California Gov. Gavin Newsom(D) made an unforeseen announcement about beach closures in his state Thursday: Among those that have been open, his shutdown edict targets only Orange County, where he stated big beach crowds “raised alarm bells” about people’s desire to abide by social distancing standards and safeguarding in place.
Newsom’s statement follows his office supposedly sent out a memo to police chiefs around the state saying he was closing all of California’s beaches and state parks to fight crowds as the coronavirus pandemic rages on.
However Newsom stated at his Thursday press instruction he never saw the memo and that he ‘d be doing a “tough close” in Orange County, house to a few of the 5 beaches authorities observed with big crowds after patrolling around 100 this past weekend.
” Specific concerns on some of those beaches have raised alarm bells,” Newsom said. “Individuals that are congregating there that weren’t practicing physical distancing that may go back to their neighborhood outside of Orange County and might not even understand that they contracted the illness. And now they put other individuals at danger,