In board discussions and in meetings together, senior center leaders have weighed concerns about privacy and individual freedom against issues of public health and safety.The result is varying rules about face masks — and only one place allowing vaccinated people to enter without a mask.
“That’s happened every step of the way,” said Geoff Corbin, president and CEO of the Cathedral City Senior Center.
Though California’s tiered blueprint for reopening is set to end by mid-June, no guidance was provided for senior centers.
“In all the tiers and all the businesses they talked about in the tiers, there’s nothing about senior centers,” said Jack Newby, executive director of the Joslyn Center in Palm Desert. “No one was able to give us any kind of clear answer.”