Restaurant bookings and travel were falling sharply in CA even before the official stay-at-home policies[0], so your alternative is a world where huge chunks of the economy are still fucked.
Unless you want to force people to eat at restaurants, travel to conferences, host events, etc...
NYC too, to the point that the mayor tweeted encouraging "New Yorkers to go on with your lives + get out on the town despite Coronavirus", which did not age well even by 2020 standards.
Unless you want to force people to eat at restaurants, travel to conferences, host events, etc...
[0] there's this from March 13, for instance https://blog.opentable.com/2020/covid-19-coronavirus-restaur... , googling conference cancellations and such is left as an exercise for the reader...