{"id":6014,"date":"2021-07-17T12:53:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T12:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/?p=6014"},"modified":"2021-07-17T12:53:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T12:53:53","slug":"la-sheriff-says-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/17\/la-sheriff-says-no\/","title":{"rendered":"LA SHERIFF SAYS NO!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/los-angeles\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles<\/a>\u00a0County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said his department would not enforce a COVID-19 health order mandating people to wear masks indoors, saying it&#8217;s &#8220;not backed by science&#8221; and citing an &#8220;underfunded&#8221; department.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statement was issued one day after county officials announced a new mask&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/la-county-reimposes-indoor-mask-mandate-without-regard-for-vaccines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mandate<\/a>&nbsp;for residents in indoor public locations regardless of vaccine status, set to take effect Saturday at 11:59 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Forcing the vaccinated and those who already contracted COVID-19 to wear masks indoors is not backed by science and contradicts the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/cdc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CDC<\/a>) guidelines,&#8221; Villanueva&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lasd.org\/la-county-health-officer-order-to-mask-while-indoors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>&nbsp;Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CDC guidance\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/vaccines\/fully-vaccinated.html\" target=\"_blank\">states<\/a>\u00a0fully vaccinated people can resume daily activities without wearing a mask unless otherwise instructed by workplaces, businesses, or travel authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Villanueva added deputies would &#8220;not expend our limited resources&#8221; to enforce the order, noting the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department is already &#8220;underfunded\/defunded.&#8221; Still, the sheriff said law enforcement requests &#8220;voluntary compliance.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles\u00a0County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said his department would not enforce a COVID-19 health order mandating people to wear masks indoors, saying it&#8217;s &#8220;not backed by science&#8221; and citing an &#8220;underfunded&#8221; department. The statement was issued one day after county officials announced a new mask&nbsp;mandate&nbsp;for residents in indoor public locations regardless of vaccine status, set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6015,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6014\/revisions\/6015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}