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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14029871/hospital-covid-mask-mandates-visitors-patients-monterey-california.html

Americans outraged as hospitals bring back COVID-era mask
mandates for visitors and patients

Americans are outraged Covid-era mask rules have started
creeping back into daily life, with an entire hospital
system issuing a new mandate and a public subway suggesting
face coverings be worn.

One hospital system in Monterey, California, which treats
nearly 400,000 patients a year, this week reinstated its
face mask mandate for visitors and patients.

Meanwhile several counties in San Francisco's Bay Area have
also brought back mask rules in healthcare facilities ahead
of flu season.

And this week, New York City's health department again
began recommending people mask-up while using public
transport as the nation heads into winter.

. . .

Very retro eh ?

The mask mandates were mostly a "Looking like we're
doing something" thing for officials during Covid.
Their real-world effectiveness was 'iffy', but it
LOOKED like something.

There's also a diff between a 'recommendation' and
a 'MANDATE'. Recs are just fine - authoritarian
mandates are another thing entirely.

Masks ... well ... they don't HURT anything, and
if people WANT them then they are free to use them.

"Healthcare centers" ... this is a more interesting
line of thought. They are full of sick people for
whom even the flu might be quickly fatal. The various
centers are afraid of being SUED SUED SUED if dear
old Auntie Roo dies of flu while in their care.

This is a serious, potentially civ-destroying, threat
these days because there are SO many hungry lawyers
and juries DO have a big record of deciding for the poor
distraught relatives no matter how ridiculous the claims.
Uncle Fred lived three blocks from a StarBucks ? - The
DEADLY COFFEE FUMES killed him fer sure !!!

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