HOW BADLY IS GAVIN NEWSOM’S PERMA-SHUTDOWN GOING? WILLIE BROWN IS SAVAGING HIM IN THE CHRONICLE: This can’t go on. California has to figure a way out. “When people were asked to shelter in place, they did so in amazing numbers and with no plan. But nobody envisioned the shelter-in-place would last this long.”

UPDATE: When Willie Brown and Mary Katharine Ham are on the same side:

ANOTHER UPDATE: From the comments: “Brown was probably the ‘best’ politician of his generation (at least in CA), and he appears to be giving the OK for rats to leave the sinking Newsom ship. I wonder if Newsom is smart enough to get the hint. Probably not.”