LOS ANGELES – Clearly frustrated over continued public defiance in parts of the state, Gov. Gavin Newsom Thursday ordered all residents to wear face coverings in almost all settings outside their homes to help slow the spread of the coronavirus.
“Simply put, we are seeing too many people with faces uncovered, putting at risk the real progress we have made in fighting the disease,” Newsom said in a statement announcing the order. [View the order here.]
“California’s strategy to restart the economy and get people back to work will only be successful if people act safely and follow health recommendations. That means wearing a face covering, washing your hands and practicing physical distancing,” Newsom added.
The statewide mandate requires residents to wear masks in “high-risk situations,” which cover virtually all scenarios outside the home. It specifically requires them:
— inside or in line to enter any indoor public space;
— while obtaining health services at locations including a hospital, pharmacy, medical clinic, laboratory, physician or dental office, veterinary clinic or blood bank;
— while waiting for or riding on public transportation or paratransit or while in a taxi, private car service, or ride-sharing vehicle;
— in the workplace while interacting with people or in areas where food is being prepared, in common areas such as hallways and elevators and parking structures; and
— in outdoor public spaces when it is not feasible to maintain six feet of distance from people outside your own household.
“Science shows that face coverings and masks work,” Newsom said. “They are critical to keeping those who are around you safe, keeping businesses open and restarting our economy.”
Health officials across the state and nation have said COVID-19 spreads through respiratory droplets that people can emit while talking or simply breathing, potentially infecting others around them. Wearing a face covering is touted as an effective way to prevent such droplets from infecting others. The mask, officials say, does not necessarily protect the wearer from being infected, but it prevents the wearer from spreading the illness to others.
The mandate comes on the heels of record-high numbers of new cases being reported across the state. Los Angeles County alone reported more than 2,000 new cases on Wednesday, although health officials say key indicators such as hospitalization and transmission rates have remained steady, and death rates are decreasing.
Health officials statewide have said they anticipated growing numbers of cases as more businesses are allowed to reopen and more people are out of their homes. They consistently cite hospitalization and death rates as key indicators of whether cases are surging and threaten the hospital system’s ability to respond.
“As Californians venture into our communities more, wearing face coverings is another important way we can help protect one another,” state public health director Dr. Sonia Angell said in a statement. “Combined with physical distancing and frequent hand-washing, wearing cloth face coverings when we are with others outside of our household will reduce the spread of COVID-19, which is still a very real threat across our state.”
The statewide mandate includes exemptions for children under age 2, people with medical or other disabilities that prevent the wearing of a mask, people eating in a restaurant while socially distanced and people working outdoors or engaged in outdoor recreation while alone or with members of their own households.
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Ryan says
… kudos for a job well done, Governor Gavin Newsom’s “… go right ahead, be my guest, pillage, rape, riot, loot and burn down California to your heart’s content” policy, tacitly granted to ANTIFA terrorists, has proven a such resounding success, it’s resonated, tearing at the fabric of Washington state, DC, Georgia, Oregon and Minnesota. Well deserved, alt-left Democrats here in America have Gavin Newsom nominated, for communist sympathizer of the year –
OIFVet0809 says
‘Coronavirus’ is the medical designation given to what we call “the common cold” as per the 1989 American Medical Association”s Medical Dictionary.
What we are being shown as ‘covid’ is actually called an exosome. An exosome is dead cell material that absorbs the toxins and pollutants from our food/environment. Once a year, or every few years, our body cleanses itself of these toxins. It does so by causing us to sweat, vomit, and defecate it out in a process we call the “Flu” or a “virus”.
Flu and Viruses originate inside our bodies with transmission occurring only through direct blood contact or through injection.
Dr Fauci himself writes within the New England Journal of medicine that this is akin to a mild flu with less than a percentage death rate. This is a journal written by/for Doctors.
After, I believe WW2, a law passed called the Smith-Mundt Act. This law prevented the U.S. Government from using propaganda on its citizens. In 2012 it was struck down and repealed. Give that a moment… let me help…
October 2019: Bill Gates attends Event 201; a gathering of top officials from all around to discuss what wouldo happen, and what steps would be implemented, in the case of a global pandemic. Coronavirus is mentioned.
Early December 2019: Netflix releases Bill Gates’ ‘Pandemic”. A series documenting what would happen in such situations.
Real ID 2020 is a vaccine with a biometric component as opposed to an RFID component. Biometrics entangle with your DNA creating a 3rd strand that begins replicating itself through your body and cannot be removed once injected, unlike RFID which sits under the skin.
It has already been said by Bill Gates (who isn’t even a medical anything) that we will not be able to buy, sell, or trade without it once available. There is a patent number associated with Real ID 2020: WO2020060606.
I am sure there is more I am forgetting, but this is what I can remember for now.
Hayppy Hyppo says
@OIFVet0809, what a load of ignorant nonsense. Unbelievable.
For once, calling a virus which by now has killed over 120’000 Americans and over 400’000 people woorld-wide as “synonymous with the flu” is really beyond stupid. The effects of COVID-19 on the human body is still not fully understood but what we know so far suggests that even some milder cases may well suffer from severe damage of respiratory system and organs. None of this happens with influenza. So there’s that.
It also seems your understanding of what viral infections are is worse than that of a 3rd grader, because your idea that getting the flu is the body “cleaning itself” from “toxins and pollutants from our food/environment” is complete horse manure.
As if this wasn’t bad enough, you then double down on stupid with that Bill Gates RFID nonsense. Which is right down there with the ‘Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton Child Porn Pizza Restaurant’ and really says a lot more about you than it does about Bill Gates.
The only thing missing to make the Cycle Of Stupidity complete is mentioning 5G.
