tomas aragon, to be on the line. >> clerk: mr. president, dr. aragon is on the line currently when you're ready. >> can you hear me? >> president yee: yes. so dr. aragon, are you ready? >> yes, i'm -- i'm ready. >> president yee: okay. thanks for joining us today to provide the board a briefing on the latest updated on the health emergency. before we get started, madam clerk, can you please take the roll and call the attendance of any staff so we understand who is present for this update? >> clerk: yes, mr. president. [roll call] >> clerk: mr. president, everyone is present. >> supervisor ronen: okay. i've got a question before we begin. >> president yee: let me finish this part first. so let's continue to use the roster so we are able to speak one at a time. please indicate if you would like to speak, and i will call on you. if there is no current speakers, i will turn it over to dr. aragon to share his briefing with us. supervisor ronen? >> supervisor ronen: yeah. i just find this all very odd. i didn't know about this part of our -- this adden

tomas aragon, to be on the line. >> clerk: mr. president, dr. aragon is on the line currently when you're ready. >> can you hear me? >> president yee: yes. so dr. aragon, are you ready? >> yes, i'm -- i'm ready. >> president yee: okay. thanks for joining us today to provide the board a briefing on the latest updated on the health emergency. before we get started, madam clerk, can you please take the roll and call the attendance of any staff so we understand who is present for this update? >> clerk: yes, mr. president. [roll call] >> clerk: mr. president, everyone is present. >> supervisor ronen: okay. i've got a question before we begin. >> president yee: let me finish this part first. so let's continue to use the roster so we are able to speak one at a time. please indicate if you would like to speak, and i will call on you. if there is no current speakers, i will turn it over to dr. aragon to share his briefing with us. supervisor ronen? >> supervisor ronen: yeah. i just find this all very odd. i didn't know about this part of our -- this adden

tomas aragon, to be on the line. >> clerk: mr. president, dr. aragon is on the line currently when you're ready. >> can you hear me? >> president yee: yes. so dr. aragon, are you ready? >> yes, i'm -- i'm ready. >> president yee: okay. thanks for joining us today to provide the board a briefing on the latest updated on the health emergency. before we get started, madam clerk, can you please take the roll and call the attendance of any staff so we understand who is present for this update? >> clerk: yes, mr. president. [roll call] >> clerk: mr. president, everyone is present. >> supervisor ronen: okay. i've got a question before we begin. >> president yee: let me finish this part first. so let's continue to use the roster so we are able to speak one at a time. please indicate if you would like to speak, and i will call on you. if there is no current speakers, i will turn it over to dr. aragon to share his briefing with us. supervisor ronen? >> supervisor ronen: yeah. i just find this all very odd. i didn't know about this part of our -- this adde

director tomas aragon presented information on the ongoing emergency. at the time, there is an opportunity to limit the spread of covid-19 to making changes on how we conduct business in our normal routines, in addition to doing so in the committee room. as president yee stated at the top of the meeting, the department is open for business, and we believe the decisions that we're making today will perhaps save some lives in the future. and to that end, although we are encouraging vulnerable populations to stay home and access the board's information remotely, we are changing some of our processes here at the board. [please stand by] >> you all have no include about what is happening at the san that have to be accommodated at the san francisco general hospital, we don't have sufficient beds. we have about 80 beds. so you all talk about this and you talk about that, but i can see that you all cannot zero in on how to tackle the problem. so in other words, you talk the talk but you cannot walk the walk. >> get the virus off our shoulders. bring the cures t

the fact that it is being heard before your little chitchat with tomas aragon is very inappropriate. for asthmatics and those are copd, this poses heavy breathing risk. long use can also cause individuals to touch their faces frequently, and as with homemade masks, some materials are conducive for growing germs. in a city with a living history of the aids epidemic, that's what this mask's psychological war fare is. how do you explain the c-130 transport plane over city hall last week? the only reason to make such a flight is a sci-op. it is only a period of time before someone shoots san francisco women of color for showing their face. what's going on is not even a heavy flu season. supervisor fewer said today, not one overflow i.c.u. bed has been put in service. >> clerk: thank you, sir, for your comments. >> you have three questions remaining. >> my name is francisco decosta, and while the previous speaker spoke, while you may not agree with what he said, a lot of what he says is empirical data. i've been watching you all over the place, and come four or five months, we're going to

and then, later in that meeting, our chief medical officer, tomas aragon said that that was not the safest population, and what we should be is getting individual hotel rooms so the unhoused population can do what we're all doing, which is shelter in place and keep our community safe. the five of us, supervisors walton, haney, preston, peskin, and i, quickly got together, and for a good month, negotiated behind the scenes. we made very few public statements. we were pushing almost daily, trent rhorer, the mayor herself, dr. grant colfax, we were on the phone daily, saying this makes no sense. people are going to die unless we get people in hotels. during that period of time, supervisors peskin -- i'm sorry -- preston and haney, while advocating for the large community, by themselves, raised money, and fitted out shelters during that time. during that time, the mayor and her cronies created moscone center medical west. behind the scenes, we begged them please don't do that. behind the scenes, we were speaking with medical experts trying to get them to not do that. what broke the camel's bac

and then, later in that meeting, our chief medical officer, tomas aragon said that that was not the safest population, and what we should be is getting individual hotel rooms so the unhoused population can do what we're all doing, which is shelter in place and keep our community safe. the five of us, supervisors walton, haney, preston, peskin, and i, quickly got together, and for a good month, negotiated behind the scenes. we made very few public statements. we were pushing almost daily, trent rhorer, the mayor herself, dr. grant colfax, we were on the phone daily, saying this makes no sense. people are going to die unless we get people in hotels. during that period of time, supervisors peskin -- i'm sorry -- preston and haney, while advocating for the large community, by themselves, raised money, and fitted out shelters during that time. during that time, the mayor and her cronies created moscone center medical west. behind the scenes, we begged them please don't do that. behind the scenes, we were speaking with medical experts trying to get them to not do that. what broke the camel's bac