(Originally published on December 10, 2020)
“In San Francisco, March 8, 2020 was the kind of early spring day that made people want to flock to the parks, linger with friends, consume piles of food foraged from local shops, and wait in line at Bi-Rite for ice cream cones they could consume at just the right pace because the temperature was that breezy, balmy shade of in-between that marks early-summer days.
It was a full nine days before the city — and 12 days before the state — would begin a shelter-in-place mandate. There was an inkling in the air that coronavirus was going to impact us, but the idea of not leaving our homes for weeks on end wasn’t a thing, nor were we collectively aware of the massive health and economic disruptions to come…. <read more>”