California to End COVID Mask Requirements With One Exception

California’s three-year COVID health emergency will finally end next month.

Never mind, the CDC’s own mask requirements dropped last year, two months before the midterm elections.

For most of the state’s 40 million residents, that means no more mask and vaccine requirements, including at healthcare facilities.

Most — but not all.

As Hot Air reports:

San Francisco’s Health Officer Susan Philip knows better, and she has issued an order that makes it a crime to enter any of 15 types of facilities, including healthcare facilities, prisons, long-term care facilities, or 12 other similar institutions without a “well-fitted face mask.”

A crime. Meaning you can go to jail or be fined for not wearing a mask, despite the CDC and now the State of California admitting that this is unnecessary.

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The science behind masking has always been weak to nonexistent. Back in the old days, when government officials didn’t consider it their duty to jerk citizens around and make fun of us, everybody in public health knew that mask mandates do not and cannot work to stop the spread of respiratory viruses.

When COVID hit, though, suddenly the surgeon general was instructing people on how to make masks out of T-shirts (he literally made a video on how to do so!)

After wringing his hands over the latest act of political theater in San Fran, Hot Air blogger David Strom noted that its health officer seems more concerned about the possibility of an increase in COVID-19 cases in prisons than the city’s human feces problem.

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