The Department of Recreation and Parks in Los Angeles is requiring kids to wear masks indoors at all its facilities.
As the city copes with a record heat wave, the recent decision was slammed by the critics, calling it “nonsensical, dangerous mandates and regulations.”
In the all-caps statement released by the department on its website, LA is requiring “masking at all indoor facilities and requires the city to check proof of vaccination as a condition of entry.”
“Although the LA county department of public health now allows businesses to remove indoor mask mandates and modify their proof of vaccination status requirements based on their business needs, the city’s health order does not yet conform to that guidance and the current requirements remain unchanged,” the announcement read.
“As a city of Los Angeles facility, the department of recreation and parks (rap) rules and regulations for indoor mask mandates and proof of vaccination must conform to the city’s health orders which currently requires all individuals be masked while indoors at city facilities (including griffith observatory and cabrillo marine aquarium) and which requires proof of vaccination as a condition of entry. For those unable to provide proof of covid-19 vaccination, alternative programming is available,” it added.
However, ever since such a mandate was imposed, several doctors and scientists claim that masks don’t even do much if anything to stop the spread of COVID.
Last February, A group of USC and UCLA doctors wrote a letter to the LA Board of Supervisors where they referred data that showed that after Los Angeles imposed a mask mandate in June of 2021, COVID cases kept rising into December.
“After the L.A. County mask mandate took effect on June 30, 2021, the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases in the county rose well into December, their letter pointed out,” LA Daily News reported.
“The letter to the Board of Supervisors, part of a campaign to educate the board, was signed by Dr. Jeffrey D. Klausner, clinical professor of medicine, population and public health sciences at USC’s Keck School of Medicine; Neeraj Sood, professor of public policy at USC’s Sol Price School of Public Policy; James E. Enstrom, retired professor of epidemiology at UCLA; Dr. Noah Kojima, senior resident for internal medicine at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine; Dr. Catherine A. Sarkisian of UCLA’s Geffen School; James E. Moore, II, professor at USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering; Dr. Gabe Vorobiof, associate professor of medicine and cardiology at UCLA Geffen School of Medicine; and Avanidhar Subrahmanyam, professor at UCLA’s Anderson School,” it added.
Furthermore, the authors of the letter concluded, “It is clear from these data that infections continued to increase despite the imposition of the mask mandate suggesting limited or no efficacy of the mask mandate.”
