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L.A. County supports less strict threshold for theme park reopening

by The AV Times Staff • February 23, 2021

[DryTown Water Park in Palmdale]
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors went on record Tuesday in support of Assembly Bill 420, which seeks to allow theme parks to reopen earlier.

Supervisor Kathryn Barger recommended that the board back the bipartisan bill by Assembly members Sharon Quirk-Silva and Suzette Martinez Valladares. The bill would amend the state’s industry guidance to allow amusement and theme parks to open once a region is in the moderate or orange risk tier rather than the lower minimal or yellow tier.

Barger sent a letter of support to the bill’s sponsors earlier this month.

“With full outdoor operations and the ability to maintain physical distancing, theme parks across the country have proven that they can safely reopen,” Barger wrote. “Large theme parks nationwide began reopening last summer and there (have) not yet been any outbreaks or spread from these establishments.”

Barger said that densely populated counties such as Los Angeles would have a very difficult time meeting the minimal risk tier criteria of less than one daily case of COVID per 100,000 residents and a test positivity rate of less than 2%, which she said was unwarranted.

She cited an Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation report that the amusement, gambling, and recreation sector has experienced the highest percentage of job losses in the county, with more than 98% of jobs lost in the earliest months of the pandemic.

Most of those impacted are low-income workers with an average salary of $32,000 per year, according to the LAEDC study.

The board’s vote was unanimous.

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Filed Under: Business, Health, Home, Los Angeles County

4 comments for "L.A. County supports less strict threshold for theme park reopening"

  1. AV Illegal says

    February 24, 2021 at 12:25 pm

    Yes, get those tax and revenue generators open. Make sure you don’t dine out or go to church.

    • Matt says

      February 24, 2021 at 1:13 pm

      Umm….u can do both already?? Had Don Cucos last night in fact.

      • AV Illegal says

        February 24, 2021 at 4:48 pm

        Sorry to hear that Matt….Go to church yet? Maybe Palmdale has lightened up a little. Dr. Fauci was telling folks that just because they had a vaccination, they still should not dine out and have to keep wearing their masks.

        • PP says

          February 25, 2021 at 9:35 am

          Rex’s church is open. He talks a big game about people dying left and right from the virus, but he is silent about his voting farm’s meetings.

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