31 statement from the California Department of Public Health, “Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled the Blueprint for a Safer Economy, a statewide plan for reducing COVID-19 and keeping Californians healthy and safe. Here are the gnarly details behind the story inquisitive minds want to know.Īccording to a Monday, Aug. It’s not nearly as bad as they’re making it out to be.”Įgan acknowledged the risk for some in the community, but he said, “For the vast majority of people, it’s not too bad.” “I think that kind of speaks to the disease. He did say one prison inmate spent one night in the hospital due to the virus. “I do know out of all the cases we’ve had, no one’s gone to the hospital out of Lassen County,” Egan said. We think it’s perhaps a miscalculation or something, but they haven’t provided us the data they based their decision on. “Basically there are four categories,” he explained, “and we’re second from the bottom - unlike all of our neighbors.

So, what in the world is Egan talking about? “On the COVID front, I don’t know if you saw the new matrix the state came up with,” Richard Egan, Lassen County administrator, told me this afternoon, “but it kind of changes things about who can open and when … We’re in disagreement with them about where they placed us on the chart, and we’re having some discussions about that.” A simple common reality returned to roost again up here in the wilds of Lassen County - one that’s sure to leave local government and business leaders worrying about the uncertain future lurking in the midst of a pesky pandemic, a somber reality that compels them to scratch their heads in wonder, question out loud the wisdom of decisions made in the far away governor’s office in Sacramento, decisions that profoundly effect us all, a reality that ultimately riles that most obvious and inevitable expression of indignant consternation: What are these people thinking? Again!

Blueprint for a safer economy