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With community spread, public health departments must now shift their efforts to community mitigation measures that will slow the spread of COVID-19 in the community, protect those who are most vulnerable to severe illness, and allow the health care system to prepare resources to take care of severely ill patients. Like a handful of other counties in California, Placer and Yolo counties will now enter this new phase.

This is a critical moment in the growing outbreak of COVID-19 in the region, and decisive action is needed to slow the spread of the disease. Public health officials have weighed the potential benefits to the community’s health against the disruptive effects that these recommendations could have. These decisions were not made lightly, and recommendations are based on the best information we have at this time.

The following recommendations are effective immediately, will extend through March 31, 2020 and could be extended as we continually evaluate the COVID-19 outbreak.

https://yubanet.com/regional/placer-yolo-county-health-officers-recommend-covid-19-mitigation/

Half measures.

Here is what flattening the curve looks like in a state:

--Quarantining the state--no travel in or out of state. This means you have no out of state cases to worry about any more.

--Set up quarantine areas for folks who test positive and health care workers.

--Set up full blown new health care facilities within quarantine areas.

--Set up internal quarantines around hot spots (mostly your big cities, nobody in or out).

--Test all health care workers, military/police, other key officials at least once a week.

--Messaging--just stop talking about "do this, do that" on a voluntary basis. It is distracting, sends the wrong message about the situation, and is basically irrelevant to the big picture.

"We have a historic crisis here, and I am taking unprecedented action to protect the lives of our citizens and the integrity of our health care system. We will all work together to get through this _together_. If you want to vote me out of office when the next election is here, you are free to do so. In the meantime I am taking the actions I believe are essential for the well-being of our state."

Deliver the message behind a glass door wearing a bio-suit.

Then, that state will flatten its curve. If other states turn into dumpster fires, you are protected.

“Exposed Persons: With the shift from containment to mitigation, it is no longer necessary for someone who has been in contact with a person who has COVID-19 to quarantine for 14 days. This applies to the general public, as well as health care workers and first responders.”

This new Yuba/Placer policy highlighted in your link meshes with Sacramento’s policy here:

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3823193/posts?page=9#9

I would rather have assurances that the EMTs that are going to come take me to the hospital, the nurses in the ER that are going to attend me and the doctors that are going to fix me, are virus-free.

The rest of the country is self and mandatory quarantining, setting up containment zones, having proved to work with the airlifts, stopping planes and trains, but hey, it’s California - who needs quarantines? Calif has 11K quarantines - did they open the doors and let em loose? Grandma is locked in her home, a future ‘mitigation statistic’, Grandpa can’t open his shop employing 100 people so there’s no jobs to go to, but the yoots in NorCal can keep partying like it’s 1999.

Color me furious.