If a person doesn't want to be vaccinated for Covid 19 for medical, ethical or religious reasons, they have an intense fear of hypodermics, they have a serious illness/recent or upcoming organ transplant that could be complicated by the vaccine or they are a high performance professional athlete or singer....etc that is not sure if the vaccine will hurt their immediate or long-term performance or they want to wait until there is full FDA approval.........or they just don't believe it will protect them, I totally get that. If a person is making a personal political statement by getting or not getting the vaccine.......................
As for mask wearing, I am semi-retired but I have two part-time jobs as a church musician for the Catholic Archdiocese of Northern Colorado and as a coach for the Denver Public School system. