The question is: how many of those workers are truly "front line?" There are lots of managers and mid-level staff who are probably doing make-work right now to justify collecting a salary, while actual front-liners like Muni drivers and utility workers are exposed (when they're actually working chez Muni) to all the nastiness out there. One might wonder whether some of those on-butts workers like Muni (who are being paid to do nothing while the bus and rail lines are shut down) might be reclassified to utility workers to get some of the water/sewer/power systems in better shape? Or even just pick up garbage (that the homeless strew around)?

Salaried people *can* be furloughed. It's normal in a recession. There's probably only 4 days a week of work to do anyway, for a lot of them. When I worked for the state, we were furloughed twice; in one case, we were required to take a day off every week or 2 (forget the details); in the other, we had to work 5/40 anyway, while accruing time off to be used like extra vacation. So why isn't SF doing something like that to reduce at least the current cash flow?

Yeah, I know, Not Invented Here, and We're Special.