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During the holidays, Kim noticed more people buying plants as gifts.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9181-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9181-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9181-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9181-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9181-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9181-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9181-1832x1374.jpeg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9181-1376x1032.jpeg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9181-1044x783.jpeg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9181-632x474.jpeg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9181-536x402.jpeg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yuri Kim’s store is one of the few small businesses surviving during the pandemic. During the holidays, Kim noticed more people buying plants as gifts. \u003ccite>(Adhiti Bandlamudi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the first few months of the pandemic, Kim was selling less than what she was last year. But as the year wore on, sales slowly started to pick up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As you spend more time home and you’re less able to go outside, you want to make your space comfortable and beautiful,” Kim said. “Even the suppliers we purchase our plants from say their business has been better now than pre-pandemic because the interest in plants has grown so much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sudden demand for succulents and pothos plants is no surprise to Rob Shibata, the owner of\u003ca href=\"http://www.mteden.com/\"> Mt. Eden Floral Company\u003c/a>, one of the largest floral wholesalers in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The millennials have shown a lot of interest in green plants,” Shibata said. “They’re apartment dwellers. They don’t have a lot of space, but they want to have something alive and meaningful to keep them company.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11853187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11853187\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Fractal Flora sells a collection of house plants and fresh flowers. While the plant industry has seen an uptick in sales, the flower industry is slowly struggling by as it's reliant on large events that are restricted during the pandemic.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fractal Flora sells a collection of house plants and fresh flowers. While the plant industry has seen an uptick in sales, the flower industry is slowly struggling by since it’s reliant on large events that are restricted during the pandemic. \u003ccite>(Adhiti Bandlamudi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That said, even though Mt. Eden Floral Company has benefited some from the boom in plant sales, the 114-year-old company specializes in flowers. Shibata makes most of his money on orders for weddings, banquets and other large events that won’t be permitted for the foreseeable future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have enough business to subsist,” Shibata said. “But we’re missing that event part to make us whole.”[aside postID=\"news_11852317,arts_13885663,science_1967293\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shibata is waiting on Valentine’s Day and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11816925/bay-area-florists-wilting-under-shelter-in-place-restrictions\">Mother’s Day\u003c/a>, two of the biggest days of the year for the flower industry, to bring a bump to sales. In the meantime, he’s hoping people continue to buy flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I kind of had this imaginary conversation with my dad,” Shibata said. His late father ran the company before he died in 2015. “And I heard him say, ‘Well, [the pandemic] is not like the problem we had.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shibata’s father ran the company during the 1940s and World War II. In 1942, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, more than 120,000 Japanese Americans, including Shibata’s father, were sent to concentration camps in California and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He [would say], ‘When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and the government came and we were forced to leave our business behind with one week’s notice and leave our homes behind with one week’s notice … that was a problem,’ ” Shibata said. “As terrible as it is for us, it wasn’t like … what they went through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given that, Shibata says he’s determined to get Mt. Eden Floral Company to its 115th year of service.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sudden demand for succulents and pothos plants is no surprise to Rob Shibata, the owner of\u003ca href=\"http://www.mteden.com/\"> Mt. Eden Floral Company\u003c/a>, one of the largest floral wholesalers in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The millennials have shown a lot of interest in green plants,” Shibata said. “They’re apartment dwellers. They don’t have a lot of space, but they want to have something alive and meaningful to keep them company.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11853187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11853187\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Fractal Flora sells a collection of house plants and fresh flowers. While the plant industry has seen an uptick in sales, the flower industry is slowly struggling by as it's reliant on large events that are restricted during the pandemic.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fractal Flora sells a collection of house plants and fresh flowers. While the plant industry has seen an uptick in sales, the flower industry is slowly struggling by since it’s reliant on large events that are restricted during the pandemic. \u003ccite>(Adhiti Bandlamudi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That said, even though Mt. Eden Floral Company has benefited some from the boom in plant sales, the 114-year-old company specializes in flowers. Shibata makes most of his money on orders for weddings, banquets and other large events that won’t be permitted for the foreseeable future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have enough business to subsist,” Shibata said. “But we’re missing that event part to make us whole.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>At the start of the pandemic, stores quickly sold out of disinfectant sprays and wipes. People were advised to wipe down their packages and the cans they bought at the grocery store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But scientists have \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/12/26/946901965/for-scientists-who-study-virus-transmission-2020-was-a-watershed-year\">learned a lot this year\u003c/a> about the coronavirus and how it's transmitted, and it turns out all that scrubbing and disinfecting might not be necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a person infected with the coronavirus sneezes, coughs or talks loudly, droplets containing particles of the virus can travel through the air and eventually land on nearby surfaces. But the risk of \u003ca href=\"https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30561-2/fulltext\">getting infected from touching a surface contaminated by the virus is low\u003c/a>, says \u003ca href=\"https://njms-web.njms.rutgers.edu/profile/myProfile.php?mbmid=egoldman\">Emanuel Goldman\u003c/a>, a microbiologist at Rutgers University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In hospitals, surfaces have been tested near COVID-19 patients, and no infectious virus can be identified,\" Goldman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's found is \u003ca href=\"https://www.medicinenet.com/rna_virus/definition.htm\">viral RNA\u003c/a>, which is like \"the corpse of the virus,\" he says. That's what's left over after the virus dies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They don't find infectious virus, and that's because the virus is very fragile in the environment — it decays very quickly,\" Goldman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in January and February, scientists and public health officials thought surface contamination was a problem. 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"content": "\u003cp>When the UC Berkeley campus shuts down for the winter break, student Abdoul Aziz Sandotin Coulibaly usually returns home to spend the holidays with his family in the western Ivory Coast city of Man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We follow the traditional way,” Coulibaly said to KQED about his family holiday traditions in Africa. “Just getting some chicken, and then cook and eat together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 23-year-old graduate student studying for a Ph.D. in structural engineering is stuck in Berkeley because of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been hell,” Coulibaly said. “I never really thought I would have to go through something like that. And especially alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Abdoul Aziz Sandotin Coulibaly']‘It has been hell … I never really thought I would have to go through something like that. And especially alone.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With cases of the coronavirus increasing around the globe and a no-travel advisory in full force across the Bay Area, many people are making the difficult choice to spend the holidays without family and friends. But for international students like Coulibaly, who infrequently see their families throughout the school year due to distance and cost of travel, it’s an especially bittersweet time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coulibaly ultimately made the decision to stay in the Bay Area due to the complicated travel guidance both here and at home, and because of concern about the spread of the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Life at UC Berkeley has never been easy. Coulibaly has been at the school for a while. But while he made many friends as an undergrad, they’ve mostly all graduated and moved on, while he stayed behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So starting the grad program, I really felt isolated,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the pandemic has only made those feelings of isolation worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While being an international student in the U.S. can be difficult overall, the situation is particularly acute for African students at Berkeley. There are \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/student-stats2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">only around 60 students from Africa\u003c/a> at the school right now — about 1% of the international student population — and half of those are undergraduates. With such a small population, it can be hard to connect with people who have shared life experiences, especially during a pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-800x509.