San Francisco's mayor declared state of emergency as the coronavirus spread

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To put the headline in context, this is a necessary move to unlock funding for preparation and potential mitigation.

I think it's a wise move because of both outcomes:

1. There is no pandemic - it's a valuable, real-world logistics and pain-points training exercise.

2. There is a moderate pandemic - they had extra time and resources to prepare.

I just doubt any governmental body besides perhaps even the US military could build 8000+ of bed capacity, positive air pressure triage and care facilities in 8 days as happened in China. That was an organizational, logistics and execution achievement. Different agencies globally should be sharing information and best-practices across countries, not going all puffery nationalistic. Solidarity or divided-we-fall.

> I think it's a wise move because of both outcomes: 1. There is no pandemic ... 2. There is a moderate pandemic

Given the information that we currently do and don't have, there's clearly more possibilities than just those two. (I am not making any claim about how likely any particular possibility is)

This is a generous interpretation. I think it's a policy over-correction after not canceling the Chinese New Year parade earlier this month.

This is a preemptive declaration of emergency. As of today, there are no confirmed cases of coroavirus in SF.

At least two people infected with coronavirus were treated in SF (UCSF).

To be clear, it was a couple who were vacationing in Wuhan, picked it up there, then quarantined at their home, but both got worse and they had to be hospitalized.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/coronavirus-San-Franc...

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