Just getting some air on Albion Street. Photo by Lydia Chávez
If you have photos from your neighborhood that illustrate what it feels/looks like with the shelter in place policy – whether it is the Mission District or elsewhere – send them to info@missionlocal.com and we will post in photo essays. Please let us know the neighborhood, the location and the date of the photo. If possible, we could use them at 850 pixels across by 600 to 550 pixels tall. And if the photos you shoot remind you of any poem or piece of music, let us know and we will add a link. Thank you.
There were lots of boarded-up restaurants today — so many that we did a separate story. Readers sent in photos as well and we’ve added them here. I also saw scenes that seemed so normal, and while I don’t often read poetry, the scenes kept reminding me of poems — and so I linked to a few.
Social Distancing #1 in Dolores Park Thursday afternoon. Photo by Mark Rabine.Viola Buitoni, our wonderful food writer, sent this in, applauding the mayor for the gesture as many Italians living here are feeling only grief as they watch what is happening in Italy. This gesture from Mayor London Breed happened “on a day where the news out of Italy was particularly grim with videos of a seemingly unending caravan of army trucks taking the coffins out of Bergamo, the hardest hit city in the whole country. Today at noon, Italians swapped the daily collective applause for healthcare workers with a moment of silence and they will do the same tonight at 6 p.m.”
Road work continued on Mission Street today. Photo by Lydia Chávez.Mission Local has started a new text service for Spanish speakers.Free meals at Cesar Chavez Elementary School. Photo by Andrea Valencia.Social Distancing #2 Dolores Park, Thursday afternoon. Photo by Mark Rabine.
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San Francisco streets still filled with entitled hipsters and millennials jogging and dragging children amongst the skateboarders and groups of tour de France bicyclists racing around like it’s a summer Sunday vacation. No face masks or any preventative measures, just watched a mother in front of Starbucks letting her two children lick the windows and play with their spit. 5X the normal pedestrian traffic no one cares. These are the narcissistic super spreaders who refuse to follow any shelter in place rules. No wonder the cases of the virus doubled overnight in San Francisco.
What city are you living in? Everyone from Anthony Fauci on down has said there is nothing wrong with people walking, or jogging. They want people to keep their distance and no groups. People on the street, with no symptoms, SHOULD NOT be wearing masks. 5X the normal pedestrian traffic???? Have you ever, ever walked the Mission streets during the day? The last thing we need is the spread of any kind of sick social hate polluting an already over-polluted environment.
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San Francisco streets still filled with entitled hipsters and millennials jogging and dragging children amongst the skateboarders and groups of tour de France bicyclists racing around like it’s a summer Sunday vacation. No face masks or any preventative measures, just watched a mother in front of Starbucks letting her two children lick the windows and play with their spit. 5X the normal pedestrian traffic no one cares. These are the narcissistic super spreaders who refuse to follow any shelter in place rules. No wonder the cases of the virus doubled overnight in San Francisco.
What city are you living in? Everyone from Anthony Fauci on down has said there is nothing wrong with people walking, or jogging. They want people to keep their distance and no groups. People on the street, with no symptoms, SHOULD NOT be wearing masks. 5X the normal pedestrian traffic???? Have you ever, ever walked the Mission streets during the day? The last thing we need is the spread of any kind of sick social hate polluting an already over-polluted environment.
D’ouh the boarded up windows are Junior’s Bar