They just shutdown Orange County, CA

[stopbush]

My wife just heard it.

[soothsayer]

1. The appropriately named Orange County

What does shut down mean here? Essential businesses only?

[kimbutgar]

2. Those MAGA COIDIOTS are going to be furious down there.

Expect them to take to the streets and beaches in defiance tomorrow.

[frazzled]

3. Beaches are closed there

At least in the town where my sister lives. They worried that too many tourists would come down from LA.

[smb]

4. The Deep State Attacks Tweetolini By Shutting Down The County Named After Him nt

[kimbutgar]

5. Ha ha good one!

[aquamarina]

6. That's interesting because they opened Downtown Disney yesterday.

[LizBeth]

7. Probably Republicans in office. Are you saying cause covid so high? My son had to spend

4 months in that area and finally getting to progressive blue state, he was stuck with solid red. Lol.

[stopbush]

8. Orange County is solidly blue these days.

[LizBeth]

9. Huh. Really?

[former9thward]

10. Really

The demographics have changed.

[Initech]

12. Yup, we flipped all 6 districts in 2018!

Let's hope that we keep it that way!

[LizBeth]

13. Well, you all. That is wonderful to here, you do my heart good. Great, thank you.

[rufus dog]

11. Solid friggen Blue

Swept all the seats in 2018.

My district is represented by Katie Porter and was the SECOND most conservative district in the County.

Porter seems to have the seat locked up for 2020.

The Huntington Beach/Costa Mesa district is represented by an ex Repuke, but for the most part he has laid low, while Katie came out guns blazing.

Porter's district is mainly Asian immigrants and transplants. College educated, etc. Do we have ignorant MAGATS, yes, do we comfortably call them Ignorant MAGATS, HELL Yes.

[Cetacea]

18. After the fires, the number one issue for voters in OC was Climate Change n/t

[earthmom]

14. Can't find any other info on OC shutdown? n/t

[DesertRat]

16. Welcome to DU!

[DesertRat]

15. I know they closed the bars and beaches last week before the holiday weekend

What did they shutdown today? Downtown Disney opened yesterday, but thankfully they're holding off on opening the park.

[R B Garr]

17. The beach looked pretty crowded when we drove by.

Corona del Mar past Balboa Island. Very busy beach areas. We didn’t get out, just parked a bit while having a sandwich. Then we went to IKEA in Costa Mesa late in the day. 15-minute wait time to get in, so it was pretty busy. We didn’t hear anything about OC closings. It will be interesting to see what happens. Thanks for the info.

[dalton99a]

19. Downtown Disney in Anaheim reopened yesterday

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-10/coronavirus-disneyland-orange-county-downtown-disney-reopening
Coronavirus rages in Orange County, but don’t tell that to Disney fans
By Gustavo Arellano, Jake Sheridan, Stephanie Lai
July 10, 2020

The theme parks are still closed, but Disney’s retail center, Downtown Disney, reopened this week to huge crowds and immediately became a flashpoint for the larger debate about whether California is reopening too quickly even as it sees record numbers of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations and rising death tolls. Orange County has been hit particularly hard, with hospitalizations increasing nearly 100% in three weeks.

At the same time, the county remains a hotbed of the coronavirus resistance. Cities sued to keep beaches open. Politicians openly scoffed at the suggestions of health officials that residents wear masks in public places. Residents hectored the county’s chief health officer into resigning; videos of customers who berated store employees for not allowing them in without a mask went, well, viral.

On Friday afternoon, hundreds of people wandered around Downtown Disney, a strip of restaurants and shops that ends at the gates to Disneyland and its sister park, Disney California Adventure. It had reopened the day before to such demand that security had to close the adjacent Simba parking lot to keep people away.