SAN JOSE (KPIX) — As the state’s indoor mask mandate for fully vaccinated reaches an end, health experts are reminding Californians that cases remain high.

Stanford Infectious Disease Dr. Abraar Karan cautioned that removing masks right now is a “risky game” and “experiment” on whether the easing of the health measure could cause another surge in cases.

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“Personally, I think it’s a little bit early,” Karan said. “Taking masks off like this may very well lead to an uptick in cases again. I’m concerned about the date that was picked. I’ve encouraged people, who are public health experts, really should not be focusing on the dates — they should be focusing on the data.”

On Tuesday, the state’s positivity rate stood at 5.7%, which is slightly lower than the peak of last winter’s deadly surge despite the difference this year in access to vaccines.

Karan said it’s possible California may not see another surge after the indoor mask mandate expires Wednesday. However, he said that would likely be because more people than once thought contracted COVID-19 and have a boost in immunity.

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Meanwhile, while some government leaders are planning the reopening of the economy, others are focused on helping those in the community impacted by the virus forever, including children who lost a parent or caregiver to COVID-19.

During their regularly scheduled meeting, Santa Clara County supervisors discussed what they have named the “Children’s Roadmap to Recovery.”

Supervisor Cindy Chavez said an estimated 1 in 450 children have lost a parent to the virus. It’s important, she said, for the youth to have services such as grief counseling, behavioral services and wellness centers on school grounds. The recovery plan would be funded by the American Rescue Plan Act, which is an emergency fund from Congress.

Chavez said, what’s more, is that an estimated 7,000 kids in the county lost childcare because of the pandemic when 12% of providers left for more affordable cities or other reasons. County leaders are now focused on rebuilding the area’s childcare infrastructure to send parents back to the workforce and boost the economy.

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“That particular segment of the business community has just collapsed,” Chavez said. “We had so many people who dropped out of the workforce because they had no way to care for their children. I think what’s particularly heartbreaking about it is, as the world opens up, for some the road home is not clear because they don’t have that parent anymore or that caregiver.”

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• EUR/USD bears are moving in from the hourly the 38.2% ratio.
• 1.1305 serves as potential support below current lows.
• Russia and central bank sentiments are the driving forces.

EUR/USD is bleeding the initial gains for the day as risk appetite drifts off with the major Asian indexes printing in the red. EUSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan dropped 0.2%, while Japan’s Nikkei lost 2.5%. At 1.1353, the euro is now flat on the day to the US dollar after correcting a significant portion of Friday’s sell-off to a high in the 1.1369’s.

The start of the week is jittery following alarmingly high US inflation readings last week combined with risks of a Russian invasion of Ukraine. US president Joe Biden and Russian president Vladimir Putin talked by phone for an hour on Saturday in what is widely seen as a last-ditch effort to fend off a Russian invasion of Ukraine. The call, however, brought “no fundamental change” to the worsening crisis although the US and Russia have agreed to stay engaged in the coming days according to a senior US official, briefing reporters. The official also told reporters that ”Russia may decide to proceed with military action anyway.”

Meanwhile, there is speculation that the Federal Reserve might raise rates by a full 50 basis points in March with chatter about an emergency inter-meeting hike. That was spurred in part by the timing of a closed Fed Board meeting for Monday, though the event has been presumed routine.

However, not all Fed members are singing from the same hymn sheet. While hawking and St. Louis Fed James Bullard advocated for a 50bps hike at the March meeting, San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly played down the need for a half-point move in an interview on Sunday. Daly argued that being too “abrupt and aggressive” on policy could be counter-productive. Fed President James Bullard will be in focus later on Monday, given his recent calls for a more aggressive stance at the Fed, signifying 100 basis points of tightening by June.

US FOMC minutes / Retail Sales in focus

As for other events in the week, the Federal Open Market Committee meeting minutes will be released and traders will be on the lookout for discussions regarding near-term policy plans. Analysts at TD Securities explained that the market will be paying particular attention to plans for balance sheet normalization steps, following the release of the normalization “principles” in Jan.

