EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for Sept. 21, 2020
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for Sept. 21, 2020! Check your voter registration (43 days until Election Day) and take the Census if you haven’t already (Escondido has a 72.6% response rate so far). Mail ballots will start going out on Oct. 5, 2020. Stay safe and healthy!
Events
- Tuesday, Sept. 22, 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 #02 on SDC COVID-19 response update. Public comments may be made via eComment service or via email to publiccomment@sdcounty.ca.gov. See Voice Your Opinion.
- Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, 6:00 PM: Escondido City Council Meeting via teleconference. Agenda includes item #5 on conflict of interests code update. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form.
Future Events
- Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM: Escondido Chamber and Times-Advocate's CA 50th District Candidate Forum.
- Thursday, October 1, 2020, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM: Escondido Chamber and Times-Advocate's Escondido City Council Candidate Forum.
Election
- Watch NSDC NAACP Escondido City Council Candidate Forum Replay.
- Plan how you will vote for the upcoming election. Mail ballots will start going out on Oct. 5, 2020. Early in-person voting will also start on Oct. 5, 2020: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday starting Oct. 5 at the Registrar’s office and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 31 through Monday, Nov. 2 at your assigned polling place or the Registrar’s office. Track your ballot at Where’s My Ballot. See Election Day 2020.
Immigration
- Read-up on Whistleblower: There Were Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Facility, Staggering Number of Hysterectomies Happening at ICE Facility, Whistleblower Says, and More migrant women say they didn’t OK surgery in detention
- Contact Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris and ask them to investigate and act to end abuse and forced sterilization at ICE facilities. See Stop Abuse and Forced Sterilization of ICE Detainees.
- In-related news: read-up on Whistleblowers Say CBP Knowingly Broke The Law As It Turned Back Asylum-Seekers.
Local COVID-19 Response
- Read-up on County Supervisors Nix Proposal To Fully Open Businesses Amid Pandemic, San Diego Nightlife Hotspots Are Also Outbreak Hotspots, Analysis Shows and Supervisors OK Grant Money For Small Businesses Affected By Pandemic (Choice quote: “There was no request for District 3, represented by Supervisor Kristin Gaspar, on Tuesday's agenda. // Spokeswoman Itica Milanes said Monday that Gaspar would be submitting her grant proposals "possibly at the Sept. 29th board meeting.")
- Contact Supervisor Gaspar and Mayor McNamara and urge them caution about reopening San Diego County too quickly without sufficient testing and contract tracing capacity. San Diego County is now reporting a 7.9 for a 7-day average case rate and is still reporting ~20 outbreaks for a 7-day period since July; while in Escondido, we now have a total of 2,007 positive cases (1,378.8 per 100k population and up 99 cases from last week). Our Escondido total hospitalization rate is 87.6 per 100k population (up 6.5), intensive care unit 18.4 (no change) and mortality 17.3 (no change) which remain some of the highest in North Inland San Diego County.
Federal COVID-19 Response
- Read-up on Trump administration scrapped plan to send every American a mask in April, email shows and Newly revealed USPS documents show an agency struggling to manage Trump, Amazon and the pandemic.
- Read-up on CDC Virus Testing Guidance Was Posted Against Scientists’ Objections and Emails Detail Effort to Silence C.D.C. and Question Its Science.
- Read-up on “That’s Their Problem”: How Jared Kushner Let the Markets Decide America’s COVID-19 Fate .
- Contact Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris and express support for additional COVID-19 relief proposed by the HEROES Act and for continued funding of testing and tracing. Note that the HEROES Act has passed the House. See Tell your Members of Congress: Fight for the Emergency-Relief We Need and Indivisible's HEROES Act Summary.
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