A bar in San Francisco called "Pittsburgh's Pub" exploited the closed-off streets of quarantine by transforming into an outdoor beer garden. Circle "six feet" stickers rained the sidewalk. The masked bouncer milled the crowd pointing at the ground reminding couples and friend pods to keep to their cliques. Patrons lifted masks to sip pints and, semi-inebriated, conscientiously re-covered their faces. Epidemiologist Larry Brilliant called last Thursday for the federal government to pay all bars and pubs to stay closed. These are super-spreader environments, he contends. Enclosed spaces. And after a pint or two patrons talk louder to each other, spraying droplets into a concentrating air block of viral load. Wired: Maybe we should have done that months ago. Isn’t it too late for that? Larry Brilliant: It's less effective, obviously, when you have 3 million cases and 130,000 deaths in the US than when you had 15. But it’s never too late to stop a virus fr
