I have been a huge fan of the way Governor Newsom has handled this thing from the beginning. And so are most Californians....his favorability is through the roof right now.
But I have a good friend on the city council here locally and he told me that word is that the Governor is going to close all beaches across the state on Friday.
The issue was that around here only Orange County beaches were open, so people flocked to them from SD and LA.
If he does, it will be a gigantic misstep imo. People will really be upset and he will lose a lot of the support he has garnered. People have overall really respected the quarantine and have abided by it. But that will not play well.
I get not wanting 30,000 people on one beach but the answer isn’t to close them all. It’s to open up more. There will end up being thousands of protesters and that’s a thousand times worse than people spread out on a beach.
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