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    Anita Chabria: Masks or no masks? Shaming or no shame? New phase of COVID-19 upends all we've learned

    So here we go, California, jumping from pandemic to endemicity — dragging with us a new word and the heavy psychological baggage that the COVID emergency is over, but COVID-19 isn't. What am I supposed to do with that? Do I wear a mask to the grocery store? Do I prep my kids to take them off at school? What happens if, God forbid, I ditch the mask only to commit a bare-faced sneeze in public ...
    by Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times Feb 21, 2022 5 minutes

    So here we go, California, jumping from pandemic to endemicity — dragging with us a new word and the heavy psychological baggage that the COVID emergency is over, but COVID-19 isn't.

    What am I supposed to do with that?

    Do I wear a mask to the grocery store? Do I prep my kids to take them off at school? What happens if, God forbid, I ditch the mask only to commit a bare-faced sneeze in public (although a masked one was no joy)?

    On Thursday, Dr. Mark Ghaly, head of California's Health and Human Services Agency, (that's the painfully clever acronym for shots, masks, awareness, readiness, testing, education in the form of open schools, and treatments — Rx — to make it work). Ghaly's comments came one day after

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