This is big news that was released by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment regarding at-home testing soon to be available for restaurant workers as they re already offered to teachers, school administrators, early childhood educators, and other staff members that work with students in Colorado. The details were released by KREX, regarding the Binax At-home rapid testing program which will allow individuals to order
free testing kits to their home so they can test themselves for COVID-19.
Having healthy food service workers as well as children educators and facility members is vital to getting Colorado back to what we would all describe as normal . We all want to see restaurants open again at 100% capacity and these tests are to help make sure that employees remain healthy and if they do show symptoms they can be tested immediately.
It seems like vaccine rates are on the rise and things are moving in the right direction as we continue to move past the horrible COVID-19 pandemic that has plagued the world for the past twelve months. There have been so many things that have gone wrong but here in Mesa County and across the world, we continue to navigate the situation the best we can. So it s exciting to hear that due to low COVID-19 cases and positivity rates Mesa County Public Health has announced we are now in Level Blue on the Colorado COVID-19 dial, this went into place beginning on Sunday, March 14th.
While things are not even close to being back to normal like they were last year prior to the pandemic smacking us around. But it has been nice to seen new business openings in our area recently. But don t think that all this pandemic craziness is behind us just yet. We can t even all agree on wearing a mask or not wearing a mask, and this debate is starting to affect businesses such as restaurants as seen in the picture above.
I saw this picture posted online by a friend that stopped into a cafe for breakfast over the weekend. And as she was handed a menu she noticed a new sign that was placed on the table. Which read, Please turn the card to the GREEN side if your server does not need to wear a mask when approaching your table during your meal .