[Farm93]

Setting aside Contra Costa with it's strong Bay Area connections, it's very understandable that states/counties will open up at different times.  We're a big country and the timing and gates necessary for phase 1 in New York may make no sense in Alaska or Wyoming.  On the other hand, I'd hope the Bay Area where county borders are barely more than lines on a map will act in unison.

Hmm.  Depends on what you mean by "Bay Area."  My gut tells me that Contra Costa County is very different than Santa Clara County.  I generally favor decisions made at more local levels.  From my vantage point, I don't expect meaningful "opening up" till late May/early June (I DON"T count tennis courts and golf courses as meaningful loosening of the grips on lockdown - those never should have been on "the list" of closures, imo).

Contra Costa County touches the SF Bay and the other bays of the Bay Area too.
Contra Costa County has BART stations something that the Santa Clara County will get some day soon.
More critically a lot of people that live in Contra Costa County work in Santa Clara County.

So while they may be different in a lot of ways, there are more than a few ways for a contagious virus to get between the two counties.  

Politically it gets hard to start picking non-essential industry winners and losers.  The goal in early March was to do something sweeping ASAP.   Once you get into picking different industries you are likely to start picking political battles that might slow the process down quite a bit.  Inevitably some business would be missed that should qualify...equestrian jumping?   Frisbee golf courses?   Baseball batting cages?  Archery ranges?   At some point it is just faster and more effective to say everything that is non-essential is closed.  And golf and tennis are simply not essential.

[Farm93]

Setting aside Contra Costa with it's strong Bay Area connections, it's very understandable that states/counties will open up at different times.  We're a big country and the timing and gates necessary for phase 1 in New York may make no sense in Alaska or Wyoming.  On the other hand, I'd hope the Bay Area where county borders are barely more than lines on a map will act in unison.

Hmm.  Depends on what you mean by "Bay Area."  My gut tells me that Contra Costa County is very different than Santa Clara County.  I generally favor decisions made at more local levels.  From my vantage point, I don't expect meaningful "opening up" till late May/early June (I DON"T count tennis courts and golf courses as meaningful loosening of the grips on lockdown - those never should have been on "the list" of closures, imo).

Contra Costa County touches the SF Bay and the other bays of the Bay Area too.
Contra Costa County has BART stations something that the Santa Clara County will get some day soon.
More critically a lot of people that live in Contra Costa County work in Santa Clara County.

So while they may be different in a lot of ways, there are more than a few ways for a contagious virus to get between the two counties.  

Politically it gets hard to start picking non-essential industry winners and losers.  The goal in early March was to do something sweeping ASAP.   Once you get into picking different industries you are likely to start picking political battles that might slow the process down quite a bit.  Inevitably some business would be missed that should qualify...equestrian jumping?   Frisbee golf courses?   Baseball batting cages?  Archery ranges?   At some point it is just faster and more effective to say everything that is non-essential is closed.  And golf and tennis are simply not essential.