SACRAMENTO (LifeSiteNews) — California this week finally lifted its remaining COVID-related mandates for healthcare facilities, scrapping the state-enforced mask, jab, and quarantine requirements for medical professionals. The move comes after Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom eliminated California’s state of emergency in February, almost a full three years after the coronavirus outbreak.
Announced on March 3, the relaxing of the COVID rules for healthcare workers officially took effect on Monday.
According to the California Department of Public Health (CDPH)’s new guidelines, “masks will no longer be required in indoor high-risk and health care settings,” including “health care, long-term care, and correctional facilities as well as homeless, emergency, and warming and cooling centers.”
The state is also lifting its jab mandate for healthcare workers, though “federal rules continuing to ensure that most health care workers remain vaccinated for COVID-19” will remain. The federal CMS jab mandate for healthcare workers applies nationwide and was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in January, 2022.
In an additional change that took effect March 13, California also stripped back its quarantine rules for healthcare workers who tested positive for the virus, allowing them to “end isolation after five days if they feel well, have improving symptoms, and are fever-free for 24 hours, with less emphasis on testing negative” in accordance with updated guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
“We stand before Californians today with a humble message of thanks for taking the hard steps to help manage COVID-19, and with an ongoing commitment to be prepared for what comes next,” CDPH Director and State Public Health Officer Dr. Tomás Aragón said in a previous March statement.
Healthcare workers and first responders have frequently borne the brunt of much of the COVID-19 rules imposed in California and throughout the U.S.
Since the rollout of the COVID-19 shots in late 2020, healthcare workers, law enforcement officers, firefighters, and others who were once hailed as frontline heroes during the pandemic have been fired, forced out, or placed on unpaid leave for refusing to get the jabs for medical, religious, or other reasons.
The WHO Pandemic Treaty looks set to be one of the biggest power-grabs in living memory, with unelected globalists seeking the power to declare pandemics, and then control your country’s response.
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The past two years have been rife with infringements on personal liberties and civil rights by national governments, but now the World Health Organization is seeking to appropriate those same abusive powers to itself at a global level.
194 member states representing 99% of the world’s population are expected to sign pandemic treaties with the WHO that would allow Tedros, or any future Director General, to dictate exactly how your nation would respond to a new disease outbreak which they consider a pandemic.
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Ludicrously, 20 world leaders calling for the treaty, including Tedros, Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron, compared the post-Covid world to the post-WWII period, saying similar co-operation is now needed to “dispel the temptations of isolationism and nationalism, and to address the challenges that could only be achieved together in the spirit of solidarity and co-operation – namely peace, prosperity, health and security.”
Australian PM Scott Morrison is the latest leader to express support for a “pandemic treaty”.
The stated intention of the WHO is to “kickstart a global process to draft and negotiate a convention, agreement or other international instrument under the Constitution of the World Health Organization to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response.”
The wheels are already in motion, with the Biden administration officially proposing the initial steps towards handing global pandemic control to the WHO.
Biden’s representatives have submitted amendments to the WHO’s International Health Regulations (IHR), which would give the Director General the right to declare health emergencies in any nation, even when disputed by the country in question.
These amendments, which would be legally binding under international law, will be voted on by the World Health Assembly (the governing body of the WHO) at a special convention running from May 22-28 and set the stage for a fully-fledged pandemic treaty to be passed.
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The ball has been rolling since the last World Health Assembly meeting in December, where the United States launched negotiations “on a new international health instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response,” a U.S. statement read.
“This momentous step represents our collective responsibility to work together to advance health security and to make the global health system stronger and more responsive.
“We look forward to broad and deep negotiations using a whole-of-society and whole-of-government approach that will strengthen the international legal framework for public health/pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response and enable us to address issues of equity, accountability, and multisectoral collaboration evident in the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We know it will take all of us working together across governments, private sector, philanthropy, academia, and civil society to make rapid progress towards a long-term solution for these complex problems,” the U.S. statement added.
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Though relaxing its state enforced guidelines, however, California is standing by the often draconian COVID measures imposed at the height of the outbreak.
In a press release, CDPH argued that California’s COVID controls “[s]aved countless lives” and “prevented infection and severe illness,” adding that the Golden State “continues to have one of the lowest COVID-19 death rates in the nation.”
California ranked 24th out of all 50 states in reported COVID-19 mortality rates per 100,000 for 2021 and 2022, placing behind several Republican-led states including Nebraska and Utah, according to the CDC.
CDPH also noted that California, which imposed the nation’s first public mask mandate in March 2020 and swiftly implemented lockdown rules that shuttered churches, schools, and businesses, also “[a]dministered 88 million vaccinations,” resulting in an almost 73% rate of primary dosage uptake among the state population.
However, ongoing research indicates that COVID-related mask and jab mandates were ineffective. In addition, the value of the experimental COVID shots has been called into serious question amid the shots’ sliding efficacy, failure to stop transmission, and reports of serious adverse events.
Across the country, intrusive public health measures like mask mandates and vaccine requirements have not only failed in the courts after causing lasting societal harm, but have drawn serious public backlash and created division among Americans.
As the U.S. clears its third year since the declaration of the public health emergency, demand for ongoing booster jabs continues to plummet. As of April 5, only about 16.5% of the U.S. population are “up to date” on their booster jabs, according to the CDC.