It will probably surprise no one who reads this blog that I think everyone in my state should vote NO on the current, money-wasting political stunt recall. This is part of the new dynamic in American politics: When we lose an election, we never accept it as The Will of the People. We don't care about The Will of any People but Ourselves…so we insist the vote was rigged and we really won or we try to overturn it. We certainly don't respect the outcome the way we insist outcomes be respected when they go our way.
Gavin Newsom has been a pretty good governor but like every single elected official who has had to deal with The Pandemic, he has had to make decisions based on incomplete, subject-to-change advice and information. It's kind of a game of Political Gotcha that when Our Guy says things that prove to be inoperative — like when Trump says that the virus will magically disappear in a few weeks and/or can be treated with hydroxywhatever — we overlook that. But when The Other Guy says something that turns out to be wrong or even arguable, that's proof positive of his incompetence and/or dishonesty.
There's no one else on the ballot right now with any experience and the Republican ones who've stated their positions on masks and vaccines (and most have not) mostly want to go all Florida on us, switching to the policies of a state doing way worse than we are.
Vote NO on the recall and leave the second question blank. I already did.