George, I appreciate your response to my emails. I would have hoped that the both the city of Torrance and the Torrance Unified School District would have appointed a key person to review these materials and make recommendations as to what Torrance could do to promote the maximum functioning of education, commerce, industry, government, health, recreation, etc. I hope that you are aware that the current restaurant closures of outdoor dining are based on an alluded to CDC study [ which ‘reported” that restaurants and bars accounted for 18% of the reported infections]. Reaction is that this “finding" is based on a correlation ….and that there has been no direct evidence of outdoor or even indoor infection. There has been no ability review the actual “study” but critics point out that the same individuals who are infected also had higher contact percentages with supermarkets, etc. Other problems are that the number of reported test positives is not the same thing as the number of active infections. Number of test reports does not equal number of patients. Also, Gov. Newsom’s complicated algorithms for counties requires of achieving equivalence for underserved economic communities, This has nothing to do with any medical considerations. You are probably already aware of the tremendous toll being taken both physically and psychologically on the general population. Increased alcoholism, increased child abuse, increased narcotics abuse, increase spousal abuse , increase in general violence, decrease in educational performance, non treatment or under treatment of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, etc. All of which will have greater long-term negative social and economic impacts than any potential increases in Covid-19 infections which receive prompt and appropriate medical care Play out the current scenario and ask yourself when and if Torrance will ever open up again. Also ask yourself had the accurate estimates of collateral damage been incorporated in the decision-making at the beginning, what would have been the optimal strategies to employ. England during the t he maximum Nazi assault on London determined to keep going as normal as possible. Israel during the maximum assault of the intifada developed a strategy of returning to normal as soon as possible. Thus, they kept their buses running. Also when a market or a restaurant was devastated by a bombing, they worked 24/7 to restore the premises and reopen for normal business as soon as possible. I believe that there are simple, inexpensive, procedures that would guarantee safety at a level much higher than that which is claimed for the current California and Los Angeles County lockdown mandates all the elements are present to fully reopen all schools, churches, synagogues mosques, offices, industrial activities, commercial activities, social and athletic activities, etc. I would like to propose what I believe would be a safe, effective and economical program which will give the the entire American population more assurance of health and safety than do the current pandemic lockdown mandates. What I have advocated for Torrance , and failed in my advocacy was a multilayered program to safely reopen Torrance by developing and then expanding a sterile bubble. This is a combination of currently available defenses, each not perfect, but in combination yielding a high protective barrier. Basically, what I have been recommending: a. All classrooms, offices, stores etc. be equipped with air scrubbers and other ventilation and air purification techniques to make the indoors circulation and air purity at least as robust as the outdoor circulation currently there is an abundance of available information on the use of fans, etc. to increase indoor air circulation. There is an increasing amount of information being released about systems utilizing ultraviolet, ozone, etc. to kill the airborne virus]. [ Also, all surfaces will be wiped down every day with a treatment that has already been approved by the US EPA (which is certified to kill the coronavirus for at least one week).] b.prophylactic use of hydroxychloroquine; c.Inexpensive, rapid, easy to read tests which could be self-administered to shoppers, students, religious worshipers, commercial and service workers, etc. who after five to 15 minutes would then be shown to be noninfectious and thus not subject to masking or social distancing requirements. d. Prompt and effective out-patient treatment to those who’re shown to infected [ rather than having them wait at home to see what happens to them in terms their developing significant symptoms [and the resulting medical complications and disabilities] ,which is the current standard medical practice. [Should any participant(s) present with any symptoms of the virus, then they, their family members and others in very close contact with them should be placed immediately in a treatment program. I would suggest that if the patient was on hydroxychloroquine as a prophylactic then he should be switched to Ivermectin as a therapeutic.] Benefits for the community a. Substantially reduces the likelihood of transmission of the virus; b. Provides protection for the most vulnerable [the aged, those with one or more existing medical conditions such as obesity, diabetes, heart problems, etc.]; c. Provides prophylactic protection for those who may become exposed to the virus ….and if already exposed to the virus, provides the early" fire extinguisher" type of protection against the increasing buildup of the patient's viral load. d. At a minimum the community will achieve substantially reduced infection rates probably similar to those Third World countries which routinely utilize hydroxychloroquine as an over-the-counter prophylactic against yellow fever. Data shows that Covid-19 infection rates in those countries has been far below that the infection rates of Europe, the United States, China etc. e If it works as well as it has reported in various peer-reviewed cited studies, then lockdowns, social distancing, masks, and other restrictions on community life will have been proved to be unnecessary and the community will be able to emerge from its current social and economic Covid-19 quagmirereturn and return to its robust pre-pandemic life. .