”The minutes might seem stale, however, given the recent strength in macro data,” the analysts added. Markets will then look to US Retail Sales where an improvement on December’s sharp decline could be supportive to the US dollar.

EUR/USD technical analysis

As illustrated, the euro is on the back foot again, capped by the 38.2% ratio, so far, which leaves the emphasis on the downside and prospects of a bearish extension of the broader trend. 1.1305 serves as potential support below current lows.

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The following excerpt is from the November 2021 issue of The Strad entitled “Bay Area bow makers: Bows on the bay”. To read it in full, click here to sign up and log in. The digital magazine and the print edition from November 2021 are available now

The very first bow maker in the San Francisco Bay Area was Pierre Aloysius Josephs. Born in New York in 1833, his father was a well-known builder. Pierre moved west with his family and probably studied violin in St. Louis, Missouri in the early 1850s. At this time he developed a keen interest in violin making. Eventually the family moved to Elwood, Kansas, where he fought for the Union in the 1861 Civil War, a lieutenant in the First Regiment Kansas Volunteer Infantry. He registered his occupation as a “jeweler” in the 1863 Kansas Military Design, a demanding and precise art that would determine his skill.

According to the family, he honed his skills as a violin and bow maker during a series of business trips to Paris between 1864 and 1872, where he spent some time in the shop of Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume. This claim is supported by an 1864 Ellis Island document; the influence is also evident in its processing. As early as 1870 he was working as a violin maker in St. Joseph, Missouri, as recorded in the local directory. He worked in the St. Joseph area until 1876, when he boarded the newly constructed railway line from St. Louis to San Francisco with his ninety-year-old parents, his second wife and their seven children. He initially settled in Oakland, California and moved to busy San Francisco in 1877. He soon settled at 1412 Kearny Street as a violin and bow maker in a three-generation household.

While his main motive for moving west was to take care of his active, older parents, he may also have been motivated by the mild weather. In a newspaper article from 1886 he attributed the success of his instruments to the climate of California and briefly mentioned his bow making in San Francisco – the first mention of bow making in the region.

Pierre Aloysius, who was also called Peter, worked alongside his work as a violin maker in California on various occasions as an employee, salesman and businessman. However, Vuillaume was enough to recommend him to August Wilhelmj as the best craftsman in the West; The great violinist raved about Joseph’s skills in a letter dated December 8, 1881: “I really wanted to tell you … about the extraordinary success that your work has achieved.”

The evidence shows that Pierre Aloysius was a successful violin and bow maker in the early years of San Francisco. During his time there, he made frequent trips to New York and even Europe – a huge and expensive undertaking at the time. In 1885 he returned from a trip to Europe, during which he undoubtedly worked with his Parisian violin-maker and archetypal contacts. He stayed in San Francisco for eleven years and returned to New York with his second wife and younger children in 1888. He died there in 1898.

Pierre Aloysius had two sons from his first wife who stayed in the Bay Area, where they took root. John was a noted violinist and founding member of the San Francisco Symphony in 1911. His other son, James Arnold Josephs, born 1859 in Elwood, Kansas, learned violin and bow making from his father. They worked together in San Francisco until he took over the shop when his father returned to New York in 1888.

In 1898, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, James had “earned a reputation as a maker of fine violin bows”. This was an important achievement. From 1877 onwards, James made violins and bows and was associated with his celebrated father. James did not advertise his business. Customers knew him through word of mouth, the quality of his work, and repairs, which enabled him to stay in business for decades. His reputation was certainly bolstered by that of his violinist brother John.

Josephs continued to work on Kearny Street in San Francisco from 1877 to 1902 when he moved his residence and workshop across the bay to Alameda and later to Oakland. A reliable presence in the stringing world of East Bay, James worked there with a brief respite from around 1930 until his death in 1943 at the age of 84.

