SAN DIEGO—It’s August. Covid-19 is still a thing. We’re still in a dark tunnel, with the light nowhere to be found. A pandemic that started in March is now on the verge of going on six month – and we initially expected this public health crisis to last just a...
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Am I missing something here? The charter boats with full loads of paasengers, not from the same households are going out daily! So how does this restriction apply to private boaters but not to the charter boats?
Actually, the words “recreational boating” and the quote you state do not appear anywhere in the current county public health order effective 8 August 2020 (https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/dam/sdc/hhsa/programs/phs/Epidemiology/HealthOfficerOrderCOVID19.pdf). Your quote does appear in the apparently informal summary on the county’s website (https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/sdc/hhsa/programs/phs/community_epidemiology/dc/2019-nCoV/health-order.html) but if you follow the link available there to the actual text of the public health order you will find no mention of “recreational boating.” In fact the previous statement “Recreational boating is allowed provided all occupants of a boat are from the same
household” was removed from the public health order on 9 June 2020.
“The goal is to slow the spread of the virus and to make sure the healthcare system is able to care for all patients,”
Please take it from a front line Emergency Medicine Physician. We have never been overwhelmed in San Diego County. As a matter of fact, most of us would like MORE patients, not less. Volumes in San Diego Hospitals have been drastically reduced across all departments, leading to cuts in hours and pay for physicians. The boating restriction is unreasonable, non-scientific, and does absolutely NOTHING, to reduce viral spread.