Posted on 09/29/2020 5:51:38 PM PDT by marshmallow
CNA Staff, Sep 29, 2020 / 03:01 pm MT (CNA).- The office of San Francisco's mayor announced Tuesday that places of worship will be permitted to hold services indoors at 25% capacity, up to 100 people, beginning Wednesday.
Restaurants will also be allowed to reopen for indoor dining at 25% capacity, up to 100 people.
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco thanked the mayor, as well as the thousands of Catholics who urged that they be permitted to attend Mass.
“I want to thank Mayor London Breed for recognizing that faith is essential. As well, I want to thank the thousands of San Francisco Catholics and others who joined the processions, the more than 35,000 who signed the petition … came to St. Mary Cathedral’s outdoor plaza to witness to our faith, wrote letters to the editor or op-eds, and who generally spoke up with one united voice under the banner: We are essential! Free the Mass,” the archbishop said Sept. 29.
Breed's office announced Sept. 29 that the expanded limits on places of worship will take effect Sept. 30.
The release attributed the changes to San Francisco's move from California's red, or substantial risk, tier, to the orange, or moderate risk, tier.
The California government's Covid-19 website says that “counties in the Widespread (purple) tier may open some businesses and activities with modifications, including all retail, shopping centers at maximum 25% capacity, and hair salons and barbershops indoors.”
San Francisco authorities have been allowing capacities of between 10 and 50% at venues like gyms, tattoo parlors, hair salons, massage studios, and daycares.
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How the fvk did we get through WWII and America is now just hopeless and helpless?
I never thought we’d end up here.
I’ve been training to be a Lord Humungous type person for three decades.
But the bathhouses will be allowed to run at 200% capacity.
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