Apr 21, 2020

Facial coverings mandatory in Humboldt starting this Friday



The Humboldt County Health Officer has issued a Health Order requiring the use of facial coverings to further manage the spread of COVID-19. The order will be in effect starting at 12:01 a.m. Friday, April 24, and until it is modified or rescinded by the Health Officer.

The Order states people must wear a facial covering before they enter:

Any indoor facility except for their own residence
Any enclosed space
Any outdoor space where individuals are unable to maintain at all times a distance of six feet from others.

“Facial coverings are meant to protect the public from the user in case the user is infected and not yet displaying symptoms,” the order states. “Facial coverings used in conjunction with physical distancing of at least six feet and frequent handwashing may reduce the risk of transmission."

Humboldt County Health Officer Dr. Teresa Frankovich said requiring facial coverings in public is a necessary first step as shelter-in-place restrictions are eased and movement increases within our community. “Your facial covering protects me and my facial covering protects you,” she said. “Having everyone using facial coverings will help to make us all safer as we move forward.”

Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal said, “This is the key step in reopening our businesses while continuing to protect the members of our community from the virus. Local law enforcement will be actively engaged in educating the public on the importance of facial coverings.”

Facial coverings should not be placed on children under the age of 2, people who have difficulty breathing or anyone who cannot remove the material without assistance.

Community members are asked not to purchase medical grade surgical or N95 respirator masks, which should be reserved for health care workers. Facial coverings should be regularly washed and sanitized, or changed, and wearers are advised to wash their hands after touching or adjusting their facial coverings.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offers these facial covering guidelines:

fits snugly but comfortably against the side of the faceis secured with ties or ear loops
includes multiple layers of fabric
allows for breathing without restriction
is able to be laundered and machine dried without damage or change to shape







1 comment:

  1. ask yourself why the homeless drug addicts are still alive. If the Wuhan Red Chinese Communist virus was as virulent and deadly as they've desperately tried to convince us...by every measure of Public Health we're learned since the days of the days of Rome, these people should have been ravaged by the virus by now. Not decimated. Decimated means 1 outta 10 are dead. By all rights...if the propaganda was remotely true...9 outta 10 of these people should be dead. Mebbee all of them. Sick, dead, and dying among this population should be littering the streets. They're not. The dishonesty of the so-called "pandemic" bureaucracy is breathtaking. Every word they've said is a lie...including the words "a", "an", and "the".

    The homeless have been cynically abandoned to their fate. The public health bureaucracy has lied about everything from the models to social distancing to the masks which are becoming a fetish for newly-empowered neighborhood Nazis on steroids. How does it feel to be a complete sucker for dishonest scammers?
    I'm talking wholesale death caused by a pandemic sweeping through this population like the freakin' Grim Reaper. That happens in real pandemics dontcha know.

    If the Wuhan flu was in the same universe as the predictions indicated...the death rate among this particular population should have been orders of magnitude higher than it is.

    The public health people are either unspeakably incompetent, corrupt, or have no idea what they're dealing with...or a combination of all 3. Passively obeying them is a serious and potentially fatal mistake.

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