Someone once said “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.” If you want to know why this country is in the bad state it is, look in the mirror.
jack mehoff says
For once, calling a virus which by now has killed over 120’000 Americans and over 400’000 people woorld-wide as “synonymous with the flu” is really beyond stupid. The effects of COVID-19 on the human body is still not fully understood but what we know so far suggests that even some milder cases may well suffer from severe damage of respiratory system and organs. None of this happens with influenza. So there’s that.< long winded dim.
Laughing says
I know he is the most Liberal Republican I think we all know but even The Govemator likes the mask mandate.
“This is 100% the right move. This will help us beat this terrible virus. The science is unanimous – if we all wear masks, we slow down the spread and can reopen safely. It’s not a political issue. Anyone making it a political issue is an absolute moron who can’t read.” https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/06/19/arnold-schwarzenegger-newsom-mask-order/
Safety says
I find that wearing a jock strap or a thong works quite well.
Alby says
Hopefully not a used one
John Bunce says
How about “NO”. You cannot stop a virus with a face mask or any other contraption that ‘king Nuisance’ mandates. Just like the Flu…everyone will eventually be exposed. This is just more power grab B.S. It is past time to push back against the tyrants.
Laughing says
Key part of your statement, eventually.
The masks are to delay exposure as much as possible to reduce stress on the hospitals and medical care givers.
That is all.
So sorry you feel your power has been grabbed.
Beverly says
The governor should step down from the office because he’s taking this facemask way out of control you think people is going to stay 6 feet apart I dont think so
John Bunce says
What hospitals are over-stressed? Most are laying off staff due to low admissions.
Jd says
Yes! We need heard immunity! When 80% of us have gotten it ONLY then can we stop this insanity!
We are being controlled by FEAR!!
Comrade Newsome takes his direction from Comrade PELOSI!
We cannot allow our economy and housing market to collapse!
You cannot lock people down WITHOUT CONSEQUENCES!
How many new depression and drug alcoholism cases as a result? Or the suicides!
Laughing says
First full sentence, it is herd, as in sheep or cows.
Not fear, science.
Liberalism and communism do not mix, see oil and water.
They are not collapsing, not even close to it. Stop fear mongering.
People are not locked down, last I checked most things are open now, thus the mask requirement.
Sad, but I believe some conservative call that removing the weak. Nice to se you care, that is a good thing and I agree, which is why I get the de-funding of the police (a small amount) and re-enforcing the social health measures like treatment centers and affordable mental health for all.
Lauren says
Put aside the debate on whether masks are helpful or even harmful. The utter hypocrisy of cheering on gatherings of thousands of people, standing shoulder to shoulder for the past two weeks, and then requiring us to go back to social distancing and mandatory mask wearing, is beyond the pale.
John Bunce says
Well said.
surfside 6 says
These chairborne liberals sure spin off the do’s and don’ts huh? To order 50 million casual civilians to adorn a specific form of largely unavailable attire could be one of the toughest single schemes ever enforced. After 10 days of being routed and humbled by drunken mobs, state and local authorities quickly return to what they do best. Pulling over on the Popsicle man and short order fry cook.
Laughing says
Glad I am not the popsicle man or short fry guy then.
SO hard to find a bandanna, or cloth mask, or do that cut up a sock thing, or order from one of the hundreds of places rushing to sell stylish masks of all different qualities.
Guess you do not fall into one of these groups “The statewide mandate includes exemptions for children under age 2, people with medical or other disabilities that prevent the wearing of a mask, people eating in a restaurant while socially distanced and people working outdoors or engaged in outdoor recreation while alone or with members of their own households.”
Bite me says
Even a N95 mask only filters down to .3 microns. The Corona Virus is .12 microns.
This man lets rioters and looters run a muck and now he wants me to do what he says?
Sorry, im not sick, this is not a legal law, he cannot force me to buy a face-mask violating my constitutional rights.
As a native Californian from the 60’s, I have two words for him….
Ha says
lol you must be mental if you’re gonna cry about something so simple
Laughing says
Was not aware that there is a Constitutional amendment covering freedom to not wear a health mandated mask.
Please, let me in on the this one, which amendment is it?
Newsome signed off on National Guard deployment, but yeah he just did nothing personally to go out and stop the looters and rioters. Did you?
If the virus was not attached to moisture particles then you would be correct. Science is hard.
tsparky says
“health officials say key indicators such as hospitalization and transmission rates have remained steady, and death rates are decreasing.”
The death rate is what counts, not positive test results. If 10 of thousands of people protesting in LA and Hollywood 2-3 weeks ago didn’t cause a huge spike in deaths, then the whole continuing lockdown is a farce.
Laughing says
Or since most of the people were younger, and likely did not have prior health conditions, they just got sick/caught Covid.
Again, science and statistics are hard.
tsparky says
You just refuted your statement above about requiring masks. Now they have antibodies, they won’t give it to their elders or sick relatives because they have been exposed. That is how a vaccine works too. The only people that should be wearing masks are the sick/elderly. The rest of us need to get exposed and develop immunity.
Laughing says
Um, science must be real hard.
Exposure has not guaranteed antibodies.
People who have had it sometimes get it again, disproving your antibody argument.
Some people show no signs and are carriers… that would be me. Until it dies off in our bodies.
The wearing of the masks is to prevent exposure when some person THINKS they do not have it or can not pass it along because they only got a sniffle.
Pretend you are Batman or something. Maybe be a bandito. Have fun with it!
Governor's an idiot says
This idiot is a disgrace to all of California
He hasn’t done one good thing in California he’s as bad as stupid Nancy Pelosi
Laughing says
Can’t say I am particularly happy with him either so far. Was not my vote.
But what does that have to do with my comment that you replied to?