The Inyo County Public Health Officer Order requiring masking for all individuals in indoor public setting will be rescinded next week and Inyo County will align with the State Guidance for use of face coverings due to a significant decrease in cases locally and statewide. The local order will end at 11:59 pm on Tuesday, February 15, 2022.
A Local (County) Health Officer Order can be more restrictive, but not less restrictive than a State Health Officer Order. For this reason, there will still masking requirements throughout Inyo County in high-risk settings as identified by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH).
Masking Guidance for the Public: Under the State Guidance, masks are required in the following locations for ALL individuals regardless of their vaccination status:
- Healthcare settings;
- Indoors in K-12 schools, childcare, emergency shelters and cooling and heating centers;
- Long Term Care Settings & Adult and Senior Care Facilities;
- Homeless shelters;
- State and local correctional facilities and detention centers;
- On public transit (examples: airplanes, ships, ferries, trains, subways, buses, taxis, and ride-shares) and in transportation hubs (examples: airport, bus terminal, marina, train station, seaport or other port, subway station, or any other area that provides transportation).
Additionally, masks are required for unvaccinated individuals in indoor public settings and businesses. Examples include, but are not limited to: retail, restaurants, theaters, family entertainment centers, meetings, and state/local government offices serving the public.
Fully vaccinated individuals are recommended to continue indoor masking when the risk may be high. No person can be prevented from wearing a mask as a condition of participation in an activity or entry into a business.
> Surgical masks or higher-level respirators (e.g., N95s, KN95s, and KF94s) with good fit are highly recommended for all settings listed above.
Guidance for Businesses: In workplaces, employers are subject to the Cal/OSHA COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standards (ETS) or in some workplaces the Cal/OSHA Aerosol Transmissible Diseases (ATD) Standard and should consult those regulations for additional applicable requirements.
No person can be prevented from wearing a mask as a condition of participation in an activity or entry into a business.
The COVID-19 pandemic remains a challenge throughout California. The repeal of both the Local and State Universal Indoor Face Covering Orders does not mean that COVID-19 is no longer a risk to communities.
The COVID-19 vaccines are effective in reducing infection, serious disease, and deaths. At present, 68.7% of Inyo’s residents 12 years of age and older are fully vaccinated with an additional 10.4% partially vaccinated.
For additional information visit the COVID-19 Response and Vaccine Information webpages.
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God God,the conspiracy theories in some comments are hilarious….and entertaining….a couple just HAVE to be sarcasm….
For those of you out there who truly believe the “science” that masks work and save lives and prevent influenza… you better wear them for the rest of your miserable lives.
Would you allow doctors and nurses to operate on you without masks ?
Your comment is a perfect example of just how willfully ignorant people are. Willfully ignorant people that have had two years to do some independent research into the facts instead of lapping up all the garbage media and government want you to believe. Trying to educate the brainwashed useful idiots is akin to banging my head against a brick wall but here it goes…
The first thing you should know is surgeons and nurses wear masks to prevent bacterial infections not viral infections.
A hospital setting is distinctly different than every other setting because it is considered a sterile environment. Every other non hospital setting is considered a non-sterile environment. Additionally, medical staff are trained to use face masks properly.
In a non sterile environment experts recommend changing out your mask every 20-30 minutes because it becomes contaminated very quickly. Once a mask is contaminated it becomes a health hazard. Masks in a non sterile environment used by ignorant masses like you actually spread bacteria and increase the chance for disease transmission. You know, all those ignorant masses that are spreading bacteria from their masks to everything they touch in the grocery stores for example.
Decades of research on face masks have already concluded masks do not prevent the transmission of influenza viruses. Or as the CDC’s Nonpharmaceutical Measures for Pandemic Influenza in Nonhealthcare Settings—Personal Protective and Environmental Measures concludes.
“Our systematic review found no significant effect of face masks on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza.”
Nice Try William, but, you’re wrong….
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I could go on …..
Yes Kay, go on indeed, wear your mask for the rest of your life and believe as you wish.
It’s become nothing but political .
Yesterday,when I called the bull**** card on someone when it came to the “report” that,thanks to President Biden, tax-payers were paying for free crack-pipes to “minorities and illegals” addicted to drugs,the conversation (if that’s what you want to call it ) turned to masking,being told if I support masking and Dr.Fauci,what it does is make me “un-American”,and asked why I don’t love our Country.
Think we’re in for a LONG two years or so,unless we want to hide out in the hills by ourselves….
Great, how bout we just start right now?!
How does this affect you? You’ve never worn a mask.
“It’s become nothing but political ” it’s always been political since the day China and the Democrats conspired to release the virus on the World to take down the most powerful man in the World.
