Hello Readers:
“Let us assume that riding ferris wheels is fun,” Joe writes. Add in the San Francisco Parks Alliance and you have a lot more than fun.
In other news:
- The tracker’s R number is not looking as good as we would like
- Cielo writes and draws about what loneliness is like in high school and how she managed to overcome it.
Stay safe and enjoy the weather,
— Lydia
Stories
Cielo’s Story #2: Fighting Loneliness
A cage, an open door and taking flight.
Covid Tracker: 34,781 cases, 451 deaths
New case numbers, hospitalizations and positivity rates remain relatively flat in the San Francisco although a new jump in the estimated rate of transmission (R Number) may be a cause for concern.
Ceci n’est pas une ferris wheel — in which San Francisco is distracted by a literal shiny object
Regardless of what you might think about the $18-a-pop price tag for a private business operating on public land, or its gas-burning generator, or the aesthetic desires of bewhiskered white men who’ve been dead for the better part of a century, there are good reasons to view this ferris wheel as something more than a bit of whimsy in a whimsy-starved city.
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