The SF Bay Area could open this week if we'd done enough to scale up testing over the last six weeks. The economic damage of the last six weeks was unavoidable, but the damage going forward is avoidable; we could have made the pivot out of stay-home happen faster.
California's testing is still mediocre compared to other states. It doesn't have to be. We have lots of biotech and lots of private and public resources.
California is behind other states on setting up contact-tracing teams, even though the Bay has few enough cases that contact tracing is probably viable right now.
And no, I don't think we should open even though we're unready. I think we should be ready. I think we possessed the resources and human capital to spend the last six weeks getting ready and we didn't do it.
And unless we have a clear understanding of why we didn't do it, who's to say we won't squander the next six?
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