Here is a timeline of events for those who have not yet realized the magnitude of what is happening here: 5 days ago, on April 25, the OC Register infamously published an article which inaccurately represented the number of people visiting Newport Beach by publishing a photo that looked like there were far more people on the beach than there …

There is much confusion with the reopening of OC– are we open?  Are we closed? Maximum thank-yous are necessary to County Board of Supervisors Michelle Steel and Don Wagner.  It needs to be made clear: Don Wagner and Michelle Steel were in favor of opening OC earlier and releasing citizens from government mandated shutdowns, but they simply did not have …

Yesterday, the OC Board of Supervisors voted to #ReopenOC.  You can read the guidelines for reopening, here: http://savenewport.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/text.txt — as you can see, this isn’t micro-managing businesses or trying to put a one-size-fits-all approach to them.  Each business will need to determine best practices. Also yesterday– just an hour later– Newport Beach quickly voted to adopt the same policies, with resolution 2020-41 …

Today, Orange County board of supervisors officially reopened Orange County. Our push to reopen Orange County on May 1st was big enough toforced the government’s hand and we appreciate the cooperation of officials on every level. This is not a free-for-all, and the virus is still out there. We need to take precautions to make sure that we do not …

An “Emergency Meeting” is being called by Mayor Will O’Neill today at 3pm, asking for the council to consider three items of importance: Whether or not to close the beaches (or roadways to the beaches) in light of the COVID influenza that currently has the nation under seige. Whether or not to support the County Board of Supervisors Ad-hoc Business …

Tensions are high right now and the fact is that this whole thing is a math problem to maximize health.   I am a mathematician and everybody seems to have an opinion that is contrary to math itself– mostly due to the Fear Machine running 24/7 on every news network, almost always with misinterpreted data.   The fact is that I– …

After intense pressure from the medical and academic math community, Newport Beach has finally re-opened the beach parking lots that the city manager illegally closed by herself without any legal authority nearly 2 weeks ago. Rumor has it that next weekend, the illegally closed boardwalks will also be reopened. It is clear that the curve being flattened (http://savenewport.com/2020/04/17/oc-has-successfully-flattened-the-curve/) occurred a …

Red Tide happens a lot, but the Lingulodinium polyedrum bacteria isn’t always present in them.  This time, it’s there, and that’s the cause of the Red Tide Glow moving up the coast from San Diego since Monday. The Lingulodinium polyedrum– often abbreviated as “L. polyedra”, but best known by its gangsta-rap name “L-Po”– is a bacteria which releases a bioluminescent glow when it is disturbed.  If …

“Its not that the curve has flattened, we’re on the other side of the curve and headed down!” – Dr. Brant-Zawadzki, M.D., F.A.C.R., Senior Physician Executive, Hoag Hospital April 15 update. After 3 weeks of quarantining for a virus that takes 2 weeks to spread, OC has successfully flattened the curve. Now that we have gotten through this, the question remains: …

Beginning today, the Newport Beach City Manager has decided to close the park at the Wedge known as West Jetty Park.  She will also begin to close off the entire boardwalk on Balboa Island beginning Saturday, April 11th.  This is in addition to the closure of the Balboa Peninsula Boardwalk. But here’s the kicker: Unfortunately, since the council did not …