L.A. is headed for a new COVID mask mandate. Will other counties join?

[pstokely]

their current transit mandate is mostly unenforced and ignored, I think this would be also without any fines

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-07-15/l-a-headed-for-new-covid-mask-mandate-will-others-join

With the coronavirus resurgent and cases and hospitalizations on the rise, Los Angeles is poised to become the first California county to reinstate mandatory public indoor masking.

If the situation sounds familiar, it’s because it is. Almost exactly one year ago, the county took the same step to combat a surge fueled by the Delta variant of the coronavirus. It was the first, but it wasn’t the last. Officials in at least 20 counties — including Ventura, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Sacramento and a large swath of the San Francisco Bay Area — would eventually follow suit.

Unless conditions improve, Los Angeles County will by the end of the month find itself in an identical position: issuing a face covering order even though no other county currently appears ready to do the same.

But as California grapples with another summertime wave — this one driven by the highly infectious family of Omicron subvariants, namely BA.5 — will L.A. County prove to be ahead of the curve or, as some critics maintain, behind the times?

[senseandsensibility]

1. I hope so.

[skylucy]

2. Good! I'm in the San Francisco Bay Area and I wish they would do it here.

My husband is double vaccinated and double boosted. He came down with Covid on July 4th and he is just now feeling somewhat better. He had every symptom in the book, except being short of breath. He has asthma. The vaccines probably have saved him from hospitalization. We had both been masking, but hardly anyone else around here has.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

3. I wish it was happening tomorrow and not (speculatively) towards the end of the month.

I’m in LA and I keep hearing about people in my circle who are getting sick with Covid.

I never stopped masking, myself.