California Governor Gavin Newsom has said criticism of California’s tough COVID-19 restrictions was valid and he would have taken an entirely different approach, given what he knows now about the pandemic. Politico has the story.
“I think we would’ve done everything differently,” Newsom said in a taped interview set to air on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ Sunday.
“I think all of us in terms of our collective wisdom, we’ve evolved. We didn’t know what we didn’t know. We’re experts in hindsight. We’re all geniuses now.”
Later in the interview Newsom responded to criticism of his state’s decisions by saying: “All of it’s legitimate in terms of reflection.”
Host Chuck Todd pressed the California Democrat on specifics, including whether Newsom and state officials were too accommodating to the film industry during periods of strict distancing requirements where Californians were prevented, for example, from gathering for family funerals. “I think there’s a lot of humility. And we didn’t know what we didn’t know. And it was hardly I; it was we, collectively,” Newsom responded.
Newsom faced considerable anger in his state during the pandemic, including a recall attempt fueled by partisans but also frustrated business owners and parents who felt like the state acted too cautiously and refused to loosen up even as other states did. Nationally, he’s taken heat from the likes of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, now a Republican presidential candidate, who has leaned into comparing his state’s more lax approach over the duration of the pandemic with Newsom’s stricter, longer, guidelines.
Despite considerable prodding from Todd on specifics where Newsom would have made different decisions in his hard-hit state, including the protracted closure of in-person learning at schools, the Governor largely kept to generalities.
Worth reading in full.
With few specifics and still a suggestion from the host that one mistake was being lenient with Hollywood, it’s hardly the clear repudiation of lockdownism we would like. In fact, as a plainly political move now the public mood is shifting, I have no doubt Newsom would be right back locking Californians down hard should the public mood shift again in the face of a new viral ‘threat’.
But still, the more renounce their lockdownism at this point the better, even if only for political reasons, as it will help with the uphill struggle of ensuring shut downs aren’t permanently embedded in future responses.
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Except he hasn’t renounced lockdowns, just lied with the “we didn’t know” nonsense, which doesn’t wash.
And did he ever make a comment about the secret Chinese Covid lab that was found on his turf, where they found hundreds of poor mice living in dreadful conditions that they had to euthanize, as well as all sorts of nasty ‘biological matter’?
Nothing about regret taking the COVID injection?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10182895/California-Governor-Gavin-Newsom-makes-appearance-Ivy-Gettys-wedding.html
“Pandemic planning”?
Why do we need ´pandemic planning´?
This is a kite flown by the Public Health industry to grab more power and funding.
Doctors treat individuals.
“Public Health” treats numbers – using a dodgy computer program.
“Public Health” needs defunded.
The autumn booster has been tested on 20 subjects this year instead of just 8.
Like last year though all the test subjects were mice….
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/breaking-pfizer-xbb15-monovalent
Sorry, but I haven’t seen any of these officials disown anything.
When Newsome says he would have done things differently its not clear whether he means he would have been less strict or would have been even stricter and sooner. It’s not clear to me anyway.
…Is this the same man who oversaw the forced masking of tiny toddlers right up until last year?
California is also still advising booster jabs for babies, toddlers and young children..
So why would I give a damn what this man thinks? He must now know this is wrong and unethical…so why doesn’t he stop it?
….so I’m going to guess that he’s running for election and his making his lying forked-tongue say whatever he thinks people want to hear….….
…..A total douche-bag..as they say in America….
I agree. He’s definitely one for the wall.
Then there’s all the trans stuff, ‘gender affirming care’ etc, whereby kids can be taken from parents. He is an evil douchebag and California is the last place I’d want to live. Even worse than NYC;
”Last week the state legislature approved a bill to require judges to equate “affirmation of child gender transition” directly with a child’s “health, safety, and welfare” when determining custody or visitation rights. Consequently, parents who do not affirm the chosen gender identity of their child (of any age) risk having their child taken from them. AB 957 now heads to Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk for a final decision by October 14th, a bill he is expected to sign.
