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Re:The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is bein... by nkkollaw on Monday April 27, 2020 @05:15PM (#23000121)
1 more month will probably put a huge number of businesses out of business.

Is there a reason why they'd do something like this, where anyone who looks will see that it's not at all needed?

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Re:The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is bein... by luckylion on Monday April 27, 2020 @05:30PM (#23000295)
Opening too early would be the end of a political career. A ruined economy isn't, you can always point to "the virus" that did it.
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Re:The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is bein... by forgotmylogin2 on Monday April 27, 2020 @06:30PM (#23000874)
Yup. Sadly, our politicians care more about getting re-elected than doing what's right for society.
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Re:The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is bein... by nkkollaw on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @01:51AM (#23003852)
I see. I can see this being the reason, yes.
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