Right now, we are weeks away from experience the healthcare infrastructure crisis that Italy is experiencing. Italy is currently in wartime triage, allowing elderly patients to die due to lack of ventilation.

California should lead the charge in shutting down all non-essential business before the crisis impacts our healthcare infrastructure. California government should suspend mortgage, rental, and utility payments during the lockdown. Profits should not be a priority currently, public health needs to be our focus if we are to save lives.

The death rate of Covid19 will increase without proper medical staff and equipment to keep up with the rate of infection. We are asking Gavin Newsom to sign an executive order to end all non-essential business and workplaces with 50 or more employees convened in tight quarters. Keep open grocery stores, pharmacies, gas stations, and hospitals but close all other business. Any non-essential manufacturing industries, such as cars and tech equipment, should cease production. Only the manufacturing of food, household, and medical supplies should be allowed to continue.