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-800x509.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-1020x649.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-1536x977.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut.jpg 1642w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley 2020 international student enrollment by country \u003ccite>(Courtesy Berkeley International Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Coulibaly said it’s been tough to fit in with Berkeley’s Black and African American student groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even with the people that look like you, you don’t really understand the struggle that they have been through being in this country,” Coulibaly said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Coulibaly has a generous scholarship, he’s had to work side jobs on campus to send extra cash back home to his family in the Ivory Coast, though this type of work is currently on hold while the school is closed for winter break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also been navigating issues of racism and discrimination on campus, like the time he overheard a couple of students say they would never date a Black guy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never experienced that before coming to the United States,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coulibaly said he’s reached out to his campus counselor and psychiatrist for help. But he wishes he could get more emotional support from his family. He said there’s a lot of stigma surrounding mental health issues in his home country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way mental health is taken back home, just like ‘you will be fine’ or ‘it’s going to pass’ and stuff like this. So I had a lot of breakdowns,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, Coulibaly said, he’s just focused on getting through the holiday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m listening to African music from home and cooking. That’s all I can do,” he said. “And I’m hoping that this situation gets better and be at least able to go home next winter break.” [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Remote Learning, Thousands of Miles Away\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Unlike Coulibaly, many of the international students that chose to enroll this year haven’t even set foot on campus because of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly \u003ca href=\"https://opa.berkeley.edu/campus-data/uc-berkeley-quick-facts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one-sixth\u003c/a> of UC Berkeley’s student population comes from outside the U.S. And \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/students/current/expenses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">they pay\u003c/a> more than twice as much in tuition fees and living expenses as their \u003ca href=\"https://admissions.berkeley.edu/cost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in-state counterparts\u003c/a>. International student enrollment was at an all-time high during the last academic year, at nearly 7,000 students. But \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/student-stats2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the numbers plunged\u003c/a> for the fall 2020 semester, down to less than 6,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And getting a remote education has come with a whole different set of challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852657\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut.jpg 1708w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley international student enrollment over the years \u003ccite>(Courtesy Berkeley International Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s just been a roller coaster, basically,” said Idris Muktar Ibrahim, a journalism student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibrahim said he’d prefer to be on campus. But since UC Berkeley classes have been happening online during the pandemic, it made more sense for him to stay in Nairobi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t been to Berkeley. I was really excited, like, when I got the news that I’ve been accepted,” he said. “It’s my dream. I really want to do a graduate program, because of the networking and, of course, enhance my skills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But going to school remotely means dealing with the 11-hour time difference between his home in Nairobi and the U.S. west coast. 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It really frustrates me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this after working a full shift at his day job, producing video news stories for the German international broadcaster \u003ca href=\"https://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/s-9097\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deutsche Welle \u003c/a>— like \u003ca href=\"https://www.dw.com/en/the-gaping-hole-left-by-ethiopian-airlines-flight-et-302/av-52707218\">this one\u003c/a> commemorating the anniversary of an Ethiopian Airlines flight crash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As if things weren’t already hard, Ibrahim came down with COVID-19 at the start of the fall semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought I was dying, to be honest with you,” Ibrahim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, he’s made a full recovery, and decided to quit his day job so he can focus full time on his studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a sacrifice,” he said — one of many he has to make this holiday season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hopes to make it to the UC Berkeley campus sometime next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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But \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/student-stats2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the numbers plunged\u003c/a> for the fall 2020 semester, down to less than 6,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And getting a remote education has come with a whole different set of challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852657\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut.jpg 1708w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley international student enrollment over the years \u003ccite>(Courtesy Berkeley International Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s just been a roller coaster, basically,” said Idris Muktar Ibrahim, a journalism student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibrahim said he’d prefer to be on campus. But since UC Berkeley classes have been happening online during the pandemic, it made more sense for him to stay in Nairobi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t been to Berkeley. I was really excited, like, when I got the news that I’ve been accepted,” he said. “It’s my dream. I really want to do a graduate program, because of the networking and, of course, enhance my skills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But going to school remotely means dealing with the 11-hour time difference between his home in Nairobi and the U.S. west coast. 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Now that these companies have moved to a remote-work model, Knies is unsure of when people will return to downtown San Jose and patronize the local businesses.[aside postID=\"news_11838638,news_11851735,news_11847591\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had started to see the light at the end of the tunnel and now that tunnel has been shifted back on us yet again,” Knies said. “And there are some businesses that aren’t going to make it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next round of federal aid provided by the \u003ca href=\"https://rules.house.gov/sites/democrats.rules.house.gov/files/BILLS-116HR133SA-RCP-116-68.pdf\">$900 billion stimulus package\u003c/a> Congress approved in December, which includes $285 billion for additional Paycheck Protection Program loans for small businesses, is too little coming too late, Knies said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.yelpeconomicaverage.com/business-closures-update-sep-2020.html\">Yelp survey\u003c/a> found that San Francisco and San Jose were among the metro areas with the highest permanent closure rates for businesses. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Public Health separately tallied 2,003,146 cases, a one-day bump of 39,070 infections but down from the one-day peak of nearly 54,000 cases at mid-month. The state’s death toll climbed by 351, also down from the record high set last week. Another 427 people were hospitalized, raising the total to 18,875. The 3,962 in intensive care units was a record high, as is the number of those hospitalized\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s infection rate — in terms of the number of cases per 100,000 people — is lower than the U.S. average. But its nearly 40 million residents mean the outbreak outpaces other states in sheer numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grim milestone comes as the COVID-19 crisis strains the state’s medical system well beyond its normal capacity, prompting hospitals to put emergency room patients in tents and treat others in offices and auditoriums, while filling many of its intensive care units to overflowing.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Telemetry nurses in California normally take care of four patients at once. But after the state relaxed California’s unique nurse-to-patient ratios in mid-December, Nerissa Black has to keep track of six.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And those six patients are really sick: They all need constant electronic monitoring and many of them are being treated simultaneously for a stroke and COVID-19, or a heart attack and COVID-19. Black says she’s worried she’ll miss something or make a mistake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are given 50% more patients and we’re expected to do 50% more things with the same amount of time,” says Black, who has worked at the Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Valencia, California for the last seven years. “I go home and I feel like I could have done more. I don’t feel like I’m giving the care to my patients like a human being deserves.