New state health guidelines announced by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday recommend that Californians wear two cloth masks or one filtered mask when going out in public to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
That’s a more rigorous safety precaution than the Newsom administration announced in June when it handed down a statewide order directing people to wear face coverings in indoor public settings.
“We are encouraging people basically to double down on mask wearing, particularly in light of all what I would argue is bad information coming from at least four states in this country. We will not be walking down their path, we’re mindful of your health and our future,” Newsom said.
The new guidelines apply to cloth masks, not masks with filters, Newsom said.
The remarks come as the governors of several states, including Texas and Mississippi, announced that they were lifting, or planned to lift soon, mandates to wear a mask in public to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
Newsom has been critical of that approach, calling it “absolutely reckless” in a tweet sent Tuesday afternoon.
Infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci has recommended wearing two cloth masks since at least January, saying on NBC’s Today that doubling up reduces the risk of virus spread, including against variant strains of the coronavirus.
“It just makes common sense that it would be more effective,” he said at the time.
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Newsom already wears two masks, as do most Liberal leaders,,,,one is the mask of comedy, the other is that of tragedy. And the show goes on.
Pity we can’t superglue the mask PERMANENTLY on his face.
Newsom and his communist buddies need to wear three masks. One for the criminals they all are. Using their positions to provide them with treasure while dictating to “We the People”. Gotta keep the American people quiet while we put our communist regime into place. They don’t even hide the fact that they are tied financially to the CCP.
Newsom is a prime example of stuffing sheep brains from the slaughter house in someone’s head
The voters out there, GET WHAT they deserve imo.
“Newsom has been critical of that approach, calling it “absolutely reckless” in a tweet sent Tuesday afternoon”. Yep, Newsom, you have had California locked down, with people wearing masks outside, yet your death rate is so high. Oh and by the way Gavin, your kids go to a private school, but you have the public schools closed. Gavin, write an article on how it feels to be in bed, with the teachers unions. Money talks doesn’t it Gavin? You, Gavin, eat at The French Laundry Restaurant with no masks on, but you want people to wear masks, at the dinner table, and then pulling down their mask, taking a bite of food and then putting the mask over your nose and mouth again. Oh, how I love the communist system and the deep state elitists. I am your communist master, do as I say or you will be fined or imprisoned, but do not do as I do.
i thought they were re-calling this clown.
Last i heard, it was 100k or so, shy of meeting the # needed…
But Jill Biden just went before a group of children WITHOUT any mask. Oh, dear.
This was a program that was planned. Not an accident.