![]() ![]() (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) SAN JOSE: Richard Veyna, 18, works out without being required to wear mask in a weight room at the Central YMCA. It is the first time the North Beach institution has opened for indoor service in the fifteen months since the pandemic shutdown. (Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group) SAN FRANCISCO: Angela Del Rio and Laurent Velazquez of Las Vegas, sit inside Caffe Trieste. On Tuesday, the State of California began a highly anticipated reopening with modified masking guidelines that allow fully vaccinated Californias to gather indoors without masks. SAN JOSE: Kathleen Cohen, 75, attends a senior fitness class without being required to wear a mask at the Central YMCA. (Randy Vazquez/ Bay Area News Group)ġ1:00 A.M. PALO ALTO: Dario Cometto, 10, sits near a door while listening to counselors teach a lesson during Neuro Camp. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) PALO ALTO: West Currier, right, helps up Max Leins, 9, left, onto a popsicle stick bridge during Neuro Camp. ![]() Zelinsky’s beloved arcade closed fifteen months age when the pandemic shutdown began. SAN FRANCISCO: Bear Bryan raises his arm in joy as Dan Zelinsky opens the doors to his Musee Mecanique on the grand reopening day at Fisherman’s Wharf. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)ĩ:00 A.M. As Covid -19 restrictions are eliminated across the state, face masks are still required on public transportation. OAKLAND: BART passengers are photographed inside a train at the Fruitvale Station. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group) FREMONT: Davinder Kaur attends a morning prayer at the Gurdwara Sahib Sikh Temple. ALAMEDA: Waitress Jessie Hill, center, works in the dining room of Ole’s Waffle Shop. It symbolizes the return of our life together - just in time for the long, bright days of summer.ħ:00 A.M. That celebration consists of coffee dates and commutes, bowling and swimming and music. In that sense, today’s official reopening is less a dramatic shift in daily life (though life will look different: all those exposed chins and noses!) than a celebration of the progress we’ve made after so much loss and loneliness. Our return to “normal” has been steady but gradual, accompanied along the way by both uncertainty and hope. Many Californians, of course, have been eating out, exercising, going to movies and gathering with loved ones for months as coronavirus cases have declined, vaccination rates have increased and the state has loosened its rules. And vaccinated people no longer need to wear masks in most settings. Indoor and outdoor gatherings of any size are permitted. So are capacity limits at restaurants, bars, gyms, places of worship, amusement parks and theaters. The state’s colored tiers reopening system came at the end of last summer. Here in the Bay Area, we’ve been living under fluctuating coronavirus restrictions since March 2020, when a shelter-in-place order was instituted. Today, June 15, 2021, California has officially reopened.
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