Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl referred to those who object to mask mandates as ‘snowflake weepies’ during a Board of Supervisors meeting with the county’s public health director Barbara Ferrer.
During Tuesday’s meeting, Ferrer, 81, expressed her relief that a return to indoor mask mandates may not be necessary as new Covid-19 cases were on a steady decline.
Despite that development, Kuehl, 81, still took aim at the critics of mask policies. The outgoing supervisor said: ‘I’m particularly struck by the blowback from a number, though not a really significant number of sort of, ‘snowflake weepies’ about how oppressive it is to wear a mask.’
Bizarrely, Kuehl went on to draw a comparison between mask mandates and the wearing of every day clothes.
Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl wonder aloud during a meeting why people don’t get as angry about wearing shirts and shoes as they do about wearing masks
She said: ‘I don’t hear them writing me about shoes, which are actually more oppressive to your feet than wearing a mask on your face but we do that really for health or the requirement to wear a shirt when you enter a restaurant.’
In December 2020, Kuehl made news nationwide after she dined outdoors just hours after voting to ban outdoor dining at restaurants in the county over concerns about the spread of coronavirus.
Kuehl was seen eating outside at Il Forno Trattoria, an Italian restaurant near her home in Santa Monica, California last Tuesday, Fox News reported.
Earlier that day, Kuehl described outdoor dining as ‘a most dangerous situation,’ telling a meeting of the LA County Board of Supervisors last Tuesday that the practice was unsafe.
‘This is a serious health emergency and we must take it seriously,’ Kuehl said. ‘The servers are not protected from us, and they’re not protected from their other tables that they’re serving at that particular time, plus all the hours in which they’re working.’
In June 2022, Kuehl announced that she would not be seeking re-election
Fox News reported that Kuehl’s visit to the restaurant came on the last day before the outdoor dining ban took effect on the county’s 31,000 restaurants in the run-up to the holidays.
In Tuesday’s meeting, Ferrer said that she was ‘relieved’ to report that the there was a consistent drop in average new infections of Covid-19.
Ferrer said: ‘We may be positioned to pause the implementation of universal masking.’
A final decision on possibly pausing the mandate will be made on Thursday. If the country decides to go ahead with issuing a mandate, it would come into effect on Friday.
The decision will be made on the basis hospitalizations n the county. The rate must be close to 10 per 100,000 citizens. As of last Thursday, the number was 11.7 admissions per 100,000 residents.
The local governments in several cities in Los Angeles County, including Beverly Hills, Manhattan Beach and Long Beach, have already said that they would defy a county mandate on masks
In the county, masks are still mandates in hospitals and clinics, bus and trains stations, airports, prisons, shelters and public transport.
The local governments in several cities in Los Angeles County, including Beverly Hills, Manhattan Beach and Long Beach, have already said that they would defy a county mandate on masks, reports NBC Los Angeles.
Additionally, neighboring Orange County’s Healthcare Agency said in a statement that the would not be implementing a mask mandate.
The clip of supervisors meeting was posted online by Kevin Dalton, who until recently was running for a seat on the board.
After uploading the clip, Dalton posted a screenshot of an email he sent to Kuehl.
Dalton wrote to the supervisor: ‘I’m one of those snowflake weepies that you referenced that doesn’t want my family to be forced to wear a mask.’
He continued: ‘It’s hard to describe the amount of disgust I have for your comments’
Dalton concluded his email writing: ‘Unfortunately, there isn’t much to be done in the immediate future but I can promise I’ll be doing everything I can to ensure you’re no longer a Board of Supervisor come the next election.’
Kuehl responded to Dalton writing: ‘You’re in luck coward, I’m done.’
In June 2022, Kuehl announced that she would not be seeking re-election.