Now it's ONLY Code Red... In a Few Areas
Feb. 23rd, 2021 09:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerCalifornia updates its Covid-19 risk tiers usually on Tuesdays. This week's update arrived this afternoon. Several counties moved down in the risk ratings. Now they're only Red... instead of Purple.
Now a whopping 4% of California is out of Code Purple. Almost all of that population is in the two geographically smallest red-shaded counties in the diagram above. Those are San Mateo and Marin counties in the SF Bay Area.
The Red tier brings a number of changes in safety measures. Big ones are that restaurants are able to resume indoor service at 25% capacity and gyms are able to reopen at 10% capacity.
These changes don't affect me yet because I live in Santa Clara County, which is still purple. I think we missed the cut by only a slight amount. Though San Mateo is immediately north of us, so I could make a... run for the border... if I were passionate about dining indoors at a restaurant. Which I'm not. I decided months ago that just because a thing is permitted again does not mean it's safe enough that I want to rush out to do it.
Now a whopping 4% of California is out of Code Purple. Almost all of that population is in the two geographically smallest red-shaded counties in the diagram above. Those are San Mateo and Marin counties in the SF Bay Area.
The Red tier brings a number of changes in safety measures. Big ones are that restaurants are able to resume indoor service at 25% capacity and gyms are able to reopen at 10% capacity.
These changes don't affect me yet because I live in Santa Clara County, which is still purple. I think we missed the cut by only a slight amount. Though San Mateo is immediately north of us, so I could make a... run for the border... if I were passionate about dining indoors at a restaurant. Which I'm not. I decided months ago that just because a thing is permitted again does not mean it's safe enough that I want to rush out to do it.
