Posted on 03/31/2023 8:18:24 PM PDT by lightman
After three years of the COVID-19 emergency in place in the most populous county in the country, Los Angeles ended its emergency declaration March 31.
The county first declared a local emergency on March 4, 2020, which brought a wave of restrictions and closures of businesses in the weeks that followed as rigorous shelter-in-place orders were implemented to mitigate the spread of the virus.
The county Department of Public Health will still be offering COVID-19 vaccines, tests, and treatments for free, according to its website. The requirement for indoor masking in public spaces ended a year ago and the recommendation to do so ended in January.
Vaccinations to work in jails, prisons, and adult care facilities will no longer be necessary as of April 3.
“Public Health will carefully monitor these sites for clusters of cases and outbreaks to ascertain the impact of these changes on the transmission of COVID-19,” the county said on its website.
Healthcare workers will still be required to be vaccinated and masked while working, and individuals must still isolate for at least five days after contracting COVID-19.
According to a 2020 report by Yelp, about 15,000 businesses in Los Angeles County closed down due to the restrictions, and estimated that half of them will not ever reopen.
In February, Gov. Gavin Newsom ended California’s state of emergency that had also been in place for three years. Meanwhile, the state will also rescind its vaccination and masking requirements for healthcare workers also on April 3.
“With the end of the California COVID-19 State of Emergency, it is appropriate to revise our current masking framework. California’s path forward will be predicated on our individual, smarter actions that will collectively yield better outcomes for our neighborhoods, communities, and state,” the California Department of Public Health said in a statement March 3.
All 58 counties in the state have reported low transmission and hospitalization rates so far this year.
In Los Angeles County, the number of COVID-19 cases has been dropping since January and are now at their lowest point since July 2021, after the first wave of vaccinations was rolled out and before the arrival of the Delta variant.
As of last week, the county averaged 501 cases a day, according to the health department, down from more than 45,000 recorded, for example, one day in January of last year driven by the Omicron variant.
President Biden also notified Congress on Jan. 30 of his plans to rescind national-level emergency and public health emergency declarations by May 11.
No more perpetual pandemic paranoia.
I still see the occasional rube wearing a mask. I want to ask them, “Why are you still doing that thing that never helped in the first place and certainly isn’t doing anything now?”
But I don’t.
I know how you feel!
But now planning to ban skittles....
What a world.
Will Los Angeles now declare a Climate Change emergency?
Because as we all know, liberals just love their emergencies.
From the article:
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Healthcare workers will still be required to be vaccinated and masked while working, and individuals must still isolate for at least five days after contracting COVID-19.
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In February, Gov. Gavin Newsom ended California’s state of emergency that had also been in place for three years. Meanwhile, the state will also rescind its vaccination and masking requirements for healthcare workers also on April 3.
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So, this means no more masks in the Dr offices, clinics, and hospitals (except operating rooms)?
What about the VA hospital (other than operating rooms)?
What will DugwayDouche do without his COVID god?
Idol know.
The ones who really demonstrated their ignorance & paranoia:
Driving ALONE in a car—windows all rolled up-—WEARING MASK
Approximately 20 million people live in L.A. County.
There decision.
Not all solutions fit every situation.
Did ask the person wearing the mask. Was told “It’s my choice.”
Sad looking anorexic person of uncertain gender and sexual preference. The mask was bright yellow.
Said person was working at the check-in counter at a local Children’s Museum.
The only places where I need a mask
are doctors’ offices and cartoon
conventions. One con is coming in 2 weeks in Maine. Not only a mask requirement
but you need to either be fully vaxxed or have a negative test 3 days before con.
They specify the booster must be no earlier than last Sept.
2 shots Apr of 21, 1 shot Oct of 21.
And I got the latest shot yesterday.
The con said “we know the emergency ends
in May but our con is before that”.
Masks optional at work. Some people still
wear them. Questionnaires before
medical visits—how do you feel, have you been in close contact with someone who had covid...
Thu at work:
“Bianca, I see Rashi over there wearing a
a mask and you have one on, too”
“Oh she was on vacation and went to
her home country and she started feeling
sick..I’m wearing one to protect myself...”
So Rashi—who had gotten covid a yr
or so ago—was there at work...but
wearing a mask...
Am fully vaccinated and never tested
positive for it.
The masks are ineffective.
They are still requiring heathcare employees to be vaxxed and muzzled.
Wonder what the nosocomial infections rates are like in LA county hospitals...
And masks are fomites.
Yup-—the will ensure CIVUD and other respiratory ailments keep on going, and going, and going...
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