The California Department of Public Health has made it mandatory at family gatherings, such as American Thanksgiving Day, to “wear a face covering to keep COVID-19 from spreading.”

Surely that was a typo. How could a face mask stop a disease from spreading? A little closer to reality would have been to say: “…to keep coronaviruses from spreading.”

Either way, so much for a big Thanksgiving dinner. The clock is ticking as soon as grace is mumbled through germ-collecting masks: “People at gatherings may remove their face coverings briefly to eat or drink,” says the dictate. Only briefly? Maybe Californians should just puree the whole meal and suck it through a straw.

And that was just the masking orders. You can read all Seven COVID Commandments on the state’s public “health” website.

As Dr. Joseph Mercola wrote in a recent article: “Handing out edicts, demanding we eliminate all the things that make life worth living in order to prevent the spread of a survivable virus that most people don’t even know they have unless they get tested is unconscionable and inhuman. But so is following these kinds of unconstitutional government edicts.”

You can read more of Dr. Mercola’s astute observations in his article, How Would You Prefer to Spend Your Last Holiday Season?

As Henry David Thoreau wrote it Civil Disobedience: “Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavour to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them?”