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Nerissa Black, telemetry nurse\"]‘We are given 50% more patients and we’re expected to do 50% more things with the same amount of time’[/pullquote]As COVID-19 patients continue to flood California emergency rooms, hospitals are increasingly desperate to find enough staff to care for all of them. Now the state is asking nurses to take care of more patients at once than they normally would, watering down their union’s most sacrosanct job protection: a nurse-to-patient ratio law that exists only in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to temporarily — very short-term, temporarily — look a little bit differently in terms of our staffing needs,” said Gov. 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Medical-surgical nurses are looking after seven patients instead of five.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nurses have taken to the streets in protest, holding socially distant demonstrations across the state, shouting and carrying posters that read “Ratios Save Lives.” The union — the California Nurses Association — says the staffing shortage is a result of bad hospital management: It accuses hospitals of putting profits over preparing for a surge by laying off nurses over the summer, then not hiring or training enough for the winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems hospitals have been more reactive than proactive in their staffing,” Black said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But hospitals say this is an unprecedented pandemic that has spiraled beyond their control. Now, in the current surge, four times as many Californians are testing positive for the coronavirus as did during the summer peak. Up to 7,000 new coronavirus patients could soon be coming to California hospitals every day, according to Carmela Coyle, president and CEO of the California Hospital Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is catastrophic and we cannot dodge this math,” Coyle said. “We are simply out of nurses, out of doctors, out of respiratory therapists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852718\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_20201213_131326961.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11852718\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_20201213_131326961.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_20201213_131326961.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_20201213_131326961-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_20201213_131326961-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_20201213_131326961-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_20201213_131326961-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_20201213_131326961-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_20201213_131326961-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_20201213_131326961-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_20201213_131326961-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_20201213_131326961-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nerissa Black, a telemetry nurse at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Valencia, California on December 13, 2020. ‘As you can see,’ she said, ‘that’s a lot of PPE that we’re donning and doffing in between each patient. It takes time to remove them safely (so we don’t contaminate ourselves), and then put a new set for the next patient.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Nerissa Black)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The state has asked the federal government to send additional staff, including 200 medical personnel from the U.S. Department of Defense. It’s also tried to revive the California Health Corps, an initiative to recruit retired health workers to come back to work, but that has yielded few people with the qualifications needed to care for COVID-19 patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And hiring contract nurses from temporary staffing agencies or other states is all but impossible, Coyle says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because California surged early during the summer and other parts of the United States then surged afterwards,” she said, “those travel nurses are taken.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next step for hospitals is to try team nursing, Coyle says, which entails pulling nurses from other departments, like the operating room, for example, and partnering them with experienced critical care nurses to help care for COVID-19 patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joanne Spetz, an economics professor and expert in health care workforce issues at UCSF, says hospitals should have started training nurses for team care over the summer in anticipation of a winter surge, but they didn’t, either because of costs – hospitals lost a lot of revenue from canceled elective surgeries that could have paid for training – or because of excessive optimism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"icu-capacity\"]“California was doing so well,” she said. “It was easy for all of us to believe that we kind of got it under control, and I think there was a lot of belief that we would be able to maintain that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nurses union has reason to be defensive of the patient ratio law, Spetz says. It took 10 years before it was passed by the Legislature in 1999, then several more to get through multiple court challenges, including one from then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m always kicking their butt, that’s why they don’t like me\u003c/span>,” Schwarzenegger famously said of nurses, drawing broad ire from the union and its allies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nurses prevailed, in both the court of public opinion and the law, and the ratios took effect in 2004. But the long battle has made the union fiercely protective of its win. It’s even accused hospitals of “disaster capitalism;” using the pandemic to try to roll back ratios for good. Hospitals deny this and Spetz says it’s unlikely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public can see that nurses are overworked and burned out by the pandemic, she says, so there would be little support for cutting back their job protections once it’s over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To go in and say, ‘Oh, you clearly did so well without ratios when we let you waive them, so let’s just eliminate them entirely,’ I think would be just adding insult to moral injury to nurses,” Spetz said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Immigrant advocates say a growing outbreak of COVID-19 at the Yuba County Jail is putting the people held there at risk, including some who are medically vulnerable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Dec. 16,\u003ca href=\"https://sheriff.co.yuba.ca.us/Documents/Jail/20201216%20COVID19%20Cases%20at%20Yuba%20County%20Jail.pdf\"> Yuba County Jail officials\u003c/a> closed the facility to visits after they identified seven confirmed cases. Since then, according to attorneys, the number of people infected has increased to 78, which is more than 30% of the total jail population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the majority of people housed at the Yuba County Jail are in county custody, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees are held there as well. In April, the San Francisco Public Defender's office filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of ICE detainees at the Yuba jail and the Mesa Verde detention facility in Bakersfield, citing dangerous conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"immigration\" label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katie Kavanagh, a senior attorney for the San Francisco-based California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice, says she spoke with two detainees who have tested positive for COVID-19. Kavanagh says they described \"disgusting conditions,\" including \"trash, gum, fingernails and excrement,\" and reported using a bathroom shared by those with and without COVID-19 that is \"not cleaned between uses.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the summer, ICE detainees inside the facility \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11835611/ice-detainees-at-yuba-jail-press-for-covid-19-protections\">went on a hunger strike\u003c/a> for five days to draw attention to the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, who's presiding over the case, ruled that lawyers could apply for the release of ICE detainees on a case-by-case basis. He also ordered in June that ICE and the jail take precautions such as keeping detainees out of the older, more crowded side of the jail and isolating COVID-19 symptomatic people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But immigrant advocates say those protections have begun to erode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We saw detainees starting to be moved back into the old side of the jail, and later on [housed] two to a cell,\" said Kelly Engel Wells, a San Francisco deputy public defender. \"We received reports of symptomatic individuals who were not being isolated and tested as the protocol required. And that just set up the perfect storm for the first positive case that happened about two weeks ago.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Kelly Engel Wells, SF deputy public defender']'We received reports of symptomatic individuals who were not being isolated and tested as the protocol required. And that just set up the perfect storm for the first positive case that happened about two weeks ago.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanagh estimates the jail currently houses around 20 ICE detainees out of the total 235 people held there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One is her client Ruperto Robles, 59, who's been detained in the facility since November 2019. Originally from Mexico, he has lived in the United States with a green card for 30 years, Kavanagh said, but was transferred to ICE for deportation after some contact with law enforcement. Robles contracted COVID-19 at Yuba, and is \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precautions/people-with-medical-conditions.html\">considered medically vulnerable\u003c/a> due to a history of diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and obesity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was considered so high risk in terms of COVID that he has been held in isolation for most of the pandemic, which has been really harmful to his mental health,\" Kavanagh said. \"And despite claiming that they were isolating him to protect him, he was moved within the jail to four different locations within the past two weeks, including into locations where people were later testing positive for COVID and removed out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11852766 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_0038-e1608774224969.jpg\" alt='\"\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1377\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_0038-e1608774224969.