


I feel like the point of this is to keep this from spreading so the virus dies out." Also, if this isn't enforced, it could continue to spread. But what's been difficult is not knowing when this will end. "I think generally people are glad the city is being cautionary, and so I think that is a great thing. "I had a virtual book club last night since we couldn't meet in person," Li said.

Li, a legal assistant, was working from home on Tuesday. "It is a misdemeanor to not comply with the order and as a last resort we will be prepared to enforce," Scott said. San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott said the police department is currently asking people to voluntarily comply with the order, but added, "This order does have the ability to enforce." While residents are allowed to take walks, Breed cautioned people to stay clear of anyone they might encounter and encouraged people to "stay active within their homes for the purposes of making sure that they're not out there in the streets tracking this virus and getting other people sick." Mayor London Breed said at a news conference Tuesday night that while many San Franciscans have "stepped up to the plate" and are complying with the shelter-in-place rules, "Day One, so far, has been OK." Footage from news media outlets captured people jogging, biking and Rollerblading along the Embarcadero waterfront, some appearing to be in violation of a chief tenet of the new rules: Stay at least six feet apart. People are really nervous, which is fair."īut while Li and others stayed holed up in their apartments, people elsewhere in the city seemed a bit more cavalier.
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There are no people," Li told ABC News on the first full day of a citywide lockdown prompted by the global coronavirus pandemic. In December 2020, Los Angeles County deputies arrested nearly 158 people at a Palmdale house party that violated state coronavirus orders.On any given weekday, as clocks approach lunch hour, the streets of San Francisco's Nob Hill neighborhood are bustling with pedestrians strutting to the clanging bells of iconic cable cars packed with wide-eyed tourists.īut as Ree Ree Li, 25, peeked out her apartment window on Tuesday, she described a desolate scene punctuated by eerie silence. In Los Angeles, Garcetti authorized the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power to shut off utilities to homes that were found to have hosted private parties. Newsom’s orders were carried out differently across the state. 28 of this year, nearly three years after his first of many lockdowns.
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A federal judge blocked the law in January following a pair of lawsuits challenging it on free speech grounds.Ĭalifornia’s COVID-19 state of emergency officially ended on Feb. 6, 2022, Newsom signed a bill punishing doctors who espouse alleged "misinformation or disinformation" related to COVID-19 that is not in line with the mainstream. (Photo by RINGO CHIU/AFP via Getty Images) A supporter of Sean Feucht kneels as homeless advocates and their supporters stage a protest against Christian musician Sean Feucht as he plans to hold a public event in Skid Row in spite of the rise of Covid-19 cases in the region, in Los Angeles on December 30, 2020.
