-up on Trump fires State Department inspector general Steve Linick.
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