Austin City Council, Potential 35-Day COVID-19 Lockdown
Austin City Council is considering a mandatory 35-day lockdown and a "lessons learned" program to address rising COVID-19 cases. Mayor Adler supports a proposal that would declare businesses a nuisance if they fail to enforce mask use, disinfect twice daily, and limit groups to ten people. Violators of these proposed regulations could face civil suits filed by the city attorney.
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00:00 What a Sunday! Adam Curry, John C. DeVore. It's Thursday, January 9th, 2020. This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 1258. This is no agenda. Fighting another lockdown and broadcasting live from Opportunity Zone 33 here in the frontier of Austin, Texas, capital of the drone star state. In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where everybody's wearing a mask. And everybody's going to work. It looks like it to me. I'm John C. DeVore. Well, you guys are lucky. The traffic jams are what they've been historically. Oh yeah, no, it's... I think everything's just kind of open, but you guys don't have what's going on here. Yeah, we do. We got a governor who thinks we do. He's trying to keep up with the Joneses. Oh man, well we have a...
01:01 We have a mayor and city council, you remember I told you on Sunday that they were, you know, what was it, Sunday of the day before they were considering either everybody mandatory mask, which happened on show day, or a 35 day lockdown? And then a lessons learned program, if you remember that. Lessons learned. Lessons learned. Lessons learned. Well today, since of course our cases, case cases have gone up so significantly to be discussed in a moment.
01:36 Today City Council is meeting and all is on the table. I think we're going for another lockdown 35 days Here's the latest from this morning. The Austin City Council will consider some bold action to slow the spread of COVID-19 It's going to be a tough sell Fred Condu is live at City Hall now Fred, Austin's business community will have to be on board to make this happen Yeah, and before coronavirus came along a lot of people By the way, this guy, he has his mask on. At the end of the report, clearly someone went, dude, take off the mask. We'll have to be on board to make this happen. Yeah. And before coronavirus came along, a lot of people would just say, oh, some more crazy stuff from the Austin City Council. But when you see... Can you imagine we're doing the podcast like this? Everybody has no agenda. Hey, John, how you doing? Everything good? Hey, this is... Woohoo!
02:27 day. Something does need to be done to... I'm sorry, and I have to point out he's standing at night in the middle of an empty square right in front of City Hall, which is a big, you know, a big square and there's no one there. And he's standing there by himself with his mask on, sounding like a fool. Shoot down this soaring coronavirus. On the city's color-coded COVID risk chart, we are now in the red area, which would trigger new restrictions to slow the spread of the virus. Today, council members will hear from experts to help them decide what to do next. And they're going to tell us whether we're screaming into it or not and what the indicated action is.
03:09 But it is of concern now that we're above 70, now at 75. But we need to figure out what those trajectories are. And the same experts will also explain a proposal to shut down the city voluntarily for 35 days. Mayor Adler is among those who believes that it'll allow the coronavirus to subside enough that we will be able to reopen our schools for fall. Also on the agenda, an ordinance that would declare businesses a nuisance if they don't take more action to prevent the corona 19 spread. business requirements would go beyond enforcing mask use. They would have to disinfect twice a day, post information signs and limit groups to 10 or less among other things. The violators declared would be declared a nuisance and if they did not fulfill these requirements, they would face a civil suit filed by the city attorney. Business owners may not like these added
04:09 regulations on their business but apparently it has support at the top. Ooh, support at the top. We're going into shutdown. I can see it. I can see it. I can see what's... I'm stopping. What is... what's the top? It's got to be the mayor. What else are they talking about? I mean, what? There's a top business guy that I don't know about? It's the mayor's proposal, so it had to support at the top. It's got to be somebody else. No, no, no. It's not the mayor's proposal. It's that one guy, some medical guy who comes on the city council meeting for 10 minutes. The last time he said, here's your options. Everybody mask or 35 lockdown followed by lessons learned. I think they're too happy about giving us the lessons learned.
