I don't see the point of any lockdown as long as Trump is president. It's not like California can shut down entry into the state from other states, so no matter what they do the is going to creep back the second the lockdown is lifted, same as it's spreading south to north in the eastern half of the nation. As long as Trump is president lockdowns are worthless. All they'll do is pause . Now if Biden was president I'd be all for a pretty strict national lockdown for ~8 weeks to stomp the infection to low levels since I think Biden would actually have a strategy for keeping R_0 < 1 after lifting the lockdown through aggressive testing and contact tracing. Trump's lockdown was just the worst cluster : killing off economic activity with an insufficent safety net and not having any kind of post-lockdown plan.