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Violation of Lancaster mask order now a misdemeanor

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LANCASTER – Mayor R. Rex Parris and the Lancaster City Council voted during its Tuesday meeting to approve Ordinance No. 1078, effective immediately, which authorizes the city to enforce the mandatory public use of face masks and makes any violation of the mask requirement a misdemeanor.

The city of Lancaster has had a mask ordinance in place since April 3, when the City Council passed Ordinance No. 1074 requiring face coverings to be worn in public. However, the number of COVID-19 cases is continuing to rise in Lancaster and across the region – prompting the City Council to take additional action.

“I know we all wish that the pandemic was over, but the fact is that COVID-19 is still here, and the numbers are getting alarmingly worse as we head into winter,” Parris said. “Wearing a mask is the simplest, easiest thing we can each do to help fight this disease.”

According to the new ordinance, the Lancaster Municipal Code will be modified to make any person violating the city’s existing mask-wearing requirement guilty of a misdemeanor.

“The goal of this ordinance, and of our law enforcement in Lancaster in general, is to promote peace, safety, and public welfare in our communities,” Parris said. “While I would hope everyone knows by now the importance of wearing a mask, the fact that violations are now misdemeanors is one more reason to do the right thing and mask up.”

View a copy of the new ordinance approved by the Lancaster City Council here.

[Information via news release from the city of Lancaster.]

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61 comments for "Violation of Lancaster mask order now a misdemeanor"

  1. Rex announced that he has been reading about pandemics so that makes him an expert, like he thinks he is on so many different things. We can all rest in the knowledge that we are safe in his hands. Just like we are safe now that we have the Eye in the Sky, and how we were all comforted by the lovely sounds of birds chirping on the BLVD. Those of us with automobiles can glide smoothly on Lancaster streets thanks to Rex and his revolutionary Traction Seal. Our homeless now have a place to live, thanks to Rex and his dear friend Scott who built Kensington where homeless can live for a thousand bucks a month. We always have new choices to eat on the BLVD as restaurants open and close, open and close, open and close. It never gets boring on the BLVD.

    How fortunate we are to live in Lancaster under the all-knowing leader, R. Rex Parris.

  2. You can’t logic a person out of a position they didn’t logic themselves into. The “science” has never supported wearing a mask outdoors. In fact the CDC, your religious leader Dr. Fauci nor anyone else supports compromising fresh air into the body with a barrier. In fact it’s on balance harmful. Period. The video of Dr. Fauci posted by the City of Lancaster regarding mask wearing is only about being indoors. For our genius ambulance chasing attorney mayor it’s called a non sequitur. For all of you advocating outdoor mask wearing you are showing your ignorance. Further Newsom’s health person Mark Ghaly on 12/09 said a ban on outdoor dining isn’t because there is any health risk, it’s to keep you in your home. Did you hear that?! Lancaster has shamed themselves. The question you should be asking is why? Oh, and yes the “law” in Lancaster is not legal. Never was, never will be. Any law on citizens must be supported by facts justifying the intrusion. Here there are none. It’s not open to debate, and no, reasonable minds cannot differ. Look up the word tyranny.

    • They are used to being bullied like Trump does Republicans so the Party is a bunch of wimpy followers of a nut. They have no leadership!

    • Yes, all of this has been a “we have to do something” response. In the AV, everyone in stores are wearing masks. This law was just passed to raise some news and look impressive, just as Dr. Ghaly explained the outdoor dining ban. The fact is that no one has any evidence on where the spread of cases of COVID is happening, but they need to look as if they are doing something.

      Sadly, this will drag out because we are being led by political showmen, not by people who understand how to address an issue. The entire state is doomed.

  4. I’m guessing that the maga cult aren’t so in favor of Parris anymore after hearing this news…

    • The maggot cult doesn’t like to be told what to do.

      But, they unwittingly and slavishly do whatever Trump tells them to do.

      Is there a mental health professional around who can explain their pathology?

      The cult memebers all sound like clones of each other while pretending to be rugged individuals.

      No. They are sheep and Trump loves his sheep. Did you know that sheep brains are smaller now than they were a hundred years ago? Evolution in reverse thanks to man controlling the breeding.

      Same thing with the Trump ‘sheep’. Their brains have shrunk too due to inbreeding. They lost over 50 lawsuits and the big one at the Supreme Court and yet they are still fighting a losing battle.

      At least sheep are good for things like food and wool. Republicans just make messes that Democrats have to clean up.

    • They are used to being bullied like Trump does Republicans so the Party is a bunch of wimpy followers of a nut. They have no leadership!

    • The Republican Party here in the AV are super spreaders killing fellow party members politically. Morons!!

  5. … unless you’re ANTIFA, or an elected official, your compliance with the Lancaster mask ordinance is mandatory. For ANTIFA looters and elected officials, compliance is optional –

    • What, for not wearing a mask, could ultimately prove a death sentence. Making it a misdemeanor offense, Lancaster Sheriffs are free to bludgeon us with their nightsticks, handcuff us, drag us off, throw us in jail cells with hardened criminals, and leave us to fend for ourselves.

