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I continue to check my little dashboard of San Francisco COVID-19 numbers each morning to figure out if standing inside a sandwich shop is an acceptable risk trade-off for sandwich acquisition or a foolhardy endeavor. For several weeks, all the numbers I tracked were below the pretty-safe level; but lately a couple of the numbers have, sadly, risen a little above the pretty-safe level. Overall things don't look bad; but they're no longer unanimously rosy.
graph plotting three numbers. New cases in San Francisco is still pretty low, albeit rising. Test positivity % is wiggling above and below the pretty-safe line. Wastewater COVID levels recently went a little over the pretty-safe line

These numbers aren't high enough to chase me out of the sandwich shop. I dunno whether this is just a little blip that will subside or if we're in the foothills of the next surge. (You might think that the Test Positivity % number looks solidly unsafe, unblip-like; but that's just how I draw the graph. San Francisco releases testing data with a seven-day delay. Since I don't have data for the last seven days, I just draw a flat horizontal for those days. As of today, I don't whether that Test Positivity % had a little blip a week ago and fell, has stayed about the same, or has skyrocketed.) But when I went grocery shopping in person, I thought "Mayyyybe the next time I want groceries, I won't want to shop in person," and I picked up a container of that brand of hummus I like that I can't get from the store that delivers.

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