On Dec. 29, California announced another extension of the home health order for Southern California and some areas in Central California for at least three weeks. Pictured is a woman walking past an empty outdoor dining area outside a bar and restaurant in West Hollywood, California on November 23, 2020.
California, one of the first states to impose a mandatory home health ban since the outbreak of the Communist China virus (COVID-19), is now the hardest hit state in the nation, with record numbers of business closures, relocations and unemployment as a result of the ban. This has left many people feeling miserable and homeowners in despair of facing closure.
Mr. Xiao, a Chinese-American living in Los Angeles County, said that before the epidemic, he was a truck driver and lived a fulfilling day with a good income and good health. But since California Governor Newsom issued a ban on homebound in March, their company’s business has plummeted and he has lost his job as a result.
“My company boss told me to go home for a while and rest, and then call to let me go back to work when everything was back to normal. As a result, I’ve been bored at home since March.” He said, “I used to eat a lot, was happy and had an income. after March, without work, I couldn’t eat much, couldn’t sleep, and was often insomniac. It also triggered coughing and shortness of breath, which required medication and hospital visits, and sleeping required sleeping pills, none of which was a problem when I was working before.”
Mr. Xiao also questioned why the epidemic was getting worse despite California’s increasingly strict ban on epidemic prevention. In contrast, in some states that do not enforce bans, or even mandatory mask orders, people are living well and the epidemic is relatively stable and under control. “The leftists are killing people by making this ban. I was victimized by the Communist Party, which is all about restricting people’s freedom, and the left in America is now doing the same thing.”
Under the California ban, which is particularly strict on small businesses, normal operations have been affected, with restaurants and the food industry being hit hard. In Los Angeles County in particular, restaurants are only allowed to offer takeout, no dine-in, and even outdoor dining remains banned to this day.
The L.A. County Economic Development Corporation estimates that 700,000 jobs were lost in the food industry during the epidemic shutdown, with 75 percent of the unemployed earning less than $50,000 a year.
Mr. Yang, a restaurant owner in the Chinese District of Los Angeles, said the state and county government’s ban has tightened the screws on their small businesses, “At first, we were not allowed to open the dine-in, but later said we could, allowing partial opening, well, then we spent money to build a shed, buy epidemic prevention supplies, we also have to make money to live ah. Now, we are not allowed to open, we are not allowed to eat in the dining hall, we are not allowed to eat outdoors, and we have to extend the ban again and again, there is no end to it.
It is particularly ironic, Mr. Yang said, California currently has more than 2,218,000 confirmed infections and more than 24,900 deaths, while the epidemic in Los Angeles County, which is said to be the state’s strictest epidemic prevention, is instead the most serious area in the state. As of Dec. 28, more than 746,000 people were infected and nearly 13,000 people had died in Los Angeles County.
In addition, since the outbreak, wearing masks has become one of the most important means of preventing the epidemic in many places. But according to a new study by RationalGround.com, a group of data analysts, computer scientists and actuaries, the number of cases is higher in states with mandatory mask orders than in states without them.
In states with mask orders, there were an average of 27 confirmed cases per 100,000 people per day. In contrast, in states that did not implement the executive order, the average number of confirmed cases per 100,000 people per day was 17.
The public questions the credibility of the confirmation numbers
Currently, the number of confirmed cases per day in Los Angeles County has increased dramatically, with long lines of people driving by at many testing sites. The state and county governments are using the number of confirmed cases, hospitalizations and bed occupancy rates as criteria for issuing epidemic prevention bans. But many people are skeptical about the credibility of these numbers.
Greg, a West Hollywood resident, said he has been working normally since the outbreak began and has not been home vaccinated. He had a small wind chill some time ago and developed a cough state, which later cleared up with medication, but his sister was unsure and asked him to get a test. “When I went to do the test, I still had a slight cough, I was coughing when the people at the testing station were staring at me, and the results came out saying that I was confirmed. I didn’t believe it, so I bothered a friend of mine who works at the hospital to find a way to test me, and it came back that I was not diagnosed.”
Greg says that just doesn’t make sense. “In fact, we go to the testing station to test, the results are in the control of those people, he said you are diagnosed you are diagnosed, but these are difficult to confirm whether it is really diagnosed, so they (county health department) statistics, I think a large percentage of the numbers do not match the reality, is exaggerating the numbers, forcing us all to stay home.”
Another Chinese woman living in Southern California said that her friend in Northern California originally wanted to get a test done at a local testing station, registered and went to the site and found that the line was so long that her friend called home and did not get tested. However, a few days later, her friend received a notice that she had been diagnosed with the CCP virus, which made them both feel very ridiculous.
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