Mayor Nirenberg on the Coronavirus: ‘This Wildfire Is Now Outside of the Fence’

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NIRENBERG: "We’re continuing to look at potential other alterations, but the truth of the matter is this has gotten — this wildfire is now outside of the fence. It is a lot easier to prevent one than it is to start to contain one that is already outside. But that's where we are, and we have to deal with that. And one of the things we're doing now is, again, amplifying the message and ensuring that people take that message into their homes. The challenge is this is going from household to household, outside of the regulatory arm of any government. If people continue to have dinner parties with people who aren't a part of their household, this will continue to grow and grow and grow. So the most focused effort that we can do together is to take politics out of it, everybody get on the same page, and realize our best tool to fight the pandemic is the same one we had at the beginning, which is public trust, particularly in our medical experts who are giving us the right messages."