[Snorlax94]

The timing is obvious.

The fear of course is that Thanksgiving get-togethers will lead to a brobdingnagian spike in cases, and it will, so you start a 2 week shelter in place 13 days before Thanksgiving, so people will have time to plan accordingly, and, they hope, not plan any Thanksgiving gatherings.

Then, miraculously, the plan is to lift the SIP just in time for Black Friday, to try to contain Covid as much as possible now while retaining as much commerce as possible in December. It’s not an unreasonable attempt. Without a SiP now, the cases would grow wildly up to Black Friday, and the peak could arrive right when retail and food eatablishments are most desperate to stay in business.

I hope they can get their cases down enough, but I worry they will not.

[Snorlax94]

The timing is obvious.

The fear of course is that Thanksgiving get-togethers will lead to a brobdingnagian spike in cases, and it will, so you start a 2 week shelter in place 13 days before Thanksgiving, so people will have time to plan accordingly, and, they hope, not plan any Thanksgiving gatherings.

Then, miraculously, the plan is to lift the SIP just in time for Black Friday, to try to contain Covid as much as possible now while retaining as much commerce as possible in December. It’s not an unreasonable attempt. Without a SiP now, the cases would grow wildly up to Black Friday, and the peak could arrive right when retail and food eatablishments are most desperate to stay in business.

I hope they can get their cases down enough, but I worry they will not.