Contra Costa Health Services announced Tuesday a new health order requiring masks in all public indoor places without exceptions for certain indoor settings.
With the COVID-19 omicron variant circulating through the county, the county decided to no longer make exceptions for fully vaccinated public speakers and performers, and fully vaccinated groups of 100 or fewer people that were allowed to remove their face coverings under controlled conditions.
The new order, which goes into effect Wednesday, requires all people in Contra Costa, regardless of vaccination status, to mask in public indoor settings.
Contra Costa joins other Bay Area counties in requiring masks again in all public settings.
“The omicron variant is very contagious, and we now know that anyone, regardless of vaccination status, can spread this variant to other people,” said Dr. Ori Tzvieli, Contra Costa County’s deputy health officer. “We anticipate the case rate and hospitalization numbers to increase over the coming weeks. To reduce spread, cases and hospitalizations, we all need to wear masks anytime we are in an indoor public setting.”
Contra Costa’s first case of the omicron variant was identified Dec. 18, and case rates and hospitalizations have significantly increased since then. The average number of daily new COVID-19 cases has increased 149% over the last week, while hospitalizations increased 31 percent.
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People who don’t go to the gym insist you wear a mask at the gym.
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Joining the movement! This order set me over the edge! When they put a mask on a public speaker who is 15 + feet from the audience… this isn’t about science anymore. This is about control.
No. These people have no jurisdiction over me.
Heil Mein Fuhrer!
Because the masks have worked so well the past two years. 🙄
N-95 masks work really, really well.
Your common, generic masks do practically nothing. It’s barely an improvement on what was used by people back in 1919 during the Spanish Flu. 🤪
What have you been using?
So what does this mean when we dine out?
It means do whatever the hell you want with your own face holes
Same as it has for months. Mask to be worn for entry, until seated. Mask to be worn if you get up from the table, and when exiting.
Blah, blah, blah…
Does anybody pay attention to these “rules” anymore?
Why?! Why?! This mandate better end by Jan 15, which is the state mandate’s deadline.
Here we go again.
There are just as many scientific documents proclaiming that masks work as there are proclaiming that masks don’t work.
What convinces me that masks don’t work is that the covid is small and that it can get through a standard cloth mask.
When looking at all the versions of masks people wear in public, I believe most of those masks are pretty much worthless.
Surgical masks and N95 masks seem to be the only masks that offer any real blockage of the Covid.
That leads me to believe that unless everyone wears an N95 there is no real protection.
Additionally,
it’s becoming clearer by the day that money trumps CDC guidelines as the CDC changes its guidelines at the whim of big money, such as UAL.
With no uniformity with mask protection and little or no science behind CDC recommendation, these health orders are a bad joke.
I went to a shop the other day that proclaimed on the door to wear a mask entering. Funny thing was none of the employees were wearing masks. They must of thought me daft for wearing one.
I have N95 masks from back in 2018 when we had the bad wildfire smoke. I find them very stuffy to wear and we wore them even on walks due to the really obvious smoke. Folks commented on how stuffy they were to wear.
When masks were mandated for the “pandemic” I wore some dust nuisance masks I had on hand. It was actually hard to get a new supply of those for awhile because the hardware stores had donated their stock to health workers. I also picked up a package of the surgical masks mainly for getting haircuts because the dust masks straps would get in the way.
I still wear masks going in stores because it’s not worth a confrontation when I’m only going to be there for 10-15 minutes.
Common sense prevails.
We are in a pandemic of tyrants.
All news reporting omicrom is a cold.
What inspires these people?
I want them all charged in tribunals.
There is no longer the excuse of incompetence.
Everything now is done with malice.
None of this is about a virus.
These people are criminals of the highest degree.
It’s time to shut this crap down.
would masks be required at the tribunal?
HONK🤡
Ok, so now biden admits he has No idea how to tackle the wuflu despite hammering President Trump about it. He now says he’ll leave it up to the states. Hmmmm didn’t President Trump say that and the media hammered him! And the Health Nazis will require masks forever unless WE THE PEOPLE stand up to these weasels. Any bets that biden will do a virtual State of The Union address virtually if he evens does one at all because you know…the pandemic?
