Do you believe that wearing a mask is an intrusion on your civil liberties?
Anti-vaccine protesters berated parents in an exclusive California neighborhood as they walked their children to an elementary school. Several dozen protesters gathered outside Hawthorne Elementary School in Beverly Hills and confronted parents and students about wearing masks. Some of the protesters urged the parents to sue Beverly Hills School District, even though the state of California has mandated mask wearing.
Counties in the San Francisco Bay Area will start easing their requirements for people to wear masks inside many public spaces. A group of eight counties in the region said that the rules will be dropped when overall vaccination rates are above 80% and COVID-19 transmission rates and hospitalizations are low.
In San Francisco, where places like gyms and offices already require people to show proof of vaccination, some will be allowed to drop masks next week.
The Bay Area has the highest vaccination rates and lowest case rates in the nation. In August, counties had reinstated the indoor mask mandate as infections surged because of the highly contagious delta variant.
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