Opinion: Los Angeles County tiptoes toward pointless mask mandate
Last week, the L.A. County Department of Public Health responded to an uptick in COVID-19 cases – that is, an uptick in positive test results – by announcing that Public Health is now “strongly recommending” that the 10 million residents of L.A. County wear masks in indoor public spaces.
The problem with government recommendations is that government isn’t in the business of giving advice. As George Washington observed, “government is force.” The mask “recommendation” is a sneeze away from a mask “mandate.” Because California is still in a declared state of emergency over COVID-19, local public health officials can issue “health officer orders” and enforce them with fines and even shutdowns of businesses.
The department’s media relations continue to inspire scary, horror-movie news coverage. One publication reported the new “strongly recommended” mask guidance with a photograph of two women viewing a loved one in an open casket. Although there was an uptick two weeks ago, Spellberg said last Wednesday there were only “three or four admissions due to COVID in the last week, mostly mild.”
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