“Mask mandates return in parts of the Bay Area as virus season nears” (San Francisco Chronicle via Yahoo! News):
Mask requirements are returning to health care settings across parts of the Bay Area, as local health officials brace for the annual surge in respiratory illnesses – including COVID-19, influenza and RSV – that typically arrives with colder weather.
Starting Nov. 1, several counties – including Contra Costa, Santa Clara, Sonoma, Napa, San Mateo and Santa Cruz – will again require health care workers, and in some cases patients and visitors, to wear masks in patient care areas through the winter and early spring.
What about the county that will be hosting a COVID-19 superspreader event soon (the Super Bowl)?
Santa Clara County’s rule goes further, requiring everyone – workers, patients and visitors – to wear masks in “patient care areas” of hospitals, clinics and nursing homes.
#FollowTheScience
I have been wearing a mask in public since 2018. Yesterday I went to the store without mine so the cute clerk who seems to have a crush on me would see my ugly face and give up. She wasn’t there, and the male clerk seemed even more friendly. I felt naked, disgusting, and apparently attractive to males, so donned the mask again. So I say, “Atta boy/girl/non-binary Bay Area!”
I just arrived at the Philadelphia airport via American Airlines. I made it about 20 feet into the terminal before I saw my first three maskers (zero sighted at PBI).
When I went to vote yesterday I had the misfortune of having someone in a mask lead me to the voting machine and explain the instructions. She literally sounded like Charlie Brown’s teacher but as I am a veteran of the process I simply nodded and did my business. However, if I was a neophyte it would have presented a challenge
Thanks, SN. I hope that you voted for Ayatollah Mamdani!