Test. Test. Test. As you see over there on the left, the salon versus the church, the way the two parties were arguing which areas should get close first or reopened first, saloons, gambling houses versus churches. In some communities that mapped on to ljous sentiment or antisemitism or anticatholicism. Because remember this is an era of rising prohibition coming out of this. So it mapped on to different areas of politics to different regions related to what got privileged to the virus but not reaction to the virus itself. We will talk about that too. And a suf rujette handing out bonbons. And Warren Harding ran on the platform of world war i pushing the return to normalcy and return to society as we know it. As we take a step back, we saw pushback, protest and reemergence in that era. You may have heard about the antimask league. It was an organized league in San Francisco in early 1990s that pushed back against mask requirements that were mandatory. Antimask league is the only really
Historical precedent . 1918 is the one that comes to mind. And we have nobody better to tell us about 1918 than my good friend christopher nichols. He is a professor of history at oregon state. Hes also director there. Oregon state center for the humanities and founder of their citizenship and crisis initiative. He also studied at harvard, waysleyan and at the university of virginia. Chris is an expert on, i would say, earliest parts of the 20th century. Of course, is he expanding out. He and i, before we came on, were just chatting about new work we have coming out on ideologies on u. S. Foreign policy. That book itself, that term, that title, was a seminole book in the field in 1987. Im really glad someone has decided to go in and update it, shall we say. Theres no better person to do it than chris. Will he talk to us about the 1918 pandemic. I would encourage you, as you look at your zoom screen, on the bottom youll see a q a button. Please, hit that button and submit your questions
Also, day care, summer camps, other programs for children whose parents cannot work from home, but the centers may not have more than 12 children. So many new rules for companies to comply with, even as things reopen. They certainly wont be the same. Nbc bay areas Sergio Quintana help for the heroes. Begins our coverage tonight from San Francisco. There is a new lifeline for the doctors struggling with the reporter across the city, there are construction sites that are just about abandoned immense pressure of being on the with crews just having a few hours to secure them before they front line. Kate snow reports. Had to leave. Reporter for dr. Andrea getting them back up and running hadley, the most stressful part again is going to be a little is imagine what would happen to bit more complicated. Their kids if both she and her something as simple as getting husband got sick with covid19. Construction crews back onsite for me it was the building t. Isnt simple anymore. How you queue up
Outdoor businesses like nurseries and landscaping will be back in business. Also, day care, summer camps, other programs for children whose parents cannot work from home, but the centers may not have more than 12 children. So many new rules for companies to comply with, even as things reopen. They certainly wont be the same. Nbc bay areas Sergio Quintana begins our coverage tonight from San Francisco. Reporter across the city, there are construction sites that are just about abandoned with crews just having a few hours to secure them before they had to leave. Getting them back up and running again is going to be a little bit more complicated. Something as simple as getting construction crews back onsite isnt simple anymore. How you queue up to get into the buildings, elevators. You can only get three or four people in an elevator to practice the social distancing. So there is definitely going to be challenges around that. Reporter Mike Scribner heads up bci construction. These are phot
Announce this week about easing up on some of our restrictions. And a pandemic dilemma. The temporary cutback Stanford Health care says its being forced to make. Tonight more time at home and more frustration. June 1st is now the target date to reopen. Among many questions here, can Small Businesses survive that much longer . The majority of the bay area now following theis extended order o shelter at home. Today six of the bay areas nine counties announcing plans to extend our shutdown until june 1. You can see the counties here in red. Solano county, by the way, in yellow, is shut down until may 17th. Not everyones on board here. One woman says shes reopening her hair salon tomorrow. Lets bring in nbc bay areas Terry Mcsweeney from vacaville. We spread out our clients as well. Reporter leah rivera opened her salon in vacaville when she was pregnant with her third child and theres no way shes letting it slip away now. The hurdles that came with that for the first two years essentially