WHEREAS, these CDC recommendations, and the findings they are based on, are incorporated herein by reference and WHEREAS, the CDC continues to recommend that persons wear facial coverings, including masks and other facial coverings, in situations where it is difficult to attain social distancing, in order to help control the spread of COVID-19, as described at the following link: and Scott Rivkees, the State Surgeon General, issued a Public Health Advisory recommending that "all individuals in Florida should wear facial coverings in all settings where social distancing is not possible" and WHEREAS, the governor of Florida has stated that local jurisdictions are authorized to enact mask or facial covering orders as may be needed to address local circumstances and WHEREAS, on April 9, 2020, Miami-Dade County issued Emergency Order 20-20, which required persons inside buildings to wear facial coverings consistent with the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines and WHEREAS, masks and other facial coverings are a simple barrier to help prevent respiratory droplets from traveling into the air and onto other people when the person wearing the facial covering coughs, sneezes, talks, or raises their voice and WHEREAS, many persons infected by COVID-19 are contagious while they are asymptomatic, and can therefore spread the disease unwittingly and WHEREAS, COVID-19 is transmitted by infected persons expelling respiratory droplets containing virus particles when they breathe, talk, cough, sneeze, or raise their voice, which are then ingested or inhaled by persons around them and WHEREAS, on March 12, 2020, the County Mayor declared a Local State of Emergency for all of Miami-Dade County related to COVID-19 and 20-52, declaring a State of Emergency for the State of Florida related to COVID-19 and WHEREAS, on March 9, 2020, the Governor of Florida issued Executive Order No. 20-51, directing the State Health Officer and Surgeon General to declare a Public Health Emergency due to the discovery of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Florida and WHEREAS, on March 1, 2020, the Governor of Florida issued Executive Order No. WHEREAS, section 252.38(3)(a), Florida Statutes, gives political subdivisions the authority to declare and enact a State of Local Emergency for a period of up to seven days, thereby waiving the procedures and formalities otherwise required of the political subdivision by law and