Current Events > California has lowest covid cases in the country. Newsom approal ratings soar.

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https://news.yahoo.com/as-california-posts-americas-best-covid-numbers-newsoms-approval-rises-and-caitlyn-jenners-recall-hopes-sink-090021571.html

Conservative critics of California Gov. Gavin Newsom seem to have made a serious miscalculation by seeking to recall and replace him this fall, new data suggests.

Three months ago, a plurality of registered California voters (48 percent) disapproved of the job the Democratic governor was doing, according to a poll conducted by the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Just 46 percent approved. The official recall campaign, which had launched a year earlier but only recently gained momentum, appeared to have a real (if still remote) chance of success.

But something else was happening three months ago as well: California was just coming off perhaps the scariest COVID-19 surge in America, averaging more than 500 deaths every day after enduring roughly 40,000 cases per day since Christmas.

Not anymore. Today, the Golden State has the lowest per capita rate of daily COVID-19 cases in the country just 5 for every 100,000 residents, on average. More than half the population has received at least one vaccine dose. Bars and restaurants have welcomed customers back indoors. The vast majority of public school students have returned to classrooms. Few restrictions remain on businesses. And the entire state is set to fully reopen and end its mask mandate on June 15.

Meanwhile in Florida, Lord Farquaad still holds power.

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This just in, the vaccines work.

TBF, especially in LA, we were hit with a stronger variant of the virus in December to February that was a lot more contagious. This made it so even places that believe the virus to be fake news (like Huntington Beach) started taking the virus more seriously so many of us actually followed protocal like taking the vaccine, social distancing, and wearing the face mask.

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Prestoff posted...

so many of us actually followed protocal like taking the vaccine, social distancing, and wearing the face mask.

Yup.

But I was told that California was a dying liberal hellhole by certain folks on this board.

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We need some youtuber to do an in-depth study on why people who wear masks, social distance, and get vaccinated are getting covid at a much lower rate. There has to be some some factor contributing to this.

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Some of my conservative peers are saying that California just stopped testing altogether and thats why the numbers are low


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Honestly, yes I am surprised. We definitely have some of the anti mask crowd here and people that just didn't care about social distancing. Multiple large house parties had to be shut down during the lockdown. I sure as hell didn't expect theme parks to reopen this soon.


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Giant liberal state with liberal pro-vaccine governor has the lowest turnout of COVID cases per capita...ehh a little surprising?

I mean Cali is dense as fuck and was extremely daunting to suppress the virus at its peak so I guess it is incredible they outdid every other state in the nation.

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Jagr_68 posted...

I mean Cali is dense as fuck and was extremely daunting to suppress the virus at its peak so I guess it is incredible they outdid every other state in the nation.