If we continue to shelter in place we just push the curve out instead of flattening it. We need to start reintroducing people to society at a measured pace to actually flatten it.
Don’t misunderstand me, pushing the curve out has tremendous value in that we can better prepare but it also has a tremendous cost.
How many business and livelihoods will be ruined because we couldn’t reopen until a vaccine was available?
It seems crazy to sacrifice most of what makes this city great while the “smartest political minds” do what’s best for their career by transforming it into a partisan issue.
Having people die in large numbers is always worse then some people going through tough times. It's unfortunate our national government is incompetent and making it political.
If the city is great it will bounce back. The bay area isn't the only place going through this, the whole world is
We need to be realistic, and remember that the goal all along has been to flatten the curve, not eliminate all infections.
So yes it'll be true for years, we need to learn to live with this virus, we haven't done that yet
Now you can go to parks, beaches, grocery shopping, order food. What do you so deperately need to do? Have a beer in a bar? 80% of americans dont want to have anything start opening again.
And when you do force things open again you force workers who dont want to go back to work and feel its unsafe to go back to start working again, theres no benefits to recieve.
We are not through this in any way, shape, or form, even if it sucks. We've bought some time. If we did reopen now we'd probably be better off than if we hadn't shut down at all, but it'll still rip through the whole population, and unless we're ready to accept that, we've got to keep measures in place.
But we now know that surface transmission isn't as big a deal, and that spreading is much less likely when there isn't sustained contact. We also now have everyone wearing masks.
Given those things, I would think that any shop where you ordinarily go in for five or ten minutes and don't touch a bunch of things (shoe repair, sporting goods, NOT bookstores) would be very low risk.