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_0038-e1608774224969-800x574.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_0038-e1608774224969-1020x732.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_0038-e1608774224969-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_0038-e1608774224969-1536x1102.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruperto Robles, pictured here in an old family photo. Robles is asking to be released from ICE custody while he recovers from COVID-19. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Katie Kavanagh)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Speaking through an interpreter, Robles told KQED he had been feeling healthy until he was transferred around the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanagh also said she and Robles received conflicting information about whether or not he had COVID-19, something that only came to light as part of the class-action lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Two days ago, at night, they told class counsel that Ruperto was positive for COVID. In the morning, they said, 'Never mind, he's not positive.' And then two hours later, on the status conference, they said, 'oops, never mind. He is positive,'\" she said. \"So what we're seeing is just a very high level of incompetence and disregard for human life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanagh has filed a request for Robles to be released to a hotel room where he can recover from the virus and isolate while his case is decided by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. An immigrant rights group, NorCal Resist, has committed to pay for the hotel room and provide Robles with post-release support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robles said he would feel safer in a hotel room, and his health would more likely improve if he was removed from the jail outbreak. 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The plaintiffs plan to argue for mandatory 6-feet distancing between workers on production lines, which is not required under the court's Wednesday order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proietti said that while he believed the last thing Foster Farms wants is for the company’s employees to get sick, he was concerned for the health and safety of workers at the plant.[aside postID=\"news_11851959,news_11850332,news_11835677,news_11833224\" label=\"Outbreaks at Foster Farms\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the court’s ruling is “not imposing upon Foster Farms anything in addition to what it’s already agreed to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge referenced direction on COVID-19 safety in meat and poultry plants from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) and California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster Farms’ attorney argued the Merced County Department of Public Health and state and federal agencies are the primary authority on workplace safety issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is, your honor, they’re asking you to kind of insert yourself into this process,” said Christian Rowley, Foster Farms’ attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is going to open a huge can of worms for the court in terms of determining what is going to happen with regard to operation of the plant. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>This time, many hospitals are postponing procedures that are not emergencies, said Jan Emerson-Shea, a spokeswoman for the California Hospital Association. California also has opened alternative care facilities for people with less serious illnesses to save hospital beds for the sickest patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That also means hospitals have fewer nurses to deploy to ICUs from other units, UCSF’s Coffman said. And many health workers became infected or have had to quarantine because they were exposed to someone with COVID-19 during the surge, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another factor is the dip in the number of nurses 60 and older. In a survey of the state’s 320,000 registered nurses, many older nurses told researchers at UCSF’s Healthforce Center that they stopped working out of concern for their or their family’s health, said Joanne Spetz, the center’s associate director of research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, more than 17,000 people were hospitalized with confirmed COVID-19 infections — more than double the previous peak reached in July — and a state model that uses current data to forecast future trends shows the number could reach nearly 100,000 by January. More than 3,600 COVID-19 patients were in intensive care units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghaly said entire areas of California may run out of room even in surge capacity units “by the end of the month and early in January.” The state is trying to avoid that by opening makeshift hospitals in places like gymnasiums, tents and a vacant NBA arena, and sending patients to parts of the state with empty beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This past spring, Newsom sought to reinforce fatigued medical workers by creating a paid volunteer network, but with cases skyrocketing now, just 28 members are working at 13 facilities despite pleas for more retired medical professionals to sign up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is updating its planning guide for how hospitals would ration care if necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A document recently circulated among doctors at the four hospitals run by Los Angeles County calls for them to shift strategy: Instead of trying everything to save a life, their goal during the crisis is to save as many patients as possible. Those less likely to survive would not get the same kind of care offered in normal times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Houze, the ICU nurse, said her online community of nurses is offering webinars about moral distress because many of them have had to change the way they care for patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The patients that aren’t yet intubated, and even the ones intubated, aren’t getting the kind of nursing care that I want to give them because our resources are so limited and time is taxed,” she said. “It’s really disheartening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press reporter Don Thompson in Sacramento contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>From the coronavirus to wildfires to attacks on democracy, it has been, as they say, a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And let’s not forget the fight for racial justice, family separations and corruption in San Francisco government when we look at 2020 in the rearview mirror.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Needless to say, there has been no shortage of cartoon material over the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of my cartoons for this year were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849568/the-hunkering-down-continues\">created at home\u003c/a> …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849568/the-hunkering-down-continues\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11849578\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-800x509.png\" alt='A Mark Fiore cartoon featuring the \"Home Sweet Home\" classic needlepoint sign as \"Home Stay Home Again\" as new stay-at-home orders are issued by Gov. Newsom' width=\"800\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-800x509.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-1020x649.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-160x102.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-1536x977.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though it was a painfully difficult year, there have definitely been some silver linings, like cities \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11811883/less-traffic-more-elbow-room\">closing some streets to cars\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11811883/less-traffic-more-elbow-room\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11811888\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final-800x558.png\" alt=\"Silver Lining by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final-800x558.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final-160x112.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final-1020x711.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he is on the way out, the legacy of President Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11843177/ripple-effects-of-zero-tolerance\">continues to torment\u003c/a> children and families caught up in his cruel immigration policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11843177/ripple-effects-of-zero-tolerance\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11843181\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/missing_102120_final-800x524.png\" alt=\"Cartoon: Still Separated and Missing by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/missing_102120_final-800x524.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/missing_102120_final-1020x668.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/missing_102120_final-160x105.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/missing_102120_final-1536x1006.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/missing_102120_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The COVID-19 pandemic brought a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11848120/its-harder-than-it-looks\">whole new set\u003c/a> of problems to families around the Bay Area and the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11848120/its-harder-than-it-looks\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11848134\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-800x482.png\" alt=\"Cartoon: The Pandemic Parent by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-800x482.