South Carolina Masses reopening guidelines -- wow!

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gracepoole said:
I’ve never had a TSA agent “shove their fingers in my underwear”…
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I’m glad you haven’t. I know first hand of this happening.
gracepoole said:
Admittedly, I’m not a fan of cry rooms in normal circumstances. But I’ve never seen cry rooms large enough to accommodate what you’re describing.
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At the very least, one more family could be seated in a cry room. I’ve attended several churches where the cry room (or rooms plural) could reasonably accommodate 3 families apiece with plenty of space between them.
gracepoole said:
This has absolutely nothing to do with reverence. This strikes me as having more to do with scrupulosity.
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To me it seems irreverent. Obviously, that’s a personal reaction. How do you feel it’s scrupulosity? I wouldn’t have thought of that in connection with masks.
gracepoole said:
None of our guaranteed rights are boundless. All of them can be and should be limited when necessary measures call for doing so.
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I think for our CONSTITUTIONAL rights to be curtailed–there better be a very, very VERY good reason. And I don’t think the figures and death rates of corona rise to that level.
 
Poet said:
To me it seems irreverent. Obviously, that’s a personal reaction. How do you feel it’s scrupulosity? I wouldn’t have thought of that in connection with masks.
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It’s a safety measure. How could it possibly equal a lack of respect?
 
I somehow doubt they will be checking temperatures here. If they’ve been letting us wander in and out of church for the last 2 months without a temperature check and even without mandatory masks (although many people are wearing them at least when they need to pass close to others, such as coming in and going out of church) I’ll be very surprised they all of a sudden start up with that when the Mass restarts.

All I’ve heard is that the churches will probably need to stay a certain percentage empty and we need to social distance from each other in the pews. Which everybody is already doing when we go there to pray or confess.

Anyway, not my concern since I’m nowhere near South Carolina and won’t be any time soon.
 
Tis_Bearself said:
I somehow doubt they will be checking temperatures here.
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They might tighten guidelines if there is an official gathering to avoid legal setbacks.

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Recall when the leader of this church was about to be tarred and feathered for being the epicenter in S. Korea?
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It sound pretty well thought out. I always arrive for Mass 45 minutes early and have no problem with the other requirements. I don’t think I will be using the hymnal and will use my Magnificat for the readings.
 
Poet said:
And there’s still that little issue that ‘our rights shall not be infringed,’ including the right to the free practice of our faith.
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This is free exercise of religion. The guidelines are set by the bishop.
 
That’s another change. We are using one page song sheets, with the Creed and Gloria. The sheets are also left on the pew for our greeters to pick up, and know where to disinfect the pew. Its a two-fer.
 
Fire Marshals are having a stroke over this one. Don’t think that’s safe. Could have someone at the doors and just say sorry.
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Some doors can be locked from the outside but still be unlocked from the inside. I would imagine that’s what’s going on here.
 
People from the same household don’t have to sit 6 feet apart. The household has to sit 6 feet away from another household.
 
pnewton said:
I, as I assume they are, using thermal scanners, I guarantee they read high when the skin is flushed. That is how we initially test temperature, using an oral thermometer on those that read high. There can be a couple of degrees difference, with the thermal scan being inaccurate.

This is similar to my parish, which has resumed Mass, except the thing about lining up early. The locked doors are not an issue as they still open from the inside.
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might be why they are using 100 instead of 99?
 
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Where I live the locked doors prevent people from coming in. They do not stop anyone from leaving.
 
It strikes me that the guidelines were probably written by an insurance company - adding to the difficulty of managing mass with restricted numbers is the concern (in the US at least) of getting sued if someone gets sick.
Poet said:
What is the point of closing the cry room? Why isn’t this a place two or three more families can sit, each of them a pew or two apart?
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Toddlers drool and have a habit of putting just about anything in their mouths and their mouths just about anywhere!
 
It seems a little excessive perhaps. But maybe not.
  1. We still don’t know enough about the virus. We may well find out that some common precautions are needless, and others insufficient.
  2. It’s easier to start out very strict and when possible relax certain things than to have to tighten things later.
  3. Elderly people like me are (I think) far more at risk than young people. We should be urged to go only to daily Mass.
 
Unfortunately, churches (along with gyms and restaurants) are going to be among the hardest places to reopen.
 
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