Alot of the cases recently from california are from colleges starting classes. Cases are spiking at the college and instead of closing the college or forcing it to go fully remote the entire county suffers by having its businesses forcibly closed. Or take Lompac[1], a huge outbreak at the prison there caused santa barbara county to possibly enter a restrictive tier(even though the prisoners have no involvement in the community). Also the wording of the level of restriction changed from phases(1,2,3,4) to colored 'tiers' with no explanation. If that is not the picture of dysfunction I don't know what is.

[1] - https://www.edhat.com/news/lompoc-prison-could-delay-reopeni...