City of San Francisco delivers free weed, alcohol, and methadone to homeless staying in hotels

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@mocon

Don’t worry taxpayers! Your money is being spent on fighter jets, missiles, and bunker-busting bombs, and not to actually help anyone. Sleep tight.

Oh thank god, I was so worried we might accidentally help a poor person!

[elliotk]

People in the (surprisingly conservative) San Francisco subreddit are sooo salty about this

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@Avery_Thorn

n Ohio, which is widely regarded as having done an excellent job defusing our early epidemic of this pandemic, both liquor stores and electronics stores are considered essential and are open. Housewear goods stores are also considered to be essential and are open. Even home improvement stores are considered to be essential and are open.

Ohio started pretty early, and with a very small number of (diagnosed) cases relative to other states.

So it can “afford” to be a little more lax in what remains open and still get a decent outcome. Also to a great extent people will abide by a looser set of restrictions for longer.

Of corse what a “decent outcome” consists of is debatable. It could be “don’t exceed the capacity of hospitals so the case faulty rate stays under 2% as opposed to more like 15%”. That isn’t the worst goal. It could be “Get the effective transmission rate below one for long enough to eradicate COVID-19 to zero cases”. I would love to have #2, but I don’t think that was any state’s initial goal.