Orange County's Mask Mandate is Probably Not Coming Back Just Yet

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Source: NBC Los Angeles

LA County moved Thursday into the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's "high'' virus-activity level, and if it remains that way for two weeks, indoor masking is coming back July 29. The indoor mask mandate will remain in effect until the county can move back to the "medium" category, LA County's Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said.

Orange County already hit the "high" level July 15. You can check the county's status on the CDC's site here.

However, the OC Health Care Agency said indoor masking requirements were not yet on the horizon, in a statement to NBCLA July 15.

"The HCA continues to monitor the data closely, but HCA has no plans to institute a mandatory mask mandate. That doesn’t mean we aren’t concerned, and we continue to strongly recommend that people mask when attending indoor gatherings, as we know they are a very effective means to prevent the spread," said Dr. Matt Zahn, M.D., Deputy Health Director, Medical Director of Communicable Disease Control Division.

Read more: https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/orange-county-mask-mandate-covid/2940511/

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1. God forbid any of the assorted Dominionists and neo-fascists in Mission Viejo have a sad or a mad

I always got a kick out of that name.

In Spanish, it would be Misión Vieja.

The way they spell it, it means (loosely) "old man's mission" (as in impossible).

[C Moon]

2. I remember when the mayor of Huntington Beach fought tooth and nail against anything

Governor Newsom was trying to enforce to keep COVID at bay—and that was at the very beginning, before vaccines.

[JudyM]

3. Locking

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