Newsom offers time line for lifting of stay-at-home orders in Calif.
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday provided a potential time line for when stay-at-home orders would be lifted in the state.
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GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM: The question everyone has on their minds is, when are we going to see some of these stay at home orders lifted? You just saw a framework for a process that will guide our decision making. But that decision making is predicated again, on our ability to answer all of those questions in the appropriate manner, affirmatively in some cases.
But also, to adopt a protocol where those questions need to be asked and answered of others all throughout the state of California. Because at the end of the day, I've said this before, localism is determinative. We have a state vision, but it will be realized at the local level. Local governments, local counties, local health directors will have a profound and out-sized influence on our capacity to deliver on this next iteration in terms of our planning.
Let me thank those county health directors for helping us guide our decision tree, the one we just made public today. Let me also extend just ongoing appreciation for the governors of Washington state and Oregon for their guidance and support and collaboration through this process. Also, other Western state governors that are also likely to join on this broader regional protocol to go together so that we get this right.
But as Dr. Angell said, this is incredibly important. There's no light switch here. I would argue it's more like a dimmer. And that dimmer is about what I was talking about. This toggling back and forth between more restrictive and less restrictive measures. More individual accountability, more individual responsibility as it relates to face coverings, as it relates to practicing physical distancing.
More individual responsibility if you've been exposed to the virus, that we isolate you and that we trace those that also may have been exposed. Quarantine those that have tested positive. More enforcement along those lines. As we again, move toward blending population-based solutions and incorporate individual-based solutions, it becomes incumbent upon all of us to increase our vigilance and our capacity to align in our strategies.