Photo: John Birkard

Although Pierre Aloysius is known to have made bows in San Francisco, none have yet been found. This sheet, which was created after moving to New York, shows the clear influence of the Voirin School. The head is elegant, almost delicate, with a long nose. The bevel is crisp and clean. The frog is well proportioned. The collar of the button goes perfectly with the stick, although the rest of the button is slightly larger than the end of the stick.

Photo: John Birkard

Stylistically, this bow is not as elegant as the other, but Joseph’s perfectionism comes into its own. Also made after moving to New York, this bow has a short nose in relation to the head. The bevel is quite clean. Since he was not a full-time bow maker like his mentors in France, he had the freedom to experiment with different head shapes and different woodcuts – in this case pernambuco cut on the plate. Interestingly, he stamped his name upside down on this ribbon.

Photo: Courtesy of Joseph’s family

This arch shows that James Josephs was a good maker with an eccentric sense of style. The head is box-shaped, reminiscent of Thomas Tubbs, although the curvature of the head is deeply concave. James probably didn’t stamp many of his bows.

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San Francisco and other cities in California are moving into the “yellow” stage of the COVID pandemic, which means that all previously closed sectors can now be opened. The expansion includes “all activities to a capacity of 50% indoors, provided the state does not require more restrictive capacity limits. If possible, the city will lift restrictions on the number of people participating in activities and relax other operating restrictions. Live spectator events, festivals, meetings, receptions and conventions will also be expanded significantly, ”Mayor London Breed’s office wrote in a press release.

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The rate of new cases and the very low number of hospitalizations is a direct result of the vaccination effort in San Francisco. To date, 72% of the eligible San Francisco population have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, nearly twice as much as it was six weeks ago when the city moved to the orange row. Additionally, 86% of the city’s residents over 65 have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and 73% are fully vaccinated.

San Francisco’s high vaccination rate and relatively low overall COVID rates are the result of strong leadership from health and other officials – and the advanced collaboration of companies that sent employees home at the start of the pandemic. Bay Area residents generally recognized the importance of communication skills and the rate of spread of COVID, and made bold and difficult decisions while other cities hesitated.

Compared to what happened in New York or even Los Angeles, science saved countless lives in 2020 – just as the focus on getting vaccines into arms is now paying off.

Countries around the world continue to suffer from almost unimaginable horrors thanks to COVID. And the Bay Area may not be completely out of the woods yet. But it has been a long time since leaders committed to doing their part to resolve this other ongoing catastrophe: global warming.

Half a world away, in Germany, the heads of state and government announced on Wednesday that they will be emission-free by 2045. Germany has long been electrifying and investing in its rail and transit systems and the renewable energy sources to power them. They are doing everything in their power to make the bicycle the main means of transport in the city and to ban cars in the inner city of Berlin and other cities. Nik Kaestner, a recent Bay Area to Berlin transplant pushing for upgrades to the roundabout near an SFUSD school, was so impressed that he started a blog about these brave efforts.

A street in Berlin, cars away

Readers are undoubtedly aware that similar efforts are being made in Paris and other major European cities to urgently decarbonise.

San Francisco, Oakland, and other cities have made progress during the pandemic, through various open roads and slow road efforts. But sliding back started almost immediately. And unless leaders show the same determination and determination they showed over COVID in the early days of the pandemic, it is a matter of time before this opportunity to point the way to a less polluting future is lost goes.

Maybe it’s too late.

As professor and writer Jason Henderson wrote on Twitter today: “Cars [are] pouring from Marin to San Francisco this morning. This Thursday there will be yellow interior openings. What is the plan? Is there a plan? “He linked up with a story in the Washington Post titled,” NOAA Reveals New US Climate Norms That Are Warmer Than Ever Before. “From That Story:” The big challenge in depicting “normal” climates is that the US climate is no longer stationary as the rise in greenhouse gases pushes temperatures higher and higher. “

And yet, San Francisco continues to debate whether to keep a small portion of the JFK drive in Golden Gate Park car-free in order to preserve a handful of parking spaces.

