By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – July 29, 2022 Most of those of us that pay some attention to the news will have heard the story of LA County's intent to return to in door masking as of July 29th of this year. The ostensible reasoning is that the new Covid variant has caused an increase in cases and hospitalizations. Local public health officials, tied to CDC data, have found LA County to be in an extreme risk category and; therefore, have deemed CDC policy as necessary to combat the rising numbers. Unfortunately for LA County Public Health, many cities within the County and the County's Sheriff have said "NO WAY!" Masking, known well before the current pandemic and obsession with masking, was never considered by experts to be an effective means of halting transmission of a virus nor preventing infection. Enter Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the Federal Government's Covid response team, who initially admitted to colleagues that masking was useless, went on to become the government's chief proponent of masking. While the king of masking comedy, Dr. Fauci, will never admit to his deception, yet never the less it allowed him and others of his ilk to spread this delusion to the entire nation for over two years. Science gathered over the period of Fauci's delusion has caught up to his massive hoax in a very revealing way. As more of the world's citizens discovered the inability of masking to protect them in any way from virus infection, any mention of a return to that state has engendered massive resistance. Here in California, home to many Democrats and our Feckless in Chief, Gavin Newsom, LA County was thought to be a safe environment for Progressive leadership to tighten the reins of government control by announcing a return to in door masking. Gavin Newsom, upon the success of the revert to masking in LA, was no doubt waiting in the wings to exercise his "powers of a State of Emergency" to extend it to the entire State, science notwithstanding. But stop the presses, as first, Beverly Hills, a city in LA County, refused to go along. Pasadena, Long Beach, and four other LA County cities were quick to follow. The Sheriff of LA County, Alex Villanueva, announced that his department would not be enforcing the in door masking mandate, and just as quickly the plan set to commence on July 29th collapsed. The reasons given by LA Public Health Director, Barabara Ferrer, were that cases had begun to diminish, ahead of the expected announcement of numbers by the CDC. Whew, MS. Ferrer dodged open rebellion. Only in California, well maybe not only in California, but "blue states" as well. Several other County's were set to recommend the return to masking, mostly in the Bay Area, yet left it to voluntary rather than compulsory use of masks. It is unfortunate that this is even a topic of discussion, as it has been made known on multiple occasions that masking as any kind of a preventative in the face of virus exposure does little in the way of avoiding that exposure and studies have shown it enhances your ability to greater exposure. It is akin to someone wearing a paper bag over ones head to avoid all the potential pitfalls while transiting to work. After running into a few light poles, falling down stairs, and crashing your car on the way, it would seem that most folks would loose the paper bag. Not so for the virtuous, as we continue to see the masks on a regular basis, abet fewer and fewer. The Federal Government continues its tiresome insistence that people mask in Federal venues, national parks, federal buildings, and assorted other places controlled by the Feds. Masking up while riding in taxis, Uber, Lyft, and other public conveyances in LA following a visit to your local crowded restaurant or bar make zero sense and fly's in the face of science, but there you have it.