I continue to check my little dashboard of San Francisco COVID numbers each morning to figure out whether heading into a cafe for professional-barista-prepared coffee is a lovely indulgence or an embarrassing risk.
The numbers still look safe-ish to me; I'm still swapping air indoors with people. But you might recall the last time I shared my dashboard it was to serenely say that all its numbers were in the "safe" zone; PCR-test-observers and sewage-observers could all agree that things were looking good. Lately, San Francisco's sewage-observers have seen numbers above the "safe" line.
![chart plotting three San Francisco COVID stats over the past couple of months: new cases reported, test positivity %, and COVID in wastewater. The wastewater line is a little above the 'pretty safe' level. The test positivity % has been rising lately but hasn't yet gone above pretty-safe (but it's getting close). The new cases line has been rising lately](https://lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us/importable/2024/miniplague-05-30.jpg)
So… I'm going out for coffee now. And I'm checking on my home inventory of coffee supplies, in case my attitude changes in the coming weeks.