Newsom: State leaders could issue stay-at-home order

And Palo Altans are so self involved, busy organizing a referendum to bar public , open space access. Do BLM and All Lives matter? Absurd. Why don’t these snobs organize a food, toilet paper or utility payment drive, instead. Put any extra personal wealth , energy for something for the larger common good . Get your head out of the Internet Zoom hole and live life .

Governor Newsom's advisements could gain some additional public acceptance if he and other Democratic leaders throughout the state (including London Breed/SF, Sam Licardo/SJ, Sheila Kuell/LA, & Nancy Pelosi) actually practiced what they preach.

@Native to the BAY - I believe that you're commenting to the wrong article. This has nothing to do with the attempt by radical and perpetually-offended activists (who claim that Palo Alto and its residents are "racists") to sue to stop the city from having a nature preserve that limits access to residents.

State overreach, and lockdowns don't work. Figure out how to manage with the risk, not multiply the harm. My god they haven't learned anything.

You can't stop people from drowning by telling them to hold their breath longer -- they are going to breathe and live. What the state wants to do however is hold everyone's head underwater indefinitely.

If you are at risk or afraid, then take measures to protect yourself. *That* is the responsible way to manage this.

This is much more than about protecting yourself. When you are out in public you will infect others if you are infected, or you might get infected and then infect others, or infect family members or people you meet in person who will then infect others, which is exactly why we can't slow down the pandemic and are closing in on 300,000 fatalities.

We lost many of our personal freedoms when the nation went into hysteria in the aftermath of 2700 fatalities on 9/11, but trying to deal with millions of infected people and almost 300,000 fatalities is "state overreach". Speak of a parallel universe.

In the absence of an effective vaccine, lockdowns and mask wearing are the ONLY measures that work. Not only isn't a lockdown state overreach, the state should have enforced a lockdown back in March.