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-1020x614.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-160x96.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-1536x925.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While along the way, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s metaphors \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847958/full-speed-hunker-down\">continued to evolve\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847958/full-speed-hunker-down\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11847964\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/evolution_111820_final-800x508.png\" alt=\"Cartoon: The Evolution of a Metaphor Amid COVID-19 by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/evolution_111820_final-800x508.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/evolution_111820_final-1020x648.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/evolution_111820_final-160x102.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/evolution_111820_final-1536x975.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/evolution_111820_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another terrible year of wildfires in California brought more \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11842281/the-linguistic-forecast\">power shutoffs\u003c/a> from PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11842281/the-linguistic-forecast\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11842288\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/neglected_101420_final-800x503.png\" alt=\"Neglected Equipment Power Shutoff by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/neglected_101420_final-800x503.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/neglected_101420_final-1020x641.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/neglected_101420_final-160x101.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/neglected_101420_final-1536x965.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/neglected_101420_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the pea-soup skies of California gave way to … \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11838717/ready-set-weekend\">more COVID-19\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11838717/ready-set-weekend\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11838718 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-800x551.png\" alt=\"Weekend by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-800x551.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-1020x702.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-160x110.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-1536x1058.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California continued to rack up the number one spots, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837409/were-number-never-mind\">not how we’d like\u003c/a>.\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837409/were-number-never-mind\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11837416 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/numberone_091020_final-800x577.png\" alt=\"Tired of Number One by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/numberone_091020_final-800x577.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/numberone_091020_final-1020x736.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/numberone_091020_final-160x115.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/numberone_091020_final-1536x1108.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/numberone_091020_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing that helped me get through this year (particularly as I waded through the doom and gloom on a daily basis while creating cartoons) was to realize that, on the whole, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11835202/the-tallest-survivors\">we \u003cem>will\u003c/em> get through this\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11835202/the-tallest-survivors\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" 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href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833486/delivering-democracy\">unexpected places\u003c/a> this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833486/delivering-democracy\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11833493\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/mail_081420_final-800x587.png\" alt=\"Delivering Democracy by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/mail_081420_final-800x587.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/mail_081420_final-1020x748.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/mail_081420_final-160x117.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/mail_081420_final-1536x1126.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/mail_081420_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And tried to figure out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833701/red-flag-warning-and-then-some\">new ways to signal danger \u003c/a>…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833701/red-flag-warning-and-then-some\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11833707\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/redflags_081720_final-800x556.png\" alt=\"Red Flag Warning(s) by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/redflags_081720_final-800x556.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/redflags_081720_final-1020x709.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/redflags_081720_final-160x111.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/redflags_081720_final-1536x1067.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/redflags_081720_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… while others \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11828988/reading-riting-rithmatic-and-reopening\">didn’t seem worried a bit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11828988/reading-riting-rithmatic-and-reopening\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11828995\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/backtoschool_071420_final-800x538.png\" alt=\"Back to School by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/backtoschool_071420_final-800x538.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/backtoschool_071420_final-1020x686.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/backtoschool_071420_final-160x108.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/backtoschool_071420_final-1536x1034.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/backtoschool_071420_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid the calls for justice came a fresh look at our history that was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825638/one-final-discovery\">more truthful\u003c/a> than what many of us grew up with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825638/one-final-discovery\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11825646\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/columbus_062220_final-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"Christopher Columbus by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/columbus_062220_final-800x566.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/columbus_062220_final-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/columbus_062220_final-1020x722.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/columbus_062220_final.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11817126/yes-its-confusing\">patchwork of responses and restrictions\u003c/a>, we now know, is definitely not the most effective way to fight a pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11817126/yes-its-confusing\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11817138\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-800x627.png\" alt=\"Pandemic Patchwork by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-800x627.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-160x125.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-1020x800.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fighting the deadly coronavirus and systemic inequality simultaneously was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11822906/the-other-deadly-virus\">sometimes in conflict\u003c/a>, as people gathered to demonstrate for racial justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11822906/the-other-deadly-virus\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11822919\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final-800x559.png\" alt=\"Stay Home Leave Home by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final-800x559.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final-160x112.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final-1020x713.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And we have our very own rolling corruption scandal in San Francisco that began with charges being filed against the now-former head of San Francisco’s Public Works department \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11798634/nuru-might-need-to-change-his-twitter-handle\">Mohammed Nuru\u003c/a>, whose Twitter handle is \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MrCleanSF\">@MrCleanSF\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11798634/nuru-might-need-to-change-his-twitter-handle\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11798656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/mrclean_012820_final-800x525.jpg\" alt=\"Mr. Clean SF by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/mrclean_012820_final-800x525.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/mrclean_012820_final-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/mrclean_012820_final-1020x669.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/mrclean_012820_final.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And was a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11796289/optics-in-oakland\">tactical armored personnel carrier and robot\u003c/a> needed to evict the “Moms 4 Housing” women from the house they occupied in West Oakland?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11796289/optics-in-oakland\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11796314\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/bearcat_011520_final-800x512.jpg\" alt=\"BearCat by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/bearcat_011520_final-800x512.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/bearcat_011520_final-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/bearcat_011520_final-1020x652.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/bearcat_011520_final-1200x768.