I think there are also guidelines for performing arts that are supposed to go into effect April 1, but I don't know if those have been clearly laid out yet. The State only created a "Live Performances" category on its Industry Guidance page in early March--despite months of guidance for in-person athletics--and only announced yesterday that "band, drumline, choir and drama are considered low contact youth recreational activities, and should follow all relevant requirements and recommendations."

I'm still amazed and quite angry over state and local governments constant efforts to allow as much athletic activities as possible throughout the pandemic while mostly ignoring the arts. Guidelines for what activities (and jobs) have been allowed and not allowed have frequently been hypocritical and inconsistent.

Industry Guidance: Web Link

Youth Sports (which apparently now includes performing arts!!): Web Link

This is going to make a huge difference over the coming weeks and months. As people return to work in their offices, commutes and office workers in some of our business areas will be returning to "normal". This will in turn bring people back to those area restaurants and other service businesses.

Decisions by the council on such things as traffic and zoning should wait until such time normal practices have returned.

There is definitely a feeling of light at the end of the tunnel. For some this is a huge shift in lifestyle.

@There is definitely a feeling of light at the end of the tunnel. For some this is a huge shift in lifestyle.

For some, yes and for many this will be an opportunity for their everyday lives to return to normal.

Speaking for myself, I am hoping that I will not get called back to my lousy job in shipping and receiving.

I am looking forward to receiving my
added EDD coronavirus stimulus checks of $300.00 weekly + the $1200.00 monthly that I already get in unemployment insurance as this equates to more than I am taking home (net income) in working wages.

The EDD weekly stimulus runs until Labor Day and I am knocking on wood that I will not get recalled to work because if I refuse a job assignment, I will lose this added weekly EDD stimulus
payment along with my regular unemployment benefits.

Going back to work is OK for those making considerably more in income but for me, why bother?

The coronavirus has not been eradicated as of yet and going to work for coolie wages is hardly worth the risk.

I am sure many other workers feel this way as well (except for maybe the Republican lawmakers who voted against the stimulus package and don't do any real work themselves).

Can't rightly blame the previous poster.

Why should only the lower-paid workers be forced back into employment while the pandemic is still at large?

If certain big businesses fail, that's just part of economics going back to the Reagan era (i.e. Reaganomics).

M any of the non-essential businesses (i.e. gyms, nail salons, restaurants, movie theaters, sports arenas etc.) that have been closed due to the coronavirus would be considered luxuries in other parts of the 3rd or developing worlds.

Perhaps time to reassess our priorities.

yeah, what if going back to your lousy shipping and receiving job means you are no longer exempt from free entrance into Foothill Park? Better dodge those calls, so the Palo Alto City Council won't disqualify you from their PC exception list! Would it be worth it to become active military? I mean, long enough to take a picture to show the Palo Alto City Council. Pretty much the wild animals at Foothills Park can leave or become extinct if it means, this poor guy doesn't have to work at a job he doesn't like. Maybe these are the priorities Mr. LaReux is talking about?

Entrance into Foothills Park has absolutely nothing to do with one's occupation.

yes it does. There is an exception for free entrance if you are "low-income". Also active military. Both of these exceptions refer to occupations.

What I am wondering, since the constitution is now interpreted by the Palo Alto City Council to mean, not the pursuit of happiness and opportunity, but the right to equal happiness and equal outcome? Maybe I should apologize for the racism of being able to afford a home in Palo Alto? Then, with my virtue appropriately signaled, we should ban all entrance into Foothill Park unless you are low income AND live in your Winnabego? There are deer they can kill for food and whatnot too.

Bathrooms, running water? Foothill Park is it.! Join me in humanity, Mr. Levin! Where did he go?

In terms of park entrance, who cares if someone is of low-come or in the military?

Just let them in. No big deal.

It's just a park and the ACLU/NAACP have assured it will remain open to all.

There's no time or need for reactionary conservative outrage in response to a front gate.

Energy might be better served complaining about Mr. Potato Head and Dr. Suess.

Such heartless responses! I offer the answer to poverty and homelessness in Palo Alto, Foothill Park! and just because of my name, no one listens, Jack!

Of course, now that the park is reportedly turning away 400 (too many) cars (over maximum capacity) a day on Saturdays and Sundays, William is especially right. Foothill Park with this City Council and attorney-demanded excessive human patronage will quickly become "just a park" and "no big deal."