California will draw down several COVID-19-related guidelines next month as the state shifts out of its emergency response to the pandemic, state health officials said Friday.
Starting April 3, the state will no longer require the use of a mask in indoor areas that are deemed a high risk of transmission, including health care and long-term care facilities, homeless shelters and jails and prisons.
The state will also end its COVID vaccination requirement for health care workers and rescind health orders that required hospitals to accept patients from overcrowded facilities.
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It’s amazing, I still see people in their cars, by themselves, wearing masks! Its so sad how this Scamdemic scared the common sense out of people!
I don’t think many had any common sense to begin with. Look at who gets elected in this state.
I think we’ve also been seeing a lot of automobile “vaxxidents” these days too. And next week DST kicks in. Oh boy! I’m not a big fan of it.
Covid is the biggest lie ever heaped onto the citizens of America
Finally!! Never did understand why the rest of the world no longer required masks worn inside while the hospitals did. Very stupid. I hope all those employees that got fired for not getting the jab will get their jobs back.
Hospitals tend to have more people infected with various things and more people at risk of serious complications should they get infected with various things. That’s why hospitals had more stringent mask mandates.
The current positivity rate for CC county is 6.8% meaning roughly 75,000 people are walking around CC county with COVID-19 today. The good news is that we discovered they can walk around. I suspect most of the people that could have been killed by COVID-19 are dead. The health department’s focus has always been about protecting hospitals from getting overwhelmed and not about protecting the people. As there only a few highly at risk people that have survived to date the possible future impact on hospitals is low which lead to relaxing standards.
Only a few highly at risk people that have survived? Please. This was never about actual mitigation. The hospitals have not ever been near overwhelm outside manhattan and Lombardy. The data is clear that masks don’t work. That has been to Covid data. That was the h1n1 data. It was the Spanish flu data.
Too little, too late.
I would still sue
Finally, some relief for our health care works, so they don’t have to breath stale air all day in their masks and choose to take the vaccine, …. if they want. Will enjoy see more smiley faces, 🙂
That 6.8% sounds awfully high. Are you sure thats not the positive testing rate, rather than total population?
The only problem with the rest of your rationalization is that the masks never did anything. Multiple studies prior to covid showed they were ineffective against flu-like illnesses. Multiple since have confirmed it.
It’s bizarre to me that people think western medicine has gone centuries without discovering that covering your face saves you from respiratory illnesses. Only in 2020, when the decree came down from Saint Fauci himself, did we realize we were getting sick for no reason all this time.
@Wage Slave – The 6.8% positivity rate is based on roughly 10,200 PCR tests over a span of a week. They don’t include the antigen quick test results in the numbers. 10,200 PCR tests is about 0.93% of the county population. I’m making an assumption that very few people have more than one PCR test in a week. The county has never disclosed who is getting tested. For example, for a while school teachers and healthcare workers were getting tested weekly. That provided a nice sample population of people who also were exposed to the community at large.
A year ago in January 2022 we were routinely testing over 100,000 people per week and so the positivity rate was much more accurate. FWIW, the 10x drop in the number of tests also means a 10x drop in the number of cases found. That’s why I focus on the positivity rate for measuring the prevalence.
Masks are still useful in two ways. 1) When we cough or sneeze we spray out droplets that are also perfect for keeping viruses within them alive for a long time. The normal habit as been to cover your mouth with your hand but people then touch other things such as door knobs, light switches, etc. 2) We touch our faces a lot. This paper says it’s 23 times per hour. A mask both serves as a reminder of “don’t do that” and help prevent contamination on our hands from getting inside our bodies.
Besides droplets, COVID-19 is an airborne disease. The best protection remains being in well ventilated spaces combined with social distancing. Vaccination also helps.
@WC RESIDENT…..Our resident Covid expert strikes again with their assumptions, random extrapolations, and deep thoughts….welcome back.
“Assumptions, random extrapolations, and deep thoughts”?
Did you not notice the links WC Resident embedded in their comment? Are you able to meet their claims? Because your assessment and ad hominem is not a refute.
To Danged Ineffectual,
His original post claimed 6.8% of the population of contra costa has covid, extrapolating to 70 something thousand people. Those figures are nonsense, extrapolating out based on PCR testing, of which fewer than 1% of the county has had in the last week (according to him). 6.8% of less than one percent of the county is tiny, not seventy thousand people. Assuming more based on home tests is fair, but not orders of magnitude more.
He then goes on to assume various positive attributes of masks, none of which have been verified by tests or surveys. All the other mitigation techniques he cited have not stopped covid at all either.
He’s stuck on 2020 talking points, and hasn’t adjusted his reality in the slightest with 3 years of new data.
Sorry, not sure how I replied to you, that was for WC resident above.
It’s a shot in the dark, to unmask the reason for this mandates, in the first place.
/sarcasm on/
But how can we end it .. if masks and vaccines work, why would end a mask mandate?
/sarcasm off/
If they wanted to support the agenda, they would stop the mask mandate, but not the vaccine requirement. But with them stopping all of it, you have to wonder if they finally realize that those actions may not be effective.
And the truth will set you free.
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Fake news.
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For all those who were not allowed wo see a loved one when they were dying in a nursing home or hospital…. I am so sorry.
That can never be made up to you and they did not deserve that.
Might go see my doctor now.
Good!
Well, they’re everywhere!
From my wife a few minutes ago: “I’m parked next to this lady in the parking lot at Lunardi’s who is sitting in her car, alone, with her face mask on and blue plastic gloves 🧤 and she had the hand wipes out sanitizing her blue gloves.
Some people think that the masks will save them from the vaxxed shedding spike proteins. Of course who is going to shed on you if you are alone in your car.
@CAPTAIN BEBOPS…Don’t shed on me!
Not to besmirch my fellow white people, but it seems the only people I see wearing masks outdoors in any numbers are middle-aged or older white women. I see men walking their dogs maskless all the time, but generally if someone is wearing a mask, it’s a white woman. It all falls in line with who was the most shrill about wearing masks.
$200 Million in PPE supplies were just auctioned off in New York for $500,000. Let that sink in! Waste, Fraud and Abuse!!!
Why April 3rd?
Why not now?
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