What this shows is that the government in San Francisco pays attention to events and adjusts its regulations as needed. What an awful example of how the government should work. They, like so many other areas, felt that the risk/benefit analysis in normal conditions justified banning plastic bags due to the well establish danger to the environment.
When the risk/benefit changed to now perhaps those reused bags being a Covid risk they altered the policy. In this situation the plastic bags were safer at least in the short term.
Scoff all you like, but I see this as how government should work. Agile and concerned both with human life and with the world. Imagine actually using science to influence policy.
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