Coronavirus curfew starts at 10 p.m. Saturday. Will you notice a difference?
The state-mandated nightly curfew looming for most of the Bay Area on Saturday prompted shrugs, groans of despair and cries for help Friday. With most of the Bay Area’s businesses, including restaurants and bars, already shut down by 10 p.m. during the pandemic, most don’t expect much of an impact. And few folks are decrying the loss of nightlife, which has largely been in hibernation since March. “It won’t affect me,” said Alisha Ponce, 27, a medical assistant who works at UC Berkeley student health service and lives in Antioch. “I’ll just go home and do nothing after work — as usual.” The 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew starts Saturday night in every Bay Area county but San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo, which so far are exempt. San Francisco officials, however, said Friday they expect they will have to join the curfew within days. The curfew, for counties that fall into the purple tier, the state’s most-restrictive category for counties during the coronavirus , is expected to last a...