West Portal, San Francisco (photo credit: Jesse Sutterley Bay News Now)

Making Sense of Coronavirus

By Joel P. Engardio

As we brace for the full effect of the coronavirus pandemic in San Francisco, we must make sure we act more like Taiwan and not Italy to ensure we get through this ordeal.

A writer for the Italian newspaper Il Foglio lamented “it took weeks after the virus first appeared here to realize that severe measures were absolutely necessary.” Now Italy is in lockdown, but only…