# Am I missing something here? (re: reopening of bars, etc... now) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [October 6, 2020, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-missing-something-here-re-reopening-of-bars-etc-now/922356 "2020-10-06T17:27:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 925
**Author:** ![SayTwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@SayTwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SayTwo)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-missing-something-here-re-reopening-of-bars-etc-now/922356/925 "2020-12-21T07:28:27Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > **In recent weeks, new daily cases have fallen in half from the peak. Other similar measures elsewhere in Europe also seem to be successful, Rutherford said.** > “This is good news,” he said, “and it again suggests that these kinds of measures are met with fairly rapid success, like within a couple of weeks.” There are many other things the decrease in cases could suggest as well. And some that make a whole lot more sense, too, like opening one’s eyes to the very clear patterns of peaks and declines over the course of four to eight weeks that appear…well, pretty much everywhere. > [@GIGObuster](#): > > “A curfew will help prevent more people [from gathering] in the late hours of the night, where more high-risk activity may occur,” said Dr. Grant Colfax, director of public health in San Francisco. And this continues to be the most anti-science theory that continues to get trotted out there – and by a doctor, not a teetotaling politician! It’s just ridiculous. There’s not a town with a Costco that isn’t having more of its citizens frequent shopping centers during the day than bars at midnight. There is no evidence to back his point of view. But, we’re in an anti-evidence sort of year, so who really cares? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-missing-something-here-re-reopening-of-bars-etc-now/922356)._