So CDC and all msm admits mask and vaccines don’t work yet Ori the unelected junior health department guy is allowed to issue an order affecting millions of people in contra costa county? I don’t think so. Make it make sense. These fools better pass some actual laws before it becomes the wild west over here. Look at this guys picture, he looks like a demented clown who was crammed in a port a potty locked in and tipped over.
I don’t take orders from idiots like this. I would recommend you have some self respect and self preservation and do the same. These fools would off us all if we complied.
COVID-19 survival rates by age group –
0 – 19: 99.997%
20 – 49: 99.98%
50 – 69: 99.5%
70 +: 94.6%
“… average number of daily new COVID-19 cases has increased 149% over the last week, while hospitalizations increased 31 percent.” ~~~ and that means exactly WHAT? ONE case X 149% = One and a ‘suspected’ new cases? !!!? Hospitalizations up 31% OF WHAT…?
Rename this crap the Socialist Power-Grab Pandemic.
***While were at it, Ori Tzvieli… Tell us about your real work: how many Dead~~Hospitalized~~Sleeping-in-a-box~~Sucking-on-welfare~~ All due to rampant miss use of DRUGS, both illegal and OVER-PRESCRIBED? Now THAT would be a real number!
Don’t try to control me, based on what some demi-god out there in Sorosland told you to say in order to keep the grant-cash flowing.
But but but what about angry Karen Mitchoff? Aren’t we all afraid she will send her goons after us? [I am not].
Ugh…, here we go again…
If you haven’t read THE GREAT BARRINGTON DECLARATION, I highly recommend you read it now. It’s the science that I have been following since early on in the pandemic. It was written by top scientists and epidemiologists from around the world. It was cosigned by tens of thousands more. It was also suppressed by those pushing for lock downs, and these ludicrous measures that have been forced upon us, as we now know by recently released emails by Dr. Fauci and Collins. Lets wake up, and stop this madness! Lets follow the real science.
As Shakespeare said, “absolute power corrupts absolutely”.
It is time we stand up to these local health authorities who are now drunk with power and will do anything to maintain their control over our lives.
LOL, as has already been stated: Everyone is already over this tyranny.
LEO will not enforce Unconstitutional “mandates”.
Restaurants Refuse to be the Vaccine / Mask police.
And the Karen’s, your trying to enforce this is only Encouraging Mass NON-COMPLIANCE.
And again, they are going to drag this out forever. Do not forget that Newsollini is a Klaus Schwab / Great Reset / World economic forum Stooge. <—-debunk this.
Marburg & SPARS are next.
Oh indeed there is a health crisis in Contra Costa County. Seems the County Heath Services staff have fallen victim to mental illness following the Faucist doctrine.
Now I can see one of 43 comments on your post about mask-wearing on FB. Privacy setting issue? I even had a friend check, and she confirmed. C’mon, Mayor, get on it. 😉
“The omicron variant is very contagious, and we now know that anyone, regardless of vaccination status, can spread this variant to other people”
Let that statement sink in.
But but but but they said if I were to put the DNA changing experimental concoction in my arm, TWICE, I could ditch the mask, as well as by-passing most other restrictions! So I’m no better off than someone who hasn’t been jabbed since I can still get sick and pass it on to others? Guess I need the booster! …and then a booster to that booster…than another booster to help with the booster to the booster…YaY!
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The health department is squandering what little public trust is left in their institution. Either the vaccines work or they don’t. But telling everyone to get vaccinated & boosted (which I am) to be healthy & then at the same time telling everyone that we all must wear masks even in a small setting where everyone is vaccinated makes no sense. Not to mention….I can still take my mask off in a restaurant full of vaccinated people for an hour or two while o dine….but I can’t be in an office with 5 other people who are all vaccinated? It makes no rational sense. How are we expected to continue to take them seriously?
Today, I discovered that the county offers plastic surgery for transgender purposes, but not reconstructive breast surgery for women who are cancer survivors. In my opinion, this is disgraceful and an affront to Contra Costa County taxpayers of every stripe.
As of January 1, 2022 I will no longer comply with these foolish mandates from politicians and their unelected subordinates.
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