Gov. Newsom: Churches Can Reopen for Services with 100-Person Limit

[Polybius]

Source: Times of San Diego

Gov. Gavin Newsom issued guidance Monday to churches and other houses of worship in California on how they can safely reopen amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Under the guidelines, places of worship must limit attendance to 25% of building capacity or 100 attendees, whichever is lower. This limitation will be in effect for the first 21 days of a county public health department’s approval of religious services within their jurisdictions, after which the California Department of Public Health will review the limits.

They must also arrange for social distancing of at least 6 feet between people, establish and implement a COVID-19 prevention plan for every location, train staff on the plan, and regularly evaluate workplaces for compliance.

Among the other guidelines:

Read more: https://timesofsandiego.com/politics/2020/05/25/gov-newsom-churches-can-reopen-for-services-with-100-person-limit/

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Love you, Governor, but disagree with you on this.

[global1]

1. Are Gov's Around The Country Caving To Trump?.....nt

[Polybius]

2. Not mine

So far Cuomo hasn't budged.

[CountAllVotes]

5. yes

I think so personally.

I have my opinions abt. Newsom and not all of them are good.

[C Moon]

6. California needs federal funds, I think Newsom is giving in somewhat to get those funds.

But we'll see if it works.

[totodeinhere]

3. I am afraid that this is a big mistake. 100 is a lot of people. I know I would not want to attend

a gathering of that many people, whether it's a religious service or anything else. If God would protect church goers from the virus, then fine, but apparently he does not since quite a few people have contracted the virus at church and some have died.

[jmowreader]

4. Trump is gonna be pissed

When he said "open up the churches," he didn't mean "with a 100-person limit." Expect rage tweets about how much Gov. Newsom hates Christians before the end of the day.

[keithbvadu2]

7. Your bluff has been called, Donald. Override him.

Your bluff has been called, Donald. Override him.

[Polybius]

9. Bluff?

This is what Trump wanted. The Governor is allowing church gatherings. There's no need for Trump to override anything, he's glad Newsom did this.

[sakabatou]

8. 100 people?! Why?!

What's the point?!

[moonscape]

10. Sorry but this is nuts:

"Strongly consider discontinuing singing, ... "

Singing? Really? When we know what that does?

Newsom!

[whistler162]

11. Mega "church" max 100 people

with 2 or 3 thousand people but small corner church 25%. Masks sense.