A second effort to pass a local mask mandate has our community once again in throes of Covid politics. Lafayette is the largest Louisiana city without a local ordinance requiring masks. Enforcement of the state’s mask mandate is virtually non-existent.
The science on masks is sound — they work. But a mask mandate is a different tool.
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News + Notes
Lafayette is running out of shelter space
Housing support agencies moved people into hotels around Lafayette using emergency federal and state government funds. Those funds have long since dried up.