There’s no escape Newsom's L.A. lockdown madness
I thought I was going to escape the madness of the L.A. Lockdown.
I thought if I rented a small weekend getaway house in a rural part of the state two hours north, my family and I could eat outdoors at a restaurant again, or at least leave our basement without a note from our tyrannical governor.
But I thought wrong.
I didn't count on Gavin Newsom's latest lockdown edict.
Two weeks ago life in empty and beautiful Santa Ynez Valley - where my father had his ranch and I've been visiting since 1974 - was about as normal and civilized as you could hope for these days.
Restaurants were open for outside dining. Wineries were open.
The local residents - about 20,000 all told - dutifully wore their masks, washed their hands and didn't have to work very hard to practice safe social distancing.
As an extra bonus, unlike LA, there weren't tens of thousands of homeless people and drug addicts living in tents on the sidewalks of Solvang, Los Olivos or Santa Ynez.
But then Newsom and his health experts suddenly decided to change the rules and make the Santa Ynez Valley a part of the Southern California lockdown region.
It didn't matter that the rural valley has hardly been touched by the coronavirus.
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