pete: return of the mask. residents and business owners outraged as los angeles county considers bringing back, yes, you heard it, bringing back indoor mask mandates again. we are in act number 417 of this penultimate covid drama. we re going to go through the same act over and over again this performative theater and we know there s a myriad of studies showing from the new york times to science journals that the masking really has little to no effect on covid, especially these new strains pete: the county s public health director says if cases reach the cdc s high transmission and hospitalization category, masking will once again be required. this despite the agency admitting earlier this yeanews l
hospitalization categories masking may be required indoors again. or to react california chef and restaurant owner andrew roule. that is crushing is for anyone owning a restaurant or small business. we are in act 417 of this penultimate covid drama taken off broadway to los angeles and we will go through the same act over and over, we know there s a myriad of studies showing from the new york times science journals that masking has little to no effect on covid especially new strains that are highly contagious and believe aid that. you go in and take the mask off, put it on, take it off while you eat, just absurd but the fact is in california, two things, people are masking in los angeles. it is irrelevant. good for them if they want to do that. it is part of their pathology,
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the delta variant, which let s not forget still accounts for most u.s. covid cases, could still fuel a robust winter surge, particularly in the northeast and upper midwest. we have a doctor standing by to take our questions on that and the new variant later in the hour. as we mentioned, congress has managed to kick a giant can down the road and avoid a government shutdown for now. but there was some covid drama, of course, ahead of tonight s senate vote. a small group of republican senators, roger marshall, ron johnson, ted cruz, mike lee, did their dead level best to slow things down by demanding a simple majority vote on their proposal to defund biden s vaccine mandates for businesses. their amendment failed. there was a similar effort in the house, same bill. but republicans there also tried to force a shutdown over the mandates. they face some fierce pushback,