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Beginning November 21, 2020 through December 21, 2020, California is on a curfew lockdown. A curfew lockdown is a limited form of stay-at-home order where everyone, except essential workers, residing in the Widespread tier Purple-Alert counties has been ordered to stay-at-home, from 10 pm to 5 am the next morning (California All). Curfew lockdown measures were declared by Governor Gavin Newson on November 19, 2020, in an effort to beat the second rising curve of alarmingly high rates of COVID-19 infections, in California, and throughout the USA. Purple tier-alert counties are those counties where COVID-19 is widespread, measured as more than 7.0 cases recorded daily per 100k people, and more than 8% of the population is infected, in the whole county (California All).
In Europe, French President Emmanuel
Macron ordered a new national lockdown on Oct. 28 through December 1, 2020 (Macron, Oct. 28, 2020). On
the same day, October 28, in Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel defended new “soft”
lockdown measures, effective November 2, for 1 month (Staff, DW, Oct. 28, 2020). Speaking on behalf of the
coronavirus and to the coronavirus, the German Chancellor stated:
COVID-19 - ‘I’ve got the perfect host here. These people live all over the planet. They are globally networked and are social creatures, they can’t live without social contacts. They have a hedonistic inclination, they like to party, it couldn’t be any better.’
Humanity – ‘No, virus, have you learnt nothing from evolution? We humans have shown again and again that we are damned good at adjusting to difficult circumstances. We’ll show you that you have chosen the wrong host.’ (Merkel, quoted in Polternam, Oct. 29, 2020.)
In Italy and Spain, where respectively 46,464 and 41,688 deaths have been recorded, new lockdown measures have also been ordered in an effort to slow the spread of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic (Tondo & Jones, Nov. 17, 2020).
On this day, November 22, 2020, The WHO Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) dashboard is posting a global pandemic infection rate of 57,882,183
confirmed infections, and 1,377,395 deaths.
On this day, in the USA,, the John Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center Dashboard is posting, 1,384,651 confirmed cases, and more than a quarter million deaths, specifically 256,163 (JHU CoronaVirus Resource Center).
Below, Kanye West’s Closed on Sunday (Chick fil-A) premiered on November 28, 2019. A video directed by Jake Schreier.
California ALL https://covid19.ca.gov/
California ALL - November 16 Color Tier Assignments per county. https://covid19.ca.gov/safer-economy/#county-status
Jake Schreier – Park Pictures. https://parkpictures.com/directors/jake-schreier
JHU - John Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center Dashboard. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
Kanye West – Lyrics Closed on Sunday. https://genius.com/Kanye-west-closed-on-sunday-lyrics
Limited Stay-at-home Order, November 19, 2020– State of California Health and Human Services, Department of Public Health. https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/limited-stay-at-home-order.aspx
Macron, E. (Oct. 28, 2020) Nouvelles mesures de lute contre le COVID -19. Allocution télévisée. Elysée.fr https://www.elysee.fr/emmanuel-macron/coronavirus-covid-19
Polterman, P. (Oct. 29) Merkel heckled by German MPs as she defends second 'soft' Covid lockdown. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/29/merkel-heckled-by-german-mps-as-she-defends-second-soft-covid-lockdown
Staff (Oct. 28, 2020 ) Coronavirus: Germany to impose one-month partial lockdown. DeutscheWelle. https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-germany-to-impose-one-month-partial-lockdown/a-55421241
Tondo, L (in Palemo, Italy) and S. Jones (in Madrid, Spain) (Nov. 17, 2020) Italy and Spain report highest daily Covid deaths of second wave. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/17/italy-spain-report-highest-daily-covid-deaths-second-wave
WHO Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease dashboard. WHO. https://tinyurl.com/y4hasba8
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