What a delightful thing to read. It's so rare in this pandemic to see public health officials actually speaking frankly with a full command of the relevant facts, instead of either rottenly repeating the current consensus or sticking their head in the sand about the whole thing. I especially appreciated his points about "essential businesses" being a totally incoherent category, and his unwillingness to impose restrictions on the entire county based on that arbitrary categorisation.

Even aside from his particular recommendations, I can't remember the last time I heard a government official talk like an actual human being in this manner. A breath of fresh air.