SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Whole Foods Workers May Stage Sickout Tuesday To Demand Hazard Pay Following in the footsteps of Instacart gig-workers who are staging a virtual strike today and refusing to accept new orders, some Whole Foods workers are calling for their cohort to call in sick on Tuesday, March 31 amid a pandemic that has left them on the frontlines of essential businesses.
SF News Super-Spreading Event In Washington Suggests Coronavirus Is Airborne Without Coughs or Sneezes A choir practice that took place in Washington three weeks ago turned out to be a super-spreading event in which 45 out of 60 people became infected with the coronavirus, even though no one was showing symptoms and no one touched each other.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink These SF Bars and Restaurants Have GoFundMe Fundraisers to Help Staff Like we’ve said before: you can help buoy many of SF’s restaurants and bars amid the COVID-19 crisis by ordering pickup and delivery from them. An ample amount of those same places also have active GoFundMe fundraisers to help staff that you can extend some digital dollars to, as well.
SF News Public Health Director Fears Imminent Surge of COVID-19 Cases at Laguna Honda Hospital It was reported this week that six staff members and one resident at Laguna Honda Hospital tested positive for COVID-19. SF Director of Public Health Dr. Grant Colfax is now concerned about a likely outbreak of the novel coronavirus at the facility — which houses hundreds of elderly patients.
SF News Governor Newsom: California Increasing Ventilator Output, Emphasizes Need for Social Distancing In a press conference Saturday, Governor Newsom said California is upping its ventilator output, hoping to now acquire some 10,000 examples. The 52-year-old politician also reiterated the need for Californians to maintain proper social distancing practices amid the current pandemic.
SF News New Facility at Moscone Center to Open Over Social Distancing Concerns in Shelters The City of San Francisco is set to open a new shelter at the Moscone Center next week to help "create more space in [SF's] existing shelters and Navigation Centers," which will allow for proper social distancing in the midst of the ballooning coronavirus pandemic.
SF News Coyotes Are Wandering San Francisco's Vacant Streets While the City Shelters In Place As the idiom goes: "When the cat's away, the mice will play." Though, in this specific instance, it looks like we're the overbearing feline and SF's coyotes are the aloof vermin.
SF News SF Leases 300 Hotel Rooms to House COVID-19 Patients and 'Vulnerable Populations' On the heels of District 5 Supervisor Dean Preston putting $10K of his own money toward a private fund that will help house unsheltered San Franciscans at the Oasis Inn during the COVID-19 pandemic, the City of SF announced yesterday they’ve now secured leases for around 300 hotel rooms.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink These SF Bars Are Offering To-Go and Delivery Cocktails For those of us who once regularly visited San Francisco's many watering holes, we’ve been reeling during these shut-in times — as have those who work behind those bars. Fortunately, there’s a substantial chance your beloved dive is now selling cocktails for pick-up or delivery, NoLa-style.
SF News Oakland Man Allegedly Steals $780 of Energy Drinks, Claims He Has Coronavirus to Evade Security In a caper that could only happen at a Walmart, San Leandro police thwart a Monster heist of energy drinks where the accused scared off security by saying he was a coronavirus carrier.
Arts & Entertainment Sonoma Residents Sing Along to 'Sweet Caroline' Nightly; Mill Valley Howls As our shut-in lives settle into routines, the Bay Area has been responding in its own spirited ways — though not yet in quite as inspired ways as Italians and their balcony choral sessions.
SF Politics Texas Man Arrested For Making Death Threats Against Nancy Pelosi and Other Democrats on Facebook A 27-year-old man in Wichita Falls, Texas was taken into custody Wednesday after making multiple criminal threats on his Facebook page in response to the coronavirus stimulus package negotiations.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Che Fico Steps Up To Connect Wealthy San Franciscans With Those In Need of Free Meals Other restaurateurs around the country, facing a bleak outlook potentially lasting months and threatening their businesses, could take a page out of the playbook of chef David Nayfeld.
SF News COVID-19 Case Numbers Jump In San Francisco and Alameda Counties, Young People Disproportionately Infected We don't have demographic information, like ages, on the 223 confirmed COVID-19 in San Francisco, but a surge in cases appears to be happening here and in Alameda County where up until the last few days the daily counts were only modestly rising.
SF News Muni to Shut Down All Train Service Next Week, Operate Buses Only Due to the significant drop in ridership and reported weekly losses of $1 million, the SFMTA announced late Wednesday that Muni Metro train service will shut down indefinitely on March 30, with bus shuttles replacing those train routes.
Arts & Entertainment Video: San Francisco Man Sends Pal a Roll of Toilet Paper Via Drone Tech savvy and drone-loving San Franciscans were bound to resort to this contact-less delivery method, and one friend decided to help another out when there was no TP to be found.
SF News 54 Out of 207 People Tested Positive for COVID-19 In Hayward Drop-In Site's First Day About one in four of the people who were screened and tested for the coronavirus at the new drop-in testing center in Hayward on Monday had positive test results — a total of 54 cases in the center's first day of operation.
SF News Laguna Honda Hospital Locked Down After Five Staff Members Test Positive For COVID-19 Laguna Honda Hospital, the city-owned facility that is a permanent home to hundreds of elderly patients, is placing two units under quarantine and locking down the entire facility for residents as of 5 p.m. Wednesday in order to contain a possible coronavirus outbreak.
SF News Supervisor Preston Secures Private Funds for Hotel to House Homeless Dean Preston puts up $10,000 of his own money into a private fund that will keep at least 30 unsheltered people put up safely to ride out the COVID-19 pandemic at the Oasis Inn.
SF News Rogue Promoter Tries Throwing Underground Party In Design District, Gets Shut Down By City Attorney Don't get any ideas about throwing speakeasy-style parties during San Francisco's shelter-in-place order, party people! San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera is making an example of one such party scheduled for Friday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Food Critic Notes Poor Reviews of Quarantine Food at Travis Air Force Base San Francisco Chronicle restaurant critic Soleil Ho is bound to be getting bored at work during this unfolding public health crisis, and so she's likely to keep being creative with the columns like this week's.
SF News Low-Income Seniors at Mission SRO Go Hungry After Food Pantry Stops Delivering Dozens of senior citizens who live at the Altamont Hotel at 3048 16th Street have reportedly resorted to begging on the street or scrounging for food after a food pantry that had delivered to them weekly stopped doing so for safety reasons several weeks ago.
Arts & Entertainment This Year's Easter Sunday Hunky Jesus Contest To Be Held Online Assuming we will all still be primarily indoors and isolated come Easter — Donald Trump be damned — the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence has announced that the beloved annual tradition of the Hunky Jesus and Foxy Mary contests will be moving online, like most other live events these days.
Arts & Entertainment Haunting Drone Footage Shows the Ghost Town Of San Francisco on Sunday One week in to a shelter-in-place order and a growing global pandemic, San Francisco was its beautiful self on Sunday — just nearly devoid of people. Check out this gorgeous but chilling drone footage shot all over town.
Business & Tech Airbnb Hosts Furious That People Can Cancel Stays for Free During COVID-19 Outbreak The home-sharing service Airbnb is allowing guests to cancel for free over the “extenuating circumstances” of coronavirus travel restrictions, but house-hoarding hosts are huffy about it.
