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https://www.sacbee.com/news/coronavirus/article263506228.html
Local health officials announced that if Los Angeles County is classified in the CDC’s high community level for two consecutive weeks, the county would return to an indoor mask order the following day.
Health officers in several counties, including Sacramento and Yolo in the capital region, have said they would not consider reinstituting mandatory masking unless hospitals faced the threat of being overwhelmed.
If I were a LA resident, I would have a couple of questions.
1) With over 80% of their populations being vaccinated (over 90% for vulnerable age groups), why would they reinstitute a mandate for something that was just a stop-gap measure until vaccines were available?
2) Would the mandate be just a "mask mandate" or a N/KN-95 mandate? Given that both the WHO and CDC have both mentioned that cloth masks are basically useless against the latest Omicron subvariants, if a simple cloth mask satisfies the mandate (and that's what most people are going to wear), then what's the point?
3) Which metrics are they using to justify the measure? The mandates were originally aimed at keeping hospitals from being overwhelmed and minimizing deaths. From what I can see with the stats, deaths have remained pretty much flat since late March, and hospitalizations aren't going up by any noticeable amount in the vaccinated population (which is most of them).
I would hope that a Governor like Newsom (who just got done running a bunch of "freedom-centric ads" for his state wouldn't sit idly by while counties implement mandates in order to stave off sore throats and sniffles.
Earlier on in the pandemic, people were falsely comparing covid to a cold or flu (when it was actually worse in terms of key metrics)...now that we're finally at the place where it is more like a cold/flu, I was hoping that people would treat it accordingly and not fixate on the "cases" metric anymore.
Local health officials announced that if Los Angeles County is classified in the CDC’s high community level for two consecutive weeks, the county would return to an indoor mask order the following day.
Health officers in several counties, including Sacramento and Yolo in the capital region, have said they would not consider reinstituting mandatory masking unless hospitals faced the threat of being overwhelmed.
If I were a LA resident, I would have a couple of questions.
1) With over 80% of their populations being vaccinated (over 90% for vulnerable age groups), why would they reinstitute a mandate for something that was just a stop-gap measure until vaccines were available?
2) Would the mandate be just a "mask mandate" or a N/KN-95 mandate? Given that both the WHO and CDC have both mentioned that cloth masks are basically useless against the latest Omicron subvariants, if a simple cloth mask satisfies the mandate (and that's what most people are going to wear), then what's the point?
3) Which metrics are they using to justify the measure? The mandates were originally aimed at keeping hospitals from being overwhelmed and minimizing deaths. From what I can see with the stats, deaths have remained pretty much flat since late March, and hospitalizations aren't going up by any noticeable amount in the vaccinated population (which is most of them).
I would hope that a Governor like Newsom (who just got done running a bunch of "freedom-centric ads" for his state wouldn't sit idly by while counties implement mandates in order to stave off sore throats and sniffles.
Earlier on in the pandemic, people were falsely comparing covid to a cold or flu (when it was actually worse in terms of key metrics)...now that we're finally at the place where it is more like a cold/flu, I was hoping that people would treat it accordingly and not fixate on the "cases" metric anymore.