[lex24]

My sense is that curfews work.

We had curfews over the summer during the BLM protests and, as a side effect, it seemed to decrease Covid numbers. My recollection is that curfew was at 9pm.

I would be in favor of making the current curfew at 9pm, maybe 8:30 or even 8. I definitely want it early enough to impact gatherings in homes, which we have been told time and again by contact tracers are the major sources of transmission.

One advantage of curfews is that they are enforceable — just pull over people driving past 9pm or photograph their plates and send them a ticket (which they can dispute).

My concern with an earlier curfew is the fact that essential workers may work 9-5 and may not get home until 6 and they need a chance to go to the grocery store or drugstore, too.

No, you can’t just pull people over.  Or take pictures of their license plates to issue tickets.  There are still exceptions - as doc points out - to the curfew.  So the police have no way of knowing if it’s a violation. Further to have that as a policy would be disastrous.  We’ve had enough police issues without adding such stops.  Further the pushback from those that still believe in liberty would be massive.  And, unlike the absurdity over masks, justified.

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Regarding police knocking on your door, San Jose police just established a toll-free hotline where you can report businesses that are breaking rules and neighbors who are hosting parties.

Sorry if I don’t join those celebrating this “hotline”.

[lex24]

My sense is that curfews work.

We had curfews over the summer during the BLM protests and, as a side effect, it seemed to decrease Covid numbers. My recollection is that curfew was at 9pm.

I would be in favor of making the current curfew at 9pm, maybe 8:30 or even 8. I definitely want it early enough to impact gatherings in homes, which we have been told time and again by contact tracers are the major sources of transmission.

One advantage of curfews is that they are enforceable — just pull over people driving past 9pm or photograph their plates and send them a ticket (which they can dispute).

My concern with an earlier curfew is the fact that essential workers may work 9-5 and may not get home until 6 and they need a chance to go to the grocery store or drugstore, too.

No, you can’t just pull people over.  Or take pictures of their license plates to issue tickets.  There are still exceptions - as doc points out - to the curfew.  So the police have no way of knowing if it’s a violation. Further to have that as a policy would be disastrous.  We’ve had enough police issues without adding such stops.  Further the pushback from those that still believe in liberty would be massive.  And, unlike the absurdity over masks, justified.

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Regarding police knocking on your door, San Jose police just established a toll-free hotline where you can report businesses that are breaking rules and neighbors who are hosting parties.

Sorry if I don’t join those celebrating this “hotline”.