Take a look at hospitalizations before you go off on how stupid you think it is.
Deaths and hospitalizations are decoupled from cases, but only for the vaccinated. LA still has enough unvaccinated adults to cause a significant spike in deaths.
For scale, we currently have about 280 deaths per day from covid. That represents about 2% of the daily confirmed case rate from 2-4 weeks ago. (Deaths are a lagging indicator, so compare to past case rates.)
The US also has around 20,000 people hospitalized. That is about twice the daily confirmed case rate from 2 weeks ago.
LA is currently averaging 1000 confirmed cases. Using those ratios, that translates to around 20 deaths per day and around 2000 hospitalizations. (Not now. In about 2-4 weeks.)
LA is also doubling every 10 days or so. Keep it up, and you’ll be at 8,000 daily confirmed cases in 6 weeks. And, a few weeks later, 16,000 hospitalized and 160 deaths per day. That’s about twice as many beds as LA currently has available.
Perhaps your health department doesn’t want to keep on that path. It sounds unpleasant.
You might want to get your Ventura shopping trip out of the way now. Their vax rate is about the same as LA, and they are doubling every 12 days. Call it 3-4 weeks behind LA.