Don’t Toss Those Masks Out Just Yet, Los Angeles And Other Blue Areas Are Bringing Mask Mandates Back For 2024
Once again, the anti-science areas reveal they have no intention of ever embracing actual data.
For most people across the country, mask mandates are a distant, detestable memory. But for the remaining sane individuals in heavily populated areas like Los Angeles, the Bay Area, New York or parts of Illinois, they’re once again becoming an immediate, horrifying reality.
Just last month, a number of counties in Northern California reinstated mask mandates in healthcare settings.
Cities like New York have repeatedly demanded that children stay masked, even as studies confirm the obvious.
While some of those counties limited the mask requirements to employees working in hospitals, a few others also required patients and visitors to wear face coverings. And now those rules are expanding to the nation’s largest county, yet again.
Los Angeles County public health covertly changed their masking requirements this past week, based effectively on nothing. With little warning, the county now requires everyone entering healthcare facilities to wear a mask. Employees, patients, visitors…everyone. Why? Because of a nonsensical, meaningless CDC-created metric around COVID hospitalizations, even if those hospitalizations are incidental and not related to viral infection.
Local Fox LA reporter Maria Tellez tweeted about it, and the department’s disgraceful rationalization.
“#NEW Masks are mandated again in L.A. County healthcare facilities for employees, patients + visitors. [LA Public Health] cites Covid hospitalizations The dept. tells me the County entered the CDC's Medium Level for admissions Friday, the 1st time in months, triggering the mandate”
“The change comes after [LA Public Health] updated its health officer order Wednesday, indicating a potential mandate. An official press release was not issued.“ http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/ip/Docs/2023/Influenza_HOO_IZorMaskingforHCWs_2023.pdf…
“The order states the healthcare mask mandate will expire when the County re-enters the CDC's Low Level for Covid hospitalizations + stays there for 2 consecutive weeks As of Fri., L.A. County is avg. 10.5 weekly hospital admissions per 100,000 ppl. That # needs to fall below 10”
They’re back. And just recently, the county’s non-medical doctor/public health official refused to say that she would never force everyone to wear masks when entering businesses. It has to be a sickness. A religious cult. And it’s never ever going to stop.
Mask Mandates Are Now A Permanent Part Of Life
The refusal to hold public health "experts" accountable for their dramatic failures is now, as predicted, having extreme negative consequences.
New York City, on top of its disastrous school masking recommendation, is also requiring masks in healthcare settings for visitors and employees. Several areas of Illinois are as well. Obviously the Bay Area. And now LA's rejoining the ranks of areas committed to pseudoscience.
Never mind that a quick glance at the data from LA County shows that the highest period of COVID hospitalizations in the area came when there were mask mandates in place for all indoor locations and large outdoor events. Not to mention vaccine passports at most locations city and countywide.
For the administrators and officials who claim to be following "the science" and "the data," it's yet another indication of how duplicitous and misleading their statements actually are. They’ve managed to ignore the fact that we've already seen how ineffective masks are at reducing transmission or hospitalization. They apparently aren’t interested in the best quality evidence review which showed conclusively that masks don't work.
Their sole focus is protecting themselves, their profession, their political ideology and endlessly exercising a measure of control over public behavior, no matter how many people may be affected or hurt in the process.
Many of us have been warning of a dystopian future where masks are an indefinite, rolling feature of life in anti-science areas. Unfortunately, it again appears we were right.
This is exactly why it was so important to attack these rules when the iron was still hot. The 'experts' TOLD US they wanted to keep mask mandates 'in their pocket' for future use! This is and always has been about control!
The only important metric is hospitalizations, and they're roughly half of what they were last year when they also weren't a problem:
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#maps_percent-inpatient-beds-state
% INPATIENT BEDS OCCUPIED BY COVID-19 PATIENTS (PAST WEEK) 3.3%
Fuck them all.