The legislation has drawn national attention and even become a talking point for presidential candidate Tim Scott. According to Fox News, he called the bill “evil.” Tech entrepreneur and Tesla founder Elon Musk has also weighed in. In a discussion about AB 957 on X, formerly known as Twitter, Musk wrote, “This bill is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. What it actually means is that if you disagree with the other parent about sterilizing your child, you lose custody. Utter madness!”
https://www.californiafamily.org/2023/09/ca-legislators-pass-bill-to-take-children-from-parent-who-doesnt-affirm-kids-gender-identity/
Yes he’s a truly vile specimen….The man gives me the creeps….
True story..…did you know that under her tenure as the wife of the Californian Governor, his wife retitled herself as First Partner…..rather than First Lady….so that it was gender inclusive…!!
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In Newsome’s other half trans by any chance?
‘We’re all geniuses now…..’
Not in your case, Mr Newsom; not now, not ever……
All of this information was readily available in Feb 2020 and most of it well before, but somehow you and your large numbers of highly paid staff couldn’t find what many of us found in a 10 minute trawl on Google!:
‘It is therefore arguable that in the case of infections like coronavirus or rhinovirus colds, which are normally quickly self-limited, the best approach would be to relieve the patient’s discomfort and disability and leave their immune system to take care of the virus.’
A view from the common cold unit D.A.J. Tyrrell June 1992
‘…..just as with SARS there’s probably much stricter guidelines in mainland China for a case to be considered positive. So the 20,000 cases in China is probably only the severe cases; the folks that actually went to the hospital and got tested.
The Chinese healthcare system is very overwhelmed with all the tests going through. So my thinking is this is actually not as severe a disease as is being suggested.
The fatality rate is probably only 0.8%-1%. There’s a vast underreporting of cases in China. Compared to Sars and Mers we are talking about a coronavirus that has a mortality rate of 8 to 10 times less deadly to Sars to Mers.
So a correct comparison is not Sars or Mers but a severe cold. Basically this is a severe form of the cold.’
Statement dated 06 Feb 2020 from noted Coronavirus Expert Prof. John Nicholls, clinical professor in pathology, Hong Kong University, in China at the time of the outbreak.
So, no, not a genius at all then, simply another pathetic specimen incapable of running a whelk stall yet, somehow, improbably, no doubt, to contemporaries, holding high office!
You and Bunter should get together sometime…..
He’s a slimy f-ing weasel who should NEVER be trusted with anything, ever!
You get one chance only to show your stuff: when it matters. He blew it. Actions speak louder than words.
If he started being very, very specific then he might really be sorry, but these are crocodile tears.
What a genius /s
The latest from Dr Mike Yeadon:
“Anyone not yet clear about what’s going to happen to their neighbourhood might want to check here.
Did you sign up to end private vehicle ownership? Or to go insectivorian?
Because you’re getting them anyway.
Mike
https://thefederalist.com/2023/08/19/these-14-american-cities-have-a-target-of-banning-meat-dairy-and-private-vehicles-by-2030/
Fourteen major American cities are part of a globalist climate organization known as the “C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group,” which has an “ambitious target” by the year 2030 of “0 kg [of] meat consumption,” “0 kg [of] dairy consumption,” “3 new clothing items per person per year,” “0 private vehicles” owned, and “1 short-haul return flight (less than 1500 km) every 3 years per person.”
C40’s dystopian goals can be found in its “The Future of Urban Consumption in a 1.5°C World” report, which was published in 2019 and reportedly reemphasized in 2023. The organization is headed and largely funded by Democrat billionaire Michael Bloomberg. Nearly 100 cities across the world make up the organization, and its American members include Austin, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Seattle”
I believe or own lovely Lord mayor of London is the chairman of the C40 ?
Correct.
He did.
He partied his way through lockdown whilst imprisoning others.
He’s positioning himself to run for President.
Get ready for Biden’s ‘medical emergency’.
Sorry sonny but part of being a leader is sharing in the cutting edge of knowledge. How could it possibly be otherwise in our age of non-stop deception. Anything less than an attitude of constant vigilance suggests a self-serving impulse and this really doesn’t look like that sort of person at all does he now.
no actual mea culpa.
“We didn’t know” doesn’t cut it anymore. We, here, us – we knew. So how come you morons in power didn’t? It’s unforgivable and you should all be taken out the back and shot.