Don’t get too excited, residents of Menlo Park. Did you read the email from the City tonight? Our Menlo Park overlords know what is best for us, regardless of what the County and State say.

Based on what science will Menlo Park ignore the County and State SIP rules and retain stricter guidelines? I can’t wait to see. Perhaps we should share our science with the County and State so others can benefit from our wisdom.

Don’t forget that The City of Menlo Park’s decisions are made by people who are fortunate enough to be able to work from home during this challenging time. Not everyone is so lucky.

Don’t forget that our hospitals are empty. Empty to such a degree that it is shameful, given the price we’ve had to pay to achieve this “success”.

we would have been much better off with a plan that gave us a full hospital, sick doctors, and plenty of dead. Would have been much better to wait until the epidemic was like New York and the Mayor could look strong giving a daily briefing about the dead, and we could all still be locked down for much longer.. Nincompoops.

And yet they have been allowing construction at the Stanford job site? What's that all about? Special treatment?

The rules were stupid. You can do construction on public works projects and low income projects but no others. Either you can do construction safely or you can't. If you can't there should be NO construction going on of any kind. If you can in some cases then you can in ALL and all construction should be allowed.

The allowance of some construction was a POLITICAL decision and not one based in science. Total BS!

And it's total BS that MP continues to keep SOME construction stopped. STOP THE POLITICS!

> we would have been much better off with a plan that gave us a full hospital, sick doctors, and plenty of dead.

The lack of a sarcasm font here makes your point difficult - a number of whiners were reading your post and nodding as they went, before (if) they realized your view of math and science.

All y'all that choose a 'partial' economy with a 2nd shutdown, over Public Health: what is 'your' acceptable death count? Okay if it's just seniors, too?

Those over 70 should be required to stay inside their homes and not leave, period. It’s unfair for the rest of us to have to keep doing this. We could step up as a community to help them with groceries and other essential needs. But you can’t keep us locked in forever. People around here are getting tired of it and it shows.

> People around here are getting tired of it and it shows.

Most evident with your previous sentence:

> But you can’t keep us locked in FOREVER.

Geez, friend, get a grip. It's not: waaah "it's unfair"

Once we have sufficient testing and tracing, and the testing shows the infection rate drops from each person infecting 2 to 3 others, we get it down to a rate below 1.1 or even below 1.

Open up before testing and tracing, and the likelihood of a 2nd wave and subsequent shutdown is high. Not worth the risk.

You did partially address the 2nd part of a key question: lock up seniors. You neglected the first part: a 'partial' economy with a 2nd shutdown, over Public Health: what is 'your' acceptable death count?