Thousand Oaks Church Told By Judge: Close, Now – As VC Quick Reopening Was Big Mistake
Written by 991KBU on August 7, 2020
A Ventura County judge tells a church that reopened its doors “there is no exercise of a right unless people are alive to exercise it.
The Ventura County Star reports this afternoon: https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/2020/08/07/covid-19-ventura-county-judge-orders-church-indoor-services-stopped-coronavirus/3309910001/
Judge Matthew Guasco said he takes few questions as seriously as whether the First Amendment … and the freedom to exercise religion should be restricted by the government.
But the judge said that an equally powerful concern is the government’s role in protecting community health, safety and welfare.
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Ventura County was several weeks ahead of L A County is reopening restaurants … hair salons and barber shops.
Two and a half months later … that decision can be summed up in two words.
Big mistake.
The Ventura County Star has examined why the area just up the road from Malibu has gone off the charts in COVID-19,
The number of positive coronavirus cases in Ventura County doubled … and then doubled again.
A 700 percent increase.
The number of people hospitalized in Ventura County … up fourfold.
That number does not rely on the amount of testing … the figures that the state has screwed up … the figures cited by President Trump as some sort of success.
The testing rate in Ventura County is nowhere close enough to get it off the watch list issued by the state … of coronavrius hotspots.
In May, the county said it would have to test roughly 1,280 people per day to meet the volume required by the state.
Tesrng has peaked at about half that rate.
The Ventura County Star reports that outbreaks at nursing homes … and at a farmworker housing complex in Oxnard …may have contributed to the surge.
But the big cause … the reopening of the economy … it inspired people to make a return of sorts to their pre-pandemic lives, leading to more transmission.
