SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Safeway, Target, and Whole Foods Offering 'Senior Hours' For Older Shoppers Bay Area grocery stores and others are beginning to do their part in allowing senior citizens to shop free and clear of younger people who could be infected with the coronavirus.
SF News Let the Attacks Begin: Right-Wing Radio Host Says SF Is Locked Down Because of 'All the Gay Guys' The Fox News contributor who's filling in on Rush Limbaugh's radio show just did his predictable best to begin the disparagement of San Francisco regarding the coronavirus and our current shelter-in-place order, blaming it all on gay people.
SF News San Franciscans Are Going to Dog Parks and Jogging on the Embarcadero and CNN Is Pissed CNN's Jake Tapper took aim at SF on the broadcast last night, showing a live feed of people strolling and jogging on the Embarcadero as if it were a normal day, and asking Dr. Sanjay Gupta if this was at all acceptable.
SF News Wednesday Morning In a Crisis: Newsom Puts National Guard on Alert Whole Foods is launching senior shopping hours, starting at 8 a.m.; Newsom says schools across the state may stay closed until summer; and the coffeeshop scene across SF is pretty decimated.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Supes Discuss Reopening Pot Dispensaries Sonoma County looks to be joining the shelter-in-place order, possibly by midnight, the SFPD says it may resort to citations as a last resort if people don't cooperate with the order, and the SF Board of Supervisors may work to reopen pot dispensaries.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Here's What We Know That's Open in SF For Your Essential and Takeout Needs The more you spend into the local economy via takeout and delivery (as opposed to just shopping at Safeway and Whole Foods), the more chance there is that San Francisco will emerge recognizable from all this, and not with a city full of vacant businesses.
Arts & Entertainment Moment of Zen: Watch the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Live Jellyfish Cam When this all gets more real for people, you may need a little more relaxing distraction to watch from home like the Monterey Bay Aquarium's live feeds.
Business & Tech Uber and Lyft Suspend Pool Options for Social Distancing; Uber Expands Paid Sick Leave for Drivers We're going to be hearing a lot of stories in the coming weeks about how industries are facing the COVID-19 pandemic and feeling its vast, unknowable economic impacts.
Business & Tech Coronavirus Vaccine Begins Testing On Volunteers In Seattle An experimental coronavirus vaccine developed by a Massachusetts-based biotech company along with the National Institutes for Health has officially begun being tested in humans.
SF News UCSF Doctor With COVID-19: 'I Felt Just a Little Sick' An emergency room physician at UCSF tested positive for the novel coronavirus on Saturday, and he's now opening up about his symptoms, anxieties, and general state of mind on Medium.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: The DMV Is Still Open All federal courthouses in Northern California are closing until May, wineries and breweries in Sonoma County are hoping for more online sales, and Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson have been discharged from an Australian hospital.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Mayor Announces Sick-Leave Fund For Minimum-Wage Workers People in SF are panic-shopping and they shouldn't be, Safeway is hiring 2,000 new employees in the face of all this shopping, a young girl was gravely wounded by a car in the Tenderloin, and the Census Bureau has a new task force to make sure the virus doesn't lead to an under-count.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Most Farmers' Markets to Remain Open as Essential Services During Lockdown Period During the upcoming shelter-in-place period, it appears that, like grocery stores, most or all the Bay Area's farmers' markets will keep running on their usual schedules in San Francisco and elsewhere, albeit with some extra protocols in place.
SF News BART Will Keep Running During Shelter-In-Place Period As of today, BART is committing to keeping its trains running during the three-week mandatory shelter-in-place order in the Bay Area in order to help residents to do essential travel.
Arts & Entertainment Mel Brooks and Son Max Offer Up Some Levity In PSA About Social Distancing This is another turning-point day in the unfolding pandemic crisis in the U.S., but hopefully there will be more of this in the coming weeks to help keep us sane.
SF News Judge Issues Directed Verdict In Oakland Murder Trial, Declares Cowell Sane After convicting John Lee Cowell in the 2018 murder of Nia Wilson, an Alameda County jury had returned to deliberations in the "sanity phase" of the trial.
SF News California to Use Hotels and Motels to Shelter Homeless During Pandemic Without offering many specifics about the plan, Governor Gavin Newsom on Sunday said that private hotels and motels were being "procured" in order to provide emergency shelter and isolation space for the homeless amid the coronavirus pandemic.
SF News Sonoma County and Others Begin Imagining Fire Season With Coronavirus Given that we do not know how long the coronavirus pandemic will remain a threat in the Bay Area — or if it may decelerate and resurge later in the year the way influenzas do — cities and counties have to begin planning for fire season in an entirely new way.
SF News Monday Morning Coronavirus Headlines: Nancy Pelosi Is Still on the Hill The CDC is now saying all gatherings of 50+ people should be canceled for 8 weeks, longshoremen in Oakland are nervous about the Grand Princess's trash, and Nancy Pelosi is saying that her half of Congress is staying open and will be the "last to leave."
SF News Inbound SFO Passengers Not Facing Any Special Screening After stories Sunday of extremely long lines at a number of U.S. airports as international travelers waited for special Customs screenings, Customs at SFO was apparently business as usual today.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Governor Newsom Orders All Bars and Nightclubs in CA to Close, Restaurants Can Operate at 50 Percent Capacity In an unprecedented statewide move, Governor Gavin Newsom announced in a press conference Sunday that he's ordering all bars, breweries, and wineries in the state to close, regardless of their size, in order to create "deep social distancing."
SF News Alaska Airlines Gate Agent at SFO Tests Positive For Coronavirus An employee of Alaska Airlines, reportedly a ticketing or gate agent for the airline at San Francisco International Airport, has tested positive for the coronavirus.
SF News Lake Tahoe Ski Resorts Shutting Down Sunday The next shoe to drop in the coronavirus pandemic is the early end to ski season in the Sierra — though the resorts say they will reassess the situation in a week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Bars With Capacity Over 100 Ordered to Close For Seven Weeks; Restaurants Told To Limit Capacity An order went out late Friday from San Francisco Health Officer Dr. Tomas Aragon that forces the closure of bars and nightclubs with official maximum occupant loads of 100 people or more, and this led to the immediate closure of at least two Castro nightclubs.
SF News Day Around the Bay: All the Bay Area Coronavirus Updates for Friday the 13th Mayor London Breed has banned events of 100 or more people in SF, there are now six firefighters in San Jose who have tested positive, and Breed also announced a moratorium on all evictions stemming from the pandemic.
