California County Issues Mask Mandate for Private Homes Ahead of Thanksgiving

Santa Cruz County in California issued a mask mandate for all indoor settings, including private homes, ahead of the holiday season.

The mandate went into effect at 11:59 p.m. on November 21 and requires “all individuals to wear a face covering when indoors regardless of vaccination status.”

Unfortunately, a potential winter surge appears to be a significant threat to the health and safety of our community,” said Santa Cruz County Health Officer Dr. Gail Newel in the announcement. “As we look forward to spending time with those we love during the holidays, it is important to protect vulnerable friends and family members by wearing a mask indoors.

The mandate requires masks for private homes when “non-household members” are in attendance.

I wonder if these two-bit Mussolinis understand how corrosive to authority it is to pass this sort of silliness and have it simply ignored? They are asking not only more than they're entitled to ask but expecting to enforce it with spot "examples" of public punishment in order to govern through fear. We saw quite a bit of this on a grand scale in the old Soviet Union before that government came crashing down, largely from the fact that its authority had finally eroded through exactly this sort of overreach. We saw it on a tiny scale here where I live, where after a brief period of trial the public simply stopped obeying mask diktat because it was stupid and the local authorities declined to enforce it for the same reason.

Anyone who believes that this is going to take place as ordered in any elite household only needs to recall 0bama's birthday party - that's how they really behave, that's who they really are. And within this is the unmistakable fetid aroma of politicians so besotted with power that they actually think "Sure, we'll allow them to have their Thanksgiving but only on our terms." They'll be ignored, and not only over Thanksgiving.

If those county commissioners done ALL have protests in front of their homes ON THANKSGIVING DAY

AAAAAND

have the local major thoroughfare shut down…

then that county is getting what it deserves.

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