{"id":6391,"date":"2024-06-25T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T20:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=6391"},"modified":"2024-06-25T20:51:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T00:51:13","slug":"despite-covid-surge-los-angeles-mayor-considers-mask-ban-at-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/despite-covid-surge-los-angeles-mayor-considers-mask-ban-at-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Covid surge, Los Angeles mayor considers mask ban at protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Covid cases rise across California, the Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass announced that city officials were exploring the legality of wearing masks at demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came as a response to a pro-Palestinian protest outside a Los Angeles synagogue that made international headlines.<\/p>\n<p>Bass, a Democrat, said at a press conference with local Jewish leaders on Monday that she would be seeking \u201cseveral points of clarity\u201d from the city attorney \u201caround what are the parameters with protests: when permits are needed, whether or not people should be masked, and establishing clear lines of demarcation between what is legal and what is not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The move represents a stark reversal from 2020, when public health officials urged protesters to wear masks, and Democratic politicians embraced mask-wearing, while Donald Trump and many Republicans rejected masks and other public health measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Covid cases rise across California, the Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass announced that city officials were exploring the legality of wearing masks at demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came as a response to a pro-Palestinian protest outside a Los Angeles synagogue that made international headlines.<\/p>\n<p>Bass, a Democrat, said at a press conference with local Jewish leaders on Monday that she would be seeking \u201cseveral points of clarity\u201d from the city attorney \u201caround what are the parameters with protests: when permits are needed, whether or not people should be masked, and establishing clear lines of demarcation between what is legal and what is not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The move represents a stark reversal from 2020, when public health officials urged protesters to wear masks, and Democratic politicians embraced mask-wearing, while Donald Trump and many Republicans rejected masks and other public health measures.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/despite-covid-surge-los-angeles-mayor-considers-mask-ban-at-protests\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Despite Covid surge, Los Angeles mayor considers mask ban at protests<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[162,18,789,1182,19,231,14,51],"class_list":["post-6391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-california","tag-covid-19","tag-los-angeles","tag-mask-bans","tag-masks","tag-protests","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-united-states","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6391"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6394,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6391\/revisions\/6394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}