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Manhattan Beach an improbable focal point for protests in 2020
SHARE In November, parents and students held a rally in Polliwog Park, calling for schools to be reopened. Photo by JP Cordero
Joe Franklin leads a May 18 rally at the Manhattan Beach City Hall of protesters demanding that businesses be allowed to reopen. In November, Franklin was elected to the city council. Photo by JP Cordero
The pandemic in Manhattan Beach was met with an uneasy mixture of community cooperation and outright defiance in a year in which the city’s conflicts would mirror the nation’s.
Manhattan Beach by year’s end will have experienced four deaths and more than 750 COVID-19 cases, a lower incidence than most of Los Angeles County and much of the United States, but by global metrics a higher incidence rate than India, Russia, and Peru. Yet the city found itself in the regional and sometimes national spotlight as the pandemic progressed, first when a surfer was fined for defying a pu
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A lesson in patience:
A lesson in patience: Despite County Health Department approval to allow transitional kindergarten through second grade students to return to campus, the Hermosa Beach School Board voted this week to delay returning young students to campus until Jan. 13. Photo
The five elementary schools of the Manhattan Beach Unified School District welcomed back their youngest students this week. But the Manhattan Beach Middle School’s program for high needs students was shut down due to three COVID-19 cases.
On Sunday, MBUSD sent out a letter to parents with kids at MBMS informing them that three positive COVID-19 cases had been discovered that had a connection with the campus.
Gatherings in Manhattan Beach
The nation, state and county all recognize the worsening pandemic crisis. Both California and LA County have issued strict guidelines to reduce the spread. In contrast, our MB City Council asks people to sit and gather in support of local businesses.
While the support of our local merchants and their employees is absolutely the right thing to do, encouraging people to gather in public places and suggesting that they disinfect the areas when they leave continues to send the wrong message at the wrong time. In a city where simple, everyday mask compliance remains a struggle, the thought that people would actually make the effort to sanitize is beyond the pale. More than likely, people will use the outdoor spaces to eat or drink what they just purchased for take-out, thus requiring them to take off their masks for extended periods with non-household members, defeating the very purpose of the new health orders.