Bay Area ‘shelter in place’ expected

Something like this will get rolled out, piece-meal, throughout the country. As has been the case since the beginning of this, a lack of federal guidance and leadership means every jurisdiction will have to get ahead of this as much as might still be possible.

They mention non-essential workers should WFH (or not work at all), but does anyone know if that applies to delivery services as well?

I know folks (including myself) waiting on goods from Amazon/etc. to be delivered to assist through the quarantine.

If this isn't expanded to include Sonoma, Napa, and Solano it might as well not even take place, as it will continue to spread and as soon as the order is lifted everyone will be infected again. Really should be the whole state with no border crossing except for necessary cargo. The more seriously it is taken the quicker things can resume as normal.

"People may travel for shopping for necessary supplies, accessing health care, and providing aid to family and friends who need assistance, and for non-residents, returning to their home outside the Bay Area. Airports, taxis, and public transit — including BART — will remain operational, but only for essential travel and people are expected to keep six feet apart when possible."

"Grocery stores and pharmacies will remain open, and restaurants may stay open to provide takeout food only. Also staying open: veterinary services, gas stations and auto repair shops, hardware and other home supply stores, banks and laundry services."

I live in a different, smaller, metropolitan area, but this does not sound terrible to me. I do imagine that many folks must be frustrated, and some folks have fragile routines that cannot take much stress, but it seems like many allowances are being made for daily life to continue largely uninterrupted.

What I dislike is how it might be enforced. I am fortunate to usually not be harrassed by police, but many of my neighbors are not so lucky. I don't want to see situations where this sort of emergency sheltering order is used as a pretext for oppression.

Well this should be a fun stress test for the ISPs. See if they really can deliver the bandwidth they promise (I'm guessing they can't).

Is there any serious analysis as to whether the overall economic and health impacts of these measures are likely to be better than milder measures?