Yet incredibly a month and a half ago the Bay Area was in a major surge and the ICU availability was 0.7%. Was this universal dutiful behavior you describe part of the response to that major surge? What were people doing leading up the surge? Holiday parties perhaps?
True this - but even during this surge - the Bay Area was still at under half the rate of San Diego, Kern, Fresno et all
So if we say that universally - this happened in the entire country - people in the US decided to not give a shit from Halloween to New Year's, this was not unique to the Bay Area. Even at the pinnacle in CA, the Bay Area topped out in the 60/100k, a rate that several entire states spent months at.
Pointing out that surge ignores that if SF were a state, the rate per 100k - 3800 - is better than every state except Maine, Oregon, Vermont, and Hawaii. This huge surge caused CA to pass Vermont. Wow