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Wilbanks, Megan
From:Allan Cooper <
To:E-mail Council Website; Johnson, Derek
Subject:Item Not On The Agenda - Business Reopenings
Would you kindly forward this to the City Council? Could you also enter it into
the City's correspondence file for the May 5, 2020 City Council Meeting?
Thanks!
To: San Luis Obispo City Council, Derek Johnson
Re: May 5, 2020 Item Not On The Agenda: Business Reopenings
From: Allan Cooper, San Luis Obispo
Date: May 3, 2020
Honorable Mayor and Council Members -
According to the May 3, 2020 edition of the SLO Tribune no specific dates are
listed for when schools and businesses will reopen. After increased testing is
completed retail shops, fitness centers and restaurants will be able to open in
the the first phase. But they must meet criteria to reduce risk of community
spread. These are all high turnover businesses and this is completely
backwards.
Wouldn’t it be much safer to open up low turnover, in-person clerical services
and non-food related wholesale businesses first as these businesses can be
conducted through social distancing and PPE?
But think of this. You’re in a restaurant and you’re eating your food. How is
this done wearing a mask? You’re in a fitness center and there is significant
exhaled breath condensate. You’re waiting outside on a narrow city sidewalk
to get into a retail store. How is the necessary social distancing going to be
enforced? These business types should not open in the first phase but rather
in the second phase after we have a therapeutic vaccine widely available.
Thank you!
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