Sam Liccardo

Sam Liccardo @sliccardo

that his team was rehabbing so I called Dr. Bonnie Maldonado at Stanford, & she hooked them up w/ the Stanford Pulmonary team. Two weeks later, the Gov. was at their factory celebrating the hundreds of ventilators that they’re getting back into our hospitals. (2/2) — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Liccardo @sliccardo

Have been having many conversations connecting manufacturers willing to retrofit their production lines w/ innovators, just as I did when I received a call late one night from KR Sridhar, the CEO of Bloom Energy, who needed somebody to test + certify the ventilators (1/2) — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Liccardo @sliccardo

+ mention that in our neighborhood, Jessica & I routinely enjoy Casa Vicky’s, Taqueria Lorena’s, La Vic’s, & (nearby) Zona Rosa & Cafe Luna. (2/2) — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Liccardo @sliccardo

Great question—the kind of question that can get a Mayor fired!! Since I’ll be widely hated by many friends/restauranteurs if I pick favorites, I’ll simply refer you to https://t.co/BWm6XDh7G6 for a list of local restaurants doing takeout & delivery (1/2) — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Liccardo @sliccardo

No final stances here—we continue to learn & take in new information, as we all grapple with this crisis. This is the first pandemic in nearly anyone’s lifetime, so we’re going to have to do our best, make mistakes, learn from them, & pivot. — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Liccardo @sliccardo

Unlike the federal government, local governments cannot simply run huge deficits, issue bonds, and print money. We have to balance a budget, & if we don’t have revenue, then we cut—i.e, we lay off cops, firefighters, & (County) nurses. (2/2) — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Liccardo @sliccardo

No. Sales tax is collected by the state, & it will continue to be collected, because it is still needed to pay for first responders, County health care, & other essential public services. (1/2) — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Liccardo @sliccardo

@WhenItDiesThere , & proactive education. None of that happened, so we’re stuck with shutting the economy down until we can get public health infrastructure in place that will enable us to take a much better course. (2/2) — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Liccardo @sliccardo

@WhenItDiesThere The “stay-home” order (or what you call the “lockdown”) isn’t the best course of action. The best course would've been for a national public health response that would have enabled rapid testing of millions of individuals, contact tracing, self-isolation, quarantine (1/2) — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Liccardo @sliccardo

@WhenItDiesThere Finally, regardless of government “stay-home” orders, much of the economy would have been shut down anyway by this pandemic simply due to the fear of people who decline to shop, eat out, etc—it just would have happened much later, with much more loss of life. (3/3) — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Liccardo @sliccardo

@WhenItDiesThere The loss of life will be limited if we act decisively—& comply with the County’s order—but will be far, far greater if we don’t, or we hesitate to do so. (2/3) — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Liccardo @sliccardo

@WhenItDiesThere I don’t disagree that many more people will be impoverished by this pandemic than made ill by it. Still, my parents & yours are not “statistical” lives, they’re real people, & like any of our parents, they deserve our protection. (1/3) — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Liccardo @sliccardo

I have many other questions from businesses + residents with similar challenges, & I’ll take this one back to the County to seek clarification or tweaking on the order, as I have with the others. (2/2) — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Liccardo @sliccardo

Great question. As you probably know, we don’t draft these rules—the County public health officers issue them, & we’re required to enforce them. (1/2) — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Liccardo @sliccardo

Please report to the DA, and let’s see if they can follow-up with the store manager to get better compliance: https://t.co/zz9FmCn2O7 (2/2) — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Liccardo @sliccardo

Good question—am open to your creative ideas. The order that the County issued on Monday specifically compels stores to close down those portions of their operations that are not uniquely essential, even as they keep others open. (1/2) — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Liccardo @sliccardo

No, we haven’t. I’m happy to talk to DOT staff about it, but for all of the attention paid to potentially contaminated surfaces, by far the primary mode of transitions is person-to-person contact and proximity. We’re focusing our efforts where we believe the greatest risks are. — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Liccardo @sliccardo

Will ask our team to take a look at that site. Yes, evaluating street closures, but SJPD’s swamped right now trying to ensure we’re on top of enforcing County order & fighting street crime, so we have to be sensitive to their limited bandwidth. — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Liccardo @sliccardo

—most staff are being pulled into emergency operations & response (eg, food distribution, moving homeless into shelter, etc) (2/2) — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Liccardo @sliccardo

We have considered some street closures in locations where people lack good access to nearby parks, but we don’t have a lot of staff available to implement any of these measures (1/2) — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Liccardo @sliccardo

--otherwise, we continue to keep our economy shuttered. I continue to do all that I can to persuade and hustle private sector partners to expand testing capacity and operations here locally. (2/2) — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Liccardo @sliccardo

Kevin, for the last two months, I’ve been saying exactly that: the only path forward for California/the US is for a major federal or state commandeering of testing facilities to ramp up to a scale 50x to 100x of today, with contact tracing, isolation, etc (1/2) — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Liccardo @sliccardo

We want everyone to focus right now on staying safe & following county guidelines, & don’t want to create false hopes of a relaxation of restrictions given that we have much tougher days ahead of us than behind us. (2/2) — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Liccardo @sliccardo

Hey Robert! We’re working actively on that strategy, in partnership with several private sector leaders—will be announcing in the next week/two weeks our efforts to broaden the community conversation & strategy. (1/2) — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Liccardo @sliccardo

The bed count data is there, but they publicly cite HIPAA concerns relating to identifying precise locations of confirmed positive patients. (2/2) — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Liccardo @sliccardo

I can’t speak for the County, but here is the latest information that they have posted on their dashboard about testing, hospitalization usage, & confirmed cases: https://t.co/TTYwX4GVMs. (1/2) — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Liccardo @sliccardo

Report online at https://t.co/zz9FmCn2O7 (2/2) — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Liccardo @sliccardo

The DA has a phone number + email to report a non-essential business operating in violation of the Health Officer Stay-Home Order: [email protected]& (408) 792-2300. (1/2) — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Liccardo @sliccardo

@peterstormrules We have merely prohibited the eviction of tenants unable to pay rent due to COVID. The State continues to collect sales tax because we have to pay the salaries of front-line emergency responders and other essential workers. (2/2) — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Liccardo @sliccardo

@peterstormrules We have not said that landlords cannot collect rent. I have repeatedly stated publicly that every tenant still has an obligation to pay rent—we have no authority to intervene in the terms of a rental contract. (1/2) — PolitiTweet.org