Sacramento sets the rules, now they own the outcome

Has shuttering businesses and crushing livelihoods worked to control the virus? Obviously not.

If businesses aren’t spreading the virus, what is? Dr. Ghaly, the head of the California’s Health and Human Service Agency, responded to where people are getting the virus; his answer is, “everywhere.”

Clearly, the state was missing the mark. Focusing on business sectors provides a false sense of security and is a cause, not a solution, to the spread. Many of the closed and prohibited activities are still taking place, hidden from public view, without the proper safety protocols.

The closures and man...