California to lift indoor mask mandate for vaccinated people on Feb. 15, Newsom says

[IcyPeas]

https://abc7.com/ca-mask-mandate-california-gavin-newsom-indoor/11544606/

California will end its indoor masking requirement for vaccinated people next week, but masks still are the rule for schoolchildren, state health officials announced Monday amid rapidly falling coronavirus cases.

After Feb. 15, unvaccinated people still will be required to be masked indoors, and everyone - vaccinated or not - will have to wear masks in higher-risk areas like public transit and nursing homes and other congregate living facilities, officials said.

State officials also announced that Indoor "mega events" with more than 1,000 people will have to require vaccinations or negative tests for those attending and those who are unvaccinated will be required to wear masks. For outdoor events with more than 10,000 people, there is no vaccination requirement but masks or negative tests are recommended.

Those thresholds increase from the current 500 attendees for indoor and 5,000 attendees for outdoor events. The increased threshold comes after Sunday's Super Bowl that will draw as many as 100,000 football fans to SoFi Stadium outside Los Angeles.

[Tree-Hugger]

1. News flash

The unvaccinated are not the ones who wear masks.

[sakabatou]

2. I'm still going to wear my mask indoors, even though I'm vaccinated.

[Walleye]

3. With all of the mandates are done, what are these maskholes going to do with themselves, I wonder

[underpants]

4. They are already declaring victory

It’s all over talk radio. All their “liberals friends” are now saying that the cult was right all along. They pull in Bill Maher too.

[Walleye]

5. At this point I don't care if they think they won. I just want them to go away and shut up

[tritsofme]

6. Covid will be with us forever, these extraordinary mitigation efforts can't.

This sounds like a sensible approach, I can’t imagine we will be far behind in Illinois.

[tishaLA]

7. I'm guessing we'll still have it in LA

I think we had one week since March 2020 when it wasn't mandatory so everybody's just used to it at this point.