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/bearcat_011520_final.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s hoping 2021 is a little more safe and sane …\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>From the coronavirus to wildfires to attacks on democracy, it has been, as they say, a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And let’s not forget the fight for racial justice, family separations and corruption in San Francisco government when we look at 2020 in the rearview mirror.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Needless to say, there has been no shortage of cartoon material over the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of my cartoons for this year were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849568/the-hunkering-down-continues\">created at home\u003c/a> …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849568/the-hunkering-down-continues\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11849578\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-800x509.png\" alt='A Mark Fiore cartoon featuring the \"Home Sweet Home\" classic needlepoint sign as \"Home Stay Home Again\" as new stay-at-home orders are issued by Gov. Newsom' width=\"800\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-800x509.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-1020x649.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-160x102.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-1536x977.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though it was a painfully difficult year, there have definitely been some silver linings, like cities \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11811883/less-traffic-more-elbow-room\">closing some streets to cars\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11811883/less-traffic-more-elbow-room\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11811888\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final-800x558.png\" alt=\"Silver Lining by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final-800x558.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final-160x112.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final-1020x711.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he is on the way out, the legacy of President Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11843177/ripple-effects-of-zero-tolerance\">continues to torment\u003c/a> children and families caught up in his cruel immigration policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11843177/ripple-effects-of-zero-tolerance\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11843181\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/missing_102120_final-800x524.png\" alt=\"Cartoon: Still Separated and Missing by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/missing_102120_final-800x524.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/missing_102120_final-1020x668.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/missing_102120_final-160x105.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/missing_102120_final-1536x1006.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/missing_102120_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The COVID-19 pandemic brought a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11848120/its-harder-than-it-looks\">whole new set\u003c/a> of problems to families around the Bay Area and the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11848120/its-harder-than-it-looks\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11848134\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-800x482.png\" alt=\"Cartoon: The Pandemic Parent by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-800x482.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-1020x614.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-160x96.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-1536x925.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While along the way, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s metaphors \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847958/full-speed-hunker-down\">continued to evolve\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847958/full-speed-hunker-down\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11847964\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/evolution_111820_final-800x508.png\" alt=\"Cartoon: The Evolution of a Metaphor Amid COVID-19 by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/evolution_111820_final-800x508.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/evolution_111820_final-1020x648.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/evolution_111820_final-160x102.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/evolution_111820_final-1536x975.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/evolution_111820_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another terrible year of wildfires in California brought more \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11842281/the-linguistic-forecast\">power shutoffs\u003c/a> from PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11842281/the-linguistic-forecast\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11842288\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/neglected_101420_final-800x503.png\" alt=\"Neglected Equipment Power Shutoff by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/neglected_101420_final-800x503.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/neglected_101420_final-1020x641.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/neglected_101420_final-160x101.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/neglected_101420_final-1536x965.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/neglected_101420_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the pea-soup skies of California gave way to … \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11838717/ready-set-weekend\">more COVID-19\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11838717/ready-set-weekend\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11838718 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-800x551.png\" alt=\"Weekend by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-800x551.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-1020x702.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-160x110.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-1536x1058.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California continued to rack up the number one spots, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837409/were-number-never-mind\">not how we’d like\u003c/a>.\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837409/were-number-never-mind\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11837416 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/numberone_091020_final-800x577.png\" alt=\"Tired of Number One by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/numberone_091020_final-800x577.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/numberone_091020_final-1020x736.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/numberone_091020_final-160x115.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/numberone_091020_final-1536x1108.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/numberone_091020_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing that helped me get through this year (particularly as I waded through the doom and gloom on a daily basis while creating cartoons) was to realize that, on the whole, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11835202/the-tallest-survivors\">we \u003cem>will\u003c/em> get through this\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11835202/the-tallest-survivors\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11835214\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bigbasin_tall_082520_final-800x1662.png\" alt=\"Big Basin by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"1662\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bigbasin_tall_082520_final-800x1662.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bigbasin_tall_082520_final-1020x2119.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bigbasin_tall_082520_final-160x332.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bigbasin_tall_082520_final-739x1536.png 739w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bigbasin_tall_082520_final-986x2048.png 986w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bigbasin_tall_082520_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We found heroes in the most \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833486/delivering-democracy\">unexpected places\u003c/a> this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833486/delivering-democracy\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11833493\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/mail_081420_final-800x587.png\" alt=\"Delivering Democracy by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/mail_081420_final-800x587.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/mail_081420_final-1020x748.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/mail_081420_final-160x117.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/mail_081420_final-1536x1126.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/mail_081420_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And tried to figure out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833701/red-flag-warning-and-then-some\">new ways to signal danger \u003c/a>…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833701/red-flag-warning-and-then-some\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11833707\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/redflags_081720_final-800x556.png\" alt=\"Red Flag Warning(s) by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/redflags_081720_final-800x556.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/redflags_081720_final-1020x709.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/redflags_081720_final-160x111.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/redflags_081720_final-1536x1067.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/redflags_081720_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… while others \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11828988/reading-riting-rithmatic-and-reopening\">didn’t seem worried a bit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11828988/reading-riting-rithmatic-and-reopening\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11828995\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/backtoschool_071420_final-800x538.png\" alt=\"Back to School by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/backtoschool_071420_final-800x538.