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Palmdale to consider resolution to not enforce mask mandates

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PALMDALE – The Palmdale City Council will consider a resolution to not enforce future Los Angeles County mask mandates at the Wed., Aug. 3, council meeting. Under the resolution, future public health orders that would require indoor masking will not be enforced by city staff. [View it here.]

The city of Palmdale falls under the jurisdiction of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LACDPH) and would be included in any new health order issued, but may or may not choose to utilize staff resources to enforce it.

“We believe our residents should have the right to choose whether or not to wear masks,” said Mayor Steve Hofbauer. “We favor allowing our residents to decide for themselves based on their individual medical risk assessments.”

Recently, LACDPH announced that the number of COVID cases and the number of COVID related hospitalizations had pushed the county into the “high” level.

On Thursday, July 28 LACDPH announced COVID levels had stabilized, and they are holding off on renewing the indoor mask mandate. The LACDPH would be responsible for enforcement of any new order.

[Information via news release from the city of Palmdale.]

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23 comments for "Palmdale to consider resolution to not enforce mask mandates"

  1. I see more indoctrinated mask wearing fools around the 93590 post office then anywhere else in Southern California.

    So if the area is ran by republicans the mask just goes to show everyone watches to much tv

  2. Who calls themselves mini Hitler? Here to read the news not run into people who glorify mass murderers..

    • It’s Frank Rizzo, Annie. Let’s pile on and show him how mini Hitlers get crushed. As far as knowing what he’s talking about, he seems unable to find his behind in 40 grabs.

  3. The city of Palmdale should reconsider. A mandatory mask requirement along with a few badge pushers and a stack of ticket books, Palmdale could be passing up some big bucks! Provided anybody’s sucker enough to pay.

  4. This is exactly why LA County is in the shabby shape it’s in. Once again, the local government chooses to rub the egos of the criminals and wrong doers who have little to no care for the health and safety of their neighbors over protecting these very neighbors. Only LA County does someone go absolutely bat-crap on a bus to the point of making actual physical violent threats, shooting, punching, kicking, and even running over, and yet they’re get off with nothing but a slap on the wrist. But you dare make a typo on a welfair application , they send a detective over your house to investigate. Only in LA do they go all soft on the things that really matter and come down hard on what doesn’t. So, it is no surprise that they continue to take this very real and very serious pandemic as a joke, let everyone walk around maskless while those who have underline health conditions are ignored.

  5. The A.V. has had enough of Barbara Ferrer’s ”ONE SIZE FIT’S ALL” ideology.. We’ve seen what a Mask Mandate & Lock Down’s have done to the economy & businesses.. WE’RE DONE!! Masks are full of Bacteria that we were breathing, NO THANKS!! There were plenty of ”Non-Essential Workers” working during the Pandemic, creating an ”UNDERGROUND ECONOMY” is all that did!!

    • Trumpsters in play on this stupid waste of time. These people want to shove their politics down our throat weather we like it or not. Trump was responsible for over 500,000 deaths by doing nothing when he could have. Deniers are dangerious to our AV.

          • LMAO. If you’re referring to Stinger, that’s hilarious. If you were in any way percipient, you would know that Stinger’s intellect and knowledge would crush you like a bug. I know cause I’ve been crushed many times.

          • LOL…the Beecee alts are always so obvious. The glaring bigotry of “anyone who disagrees with me I will just call them gay” is a dead giveaway.

            I dunno if she is producing all these usernames herself, or if she just recruits from the other RWNJ bigots in the place she hangs out, but either way they bring zero value to the discussion.

          • Can you imagine being a male and referring to folks you disagree with as bigots, like a parrot,
            Bigot, bigot, bigot…

            Such a woman move.
            But not surprising.

          • I don’t refer to “people who disagree with me” as bigots, I refer to you as a bigot because you have proven yourself to be one over and over and over and over.

          • Tony:

            You’re right. Your brilliant, charming and elegant response to my statement makes me realize what a stunning, towering intellect you possess so I must be out of my league. I’ll just slink away in defeat.

  6. Excellent job. We Americans need to protest the County wide mandates. The mayor of LA does not control the whole county. We citizens of Palmdale and Lancaster need to annex ourselves to Kern county. La county treats us like step children. They do not have our best interest in mind.

    • Have you ever lived in Bakersfield? The rest of Kern County outside the city limits of the county seat aren’t treated like stepchildren, they flat out do not exist.

      • I certainly thought so…of course I lived in Bakersfield…I suspect the residents of the outer reaches of Kern County have a different view.

        • Well, that’s what would be expected from people you know. I assume they are living in weird alt-right domestic terrorist compounds that can only exist in backwaters like Waco, CdE, or Garlock.

      • Frank:

        You are so ignorant, I’m surprised you can find your way out from under your rock.

        Hitler and Stalin were 180-degree opposites that couldn’t be more different politically. You should educate yourself before blathering ridiculous, uninformed, fact-free statements that make you look stupider than you actually are (IDK, it’s a toss-up).

        You desperately try to be controversial, but only make more of a fool of yourself. If that was your intention, well done.

        • While they differed in approach, both did arrive at a totalitarian state. Drank is apparently a Trumpist, so it’s understandable that his understanding of both Hitler and Stalin would be centered on that totalitarianism, since it is Trump’s foundational point as well.

        • LOL…that Drank was supposed to be Frank. No matter how appropriate, that was not an intentional error.

        • The only thing Hitler and Stalin had in common was that they were both ruthless, evil, murdering, monstrous b@$+ards. Naziism and communism are like lions and hyenas or spiders and wasps. Communism still plagues us and we might soon be at bloody war with it. I’d love to be wrong.

          I know I’m in the minority, but I firmly believe that the communist Chinese military purposely unleashed COVID as biological warfare they could deny and weasel out of responsibility. LeBron James and the NBA, Hollywood, Disney, Big Tech and the Biden family have sold out our country for monetary gain! JMHO.