But to your point, San Mateo is not closing off 280 and 101 to stop S.F. traffic. And the Governor has issued a stay-at-home policy to the San Francisco Bay Area, not just one or two cities. So that's why I think area-wide policies work better than county-by-county policies. We could have San Diego area ban and policy, L.A./OC/San Bernardino, Santa Barbara/Ventura/San Louis Obispo... you get the picture.
It was not the _Governor_ who issued those orders in the bay area, it was the local county health officers acting under the authority granted them by the state legislature. This wasn’t some top-down fiat. I am grateful that my local officials have decided to act in solidarity in this instance, but it wasn’t a structurally certain outcome.
Yeah, that makes sense to me. (And presumably the Bay Area is going to keep moving in lockstep as it has been.) It'd just be silly if Tuolumne County had to stay sheltering in place because of conditions in the LA area or something.
