Category: Update

WEAR A MASK! You can wash your hands but not your lungs.

Here is the explanation why. Please share this it with everyone.

I don’t know if you understand the fast spread of the virus. The news media, the president etc… do not explain it well.

When a person is getting sick, is slightly sick, or is a carrier exhales, they spray thousands of the virus particles go out into the air around him.

They do not have to cough or sneeze. If you are in a grocery store and walk 6 feet behind them you can still get the virus because you are following in their air space, that has thousands of his virus particles. So wear a mask and if you don’t have one make one from a paper towel by folding it, stapling the ends and stapling a piece of fine elastic to that stapled end. Or use a kerchief. Just cover your nose and mouth with something that keeps water droplets from passing through. The virus sticks to the water droplets.

Be careful when you go to a grocery store. Disinfecting the floor and counters is less important than the mask.

Please wear a mask if you must go out in public for your sake and everyone

https://sf.gov/information-construction-projects

Find out which construction projects are essential and will continue, and get information to keep construction job sites safe.

By Julie from the Exploratorium

Click the Link to view the video if it doesn’t come up on your screen:
https://www.exploratorium.edu/video/how-does-soap-inactivate-coronaviruses

Coronaviruses are surrounded by the same type of membrane that surrounds human cells. Learn how disrupting this membrane with soap or alcohol inactivates the virus. Find out more about the science of COVID-19 with the Exploratorium Learning Toolbox.

Respiratory Therapist – How to treat a Virus at home.

By Dominic Fracassa : sfchronicle – excerpt

Three new mobile COVID-19 testing sites will open in San Francisco next week, as health officials race to expand testing capabilities ahead of a predicted surge of patients in the coming weeks.

This page will be used to link any important documents pertaining to COVID-19: https://discoveryink.wordpress.com/covid-19/

During the Pandemic we will be posting related links on the above page. We will not cover the news that everyone sees daily. We will post links to the legislation that is being passed as a result of the pandemic and try to add to the details on how to work within the system.

During the March 17 Board of Supervisors Meeting plans were made to set up a remote meeting system that overrides the Brown Act. Questions were raised by Supervisor Peskin and others regarding pubic participation rules and power shifts within local governments. A number of questions could not be answered at the meeting and we requested notice on the answers after the meeting. We can share the link to the information here as it came to us from Angela Calvillo and Eileen McHugh. Thanks to everyone who helped us.

On behalf of the Clerk of the Board I am sending you a link to the City Attorney’s memo you are seeking. Please find the memo here: https://www.sfcityattorney.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Public-Memorandum-Legal-Authority-of-the-Mayor-Health-Officer-and-Board-of-Supervisors-in-an-Emergency.pdf If you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to reach out. eileen.e.mchugh@sfgov.org / www.sfbos.org

Since the Emergency Declaration at two supplements have been signed by the Mayor. One of them that concerns rents and utility services is here: https://sfmayor.org/sites/default/files/SupplementalDeclaration2_03132020_stamped.pdf Details on the “rent moratorium” are laid out in pages 4-6. It appears that tenants must take action to communicate their circumstances to the landlord within 30 days after the rent was due. There is also some language about the utility bills etc. Read the document to see how it may apply to you. Don’t just assume the media reports are correct as they may be leaving out details you need to protect yourself.

For some time the state authorities have been using an inflated number. Finally the Governor is admitting the number is wrong. This information needs to reach a wider audience. Please let your people know the real housing shortage number is 1.2 million, not 3.5 million.

Thank YOU for helping Livable California fight Scott Wiener’s false narrative in his failed bill, SB 50 — the phony claim that California needs 3.5M million units of trickle-down housing and we must destroy communities to build it.

Wiener’s divisive view, conjured up by the huge consulting firm McKinsey, has influenced legislators, the L.A. Times, NYT and the governor.

Please join us by donating today, to pay our costs to face down Scott Wiener, starting NEXT WEEK when he unveils his misguided version of “SB 50, Try Again.”

We applaud Gov. Gavin Newsom, for last week openly questioning the wildly inflated 3.5 million number that set off panic bills in Sacramento. Gov. Newsom told a reporter that his own team is going to produce “realistic” housing goals, and that his team did not produce the 3.5 million figure.

We can help with that! The real need is 1.2 million, as shown by extensive data from the state’s housing department, HCD (read about it here).

Cities are WELL ALONG in approving projects to hit the 1.2 M need, and not slowing down (read about it here.)!

We at Livable California, and you, our members, play a key role in changing the debate. Please donate, and we’ll stop Wiener and finally get some decent housing laws in 2020.

Livable California is a non-profit statewide group of community leaders, activists and local elected officials. We believe in local answers to the housing affordability crisis. Our robust fight requires trips to Sacramento & a lobbyist going toe-to-toe with power. Please donate generously to LivableCalifornia.org here.

By Karma Dickerson : fox40 – excerpt (includes video)

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KTXL) — Across California, more and more people are coming to their cars to find someone has forced their way in and taken their belongings. Almost everyone has a car break-in story to tell.

Many people FOX40 spoke with were surprised to learn that finding the thieves isn’t the only challenge for authorities — holding them accountable in court isn’t is as straight forward as many might think.

When it comes to stealing from cars, California law defines burglary as entering a vehicle “when the doors are locked.”…

“We have to prove the vehicle is locked to make it a felony,” Ronald Lawrence, president of the California Police Chiefs Association, told FOX40…

Assembly Bill 1921 would create a new law that simply makes forcibly entering a vehicle to steal a crime…(more)