If you don’t like the coronavirus, you will hate the climate crisis. If we can get the climate emergency under control soon, we can avoid the privations, limitations and disruptions that result from inaction. If we can bend the corona curve, we can bend the carbon curve. pic.twitter.com/ZmXHAo9tqK

– Adam Bandt (@AdamBandt) April 27, 2020

A recent poll by Environment California group found that nearly two-thirds of Californians believe the state is not doing enough to combat climate change. Why isn’t there a transit-only lane in the main photo so buses can bypass all traffic? Why is there still no bike or transit lane over the Oakland Bay Bridge? The debate shouldn’t be about whether cars should return to JFK. The debate should be about how the Bay Area can reduce emissions everywhere as quickly as possible.

The pandemic claimed a staggering 578,000 lives in the US and continues to devastate countries around the world. The ongoing global warming crisis threatens to last much longer. There is hope with the election of Joe Biden and a government that appears to be taking climate change seriously. Now the Bay Area must follow the lead of Europe’s big cities and redouble its efforts to build a more sustainable future.

If so, this time around, perhaps the rest of the country will join the San Francisco leadership. Because if the pandemic has underscored anything, it is not good to pay lip service to the warnings of good science or to otherwise ignore them.

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WASHINGTON, 22nd September 2020 / PRNewswire / – The plumbing pipe attorney is urging large, highly regarded plumbing companies in major cities to focus some of their business on repipes for existing single family homes in a desperate need of this service. Most single family homes in The United States are over 30 years old and many of these homes are in need of replacing their entire plumbing system. Often times, when the attorney speaks to homeowners, they are stunned to learn that the 40+ year old galvanized pipe in their home is at the end of its life. They also often have the same conversation with homeowners, who are stunned to learn that their 60-year-old copper pipe on their home is also at the end of its life. What most homeowners fail to realize is that a prescription for their home is likely to cost less $ 10,000-including wall repairs. The group believes that home plumbing restoration is a potential multi-billion dollar business year across the country.

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Some of the piping used for scientific experiments in the 1990s through 2010 may require replacement of some of these systems, down to anything made with copper or brass plumbing fixtures China. When a buyer of an existing single family home calls the attorney about faulty plumbing – and they want to know who to sue – the attorney usually tells the purchaser who just bought the older home, “Please sue your home inspector – who had no idea which pipelines – their service life – and / or pipelines – or fittings were made China. “https://PlumbingPipeAdvocate.Com

The plumbing pipe attorney says, “We’re by far the best brand resource on the internet for broken Chinese copper plumbing (Google it). Our bottom line is that major plumbing companies in the metropolitan area need to look for single family homes – and we want to help – by raising public awareness of the problem. If a very reputable large plumbing company in the metropolitan area would like to work with us on this important initiative, please call us at 866-714 -6466. ”

Some of the first cities the Plumbing Pipe Advocate is targeting for its Repipe initiative include:

• The angel
• Chicago
• Houston
• Phoenix
• Philadelphia
• San Antonio
• San Diego
• Seattle
• San Francisco
• Dallas
• Minneapolis
• Atlanta
• Miami
• Boston
• Portland
• Detroit
• Las Vegas
• New Orleans
• Washington, DC
• Denver

As part of this “Repipe Initiative” for private households, the Plumbing Pipe Advocate would also like to support certain manufacturers of US-made plumbing pipes for private households so that US homeowners know how to identify proven products. These types of domestic plumbing pipes include PEX, CPVC, copper, and cast iron. https://PlumbingPipeAdvocate.Com

The ultimate goal of the Plumbing Pipe Advocate is to protect America’s homebuyers or homeowners from broken plumbing to plumbing pipes that need replacing due to age. The attorney urges homeowners to avoid a pavement approach to plumbing that needs to be replaced. The group urges homeowners and home builders to use only local, highly regarded plumbers and high quality plumbing pipes and fittings that are made in the United States. https://PlumbingPipeAdvocate.Com

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