The sheriff already provides car seat installation help for parents. Free car seat installation classes, call to schedule.
Now the county has received additional funds for a year to make sure car seats are installed and used correctly to protect kids.
Fallbrook is ratcheting up the COVID precautions starting Saturday 12:01 am. Salons may remain open because they have not proved to be a very big health risk. But restaurants must close their indoor operations and stores must operate at 25% capacity. So expect lines outside stores again as only limited numbers of customers are allowed inside at a time. All of San Diego County and Riverside County, in fact all of SoCal is under these restrictions.
At least we’re not in a chilly northern state with snow and howling winds.
Yes, this is horrible and painful. But we’ve learned from previous blanket shutdowns! Using targeted restrictions to minimize economic pain while keeping people safe is the path we’re taking now. This is our life, this is our time — we have no choice but to deal with this pandemic.
We’ve seen all around the country that waiting til the case count is high results in hospitals overwhelmed. Utah is talking about rationing care and denying care to older patients who have less chance to survive COVID. In North Dakota, health care workers who have asymptomatic COVID are continuing to work, because otherwise the hospitals would lack staffing! Thankfully, California isn’t in that dire a predicament. We haven’t talked about “flattening the curve” in months, but it’s time to talk about it again because that curve of new cases is getting crazy!
We’ve hit a million cases here in California, it’s not good!
Early, targeted shutdowns are the least bad choice that we have, based on the best science that we have.
A new county map released on Thursday shows Fallbrook is still red (lower incidence of COVID).
The rest of SD county is not so fortunate. See the interactive map from the county for details.
Nonetheless, the whole county is going to purple tier restrictions starting Saturday at midnight.
Better get prepared. Shelby is shopping for next Halloween already.
San Diego County’s Health & Human Services agency has been awarded a state grant to “improve the safety of bicyclists, pedestrians, and scooter riders”.
I sure hope some of that money is earmarked for Fallbrook because we could really use it! As recently as Nov 1, a pedestrian was struck and killed here in Fallbrook on S Mission Rd near Los Jilgueros. The driver of the vehicle wasn’t drunk and wasn’t cited, it’s just a really bad place to try to cross Mission.
The Dastardly Duo (our website’s two editors) walk with Shelby the EverythingFallbrook Official Dog near this area daily. Cars drive really fast there and the sidewalk isn’t very wide (where there IS a sidewalk). Also the terrain is hilly and there are trees, so there aren’t good sightlines.
Pedestrian struck, killed by car on South Mission Road
Pedestrian safety is extra important now as we’re all too broke to put gas in our cars and we’re walking off all that extra covid poundage!
North County Fire was called out yesterday (Nov 11) to a plane crash at the Fallbrook Air Park. The pilot was alone in the airplane and had only minor injuries. Details sent out by North County Fire twitter account. The LA Times reported on the crash as did the San Diego Union Tribune.
Because of the COVID distancing measures AND the higher-than-usual flu vaccination levels, flu levels are lower than expected this fall. Way to go, Fallbrook! At least we’re keeping flu cases down, even if the number of COVID cases is getting out of control!
On the weekend, we’re going to be lining up outside again to get into stores. Starting Saturday retail stores are restricted to 25% of capacity again because San Diego County is seeing too many cases.
We’ll be doing that for at least three weeks. Across the US cases are skyrocketing and it’s shaping up to be a grim winter for COVID infection.
So if you can, do a grocery run today or tomorrow to stock up on essentials so you won’t have to do as many shopping trips after the new restrictions start.
