The consensus has to come from a coalition of people, which is what a more competent admin would have had, working in January. Business leaders, health officials, law enforcement, state and city leaders, civic leaders, to come up with a comprehensive multi layered approach. You can't have JUST the public health officials, they will never lift the ordinances, you can't have insane business leaders, they will open up in a week. Just like we don't have the AG or Justice Department officials run the country, we have a president who listens to all the experts, and comes up with a plan, or that was the ideal execution of government.
This is a mess, California is not lifting anything, but if the president does, that will set up a conflict between state and federal government, and business owners, who need to open back up. And private citizens who will defy the states orders.