LA County Reinstates Mask Mandate As COVID Cases Rise, Young Black Residents Dominate Unvaxx'd
Coronavirus,Public Health,Delta Variant
Never wanting to be outdone on the virtue-signaling scales of social justice, it would appear that LA County's infamous Public Health Director Dr. Barbara Ferrer (read all about her non-medical background here) has turned the dial to 11.
KNX1070's Claudia Peschiutta reports that LA County has decided to reinstate the indoor mask mandate - regardless of vaccination status - following a rise in COVID cases.
As far as we can tell, this would make LA County the first to reverse (so Brave), despite the "science" from the CDC saying that vaccinated people are at no risk from the delta variant and being unmasked everywhere is safe!
So why did Ferrer decide to do this?
Cases are rising (for 18-29 year-olds... who as everyone is now aware, are at monstrously low risk of any severe illness from COVID)...
So that's an odd reason to reinstate a mask mandate that was adhered to by 80-90% of all LA County residents and achieved absolutely nothing at all in terms of slowing the spread (as we now know from the actual data post-hoc).
Perhaps there's another reason?
Daily vaccination rates have plunged in recent weeks...
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