San Francisco flattened the curve early. Now, coronavirus cases are surging.

[SunSeeker]

The Bay Area had avoided spikes, but shutdown fatigue, early reopening and a prison outbreak changed that.

It was one of the first metro areas in the United States to fully shut down to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. Nearly everyone wears masks, in stores and on streets. Its progressive residents generally have been inclined to follow the rules, and there’s a high level of trust in public health officials, local governments and the fast-changing science.

But now, more than four months after the region put some of the nation’s first shelter-in-place orders in effect, the Bay Area is experiencing a surge in cases and counties are rolling back reopening plans.

The Bay Area, which consists of nine counties and nearly 8 million people, is a cautionary tale for government and health officials. Even though leaders here tried to do everything cautiously and by the book, cases still eventually spiked over a month and a half, to an average of 877 cases a day at the end of July from 217 a day in mid-June.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/08/02/san-francisco-coronavirus-surge/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_virussf-620pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans



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Same thing is happening in Los Angeles/ Orange County areas. People are in dangerous denial.

[Hoyt]

1. I understand flattening the curve to avoid medical facility overload and, perhaps, extend lives.

But, if all we are doing is delaying the inevitable (catching Covid), it's kind of hopeless.

[SunSeeker]

4. Catching Covid-19 is not inevitable. We have given up while other countries succeeded.

What's happening here, and all over the US, is a totally preventable disaster, thanks to Trump.

[BigmanPigman]

2. We need a nationwide shutdown

with economic and medical plans and reopening procedure adhered to, no matter what. Enforce regulations and do it like successful countries have done.

The US under team tRump will NEVER do this. They are listening to the anti-maskers' "my freedom" and the "my business needs to open and I don't care if it spreads Covid" groups. This attitude from the citizens and the local and fed govt will drag out our recovery making their businesses suffer longer and longer as well as the anti-maskers' infectious rate making schools, stores, public places stay closed longer. They are only hurting their own lifestyles and financial state but they are too stupid to see it. The dumbing down of America. Woohoo!

[SunSeeker]

3. So true. nr