California Governor Gavin Newsom Once Said Covid Began in Nail Salons

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In May 2020, Newsom bafflingly and incorrectly blamed his own constituents, namely those who own nail salons, for the spread of COVID-19, making it seem like his decision to keep those salons shut down was somewhat punitive as other businesses“‘This whole thing started in the state of California, the first community spread, in a nail salon,’ Newsom said in his daily media briefing on COVID-19 in Sacramento, after being asked why personal services, such as nail salons, should stay closed even as...

Even as this information was deemed untrue by experts, and anti-Asian violence spiked alarmingly amid the pandemic, Newsom never seemed to take responsibility for the danger in which his remarks placed members of Asian American communities—nor has he addressed his reluctance to re-open nail salons, 80 percent of which are owned by Vietnamese residents of California.

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