I’ve repeated this often over the last few months: We have lost sight of the goal. I think it’s reasonable for everyone to take a step back and ask, “How did we end up here?” How did we go from we need to flatten the curve for the month of April to “we are going to shut your business down in September and October if you decide to stay open?”

In California, the goalposts continue to move. In the beginning, the goal was to make sure we had enough hospital beds, make sure we had enough personal protective equipment, and make sure we didn’t have to choose between who could live and who couldn’t. Thankfully, because of the people of San Diego and the great work from our local public health officials, we never had any of those problems.