[Snorlax94]

Well, 

COVID teaches all of us once again that it is in charge.  

A reboot without PPE discipline, testing and tracing gave COVID more than enough to succeed.

Many were rightfully concerned we could not halt the economy for the second time, but that was the only choice left after we rushed through the phases and had far too many people, including our POTUS, not believing in the seriousness of COVID.

Now lots of SoCal indoor businesses will be closed again.  Hopefully this retreat will allow us to be much more organized when we go forward the next time.  

FWIW - That should seal the deal on Pac-12 sports, and public schools in August.   

Stay safe everyone.

It's not just SoCal. All indoor dining, bars, and movie theaters are now closed in entire state. In So Cal, even more, including barbershops and hair salons must close again.

In Santa Clara County, barber shops, hair salons, and gyms are expected to close Wednesday after being open for 2 days.  Even the slow-going Dr Cody could not eradicate irresponsible behavior.  A month ago, COVID was at a low level in SCC and not it is growing rapidly.

And hospital capacity in Santa Clara County?  How's that looking?

Today's front page article in Merc talks about hospitals (good); but if you read the article critically (as opposed to  just simply accepting the unwritten implications of the article) you might not get a real good picture of hospital capacity issues and where they may (or may not) be arising.

Yes, there are plenty of hospital beds in Santa Clara County. SCC has a very large number of beds per 100,000 conpared to other counties — we could get to a rate of prevalence far exceeding many counties in the news without running out of hospital beds.

A problem with very high prevalence rates is that everything begins to become dangerous because so many people are infected. If people are vulnerable and the rates across the county are high it becomes hard to avoid infection even if you are very careful — multiple shoppers around you may be shedding virus even if you limit  yourself to essential shopping, more patients could be infectious in doctors’ waiting rooms, more employees at long term care facilities will get infected by household members.

Even if SCC had an ICU bed and ventilator for every single resident, we shouldn’t keep everything open until we have used them all.

[Snorlax94]

Well, 

COVID teaches all of us once again that it is in charge.  

A reboot without PPE discipline, testing and tracing gave COVID more than enough to succeed.

Many were rightfully concerned we could not halt the economy for the second time, but that was the only choice left after we rushed through the phases and had far too many people, including our POTUS, not believing in the seriousness of COVID.

Now lots of SoCal indoor businesses will be closed again.  Hopefully this retreat will allow us to be much more organized when we go forward the next time.  

FWIW - That should seal the deal on Pac-12 sports, and public schools in August.   

Stay safe everyone.

It's not just SoCal. All indoor dining, bars, and movie theaters are now closed in entire state. In So Cal, even more, including barbershops and hair salons must close again.

In Santa Clara County, barber shops, hair salons, and gyms are expected to close Wednesday after being open for 2 days.  Even the slow-going Dr Cody could not eradicate irresponsible behavior.  A month ago, COVID was at a low level in SCC and not it is growing rapidly.

And hospital capacity in Santa Clara County?  How's that looking?

Today's front page article in Merc talks about hospitals (good); but if you read the article critically (as opposed to  just simply accepting the unwritten implications of the article) you might not get a real good picture of hospital capacity issues and where they may (or may not) be arising.

Yes, there are plenty of hospital beds in Santa Clara County. SCC has a very large number of beds per 100,000 conpared to other counties — we could get to a rate of prevalence far exceeding many counties in the news without running out of hospital beds.

A problem with very high prevalence rates is that everything begins to become dangerous because so many people are infected. If people are vulnerable and the rates across the county are high it becomes hard to avoid infection even if you are very careful — multiple shoppers around you may be shedding virus even if you limit  yourself to essential shopping, more patients could be infectious in doctors’ waiting rooms, more employees at long term care facilities will get infected by household members.

Even if SCC had an ICU bed and ventilator for every single resident, we shouldn’t keep everything open until we have used them all.