The first official case was in March. The actual first case was at the beginning of January.
The shelter in place order means the city failed to anticipate and acted when it was too late. Like the rest of the Western world.
Receipts please.
You are claiming that the timeline of SF matched other countries where deaths started much earlier and went much higher. Are you really making the claim that our hospitals were overlooking a couple hundred people drowning in their own lungs and unable to breath during the month of February?
Because that would basically have to have been true if we had community spread in early January.
> The shelter in place order means the city failed to anticipate and acted when it was too late. Like the rest of the Western world.
Your assumption is that the death rate being substantially lower in SF and California is luck and not preparation?
That stance doesn’t seem supported by the evidence.
What I’m saying is that if the West acted like Taiwan there would be no lockdowns. They acted, they were prepared. Western world was caught with its pants down, including San Francisco.
https://sfist.com/2020/04/10/some-scientists-suggest-undetec...
(Taiwan activated its health department epidemic operations center on January 20th. SF activated January 21st. If SF had been able to use state and federal powers, we probably would have had a much better shot at avoiding shelter in place.)
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.