Actually the call in CA is based on MATHEMATICS, not political whim.
Todays OC Register explains. A portion posted here. Otherwise you may need to subscribe.
At his weekly virtual news briefing, California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly displayed a slide showing that for each region the state used data including the weekly average of virus cases, transmission rate, hospitalizations, occupied ICU beds and other metrics to determine future ICU capacity.
The calc ulations boiled down to “what I’m just going to call a simple math formula,” Ghaly said.https://ocregister-ca.newsmemory.com?selDate=20210127&goTo=A011&artid=0