The following report is by California Insider (excerpts):
The orders, which were handed down by individual counties, apply mainly to health care workers, although at least two Bay Area counties have extended the requirement to visitors and patients.
A similar mandate was handed down broadly across the Bay Area for the 2023–2024 fall-through-spring period.
Health officials in counties that have issued upcoming mask mandates said that the face coverings are designed to reduce the spread of COVID-19, influenza, and other respiratory viruses, [harkening] back to the COVID-19 pandemic, during which mandates were widespread across much of the United States.
Alameda County, which encompasses the city of Oakland, issued an order last month that requires staff at health care facilities to wear masks between Nov. 1, 2024, and March 31, 2025.
“The fall and winter of 2023-2024 saw substantial waves of RSV, flu and COVID19, and a similar pattern is expected this year,” the health order read, adding that such viruses “typically circulate and peak in Alameda County during the late fall and winter months.”
It warned that any violation of the order’s provision in Alameda County “constitutes an imminent threat and menace to public health, constitutes a public nuisance, and is punishable by fine, imprisonment, or both.”
The mandate only applies to staff, not patients or visitors.
Authorities in Contra Costa County issued a similar health order on Sept. 26, requiring health care staff to wear masks for the same time period with similar penalties. It also applies only to staff, not patients.
“The masking of personnel in these facilities is necessary to provide a layer of protection to patients during the respiratory season when risk of exposure is highest,” the county said.
Napa County issued an Oct. 1 health order that requires workers in health care facilities to wear masks. It doesn’t apply to visitors and patients.
“This Order requires each of these facilities implement and enforce a program requiring healthcare workers, regardless of vaccination status, to mask while in patient care areas,” the county wrote. “This order supersedes prior standing masking orders directed at healthcare workers.”
Going a step further, Santa Clara County, which includes San Jose, will require all people inside health care facilities, including visitors and patients, to wear masks from Nov. 1, 2024, to March 31, 2025. Exceptions will be made for children under age 2 and for people with medical issues that make it difficult for them to breathe in a mask or to remove a mask without assistance.
“Preventive measures like wearing a mask in crowded indoor places and staying home when you are sick continue to add layers of protection against respiratory viruses,” the county said in a news release issued last month. “Just like last year, the April 2023 health order will continue to require masks in all patient care areas of health care facilities starting November 1 and continuing through the winter respiratory virus period.”
Sonoma, Solano, Marin, and San Francisco counties have not indicated whether mask mandates will go into effect at health care facilities, according to an Epoch Times review of recent orders from the counties.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Foolishness knows no bounds in California. As we already know and repeatedly covered for years, there is no evidence to show masks are effective in preventing the transmission of these respiratory diseases – even though I think Covid was a total hoax and was never isolated and proven to cause disease. But, Commiefornia presses on…
1 Timothy 6:20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: [21] Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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And while you put your faux security face blankets on, don’t forget your dunce caps!
California is so evil and void of anything Godly or good anymore and has been that way for almost a century. All of America is evil, but, like I say like a broken record, California is in a league of its own. God’s wrath is going to hit California the hardest.
“And while you put your faux security face blankets on, don’t forget your dunce caps!”
LOL, Andrew!
And yes, California is begging for it.
” . . . issues that make it difficult for them to breathe . . . ” <—-you mean, like the 'mask' itself?
Hahaha…this will continue until the sheep say NO. This state is so messed up in so many ways. I was born in CA and it really used to be the golden state 🙁
California is a great big ensample of how a little leaven leavens a whole lump. The verses in the Holy Scriptures are alive and well coming to pass.
Praise the LORD!
Anyone else stumble on this video while on yt?
More and more, I believe Californication is a lost cause. Recently talked on the phone with a native-born American cousin over there. Sadly, she was just repeating what Democrats say about abortions; I would guess, the rest of it, like most over there. Sometimes, I feel an earthquake might hit that area and many will die, from all the innocent blood being spilled over there, God’s thousands of years of patience has limits:
Jeremiah 15:6 Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.
Genesis 4:10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.
Numbers 35:33 So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
Psalm 106:37-40
37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
39 Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
40 Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
Our judgment is coming swiftly.
I have prayerful hope that you and the rest of the brethren in the US may be preserved, like a few fruitful trees still standing after a tornado, to bear more fruit.
Thanks. We’ll see what happens. You and faithful Canadians could use them, too.
Psalm 31:23 O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
Thank you.
It warned that any violation of the order’s provision in Alameda County “constitutes an imminent threat and menace to public health, constitutes a public nuisance, and is punishable by fine, imprisonment, or both.”
It’s not about health, nor has it ever been. The coffers are running dry, and need the income from the mask mandate fines. Plus, they know something big is about to happen, and it’s not ‘respiratory’ ‘illnesses’ either…