‘It’s all fallen apart’: Newsom scrambles to save California — and his career

[rangerrebew]

‘It’s all fallen apart’: Newsom scrambles to save California — and his career

The Democrat leading the nation’s biggest state is facing a raging pandemic, vaccine distribution problems and a nascent recall drive.
 

By DAVID SIDERS and CARLA MARINUCCI

01/11/2021 04:30 AM EST

LOS ANGELES — California is running so low on oxygen that officials are telling emergency crews to conserve supplies. Ambulances in Los Angeles are backed up outside emergency rooms, sometimes for hours. And the coronavirus vaccine distribution remains so disjointed that a freezer failure that forced immediate inoculations of hundreds of people in Northern California — inmates, older people, and some people on the street — was hailed as an improvement.

Californians are frustrated, tired and sick. And in the midst of the unfolding catastrophe, Gov. Gavin Newsom — confronting a burgeoning recall effort, on top of a year of wildfires and civil unrest — is under siege.

“Nobody has been dealt a tougher hand than Gavin Newsom,” Gray Davis, the former California Democratic governor who was recalled in 2003, said in an interview. “Look, I had the energy crisis and a recession. He has a pandemic we haven’t seen for 100 years. He has the fallout from that pandemic, racial injustice, wildfires, and I think I’m leaving something out. But nobody, no living governor, has had to experience as many crises as him.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/11/gavin-newsom-california-scramble-fallen-apart-456665

[cato potatoe]

They'll get a giant bailout from the next congress.

[PeteS in CA]

Goobernor Noisome's problems are largely of his own crafting.

1. Keeping CA partly/largely shut down all year hindered the herd immunity process from happening when CA hospitals were not overwhelmed.

2. That fall and winter would bring a resurgence of Covid was utterly predictable, but state and local government did near-zero to prepare extra bed space and equipment.

So now people that could have gotten care in the summer when hospitals were not at capacity are needing care at a time of year when CA's hospitals are normally operating at near capacity.

Goobernor Noisome's failures are killing people who should not be dying.

[mountaineer]

Hilarious send up of Newsom's French Laundry outing:

https://youtu.be/PlAoL2NPac8

See also https://reason.com/video/2021/01/15/remy-it-wasnt-me-shaggy-parody/