covid

19 Mar 2021

Caltrain to Provide Free Rides to Vaccination Sites

Starting next week, Caltrain will offer free train rides to and from COVID-19 vaccination sites for people living or working in San Francisco, Santa Clara or San Mateo counties. The agency said that fare payment to vaccination sites will not be required until further notice, starting Monday, March 22. Passengers

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17 Mar 2021

You Can Now Watch the Covidversary Comedy Special on BAS

Oh wow! The Covidversary Comedy Special was fire! These seven comics brought the hilarity, and just judging by the comments in the chat during the show, people really needed to laugh. Weren’t able to make it? We got you covered. You can watch the whole thing below: Seeing as part

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07 Mar 2021

Goodwill Closes Eight Stores in the Bay Area Due to the Pandemic

Goodwill Industries of the Greater East Bay on Friday announced the closure of eight retail stores in Alameda, Contra Costa and Solano counties, and the layoffs of 61 employees, citing the economic consequences of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The locations closing are in Oakley, Dublin, Livermore, Durant Square in Oakland,

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03 Mar 2021

The Awful Ways Maskholes are Treating Servers

It’s been twelve long months that our country has been learning to live with Covid. On April 3, it will be exactly a year that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) first suggested that Americans wear facial coverings to help curtail the spread of the virus. Still, there

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02 Mar 2021

A Comedy Special Celebrating the 1 Year Anniversary of Quarantine

Celebrating the 1 Year Anniversary of Quarantine (aka we gotta laugh to keep from crying) This streamed comedy special is a fundraiser to support broke comedians and independent journalism. It’s a sliding scale event. $7, $17, $70…Pick the amount you can afford. The money is going to pay for the

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24 Feb 2021

Do Servers Even Want To Wait Tables Anymore?

Now more than ever, it’s not easy to make a living waiting tables. Covid restrictions have made sure that most restaurants aren’t even close to capacity and plenty of the customers who do go out to eat in restaurants are using the “times are hard” excuse to leave less than

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19 Feb 2021

Harm Reduction in the Time of Coronavirus

For Felanie Castro, it was like the world had just stopped. The first Shelter in Place order had just been announced, and she was stuck in her office at Glide Memorial Church with no marching orders and no messaging about safety precautions. But she worried for the unhoused communities she

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17 Feb 2021

5 Things Servers Won’t Be Annoyed By Anymore When They Go Back to Work

Tens of thousands of servers across the country haven’t had the joy of waiting tables for many months as restaurants continue to struggle during the pandemic. Once upon a time, the list of things that annoyed servers was longer than Santa’s naughty list, but things have changed. Waiters and waitresses,

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