How many restaurants are there in San Francisco? What has been the historic shutdown rate in SF and in other cities? What are the chances that 400 would be a typical number of shutdowns but there is a “need” by the press to hype it, much as in the Dilbert cartoon when Dogbert in in HR and he gets the boss outraged by telling him that 40% of the sick leave days are taken on Monday or Friday.
Have you seen what many parts of San Francisco look like today? Have you seen all of the homeless tents parked in front of businesses? Nobody wants to walk past that in order to enter a business and DO business:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0z5wn3S00Y
I like dilbert joke. Will have to remember to whip that out on the next “climate statistician” I run into.
“How many restaurants are there in San Francisco? What has been the historic shutdown rate in SF and in other cities?”
Excellent questions. Perspective is required in every news story that you read.