On: It’s Time to Build

[jennyyang]

No. San Francisco was the first to act, and put pressure on the rest of the Bay Area to follow, and subsequently California. If SF didn't act first, who knows how long it would have taken for other politicians to have the "courage" to put in such draconian, but effective, measures. As far as I'm concerned, London Breed saved tens of thousands of lives in the Bay Area alone, and I hate her politics.

[mattm → jennyyang]

Actually a lot of large tech companies acted earlier and had already implemented work from home orders by the time the city acted.

[Vomzor → jennyyang]

The time to act was in January. It’s good that they acted first but it was still too late.

[djcapelis → Vomzor]

They did act in January.

SF’s emergency operations center was active and running. The CDC was still making it illegal for anyone to test outside some unreliable and faulty test kits.

The fact that our federal government was obstructing anyone’s ability to build up a testing apparatus is very much the responsibility of the incompetent management of this crisis by the federal government.