Do not believe that these guidelines, issued by unelected government workers are enforcable laws.
For the most part it is good policy to abide by these guidelines, but I do not feel that they are inforcable by incarcerations. Especially when convicted criminals are being wholesale let out of jails and prisons due to Covid 9 contaminations.
People should social distance, wear masks, stay home when possible and generally not interact with others that may be carriers, but to force a merchant to lose his business, not walk on a beach, not be able to get necessary surgery etc, makes me feel uncomfortable.
Even Hitler did not have absolute power, but did take power by edict, not majority elected by the people.
Worry that many of these edicts are just people in power bullying citizens and businesses. Notice Fauci mandates everyone to wear a mask when near others, but does not do so himself.
Just because you are fighting a virus, does not inherently give you absolute power to take the livelyhoods of citizens.
According to the sheriff in the county the orders of the County Health Officer are enforceable laws.
And according to California code:
The sheriff of each county, or city and county,
may enforce within the county, or the city and county, all orders of the local health officer issued for the purpose of preventing the spread of any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease. Every peace officer of every political subdivision of the county, or city and county, may enforce within the area subject to his or her jurisdiction all orders of the local health officer issued for the purpose of preventing the spread of any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease. This section is not a limitation on the authority of peace officers or public officers to enforce orders of the local health officer. When deciding whether to request this assistance in enforcement of its orders, the local health officer may consider whether it would be necessary to advise the enforcement agency of any measures that should be taken to prevent infection of the enforcement officers.
(Added by Stats. 2005, Ch. 478, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 2006.)
(Bolded for emphasis)
And it is not unique to California. Here is what the Texas code says:
Sec. 121.024. DUTIES. (a) A health authority is a state officer when performing duties prescribed by state law.
(b) A health authority shall perform each duty that is:
(1) necessary to implement and enforce a law to protect the public health; or
(2) prescribed by the department.
(c) The duties of a health authority include:
(1)
establishing, maintaining, and enforcing quarantine in the health authority's jurisdiction;
(2) aiding the department in relation to
local quarantine, inspection, disease prevention and suppression, birth and death statistics, and general sanitation in the health authority's jurisdiction;
(3) reporting the presence of contagious, infectious, and dangerous epidemic diseases in the health authority's jurisdiction to the department in the manner and at the times prescribed by the department;
(4) reporting to the department on any subject on which it is proper for the department to direct that a report be made; and
(5) aiding the department in the enforcement of the following in the health authority's jurisdiction:
(A) proper rules, requirements, and ordinances;
(B) sanitation laws;
(C) quarantine rules; and
(D) vital statistics collections.
