Diners wait for food at Eat at Joe’s Photo by PATRICK T. Beverly Hills, Whittier, and Lancaster have all considered breaking away from the DPH’s jurisdiction, either by ignoring orders regionally or forming their own separate public health departments. Independent SoCal cities have also grown frustrated with the LA County Department of Public Health, which guides lockdown decisions everywhere except for in Long Beach and Pasadena for the county of 10 million. Their presence was also in response to Kuehl’s perceived double-standard, when she was seen dining at Santa Monica’s Il Forno only hours after casting a vote to eliminate outdoor dining throughout the county. On Saturday, restaurant and bar owners and regular diners showed up at LA County supervisor Sheila Kuehl’s Santa Monica home to protest the closure of outdoor dining across the county. The current wave of discontent continues to make itself known in the form of protest. Those maneuvers often mean spending thousands on mandated personal protective gear and amped-up outdoor dining areas, only to then be told to close - without being helped much financially, if at all. Restaurant owners are at a tipping point with the restrictions, especially now that they’ve pivoted their operations multiple times between takeout, delivery, indoor dining, outdoor dining, almost always with limited capacities each time. The new restrictions eliminate any sit-down dining for the second time this year until at least December 28, as restaurants continue to struggle during this unprecedented public health crisis.īut this time, there’s a lot more resistance.Ĭall it lockdown fatigue or lack of faith in government, the overall sentiment throughout the region is one of desperation. The alarming news triggered an immediate lockdown for 11 Southern California counties, beginning at midnight on Sunday. As the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reported multi-fold increases in new coronavirus cases last week, the region’s ICU bed capacity plummeted to well below the state threshold of 15 percent.
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