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/backtoschool_071420_final-1020x686.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/backtoschool_071420_final-160x108.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/backtoschool_071420_final-1536x1034.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/backtoschool_071420_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid the calls for justice came a fresh look at our history that was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825638/one-final-discovery\">more truthful\u003c/a> than what many of us grew up with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825638/one-final-discovery\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11825646\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/columbus_062220_final-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"Christopher Columbus by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/columbus_062220_final-800x566.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/columbus_062220_final-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/columbus_062220_final-1020x722.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/columbus_062220_final.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11817126/yes-its-confusing\">patchwork of responses and restrictions\u003c/a>, we now know, is definitely not the most effective way to fight a pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11817126/yes-its-confusing\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11817138\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-800x627.png\" alt=\"Pandemic Patchwork by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-800x627.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-160x125.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-1020x800.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fighting the deadly coronavirus and systemic inequality simultaneously was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11822906/the-other-deadly-virus\">sometimes in conflict\u003c/a>, as people gathered to demonstrate for racial justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11822906/the-other-deadly-virus\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11822919\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final-800x559.png\" alt=\"Stay Home Leave Home by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final-800x559.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final-160x112.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final-1020x713.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And we have our very own rolling corruption scandal in San Francisco that began with charges being filed against the now-former head of San Francisco’s Public Works department \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11798634/nuru-might-need-to-change-his-twitter-handle\">Mohammed Nuru\u003c/a>, whose Twitter handle is \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MrCleanSF\">@MrCleanSF\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11798634/nuru-might-need-to-change-his-twitter-handle\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11798656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/mrclean_012820_final-800x525.jpg\" alt=\"Mr. Clean SF by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/mrclean_012820_final-800x525.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/mrclean_012820_final-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/mrclean_012820_final-1020x669.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/mrclean_012820_final.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And was a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11796289/optics-in-oakland\">tactical armored personnel carrier and robot\u003c/a> needed to evict the “Moms 4 Housing” women from the house they occupied in West Oakland?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11796289/optics-in-oakland\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11796314\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/bearcat_011520_final-800x512.jpg\" alt=\"BearCat by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/bearcat_011520_final-800x512.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/bearcat_011520_final-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/bearcat_011520_final-1020x652.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/bearcat_011520_final-1200x768.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/bearcat_011520_final.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s hoping 2021 is a little more safe and sane …\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"disqusTitle": "Small Business Owners Struggle to Stay Open in an Empty Oakland Chinatown",
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"content": "\u003cp>Before the pandemic, dozens of shoppers streamed through 9th and Webster, a busy intersection in Oakland. But on a recent afternoon, Carl Chan marveled at the sight of nearly empty streets. Only two pedestrians lingered on a corner, waiting for the green light to cross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh my God, this is Chinatown?” said Chan, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandchinatownchamber.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restaurants in the neighborhood were some of the first hit by the pandemic, Chan said. As early as January, Bay Area residents with Asian roots were getting word of the deadly toll of COVID-19 in China and canceled large banquets booked months in advance. Instead of shopping and gathering to celebrate the Chinese New Year, many opted to stay home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So even before the shelter in place, we had quite a few businesses already closed,” Chan said, standing near shuttered shops and ‘For Rent’ signs. “The impact has been huge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11852247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46444_007_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut.jpg\" alt='\"\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46444_007_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46444_007_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46444_007_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46444_007_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46444_007_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carl Chan, president of Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, poses for a portrait in Oakland's Chinatown on Dec. 18, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While exact figures are hard to come by, Chan says he believes more than 30% of businesses in the neighborhood have closed their doors temporarily, or for good. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayeda.org/covid-business-impacts/\">East Bay Economic Development Alliance\u003c/a>, close to 900 businesses in Oakland discontinued operations in the first six months of shelter-in-place restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses in Chinatown have also had to contend with a drop in customers due to \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/05/12/covid-19-fueling-anti-asian-racism-and-xenophobia-worldwide\">anti-Asian sentiment\u003c/a> mistakenly connecting COVID-19 with all Asian people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so hurtful,” said Chan, who has frequented the neighborhood since moving to the U.S. from Hong Kong as a teenager, and often waves to acquaintances passing by on the street. “I'm seeing so many people not only losing the business they worked so hard to build, but also, I'm seeing so many people are losing their jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most of the pandemic, county public health orders have required Anna Bui to close Diva Nails, the nail salon she’s owned in Chinatown for 18 years. Still, she has been on the hook for $2,250 per month in commercial rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852253\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11852253\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46449_012_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46449_012_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46449_012_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46449_012_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46449_012_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46449_012_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diva Nails in Oakland on Dec. 18, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After April, Bui tried negotiating with the landlord to reduce her payments, but he he faced a mortgage bill of his own for the property, and threatened to sue her. “I’m very stressed, and often up all night worrying about what I’m going to do with my salon and my family,” said Bui, 46.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, in November, Bui’s landlord agreed to offer a discount on her burgeoning debt with him, but she still owes $11,000 in back rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other landlords in the neighborhood said they are working with tenants who are missing rent payments. At Pacific Renaissance Plaza, which includes 90,000 square feet of commercial space in the heart of Chinatown, several tenants have paid partial or no rent since April and May, according to Rick da Silva, principal with Loh Realty and Wellington Property, which owns and manages the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When this started, we actually told our tenants here and in other locations, ‘Pay what you can. We will work all of this out,' ” da Silva said. “We view our tenants as our partners. I mean, we would not want to push anybody out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852269\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11852269\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46447_010_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a mask takes a to-go order while standing outside a restaurant in Oakland's Chinatown\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46447_010_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46447_010_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46447_010_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46447_010_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46447_010_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">May Zhong, owner of Ying Kee Restaurant, takes a to-go order for local resident Caxton Fung in Oakland on Dec. 18, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But not all landlords are as understanding, and demand for help to renegotiate commercial lease terms has shot up, said Tobias Damm-Luhr with the San Francisco-based \u003ca href=\"https://lawyerscommittee.