> The actual first case was at the beginning of January.
Receipts please.
You are claiming that the timeline of SF matched other countries where deaths started much earlier and went much higher. Are you really making the claim that our hospitals were overlooking a couple hundred people drowning in their own lungs and unable to breath during the month of February?
Because that would basically have to have been true if we had community spread in early January.
> The shelter in place order means the city failed to anticipate and acted when it was too late. Like the rest of the Western world.
Your assumption is that the death rate being substantially lower in SF and California is luck and not preparation?
That stance doesn’t seem supported by the evidence.
It’s only logical. There are typically 90 weekly roundtrip flights operating between SFO and China or Hong Kong. But somehow no one was infected for two months? Lol.
What I’m saying is that if the West acted like Taiwan there would be no lockdowns. They acted, they were prepared. Western world was caught with its pants down, including San Francisco.
Sure. Let’s learn lessons from Taiwan too that sounds great to me.
(Taiwan activated its health department epidemic operations center on January 20th. SF activated January 21st. If SF had been able to use state and federal powers, we probably would have had a much better shot at avoiding shelter in place.)
Receipts please.
You are claiming that the timeline of SF matched other countries where deaths started much earlier and went much higher. Are you really making the claim that our hospitals were overlooking a couple hundred people drowning in their own lungs and unable to breath during the month of February?
Because that would basically have to have been true if we had community spread in early January.
> The shelter in place order means the city failed to anticipate and acted when it was too late. Like the rest of the Western world.
Your assumption is that the death rate being substantially lower in SF and California is luck and not preparation?
That stance doesn’t seem supported by the evidence.