'We are absolutely not going to enforce nothing about this BS.'
PASADENA, Calif. - Los Angeles County's new mask mandate is infuriating officials in the sprawling region, leading to angry denunciations as some irate local leaders demand resignations and threaten to cut ties and form their own public health departments.
This particular uproar underscores the volatile politics around the pandemic even in liberal Southern California, where patience has worn out in some quarters with new demands from health officials.
Beverly Hills Mayor Robert Wunderlich said he viewed the county's new mask mandate as "justifiable" given rising cases, but asked, "Did they pick the optimal way? I'm not sure." But some local business leaders questioned how a mask mandate imposed by L.A. County would do anything but create chaos and confusion, especially since residents in some areas of the county could drive a block and go shopping or out to eat in places like Orange County or Ventura County, which have imposed no new mandates.
"It's not that public health is going back and forth with this restriction and that restriction, it's because we are in a different situation" with the delta variant, Goh said. She asked the public for patience but also to "understand how we are trying to keep our economy open with just a small restriction."
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