  6. As a homeless person living in Lancaster I would like to thank my hero, Reckless Rex for allowing me to park my jalopy in the desert with all my friends. My typical day. Get up when my mad-dog hangover allows. Leave my morning constitution on the sidewalk cuz my jalopy doesn’t have a working one. I don’t bother with any of that pesky hygiene stuff, which gives me more time to bother people at the local ampm for change, so I can secure tomorrow’s hangover. Since Reckless Rex doesn’t even live in this city, I can get away with my homeless invasion! Yay! Thank you soooo much Sir!

  7. It’s not really a problem if you don’t want to wear a mask – – kindly just hold your breath

  8. The City can do whatever they want, but the fact is it’s not going to be filed in court. The city doesn’t have its own Courthouse/City attorney like that of Los Angeles. So although it’s a misdemeanor like most City codes are the new District Attorney has instructed his Deputy District Attorney to pretty much not file charges and 99% of all misdemeanors in the penal code or vehicle code.

    • Why try to find a way around it? What’s the problem with wearing one? U decide u are going to do something anyway because cops wont enforce it? How about just showing respect and doing SOMETHING to help your fellow man. If it works and saves one person from dieing, wouldnt it be worth it? Or do u believe that saving someone is less important than infringing on your so important basic human right to show your face?

      • AMEN!! Thank God someone has some sense!! Wearing a mask is such a simple thing to do! Those who have no loved ones affected by this are the ones that are so careless. Thank you for your post!

  9. Anybody that gets stuck with liberals long enough better get used to this. Because this is what the rest of your life is going to be like. Whatever they hate gets banned and whatever they like becomes mandatory. And just like liberals love to have it, the next 1o0 years becomes “the People vs. the Cops” right liberals?

      • Well the day is never complete without some phony white liberal fabricating a Fourth Reich! You better concentrate on this dumb virus college boy! Before it does something righteous for a change and knocks your clock off!

    • bottom and company…At the most basic level, labeling and dismissing people according to their political affiliation is based on poor logic. “the People vs. the Cops?” I’m retired law enforcement and a veteran that you call a liberal. Use your computer to educate yourself about making sweeping generalizations.

      • Take a flying jump badge pusher! And spare the world your boring biography. Now go pull a No Knock on some litterbug!

        • Bottom doesn’t take criticism well. His fragile ego and deep insecurities keep him/her from using his/her head, instead using his/her bottom to direct his/her path.

    • I’m super conservative. Like, quasi-Social Darwinist, Victorian conservative. Nonetheless, my baseline assumption about anti-maskers is that they have room temperature IQs. These same rubes masquerading as libertarians couldn’t even provide a basic summary of the major tenets of the Constitution.

    • bottom: C’mon man, your comment to Liberal/ Conservative just contracted your original comment about liberals by bashing cops and vets.

  10. Are they going to start handing out tickets to the homeless? Or just those of us with jobs and can pay their fines?

    • Loam…Don’t worry about whether homeless veterans, families with children, or the millions that are on the verge of homelessness are going to pay any tickets they receive.

  12. We coulda/shoulda had better control of the COVID pandemic if the people who don’t want to wear masks or not gather had been on board back in March.

    No. They are the ones who prolonged this nighmare by “doing it their way”.

    In an ideal world they would be the ones that got sick and died for their stubborn recklessness such as trump and his minions in the White House and in the Antelope Valley.

      • Beecee is so ignorant how can s/he sleep at night.

        Trying to figure out which way to lie on a mattress, usually sideways.

      • I’m thinking about the Trump herd when the rainy season comes. You know how bad wool smells when it’s wet.

    • You live in one of the most liberal counties in the most liberal state. We have the toughest restrictions yet one of the worst outbreaks. So whatever logic you want to use the bottom line is you cant place the blame on conservatives or trump…. further the actual stated goal early on was to slow the spread so as not to overwhelm our medical system. Somehow that has morphed into trying to eliminate the virus which impossible to do without a vaccine. All that being said people should wear a mask!

      • Realy, Really.

        Thanks to Trump and the conservtives who resisted social distancing and wearing masks even in ‘liberal’ California, we are still having a surge after the prolonged shut down 6 months ago. People don’t want to ‘conform’ and they prolonged the pandemic here.

        Yes, Trump and the conservatives are to blame. Did you not notice that over 50 of them got infected in and around the White House. Their followers followed and spread it everywhere by being ‘righteous’. Check out the Dakotas where every county is afftected and infected.

        So, there’s that. Come back when you are better informed.

        • But I am sure the thousands of protesters were immune to being spreaders since they were so virtuos….. so how can one group be ok but not the other… i dont sit here and blame protesters for spreading covid

          • Did you hear reports of the protestors having outbreaks to the extent the the bikers at Sturgis or the White House?

            Of course the protestors were unwise to keep on protesting but somehow they didn’t spread it as much as Trump did at his rallies and White House parties and other meetings. Ask Herman Cain. Oh, wait. Nevermind.

            BTW I just heard on the news that they are going to do a thorough cleaning of the White House, doorknobs, faucets, everywhere before Biden and family move in.

            They should tent it. And, if Trump refuses to leave, tent it with him in it. He needs fumigating too.

