You’d think that after three years of going back and forth on the mask mandates, they might realize that they wouldn’t keep having all the rising infections and hospitalizations if they just left the indoor mandate in place indefinitely. Yes, the anti-maskers would lose their minds (over a mild if not negligible inconvenience), but health care professionals shouldn’t be making life and death decisions based on what those idiotic freaks want. Via Deadline:
Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said today that at the current pace of increases in local Covid-related hospitalizations, the county will move into the federal government’s “high” virus activity category within a few weeks, possibly by the end of June. Ferrer has frequently said — and repeated today — that that would trigger a return of mandatory indoor mask wearing in the county, a requirement that was dropped on March 3 of this year.
There were 524 Covid-positive patients in county hospitals on Thursday, up from 502 a day earlier. The number of patients at which the mask mandate would be trigged is about 1,000, among other measures.
Projected Covid hospitalizations in L.A. County (green line) vs. the level at which mask mandate kicks in (yellow line).
