Metal Anarchy

During a press conference earlier today (April 28), California Governor Gavin Newsom revealed his four-stage framework for reopening the state. Notably, he said concerts will be able to return “once therapeutics have been developed.” However, this is still months away.

Here’s the four stages in Newsom’s plan:

Stage 1: Safety And Preparedness (This is the stage we are currently in)

* Continue to build out testing, contract tracing, PPE, and hospital surge capacity
* Making essential workforce environments as safe as possible
* Prepare sector-by-sector safety guidelines for expanded workforce

Stage 2: Lower-Risk Workplaces

* Gradually opening lower-risk workplaces with adaptations
* Retail (eg. curbside pickup)
* Manufacturing
* Offices (when telework is not possible)
* More Public Spaces

Stage 3: Higher-Risk Workplaces

* Open higher-risk environments with adaptations and limits on size of gatherings
* Personal care (hair and nail salons, gyms)
* Entertainment venues (movie theatres, sports without live audiences)
* In-person religious services (churches, weddings)

Stage 4: End Of Stay-At-Home Order

* Reopen highest-risk environments and venues once therapeutics have been developed
* Concerts
* Convention Centers
* Live audience sports

The governor said California will be able to move to Stage 2 “in weeks, not months,” but we are still months away from Stages 3 and 4. He also added:

“We are able to make these announcements and begin to have a more public conversation with you about opening up with adaptation and with modification, meaningful changes to our stay at home order, again because people have taken seriously overwhelming the stay at home orders and physical distancing. But I want to caution everybody if we pull back too quickly and we walk away from our incredible commitment to not only bend this curve but to stop the spread and suppress the spread of this virus, it could start a second wave that could be even more damaging than the first and undo all of the good work and progress that you’ve made. The virus has not gone away. Its virulence is still as acute, its ability to be transmitted still is dominant, and so we by no stretch are out of the woods,” he added. “We could be lulled into this quiet sense of confidence, change our behavior, put ourselves at risk, and put this broader agenda of reopening with modification at risk.”

This news comes after Newsom previously said that concerts likely wouldn’t return without a vaccine and after Dr. Ezekiel “Zeke” Emanuel, a special adviser to the director general of the World Health Organization, previously said that they probably wouldn’t return until at least fall 2021.

[via Blabbermouth]