Amid Spike In COVID Cases Among Homeless, Supervisors Extend Hotel Room Program
San Francisco will continue ushering people off the streets and into shelter-in-place hotel rooms for at least two months, after the Board of Supervisors unanimously passed an extension of a program that would have expired in just two more weeks.
The city is quietly experiencing a scary spike in COVID-19 cases among the unhoused population. According to city data cited by the Chronicle, 43 unsheltered people have contracted coronavirus thus far in December. That compares to 43 in the entire month of November, up from a mere six new cases recorded in October. And this outbreak comes amidst the winding down of the hotel program that has kept people sheltered, and roughly 500 people would have been booted from those hotels December 31.
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Okay, you’ve been warned! That said, the headline should give you a good indication of the direction I am headed. If COVID has taught us anything, it is how much the government wants to manage and control every aspect of our lives; I am sad to say that sex is no longer between consenting adults, but you, your consenting partners, and the County Health Department.
Don’t act surprised we all saw it coming.
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In-person dating is no longer banned in San Francisco.
But you can only date outdoors and no double dates. Matt Haney (@MattHaneySF) December 13, 2020
Haney tweeted in a thread saying, The original order was obviously ridiculous, unrealistic, extreme, so much so people wouldn t understand or follow it. The new version is still overly restrictive imo. The public health orders have to be connected to reality or they will increasingly be ignored completely.
The other five Bay Area counties that joined the early stay-at-home order have not adopted the same update.
In San Mateo County, officials made the decision to not follow the stricter rules yet. One of the reasons was because they thought not having any social support system outside the household is detrimental, San Mateo Deputy Health Officer Dr. Curtis Chan told ABC7 News last week.