Posted on 12/03/2020 5:57:43 PM PST by marshmallow
BOSTON — Gov. Charlie Baker is urging those attending services at houses of worship in Massachusetts to adhere to COVID-19 precautions, like wearing masks and practicing social distancing particularly for indoor services.
The state is still seeing too many COVID-19 clusters that can be traced back to houses of worship, the Republican said at a Tuesday press conference. Since the start of the pandemic, houses of workshop have experienced a total of 36 clusters, Baker said.
“We know that houses of worship have always served as a place of refuge especially in difficult times like this,” Baker said at a press conference. “But as with all gatherings, protocols have been put in place to ensure that services and other functions that happen in houses of worship happen as safely as possible.”
Baker said many of the state’s faith leaders have stepped up by moving services online or holding them outside if possible.
“It’s critically important that if you do attend an in-person service please do wear a mask,” he said. “Keep your distance.”
Bakers comments come after the Supreme Court last week barred New York from enforcing certain limits on attendance at churches and synagogues in areas designated as hard hit by the virus.
Baker said the issue with the New York case was the decision to have one standard for formal gatherings generally and a separate standard for religious institutions.
Massachusetts doesn’t run afoul of the court ruling because the state for the most part is applying the same rules about distancing and capacity to all gathering places, Baker said.
The number of newly confirmed coronavirus deaths in Massachusetts increased by 30 on Tuesday while the number of newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 rose by more than 2,800.
The new deaths pushed the state’s confirmed COVID-19 death toll to........
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And yet Walmart is still the safest place on earth?
So what? Last I checked our civil rights aren’t variable because of a bad cold or flu going around.
Show your work “Governor”
From now on, when illegal orders like this one are given, it’s time for Americans to take Nancy Reagan’s advice: Just Say No.
These control-freak Governors need to be stood up to.
Of course. Wouldn’t expect anything less from a communist.
So who’s standing up to Democratic Governors?
YUP. Cant get it from places that pay off the prostuticians.
Mostly peaceful protestors immune.
Religious services in Massachusetts? Aren’t they all Wicca or something?(just trolling) :)
If masks work why 6ft needed?
If 6 ft works, why are masks needed?
If both masks and 6ft work, why are lockdowns needed?
If lockdowns work, why are vaccines needed?
Pcr tests are done incorrectly, producing over 80% false cases
Fauci march 2020 - masks dont work, they make people feel better
Fauci nov 2020 - we need national mask mandate
Ours here in Nevada gets never-ending, and well-deserved, ridicule from most of the state. Every minute of every day.
Whatever happens, this yay-hoo who looks like an extra in a low-budget mob movie has zero political future.
“Keep your distance.”
GFY.
Even if we take the governors concern at face value, this is still becoming a tyranny of the elderly and the sick over the rest of us. I think any decent society should try to protect the elderly and infirm from harm. But these never-ending lockdowns are ridiculous, and are doing serious harm in thousands of other ways.
We need a new approach. A new plan that literally gives the elderly a way to quarantine themselves away from society if they wish, where they will be safe - maybe the government can commandeer hotels for this purpose. The rest of us get to live our lives.
Our church has been going full steam ahead since early May. No masks. Loud singing. Our congregation is about 200. Zero WuFlu.
Baker is a Republican.
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RINO
Baloney
Christians used to be thrown to the lions. I can risk getting a flu to go to Sunday Mass. Plus its Boston, Churches haven’t been full in decades.
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