Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis on Sunday spoke in defense of the newly reinstated county-wide mask mandate, calling it unpleasant but necessary. The new mandate, which went into effect at a minute before midnight Saturday, requires all residents to wear masks in indoor public spaces, regardless of whether they have been vaccinated against the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus that causes COVID-19. According to the county’s public health department, the mandate is meant to counter an increased transmission from the Delta variant of the virus, as well as an “intermingling of unmasked individuals where vaccination status is unknown.” “I would say that it’s not punishment, it’s prevention,” Solis, who chairs the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, said on ABC’s “This Week.” “I’m not pleased that we have to go back to using the masks in this matter, but, nonetheless, it’s going to save lives,” she told host Martha …