LOL 😀
I didn’t expect that to be a popular comment. But you’re all safe as I’m vaccinated. Most of my Tea Party friends who smoked are now dead from the virus. They refused to take the jab. So if you’re a heavy smoker if I was you i’d get the jab.
How’s that tinfoil hat doing?
Fat White Bob
If that ex-twice impeached “other guy” was the “most powerful person in the World “,it shows what state this World had become during his laughable short tenure.
And worse,and a lot sadder and disturbing,how weak so many people had become in our own Country worshiping him and thinking and feeling that way.
The guy was a reality show clown that made America the laughing stock of the World,certainly not anyone or any Country looked up to or saw as a strong leader.
You could easily be speaking of Biden in your last paragraph.
Fat White Bob
Is that what you’ve been told to say,told to think and do ?
Wouldn’t matter who the President is now or would be.
Unless it was a trump,the repubs and sounds like you would smash and bash,listening and believing their lies being told to you and hoping in 2 plus years to start wearing their red hats,flying their banners draped on their vehicles and homes,hoping he runs again.
And if that were to happen…..which it’s not….ready to cry foul and “rigged election “when he lost…….again.
Paranoia is a treatable condition. I suggest you contact your county mental health office. Unfortunately stupidity does not have a cure but turning off Faux news does reduce symptoms.
Mono Resident
Him too probably thinking and passing on the false info about President Joe Biden over-seeing the mass distribution of “crack pipes”,not only to existing drug addicts to keep up their behavior,but to ALL of us,hoping it will help others not addicted to maybe become addicted to dangerous drugs…how that would somehow garner more votes for the Democrats in the coming elections…
Surely you’re jesting here. You don’t really believe this….. or do you? They walk among us folks. Help us all.
I absolutely believe it. And yes the election was a fraud. It started with the virus which created a path to mail in voting. And there’s no way the mail in voting was on the up and up.
The virus was manufactured and released in the world so democrats could have mail in voting!!!???? What!!?? And here I thought the craziest thing I’d hear this year was drinking urine cured Covid. OMG! And is the earth flat and 9-11 an inside job orchestrated by Hunter or Hilary for some nefarious reason? (Or Dick or George W. if you swing too far the other way)
OMG
Now,I HAVE to believe Fat White Bob stating things, either looking for reaction and attention or he’s just plain coo-coo.
But then again….last time I looked up statistics,about 28 % of Americans believe what he says and say the same things.
Oh,how far down hill this Country has gone in the past,say 30 years or so.
And can you only imagine how it’s going to get and be in about a year or so from now,when the general election for 2024 starts gearing-up and choosing who’s going to run against President Biden?
Think about it…
Going to be entertainment at it’s finest.
Gotta go…have to down my glass of urine and then onto my primary Doctor to schedule my shot of bleach into my arm.
Cool, maybe we can focus on affordable housing and quality drinking water for the working class in the valley now? Cause that is an emergency that is about to impact a hell of a lot more at risk, economically at risk, that run services everyone else needs to vacation at their second homes here.
So, that is a thing.
I don’t think lifting the mask mandate has anything to do with housing…I mean, what resources are being diverted from housing to the mask mandate?
Exactly. Why all the focus on a mandate that is pointless anyway because masses are not following it. Meanwhile, society still had these other gangrenous wounds. Good distraction techniques!
Bring me up to date on where the water quality problems are I put 93514 in a cal website and it was not good
That about sums it up. Water quality and supply is not looking good and not a lot of joy ahead with this drought. Also, many of the local water district infrastructure is failing and they could really use some funds injected, especially in lower income housing areas where the residents are sharing large buildings or neighborhood systems (thinking apartments, rolling green and rovana) all on their own well systems, most of them poor quality and facing degradation due to dropping levels. Without grants/funds getting injected most of these communities are helpless to bring in new infrastructure, such as new lead free pipes or water monitoring technology. They are too small to float the project costs alone. Yet the rent and taxes keep going up and all we get for our tax money is expired test kits for covid and mask mandates. Why is that?
Not sure how someone can downvote advocacy for clean water. I mean, it is required for life. Suit yourself though.
The canal. I rake all the dog crap into it.
The order still requires that the unvaccinated wear masks while indoors at public retail spaces, like Vons. Like any of “those people” do it right now. Will they suddenly become socially responsible? No.
Yep, I will still wear a mask when I’m indoors. I do not trust my fellow citizens to do the right thing. So next surge will be in three weeks??
Yup, just like every other time they’ve tried to drop guidelines early.
Yeah. It’s a pity they didn’t wait until 0-5yo could be vaccinated, but if the “Pro-life” crowd is all fired up about being unvaccinated and upping their exposure risk, I’m past caring when they pass on.
Pro-life or pro-choice? I’m so confused!