            Yes. Biden won. Trump lost. A month ago when AG Barr was asked about Trump not leaving the White House, he said “I won’t be here.” Apparently, he knew it was over and that everyone would have to leave but Trump.

            I hope Trump doesn’t harm himself. You know how crazy he is. He certainly doesn’t want to go to prison like Jeffrey Epstein did. It didn’t end well. Or Bernie Madoff. Or David Koresh or Jim Jones but they were cult leaders and avoided prison the hard way.

    • Well said and pure fact. Those losers think don’t care about anyone else. At least over 80M Americans understood

      • Ruby needs to be told how to live her life.

        You can tell just by reading her posts.

        A mind is a terrible thing to waist. Just ask Ruby.

    • You can’t stop a virus by partially locking people down. You only prolong the pandemic by slowing down the infection rate. People are still passing it around. You could stop it by a complete lockdown for a month. You would also need to completely close the borders or require anyone entering to go into a quarantine facility for at least 2 weeks – because the minute someone comes in via any method (flight, car, etc), they can spread the infection. You would have to keep our borders controlled until the number of people with vaccinations has reached the herd immunity level (say around 70%).

      There are also seasonal effects with cold and flu infections (many colds are caused by corona viruses). It’s called the cold and flu season for a reason. That’s why they want people to get the flu shot every fall.

    • Oh so it’s trumps fault lol. California has had some of the strictest rules for covid, yet your state is out of control with covid. California won’t even allow trump to enter the state and his minions don’t protest so……. stay indoors Dave we beg you.

  13. Turning us into a criminals for having a face. Turning us into criminals with -zero- justification … in fact, their made-up justification is exactly that. Made up. (sources here for you; masks do not slow the spread of viruses and can make the wearer sick)
    They will threaten businesses to enforce their bull — they won’t need police when they have citizen police.
    2009— Use of surgical face masks to reduce the incidence of the common cold among health care workers in Japan: a randomized controlled trial. American Journal of Infection Control, Volume 37, Issue 5, 417-419
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19216002
    2010— Face masks to prevent transmission of influenza virus: a systematic review. Epidemiology and Infection, 138(4), 449-456
    https://www.cambridge.org/…/64D368496EBDE0AFCC6639CCC9D…
    2012— The use of masks and respirators to prevent transmission of influenza: a systematic review of scientific evidence. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses 6(4), 257-267.
    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…/j.1750-2659.2011.00307.x
    2016— Effectiveness of N95 respirators versus surgical masks in protecting health care workers from acute respiratory infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis. CMAJ Mar 2016
    https://www.cmaj.ca/content/188/8/567
    2017— Effectiveness of Masks and Respirators Against Respiratory Infections in Healthcare Workers: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 65, Issue 11, 1 December 2017, Pages 1934-1942
    https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/65/11/1934/4068747
    2019— N95 Respirators vs Medical Masks for Preventing Influenza Among Health Care Personnel: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA 2019:322(9):824-833
    https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2749214
    2020— Effectiveness of N95 respirators versus surgical masks against influenza: A systematic review and meta-analysis. J Evid Based Med 2020; 1-9
    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jebm.12381

  14. Non conformed rummer is that Lord Rex does not live within the City Limits of Lancaster. Do as I say not as I do runs rampart in Lancaster, LA County and California.
    Has anybody seen a signed and dated Ordinance. The last I checked on line the City Municipal Codes Chapter 9.56 was not published (May-June 2020). the copy supplied here is not signed or dated. How can a Municipal Code be enforced when the City Subjects can not read it? The Ordinance can not be enforced until it is published and whom is going to enforce it? It did not say!

    • Yo Jack. Please do us a favor and spell check your comment before submitting. It gave me a headache upon reading it!

    • Rex lives in Laguna. He has two very expensive homes there. A quick Google search with his name and Laguna will show you how suing school districts and cities for voting districts he won’t institute in Lancaster lets you live. Not a bad gig.

        • Your dad is to be admired. Anyone who stands up to the Imperious Rex takes great risks. He is a character assassin among other things and can hurt your business.

  16. “Fill the jails with the disobedient peasants”. Sound familiar? Old Rex has picked up the tyrant matrix pretty nicely. Jail or a mask? I’ll take my chances with your jails Comrade Rex. In the mean time, how about directing some energy to our homeless population, the trash, the crime? Whatcha think Rex ole buddy ole pal?

  17. Every bureaucrat and civil servant at city hall, in Lancaster? Not-a-one of them can change a flat tire. Drop dead stupid, they know less about virology, than you do.

    • And you, Tommy, couldn’t do math or compose a business letter better than a 5th grader.

      BTW. How was he 5th grade, the best 3 years of your life?

  18. But, if you’re an ANTIFA rioter, looting small business? Then, that’s okay. In addition to your get-out-of-jail-free card? You don’t have to wear a mask, either.

    • If you guys are all upset about this whole mask thing it’s that simple don’t wear one and shut up already

    • Some people are so delusional about what’s really happening in this country. it amazes me just how ignorant and stupid people are about the past riots and only believe what stupid racist tell them. Like the scarecrow “if they only had a brain”