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Californians are required to wear face coverings in high-risk settings as the state continues to reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic. Gov. Gavin Newsom issued the statewide order on Thursday. It follows new guidance from the California Department of Public Health that asymptomatic or presymptomatic people can still spread the disease.
Newsom told Los Angeles' ABC7:
"Our numbers are going up, not going down. Hospitalization numbers are just starting to creep back up, and I'm very concerned by what we're seeing. We think the most impactful thing we can do, short of going back to a stay-at-home order, is wearing face coverings when we can't practice physical distancing."In the latest guidance, the Department of Public Health explained, "The use of face coverings by everyone can limit the release of infected droplets when talking, coughing, and/or sneezing, as well as reinforce physical distancing."
People will be required to wear masks or other coverings in public spaces, including while taking public transportation, seeking medical care, shopping and in most work scenarios.
There are a few exceptions. Children under 2 are exempted from the rules, as are people eating or drinking in restaurants provided they can maintain a minimum 6-foot distance from other customers and staff who are not members of the same household. Additionally, anyone with a medical condition, mental health condition or disability that prevents wearing a face covering can disregard the order.
Newsom said the statewide measure was a necessary step because "we have many municipalities that require mandatory mask wearing, and people are simply not applying it."
He did not address how the order will be enforced.
It is likely to be met with resistance, pitting the governor against local government leaders who have dropped mandatory mask-wearing measures. In many such counties and cities, residents and business owners eager to return to pre-pandemic life have challenged the need for the widespread use of face coverings, in some cases going so far as to threaten health officials who support the extra precautions.
Reported cases of the novel coronavirus and fatalities continue to rise throughout the state. More than 161,000 have been identified with the virus, according the Department of Public Health, and the total number of deaths connected to COVID-19 is 5,290.
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Sad that the beautiful state must endure this. Can't he be dethroned somehow?
I personally don't see how this can go on much longer.
But I suppose it will.
Control freaks/corporatists/militarists, ie., technocrats, will continue to impose their insane and burgeoning 'control measures' (backed by their 'scientific' understanding of things) and the meek (the unscientific and 'primitive' and disorganized, lacking sufficient 'control') and the insane (the formerly meek) will continue to readily comply with these measures. Or be forced to, if they are not 'ready'. Duh.
The few who are not completely insane (trying to live in rebellion and to cling to hope and sanity somehow, still) will either eventually die (God bless them!) or find a way to go insane, too.
Way to go!
It is a sad and sorry state of affairs that will only get worse and worse thanks to all the momentum it (the big and lasting indwelling evil--technocracy) has created.
End games.
Loss of life, liberty/free movement and joy.
Technocracy Uber Alles.
Have a great day.
ned, the small farmer
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