No, that's never been a metric for any previous mandates. It's always been about case rates and positive testing rates. Then for about six weeks Sacramento added in ICU capacity in five super-regions, but that got cancelled suddenly.
I think the damage done to government credibility will be long lasting. The 10PM Curfew no one obeyed, the speakeasy hair appointments the entire state made in 2020, all the dive bars and dance clubs that reopened but pretend they are closed, and now we've got corporate restaurants bristling as their non-corporate competition opens up their dining rooms in open disobedience to Sacramento.
I was up in Oregon to visit family last November, and ultra-liberal Portland has just as many mandates and lockdown rules as LA or San Francisco. But the weather up there is much colder and rainier this time of year than SoCal, so you've got many restaurants in Oregon offering "Outdoor Dining" in structures like this; a sealed plastic bubble that is damp and not ventilated at all. I ate two meals in tents just like this in November. And somehow this is better than letting people eat indoors???
The mind boggles how this makes any sense.