One day after a San Diego judge ruled against four local businesses, we are getting the latest update on the state’s COVID restrictions affecting the life of businesses and all of our lives.
California’s top public health official, Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Galley, who has been the one who gives us the news each week about the status of counties in the state’s color coded tiers will give us the news again today. News that we may or may not want to hear.
With the number of infections and hospitalizations on the rise, the COVID pandemic is peaking just as we begin the holiday season and there could be more restrictions coming.
The San Diego Superior Court judge who ruled Monday against two gyms and two restaurants in their request to lift them out of the purple tier and allow them to operate indoors again said something that public health officials and all of us are dealing with.
As the judge put it in denying the businesses’ request for a temporary injunction, “the impact on public health of dismantling a portion of the state’s COVID-19 response designed to reduce community spread outweighs the economic harm” to the businesses.
We all have to weigh the risks and benefits as the pandemic rages on.While public health officials and government leaders have to weigh the risks and benefits when deciding on restrictions, each of us has to weigh the risks and benefits of wearing a mask, physically distancing and limiting gatherings.
In other words, we each make a ruling ourselves as to what we decide to do to protect ourselves and others.
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