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Thanks for sharing the link. But how do you enforce stay-at-home policies or any rigorous public health policies, in populated counties that border each other,

Thanks for sharing the link. But how do you enforce stay-at-home policies or any rigorous public health policies, in populated counties that border each other, such as San Francisco and San Mateo counties, or LA and Orang counties.

SpicyLemonZest 6y ago
The county health officials would presumably coordinate with each other, as San Francisco and San Mateo are already doing.
- adelHBN 6y ago
  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.
  - SpicyLemonZest 6y ago
    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.
  - cmrx64 6y ago
    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.
jshevek 6y ago
I think you are asking specifically about the enforcement issues that derive from neighboring populated counties with different policies? Neighboring counties can and should coordinate to address this, possibly choosing to enforce the same policies even if they have different infection rates, as they did for the initial lockdown in the bay area. This doesn't prevent us from using a county-by-county approach in other areas.

SpicyLemonZest 6y ago

The county health officials would presumably coordinate with each other, as San Francisco and San Mateo are already doing.

adelHBN 6y ago
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.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y ago
  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.
- cmrx64 6y ago
  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.

jshevek 6y ago

I think you are asking specifically about the enforcement issues that derive from neighboring populated counties with different policies? Neighboring counties can and should coordinate to address this, possibly choosing to enforce the same policies even if they have different infection rates, as they did for the initial lockdown in the bay area. This doesn't prevent us from using a county-by-county approach in other areas.