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Æthelmearc Returns to Indoor Masking

10 Tuesday Aug 2021

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Greetings from your Kingdom Seneschal –

Due to the upswing in COVID-19 transmission, and in consultation with our Deputy Kingdom Seneschal for Pandemics, and Their Royal Majesties, we are now requiring all participants at SCA Æthelmearc events, practices, and gatherings, in counties with High and Substantial levels of transmission of COVID-19, to wear CDC recommended masks indoors regardless of vaccination status.

This follows CDC guidelines. You can find the CDC’s county-level transmission map here: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view

As you can see, unfortunately, much of AEthelmearc falls in this category as of Sunday, August 8th.

As a reminder – if someone is not fully vaccinated or is unvaccinated, they must wear a CDC recommended mask over their mouth and nose at all times at SCA events, practices, and gatherings (save when one is eating and drinking off by themselves.) This guidance also covers children above the age of 2 and who are not vaccinated.

To be clear, at this time, vaccinated folks do not have to be masked outdoors.

I know this is not what we wanted – I like many were hoping we’d have this pandemic behind us soon. Until that time, please take care and be safe and please get vaccinated if you can.

Thank you so much,
Always,
Illadore de Bedegrayne
Kingdom Seneschal
AEthelmearc

Seneschal Announces Mask Requirement for Children and Unvaccinated Adults

29 Tuesday Jun 2021

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Hello! This is to help clarify the July 1st re-opening rules that were sent out June 2nd, specifically about kids.

Æthelmearc is requiring everyone who is not fully vaccinated (so 2 weeks past the final dose) to wear a mask, as we are following CDC guidelines.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated-guidance.html

This includes children ages 2-11 years old.

We are going to enforce this (with everyone, not just kids) with kindness and empathy. Everyone should be kindly reminded to wear their masks if they are not vaccinated. Nobody other than a child’s parent should be yelling at their kids without masks. Parents should be reminded, gently, and with tolerance and understanding. Kids are going to kid – some of them are absolute Houdinis and ninjas and we need to be mindful as much as we can.

We are doing this because we are concerned for children’s safety as there are some very contagious variants out there that are affecting children.

If you would like to discuss this in more detail, please contact myself at seneschal@aethelmearc.org and Duke Christopher/Dr. Chadd Nesbit at pandemic@aethelmearc.org

Always,
Illadore de Bedegrayne
Kingdom Seneschal
Æthelmearc