Query: We reside in a small, 120-home gated group with a clubhouse that’s calmly utilized by residents to play racquetball (we now have two indoor courts) or pingpong. Being a non-public facility, are we thought-about a “lined entity” and thus topic to the brand new vaccine or damaging COVID-19 testing necessities of Protected Entry O‘ahu?
Reply: Not if the clubhouse permits solely residents, based on town. Nonetheless, if nonresident friends are allowed, then the principles would apply to each residents and friends, it says.
We’ve acquired quite a few comparable questions from readers asking about leisure areas at condominium complexes, break rooms for celebrations at workplaces, and different occasions and amenities. Listed here are further particulars, from metropolis spokesman Tim Sakahara, who confirmed or expanded upon info obtainable at oneoahu.org:
>> Protected Entry O‘ahu, which requires “lined entities” to display folks for COVID-19, doesn’t apply to personal residential buildings whose eating, leisure and train/health settings can be found solely to residents. Nonetheless, if these settings are open to friends, then the principles would apply, to residents and to friends.
>> Likewise, this system doesn’t apply to places of work if the workplace’s eating, leisure or health areas can be found solely to workplace workers; “non-staff can’t be allowed on premises,” the web site says.
>> Senior facilities and group facilities that present social companies to the general public are exempt from Protected Entry O‘ahu. Some readers interpreted that to imply that leisure facilities at their condominium buildings are exempt, however that isn’t appropriate, based on town. As defined within the preliminary reply, these non-public amenities are exempt provided that they exclude friends and solely serve residents, town says.
>> Pre-Ok by way of grade 12 faculties are exempt, as are child-care applications.
Q: I heard that security checks for automotive registration had a two-month grace interval on account of COVID-19; is that also the case?
A: No. Pandemic-era extensions on motorcar security checks ended Jan. 1. The state Division of Transportation says that security inspection stations have been open since Could 15, 2020, after closing for lower than two months at the start of the pandemic.
Q: I had been wanting ahead to resuming lessons by way of Parks and Rec. Did delta change all that?
A: Honolulu County’s Division of Parks and Recreation says it’s providing a “hybrid catalog” of lessons this fall, with some obtainable in-person and others on-line. You may see what’s obtainable at pros10.hnl.info.
Q: Is it true that locals can go to Hanauma Bay and not using a reservation now?
A: Sure, at sure instances. “Hawaii residents with legitimate identification might entry the character protect and not using a reservation from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. Wednesdays by way of Sundays. This doesn’t apply to navy members except they’ve native identification,” based on the marine protect’s web site.
Q: Understanding that weight problems is an underlying situation for unhealthy outcomes for COVID- 19, I hold my ear out for the most recent information. I believed I heard that Hawaii had one of many worst weight problems charges. Can that be true?
A: Maybe you heard mistaken. Lower than 25% of Hawaii adults report being overweight, among the many lowest percentages within the nation, based on the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention. Solely Colorado, Massachusetts and the District of Columbia are also in that vary, based on the U.S. weight problems map, which you’ll be able to see at 808ne.ws/obesitymap.
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I’m uninterested in folks saying they’re “doing their very own analysis” about COVID-19. They aren’t doing analysis! At greatest they skim pages on the web (with out clicking on a footnote which may take them to a main supply). At worst they fall for disinformation on social media — after which unfold it. Do they even know what analysis is? I doubt it. — Fed-up reader
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