It is a bald faced lie.
Cases are not rising.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/california/
Look at the graphs. The second one in particular.
Whoever is saying cases are rising in Cakifornia is lying, making it up.
All propaganda all the time.
The graph you linked to actually shows the rise is larger than the article describes. The 7 day average bottomed out at 920 cases/day on June 15 and has risen to 1165/day, a 26.6% increase. The huge scale of the graph just hides such a tiny numerical change because of the magnitude of the winter case surge. We are still DOWN 97% from the late December peak. Down Ninety Seven Percent.
A more accurate indicator, Hospital and and ICU admissions are up similarly in the same period, but again, numerically, the numbers are very small. If a state went from 4 cases to 5 cases, headlines would scream OMG, a 25% increase!
https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/ca.open.data/viz/COVID-19HospitalsDashboard/Hospitals
Still, these numbers are tiny in a state of 40,000,000 people, and a 25% increase over 2 weeks tells me that this wave will be shallow, nothing like the last one. And so far, I see no evidence that any of these mutations are worse than the original. More contagious, maybe, but fewer people are dying every day. We’ve reopened almost everything and have virtually zero capacity or social distancing rules, so a small increase was expected by everyone with more than a few brain cells.
The media are doing the same with Israel, warning of the “surge” in new cases. Up from 10/day to 234, over 2,000%! Yet no one has died in over 3 weeks... Delta shmelta.