One flaw in the metric being used to drive shutdown decisions is that hospitals are motivated in some cases to have high utilization of their ICU beds. If the ICU isn't full, then some patients that could be moved to non-ICU beds will be left in the ICU. Will Bay Area hospitals be willing to help the local economy by only putting patients in the ICU that really require it? Should they? And regardless, what evidence is there that the shutdown order(s) will actually affect or improve anything? Meanwhile, there are new stories on the news last night of major new outbreaks in several assisted living centers and nursing homes, where the COVID-prevention and resident/staff isolation procedures seem to have not kept up with best-practices already adopted in many other states....