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Tyranny On Autopilot: LA County Set To Resume Mask Mandate

https://www.dailynews.com/2022/07/08/villanueva-lashes-back-after-la-county-supervisors-consider-power-to-remove-sheriff/
https://lasd.org/la-county-health-officer-order-to-mask-while-indoors/

http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/peace-and-prosperity/2022/july/09/return-of-the-los-angeles-county-mask-mandate-is-on-autopilot/

Authored by Adam Dick via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity,

People in the city and county of Los Angeles, California have suffered
under some the more extreme coronavirus crackdown measures in America.

And, one of those authoritarian measures — the county’s mask mandate —
may be about to make a comeback under county policy to automatically
reimpose the mandate if the coronavirus “community transmission” in
the county is determined to have risen to what the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) considers “high” and stay at that level
for two weeks.

Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer
is advising that the mask mandate will return before the end of this
month if the current trend of increasing “cases” continues.

Insanity upon insanity. Tyranny on autopilot.

The coronavirus circulating today is different than what was
circulating when Los Angeles County previously mandated mask wearing.
Yet, the county has put the reimposing of the same supposedly
responsive policy on autopilot. Further, masks, while causing known
health detriments, have not been shown to provide net protection
against the spread of any coronavirus.

The county might as well mandate each person in the county carry a
rabbit’s foot in his pocket to ward off infection. Most importantly,
mask mandates impinge on liberty and exceed proper governmental
bounds.

Nonetheless, if a number on the county’s CDC-inspired chart crosses an
arbitrary level and stays there or higher for two weeks, the county is
set to reimpose a draconian mask mandate.

A previous Los Angeles County government imposed mask mandate ended in
March when “community transmission” dropped below the “high” level.
Fortunately for people in the county, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex
Villanueva had declared in July of last year that the county sheriff’s
department would decline to enforce the mandate.

Of course, you can count on politicians on the Los Angeles County
Board of Supervisors to be displeased by such refusal to enforce the
mandate. For reasons surely including his refusal to enforce the
county government’s previous mask mandate, Villanueva now finds
himself in jeopardy of being fired by county board members.

Next week, the county board is considering placing on the same
November election ballot on which Villanueva is a candidate for
reelection a measure designed to give the county board the means to
remove an elected county sheriff from office.