Is L.A. making a mistake by refusing to lift its mask mandate with the rest of California?

On Wednesday, California — the most COVID-cautious state in the country — finally lifted its indoor mask mandate.

But Los Angeles, the state’s largest city, has refused to follow suit. According to L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer, Angelenos will probably have to wait another month before they can officially remove their face coverings inside public places.

L.A. isn’t the only county that plans to go slower than California as a whole; Mendocino and Santa Clara are taking their time as well. And as more Democratic governors move toward unmasking, cities like Chicago also risk being out of sync with their states.

Barbara Ferrer

Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer. (Damian Dovarganes/AP)

Yet the tension between California’s newly relaxed rules and Los Angeles’s stricter ones neatly reflects the larger struggle now emerging in some of America’s bluest areas. Recognizing that Omicron numbers are continuing to plummet ahead of a likely springtime lull, many experts and officials who urged stronger safety measures when the virus was rampant are now urging the opposite: a break from restrictions in the name of preserving public trust — and cooperation — should COVID ever surge again.

“I believe that our health orders are only effective if people believe in them, if they think they are fair and if they follow them,” L.A. County Supervisor Janice Hahn said Tuesday. “The longer we drag our feet on lifting the indoor mask mandate, the more out of step we get from the state, and the more trust that we lose from our public.”

So why the delay? Critics say it’s because L.A. isn’t adjusting to new realities fast enough — a skill that will become increasingly necessary as the U.S. continues to shift away from crisis mode and toward a kind of wary truce with the virus, which may require safety measures to quickly toggle on and off in response to changing conditions.

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