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Originally Posted by craigs
With my own eyes I saw most businesses in the Castro, the Mission, North Beach, Union Square, Civic Center, the Financial District, etc. board up in late March. It was shocking and disturbing.
But you did not see that with your own eyes:
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I saw with my own eyes a week after the riot the broken glass the boards were covering and that didn't happen until June. If the boards had been there before the riot, the glass likely wouldn't have been broken.
Again, a high percentage of the businesses to which you refer were not "essential" and were closed which was probably why they boarded up. But do you know for a fact that businesses that remained open because they were "essential" boarded up their glass? It's hard to imagine why they would as long as they were open until that glass was put at risk by the riot.
I'll add this: I found entering stores that were open but boarded up after the riot to be depressing, like going into dark caves where normally sunlight streamed through the glass windows. It almost felt post-apocalyptic. Again, I can't imagine a proprietor creating this atmosphere if business was proceeding normally and without any threat.