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beach party bingo isn't nearly as much fun 6 feet apart

I think there's another aspect to it...

One of the exemptions here in CA on the statewide mask order refers to dine-in restaurants. 

• Persons who are seated at a restaurant or other establishment that offers food or beverage service, while they are eating or drinking, provided that they are able to maintain a distance of at least six feet away from persons who are not members of the same household or residence.

The idea isn't that if you and your friends all want to go out to brunch together, that you should do so and not wear masks. Restaurants/bars are not intended to be opened so that large parties of people not from the same household will congregate together and just happen to be 6' apart from other large parties of people not from the same household. 

This is one of the keys to a beach closure. Young people don't go to the beach alone, and they DEFINITELY don't go with their families--Ew!--they go with their friends. Their friends who live in different households. 

So maybe that group of 6 friends stay 6' away from another group of 6 friends, but again you're mixing households and by doing so drastically increasing the likelihood of spread.

Now, it's entirely possible--probable, even--that many of those groups of young people will still form and have July 4 BBQs at one of their houses instead of going to the beach.

So will it have much of a practical effect? Maybe not. But the issue isn't dad, mom, and their two toddlers going to the beach and staying away from other beachgoers, it's people who are NOT of the same household being close together on the beach, even if they stay apart from other beachgoing groups. 

Our governor cannot make his mouth say the words, "Wear a mask."

Daddy wouldn't like it.

We were just out for a walk, I think more people are wearing masks, even when they don't need to.

Here in PA nearly everyone is wearing a mask.  

I suppose if there's a bright side to getting hit hard, that's it.

The park was pretty sparsely populated for a Saturday.  There are a lot of groups doing exercises out and about, some pretty large (35 or so folks) but they aren't close together (generally).  We passed a gym advertising that it's open and quite a few folks were in the parking lot with gear, I could not see inside.

Speaking of gyms, I have a notion that is one place younger single folks go to meet other younger single folks, particularly if one is fairly fit.  I have not looked inside an indoor gym, but their normal configuration would be almost ideal for spreading a respiratory illness.

I think of a beach as a linear park, but I can see how they can become crowded on July 4.  I make it a point to avoid crowded beaches anyway.

So, potential areas for COVID spread over the past month could be:

1.  Protests
2.  Gyms
3.  Private larger parties
4.  Beaches and parks
5.  Random encounters
6.  Elevators, public transit, air travel, shopping malls (?)

I guess with item 5 that covers it.  I don't know if one is notably the worst, e.g., I'm not sure any single action would be all that effective at this point (beyond wearing a mask).

I belong to a Planet Fitness here in Florida. I go three out of four days and I can tell you the way they have it set up is actually quite well with respect to distancing.  Every other machine is closed down and you have a mandatory cleaning of each machine you use both before and after plus most people are wearing masks with the exception of people doing cardio but they are far far apart from each other

I didn't mention salons,  barbers, nail polishers, etc.  Should have.

Everyone's masked up at those places. 

I suspect bars are a major problem, because you can't drink without taking the mask off. And at least for the young people, I doubt they're distancing much when they go. 

Our governor cannot make his mouth say the words, "Wear a mask."

Daddy wouldn't like it.

Oklahoma is in phase 3 and doing very well

are you concerned about a reversal