There aren’t the only options. Health officials should be monitoring the data and recommending only those measures most likely to help.
Should have included the “/s”
Ah, yeah. :) My state seems to be doing pretty well, mostly. They break everything up by region and county, so they can monitor available beds, new cases, new hospitalizations, etc. They are doing contact tracing so as they change the rules I assume they are using that data to make sure the rules actually are affecting the places where people are getting infected. So far, the hospitals aren’t getting overwhelmed so it looks like they are doing it right.