New guidelines

The CDC released new covid-19 risk guidelines yesterday which shift the focus from individual risk to community health, particularly keeping hospitals from being overwhelmed. This is largely academic over here right now, because the state mask mandate is in effect, and most of Oregon is still high-risk under the new guidelines.

The end of our mask mandate (except in health care settings) has been moved up to March 19th. This puts it before GameStorm, but I doubt GameStorm will change its policy. I'll be masking up anyway.