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Gavin Newsome gave his criteria for reopening California, it doesn't require a vaccine.

Having people die in large numbers is always worse then some people going through tough times. It's unfortunate our national government is incompetent and making it political.

If the city is great it will bounce back. The bay area isn't the only place going through this, the whole world is



It's not a matter of dying vs not dying. It's a matter of people dying from covid or dying from stress related disease like heart attacks, suicide, etc with economic collapse. It's impossible to know before hand the exact prescriptive policies to minimize death over-all. Make no mistake, leadership is going by their gut on this. There are models, but the models are not precisely predictive, they are directionally persuasive.




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