Amid a Covid spike, Philadelphia has re-instituted an indoor mask mandate.
This rush to return to normal, pushed by sociopaths in business and punditry, has made said return less likely in the near future:
Public health officials in Philadelphia announced on Monday that the city’s indoor mask mandate would return beginning April 18 as coronavirus cases there rise, making it the first major U.S. city to reinstate a mask mandate this spring.
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The return to indoor masking comes just over a month after Philadelphia dropped its mask mandate — a move undertaken by many other cities and counties that had similar restrictions in place at the start of 2022. Most of those restrictions lifted after a significant dip in cases after the omicron surge peaked in January.
Cases in some places — including the District and Philadelphia — appear to be modestly rising again, driven in part by the spread of the BA. 2 variant, which has become dominant in the United States. Although cases are ticking up, the numbers remain far lower than they were during the omicron surge in January.
Philadelphia has a set of criteria that determine when covid restrictions will go into place. On Monday, officials announced that the city had moved from the “all clear” level to “level 2,” which requires residents to wear masks in indoor public spaces.
Unfortunately, it appears that our public health policy is run by a bunch of incompetent psychopaths.
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