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights\u003c/a>. The organization provides free legal counseling to people of color and \u003ca href=\"https://lccrsf.org/legal-services-for-oakland-small-businesses/\">webinars on lease negotiation\u003c/a> in Vietnamese, Cantonese and other languages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The number one tip that we give people as part of these webinars is to remember that you have the upper hand as a small business tenant in these negotiations, because the market for commercial space right now is a renter's market,” Damm-Luhr said. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant business owners in particular may struggle with language issues to communicate effectively with their landlords and understand the contents of their lease agreements in English, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Oakland recently allocated \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/2020/city-lawyers-committee-for-civil-rights-of-the-sf-bay-area-to-provide-webinars-consultations-to-assist-oakland-small-businesses-with-lease-negotiations\">$150,000\u003c/a> to the civil rights nonprofit to help local businesses impacted by COVID-19 negotiate their leases, and try to avoid eviction or closure. 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The local chamber of commerce said the business may be closed permanently. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s current \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/resources/oaklands-moratorium-on-residential-and-commercial-evictions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">moratorium\u003c/a> on commercial and residential evictions ends on March 31. But after, the city’s business tenants will be responsible for all the back rent they owe. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Before the pandemic, dozens of shoppers streamed through 9th and Webster, a busy intersection in Oakland. But on a recent afternoon, Carl Chan marveled at the sight of nearly empty streets. Only two pedestrians lingered on a corner, waiting for the green light to cross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh my God, this is Chinatown?” said Chan, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandchinatownchamber.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restaurants in the neighborhood were some of the first hit by the pandemic, Chan said. As early as January, Bay Area residents with Asian roots were getting word of the deadly toll of COVID-19 in China and canceled large banquets booked months in advance. Instead of shopping and gathering to celebrate the Chinese New Year, many opted to stay home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So even before the shelter in place, we had quite a few businesses already closed,” Chan said, standing near shuttered shops and ‘For Rent’ signs. “The impact has been huge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11852247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46444_007_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut.jpg\" alt='\"\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46444_007_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46444_007_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46444_007_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46444_007_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46444_007_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carl Chan, president of Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, poses for a portrait in Oakland's Chinatown on Dec. 18, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While exact figures are hard to come by, Chan says he believes more than 30% of businesses in the neighborhood have closed their doors temporarily, or for good. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayeda.org/covid-business-impacts/\">East Bay Economic Development Alliance\u003c/a>, close to 900 businesses in Oakland discontinued operations in the first six months of shelter-in-place restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses in Chinatown have also had to contend with a drop in customers due to \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/05/12/covid-19-fueling-anti-asian-racism-and-xenophobia-worldwide\">anti-Asian sentiment\u003c/a> mistakenly connecting COVID-19 with all Asian people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so hurtful,” said Chan, who has frequented the neighborhood since moving to the U.S. from Hong Kong as a teenager, and often waves to acquaintances passing by on the street. “I'm seeing so many people not only losing the business they worked so hard to build, but also, I'm seeing so many people are losing their jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most of the pandemic, county public health orders have required Anna Bui to close Diva Nails, the nail salon she’s owned in Chinatown for 18 years. Still, she has been on the hook for $2,250 per month in commercial rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852253\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11852253\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46449_012_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46449_012_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46449_012_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46449_012_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46449_012_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46449_012_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diva Nails in Oakland on Dec. 18, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After April, Bui tried negotiating with the landlord to reduce her payments, but he he faced a mortgage bill of his own for the property, and threatened to sue her. “I’m very stressed, and often up all night worrying about what I’m going to do with my salon and my family,” said Bui, 46.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, in November, Bui’s landlord agreed to offer a discount on her burgeoning debt with him, but she still owes $11,000 in back rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other landlords in the neighborhood said they are working with tenants who are missing rent payments. At Pacific Renaissance Plaza, which includes 90,000 square feet of commercial space in the heart of Chinatown, several tenants have paid partial or no rent since April and May, according to Rick da Silva, principal with Loh Realty and Wellington Property, which owns and manages the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When this started, we actually told our tenants here and in other locations, ‘Pay what you can. We will work all of this out,' ” da Silva said. “We view our tenants as our partners. I mean, we would not want to push anybody out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852269\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11852269\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46447_010_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a mask takes a to-go order while standing outside a restaurant in Oakland's Chinatown\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46447_010_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46447_010_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46447_010_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46447_010_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46447_010_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_12182020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">May Zhong, owner of Ying Kee Restaurant, takes a to-go order for local resident Caxton Fung in Oakland on Dec. 18, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But not all landlords are as understanding, and demand for help to renegotiate commercial lease terms has shot up, said Tobias Damm-Luhr with the San Francisco-based \u003ca href=\"https://lawyerscommittee.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights\u003c/a>. The organization provides free legal counseling to people of color and \u003ca href=\"https://lccrsf.org/legal-services-for-oakland-small-businesses/\">webinars on lease negotiation\u003c/a> in Vietnamese, Cantonese and other languages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The number one tip that we give people as part of these webinars is to remember that you have the upper hand as a small business tenant in these negotiations, because the market for commercial space right now is a renter's market,” Damm-Luhr said. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant business owners in particular may struggle with language issues to communicate effectively with their landlords and understand the contents of their lease agreements in English, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Oakland recently allocated \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/2020/city-lawyers-committee-for-civil-rights-of-the-sf-bay-area-to-provide-webinars-consultations-to-assist-oakland-small-businesses-with-lease-negotiations\">$150,000\u003c/a> to the civil rights nonprofit to help local businesses impacted by COVID-19 negotiate their leases, and try to avoid eviction or closure. But local business tenants must sign up for the assistance before Dec. 21, Damm-Luhr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11851757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11851757\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46431_IMG_3075-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A jewelry store is shuttered in Oakland's Chinatown on Dec. 15, 2020. The local chamber of commerce said the business may be closed permanently. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s current \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/resources/oaklands-moratorium-on-residential-and-commercial-evictions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">moratorium\u003c/a> on commercial and residential evictions ends on March 31. But after, the city’s business tenants will be responsible for all the back rent they owe. Damm-Luhr worries that without substantial federal aid for small businesses, as well as more resources for legal assistance, there could be a huge wave of evictions in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Displacement of small business tenants has been an issue way before the pandemic even started,” he said, pointing to high rents. “But it was just exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in low-income communities and communities of color in the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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