Opinion: When will Los Angeles County align with the state of California on COVID?
That was essentially the answer to questions asked by Fox 11 reporter Marla Tellez at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health’s weekly news conference last week.
“I think that’s always the issue for public health, um, and I think for all of us as a society,” Ferrer said. “We don’t let people choose whether or not they want to wear seat belts. We don’t let people choose whether or not they’re going to smoke tobacco products in spaces where other people are because we’ve decided that the risk of those activities for our collective good, um, is worth asking people to engage in protective behaviors collectively. I think we’ve made the same decision.
Regarding seat belt mandates and smoking restrictions, those are laws, passed by elected officials who are accountable to the voters, not orders imposed by one bureaucrat under a state declaration of emergency. The difference is important.
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