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Originally Posted by LessinSF
I am. At least in California and San Francisco, the curve has been flattened. There are enough unused healthcare and hospital resources that they have resumed "non-essential" surgeries. Taken at face value that the lockdown orders were to prevent an overwhelming of the healthcare system, that concern is apparently now moot..
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Not yet, but they're working on a plan to be able to do that. Part of the plan is that patients have to agree to no visitors, period. So let's just be clear that things are not back to normal, and the concern is not moot. OTOH, the hospitals are going to go broke with all of the money they are spending on new things to respond to the pandemic and without all the of revenue from usual sources.
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You should be right, but no. Most people I deal with seem to think that their home-stay, mask, and social distancing avoidance will make them free from exposure. People I normally consider smart are fighting me on the fact that it is endemic. If you haven't been exposed, you will be. To use a cliche, the cat is out of the bag. But, way fucking after the fact, we have political tools like our mayor (London Breed) ordering thhe wearing of face masks for no good reason.
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Your mayor is ordering it for the same reason that the CDC recommends it and people in countries like China and Japan do it all the time. It helps. At my wife's hospitals, they masks all the time now, and not because London Breed told them to.
