Just more proof that extracting ourselves from Pandemicland isn’t simply a matter of changing the rules. Faith communities haven’t been allowed to gather indoors since November. Thursday’s changes will let them resume what they were doing prior to that services for up to 50, soloists but no choirs, pre-registration mandatory, all the usual COVID protocols though this time congregants will have to wear masks, too. Many were eager to get those details Thursday. Mahmoud Shaheed, the chair of the board of directors at the Masjid Al-Iman, spent the morning checking his phone for updates to provincial health orders. Ditto for Gary Gordon, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Victoria.
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