{"id":1759985,"date":"2022-12-02T13:33:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T18:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1759985"},"modified":"2022-12-02T13:33:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T18:33:28","slug":"la-health-officials-wont-move-on-from-covid-because-they-cant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/la-health-officials-wont-move-on-from-covid-because-they-cant\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Health Officials Won\u2019t Move On From Covid Because They Can\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fla-health-officials-wont-move-on-from-covid-because-they-cant%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1759985&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Anyone still wearing a face mask to protect himself from Covid probably has no intention of ever shedding it now. Residents may no longer even have a choice in Los Angeles, where local health officials pledge to reinstate mandates as soon as next week. <\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer threatened the return of an indoor mask mandate if rates of hospitalization attributed to Covid continue to climb. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf both hospitalization indicators, new COVID-19 admissions and the proportion of staffed in-patient beds occupied by COVID patients, surpass the threshold for high, LA County will return to universal indoor masking,\u201d Ferrer said. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/news\/la-county-mask-mandate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According <\/a>to a local Fox affiliate, the county\u2019s transmission level is at \u201cmedium.\u201d The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#county-view?list_select_state=all_states&#038;list_select_county=all_counties&#038;data-type=CommunityLevels\">considers <\/a>community transmission \u201chigh\u201d when there are more than 10 new Covid-19 admissions per 100,000 people and the county sees more than 200 new cases per 100,000 people over a seven-day period. The CDC\u2019s threshold for \u201chigh\u201d transmission could allegedly be met by next week, greeted by mandatory face coverings \u2014 no matter how useless <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/17\/cdc-finally-admits-cloth-masks-were-always-political-theater\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">even the CDC<\/a> and other so-called health experts have <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/11\/flashback-2018-video-shows-public-health-expert-admitting-masks-only-work-to-cause-alarm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">admitted<\/a> most of them are. <\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Whatever happens to community transmission, masks were always on the menu, whether people continued to wear them voluntarily or not. It doesn\u2019t matter how many shots are on the market, how many therapeutics have been made available, or even how <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/10\/29\/these-12-graphs-show-mask-mandates-do-nothing-to-stop-covid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ineffective <\/a>mandates have proved to be. The face mask has become a marker of political identity, a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/21\/when-masks-become-a-religious-talisman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">religious talisman<\/a> remaining sacred in the most left-wing enclaves of the country. Local health officials steeped in leftism won\u2019t give up on face masks \u2014 because they can\u2019t. <\/p>\n<p>Within a year of the pandemic\u2019s inception, public masking became\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/03\/04\/face-masks-are-on-their-way-to-becoming-the-new-gender-pronoun-bios\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">no different<\/a>\u00a0than the type of passive activism embedded in gender pronoun bios: pointless in reality, but central to the user\u2019s identity. But while a refusal to list one\u2019s obvious pronouns might spoil a promotion or sever relationships with colleagues, refusal to muzzle could <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/04\/20\/denver-businesses-frustrated-by-citys-inconsistent-covid-rules-and-neighborhood-narcs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cost thousands<\/a> of dollars in government fines. <\/p>\n<p>Like pronoun bios or pink genitalia hats, face coverings became the latest and most aggressive form of ritual symbolism adopted by activists who were too concerned about broadcasting their supposed virtue to worry about masks\u2019 utility. Even as the rest of the country moves on from the Faucian Covid regime that exploited public anxiety to lock people at home, California health officials aren\u2019t ready for a post-pandemic future. <\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/06\/30\/looming-post-vaccine-lockdowns-validate-concerns-of-forever-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">inaugurated <\/a>the forever pandemic last year when local health officials began to reinstate mandates even after the introduction of therapeutics. It makes sense then that L.A. remains ground zero for routine Covid protocols with no end on the horizon. <\/p>\n<p> Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone still wearing a face mask to protect himself from Covid probably has no intention of ever shedding it now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1759988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1759985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1759988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}