I feel like California probably locked down "harder" and "longer" than Texas, too? Or maybe that's just my perception based on... nothing?
Tough to say, really. I think we locked down earlier. I think the Bay Area has remained a lot more locked down than a lot of places.
But as I posted here over these many months, we had things like people swarming the beaches followed by people angrily protesting in Huntington Beach due to beach closures. We had restaurants here in Orange County choosing to open in complete violation of the guidelines and daring the county to do anything about it (which they wouldn't, because Orange County hates Newsome). I can say that there were people performing services (like hair, nails, etc) under the radar in their homes which wasn't allowed. And our County Health Director resigned after getting protesters
at her house and a death threat for mandating masks.
I don't really trust that people took the lockdown seriously after a few weeks. And as I mentioned about going to our wine bar during their soft reopen 2 1/2 weeks ago vs going last Friday, things like mask usage just seemed to disappear. Literally I felt like everyone was looking at me like *I* was the asshole for daring to wear a mask.
So... Yeah. That's your perception, and it's valid based on what Californians were
supposed to be doing. It just doesn't really describe what they were
actually doing.