Posted on 12/25/2020 5:19:05 PM PST by marshmallow
Moves to 6-foot rule
Churches in Los Angeles County will be allowed to re-open for indoor services for the first time in five months under modified Covid-19 safety guidelines announced Saturday.
The change in protocol from the county’s department of public health now allows for both indoor and outdoor “faith-based services” provided they follow social distancing and face covering requirements, essentially ending the ban on indoor religious gatherings in place since July 2020.
The county said it was updating its guidelines to “align with recent Supreme Court rulings for places of worship,” presumably the Court’s 5-4 ruling last month lifting restrictions on houses of worship in parts of Brooklyn imposed by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, and several similar decisions that have followed.
The health officer’s modified order does not limit attendance to a certain number or percentage of people, but rather mandates that religious worship attendance “not exceed the number of people who can be accommodated while maintaining a physical distance of six feet between separate households.”
The updated protocols are actually less restrictive than those required for churches during the few weeks that LA County allowed public indoor services in the early summer. Those restrictions capped indoor attendance at 100 people or 25% of a place of worship’s capacity, whichever was less.
“We are grateful that the county has recognized the importance of worship services and the efforts to ensure that our parishioners can worship safely at our parishes. We are currently evaluating the update and will provide additional guidance in the coming days,” said the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in a Dec. 20 statement in response to the announcement.
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how nice of Garcetti.......ASS...WHY do people stay in these horrible places?
In MN churches can have up to 250 people in church at at time.
People are so afraid of the covid that only about 100 people attended the 4pm Xmas Eve service. Then this morning at a different church there were maybe 175 people.
This evil fear is pervasive. Today’s church had another room set up for 250 more people, and it never got used. Really sad. People are too afraid to go to church. The left is winning this “great reset”. rotten bas.tards. And foolish sheep believing the lie.
It’s not the left. The Church is destroying itself from within here in New Hampshire.
My concern with attending isn’t the virus; it is the contact tracing by which I may be prevented from returning to work for a few weeks because somebody else there allegedly tested positive. My employer doesn’t pay rent for part of my home; I have no interest in donating office space to them.
This virus just accelerated a trend in place for many churches in my area; they were already dying.
Well, stay home and be afraid. I hope one day you will decide to not be afraid and choose to live.
I’d rater live. The covid is 90% less deadly than March 2020.
Oh, I don’t stay home - I just don’t go anywhere they require my ID for contact tracing. My life hasn’t changed much at all; I do sympathize with my children, though - socially this sucks for them. At least they can minimize it with technology.
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