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Posted on 10/09/2025 1:59:56 AM PDT by Libloather
A county in California wine country is beefing up its vaccine recommendations and instituting a mask mandate, citing "greater risk" of contracting COVID-19 amid the start of the annual flu season.
The Sonoma County Department of Public Health's Interim Health Officer Dr. Karen Smith issued an order Monday requiring anyone entering certain healthcare facilities in the county to wear a mask. Facilities subject to the order include skilled nursing facilities, portions of long-term care facilities where nursing care is provided, acute and non-acute rehabilitation facilities, infusion centers, and dialysis centers, according to the order.
"The rationale behind this order is to protect the most vulnerable populations (such as the elderly and cancer patients) and to try to prevent medical staff from getting sick and creating staffing problems for facilities," a spokesperson for the Sonoma County Department of Health told Fox News Digital.
The mask mandate will run from Nov. 1 until March 31, 2026, and the order states that Smith can expand the type of facilities subject to it on an as-needed basis. Additionally, the requirement will be put in place annually unless otherwise rescinded.
The order does provide some exemptions, including anyone "with a diagnosed medical condition, mental health condition, or disability that prevents the individual from wearing a face mask." Hearing impaired folks who must see the mouth to communicate are also exempt, as well as anyone else for whom local, state or federal regulators deem could be harmed from wearing one.
The order also dictates what masks must be worn. A surgical mask, KN95, KF94, or N95 respirator are acceptable, but more informal masks, such as a scarf, ski mask, balaclava, bandana, turtleneck, collar, cloth mask, or "any mask that has an unfiltered, one-way exhaust valve," will not satisfy the order's requirements.
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Beyond stupid.
Even says they have to pretty much be N95’s. I will never put on an N95 voluntarily.
It was like this for the past few years in my county, Probably the same this year.
Notice that Covid is different other times of the year. People don’t have it then.
Lip readers not required to wear a mask...
🧐🤔
Public Health is the excuse-du-jour to force civilians to bend the knee/pinch incense.
A karen saying put on a mask....
No.
Baa, baa, baa……..
I am hearing impaired and rely on lip reading to function.
Those idiots put me through Hell for all that time.
It was torture via social isolation.
Once in a while I run into some muzzled git and tell them I can’t understand a damn thing they’re saying.
Most pull the stupid thing down.
Karen is not a biologist.
Control!
They do not work. They may trap some virus particles, but not all, and how many people wash their hands after taking one off? Or use gloves? Muffled voices, less facial recognition, uncomfortable and a waste of time.
No one will.
Correct.
My thoughts exactly.
Like every other lefty edict.
Exactly, N-O!
Thus, no sane adult with a functioning brain should listen to Karen at all.
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