As a native CA (native San Diego) I have watched as our state has slowly worked to reduce/remove individual, legal residents rights. CA has always been left of center in the political world but over the last number of years it has been swinging hard to the left. When I say "controlling the people", it means that the more you make people dependent on state/local services to survive, the more likely you are going to continue to vote and keep them in power. Power is what a political party wants. If your are receiving state assistance for whatever your need is, are you likely going to vote out the people who are giving that to you? Not likely. My guess is CA has more social programs then any other state and it all comes at the cost to the working class tax payers.
Yes I fully know this is a real virus, a real pandemic. People will get sick (and hopefully recover) but there will be ones who do not. Like Dave said, this is not likely going away. There may be better control of spread but that genie is out of the bottle. What I don't understand is how the state/local governments can dictate specific closures of business types but allow others that are likely higher risk. What needs to be done is to set a very specific requirements for business, to meet the most prudent safety measures that could be placed, not just close them. Let's use Jayrat's scenario. Hair stylist have some very stringent schooling and licensing requirements. Sterilization and sanitation are a large part of that. Do you think Walmart, Home Depot, Target have this type of training and requirements? No they likely don't yet are allowed to stay open. If the state/local authorities were to put requirements in place like adding plexiglass wall/dividers between workstations and limiting how many and how close they are together, requiring both stylist and customer to wear a mask, requiring a very solid cleaning between clients (which I am sure they already do), making sure ventilation and filtering been setup, wouldn't this likely make these places safer than walking into your local big box store which likely is doing a minimum of cleaning and additional safeguards?
Why not create a very specific set of requirements for businesses (based on the type of business) and allow people to work? If a individual business is not following these requirements or an outbreak is tied to this specific business, you close THAT business and not a blanket statement to just close all of that type, which is what is happening now. Let the customer decide the risk/benefit ratio. I have gone to some businesses because I feel that business has taken the appropriate steps to ensure we are as safe as possible but I have also not gone to businesses because the likely risk was higher than I felt the benefit was. Whenever I hear a blanket statement made, I immediately know that statement is full of crap. The minutes you say ALL, you have lost my support with the idea.
All that said, it circles back to control of the people. If they are not working, not bringing in an income, see the possible loss of everything they have worked for, they will accept the state/local government "assistance" that they now need because of rules put into place BY the state/local governments. More often they are happy they are receiving this assistance that they forget why they needed it in the first place. That is how a party gets power and power equals control.