Perhaps the most helpful communication is a summary of events to now, an update, and preview of coming events (articles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7).
Summary: The California “lockdown” to “flatten the curve and keep hospitals running” has lasted over 6 months, despite statutory limit for emergency powers due to “beyond control” hospitals lasting only 60 days and hospitals being in full control of patient numbers at all times.
As a NorCal public school teacher, I inquired to our district’s leadership and teachers’ union how their negotiated policy to “obey” county “health” “orders” is legal given the above reasonable limits to dictatorial authority.
Three emails were met with silence, then a fourth promising legal action was met with silence. I filed three legal complaints: federal, state, and a grievance for district violation of worker safety to support apparent dictatorial and illegal policy under direct threat of $1,000 fines and imprisonment.
I am a native San Franciscan; having said that, and having moved out of the state some 30 years ago, I can say honestly, that the state of California's legislature and governorship, has collectively, lost its mind.