COVID-19
CA HHS Director Says New Universal Indoor Mask Mandate ‘The Common Sense Thing to do’
California has just been handed down the anti-Christmas gift of being forced to once again wear masks – indoors. In what was apparently a surprise move, California state officials announced the state is instituting a universal indoor mask mandate.
The mandate will go into effect Wednesday, December 15, and run through January 15, 2022. “we will require universal masking in indoor settings statewide” said state director of health and human services Dr. Mark Ghaly.
The order covers the remaining roughly 50% of Californians who are not already under such a mandate. “We know people are tired and hungry for normalcy. Frankly, I am too” said Ghaly. “That said, this is a critical time where we have a tool that we know has worked. We are proactively putting this tool of universal indoor masking in public settings in place to ensure we get through a time of joy and hope without a darker cloud of concern and despair” added Ghaly.
Before the new mandate was handed down, many counties followed the current state guidelines which included masks be worn indoors at public transit facilities such as “airports, healthcare settings, adult and senior care facilities, schools, correctional facilities, homeless shelters, emergency shelters and cooling centers” reports DEADLINE.
Ghaly told reporters on a conference call that the state has seen a 47% rise in case rates since Thanksgiving, having risen from 9.6 per 100,00 cases to 14 per 100,000. He also said patient levels at local hospitals are “significantly above their baseline for this time of year.”
“The new order extends the requirement in those counties to movie theaters, retail stores, restaurants, family entertainment centers and government offices that serve the public.” The state also required mask-wearing for unvaccinated people at indoor public facilities, but now masks will be mandatory regardless of vaccination status.
“We know that we’re entering into a pretty hard time, that we’re starting to see some of these numbers come up pretty quickly in some communities…[Masking] is the common sense thing to do,” said Ghaly.
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic sent a letter to CIA director William Burns discussing the CIA and a COVID-19 cover-up. The letter asserts that it has knowledge from a whistleblower from the CIA’s “Covid Discovery Team” that was tasked with investigating the origins of the novel coronavirus. “New testimony from a highly credibly whistleblower” alleges that the CIA “rewarded six analysts with significant financial incentives to change their COVID-19 origins conclusion from a lab-leak to zoonosis
Apart from a “lone officer” in the group who believed the virus “originated through zoonosis,” the remaining officials agreed that, on balance of probabilities, the coronavirus was likely the result of a lab-leak.
“According to the whistleblower, at the end of its review, six of the seven members of the Team believed the intelligence and science were sufficient to make a low confidence assessment that Covid-19 originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China,” the letter reads. “To come to the eventual public determination of uncertainty, the other six members were given a significant monetary incentive to change their position.”
In June, the agency declassified its report that the available evidence on the origins of the coronavirus suggested it “was not genetically engineered.”
🚨BREAKING🚨
New testimony from a highly credible whistleblower alleges @CIA rewarded six analysts with significant financial incentives to change their COVID-19 origins conclusion from a lab-leak to zoonosis. pic.twitter.com/KIemfi2Wgl
— Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic (@COVIDSelect) September 12, 2023
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Jane Blonde
December 14, 2021 at 5:11 pm
lol meanwhile these bolshevik bureaucrats continue to SOLICIT AND ARE COMPLICIT in the MASSIVE INVASION AT OUR SOUTHERN BORDER by ALMOST 2MILLION UNVETTED UNTESTED AND UNVACCINATED ILLEGAL ALIENS. IF IT WASN’T SO EVIL AND ANTISHCHRISTIAN IT WOULD BE LAUGHABLE
Jane Blonde
December 14, 2021 at 5:18 pm
the streets of California are already unsafe. Now these Bolshevik Bureaucrats are mandating and giving cover for these masked marauders that LAPD has already warned they are unable to protect against the public from.
Phyllis Stewart
December 14, 2021 at 5:38 pm
Literally everyo9ne knows masks don’t work. Not a single peer reviewed study says they do…as a matter of fact, an honest doctor will tell you they don’t work against a virus!
So this is about control…not o9ur health. They are NOT following the science.
Kyle Meintzer
December 14, 2021 at 6:36 pm
I’ve not worn a mask anywhere for the past three weeks.
Why?
Because our governor things he was elected to be a dictator.
In those three weeks, I’ve been to the local supermarket, Walmart, Home Depot and more. I went maskless to let NV Governor/wannabe Dictator Sisolak know I am a FREE man, not a subject of the State!
In all of those places, I had face-to-face conversations with store employees for various assistance issues and not ONE of them said a word about my not wearing a mask.
Masks don’t work! There is NO evidence that they do.
If masks work, why are not the number of new COVID cases plunging after two YEARS of ‘masks required’ mandates from so many states?
Same thing for Social Distancing, which the former head of the CDC admitted had NO bearing in science. Then if the vax works and 80% of the population has been vaxxed, same question!
REBEL against the TYRANNY!
Rebel Against Tyranny!
Roger Lawrence
December 16, 2021 at 6:02 pm
Mr.Newsom, you can kiss my ass if you think I’m going to wear a mask, I have a lung problem,, get with the people and not your commie bunchbunch
Edward
December 14, 2021 at 8:04 pm
‘The Common Sense Thing to do’
NO the common sense thing to do would have been to vote newsome out of office a few months ago, but like the 2020 elections, the communist party refused to allow that to happen.
The ‘The Common Sense Thing to do’ going forward would be to remove all marxists from office but again useful idiots won’t allow that to happen.
Sad4theUS
December 14, 2021 at 11:53 pm
No matter what, they will never tell the truth about the mask mandate… that it isn’t necessary and it doesn’t help! If it did, then after 2 years of wearing masks the virus should be gone! We have never worn masks for any virus for this long! And when you’re getting draconian mandates like this from a democratic run state, you know it has nothing to do with our health and everything to do with political power and control!
Jeff Adkison
December 15, 2021 at 12:56 am
Not happening. I will not comply. Businesses enforcing this will lose my dollars. Simple. This only works if people comply.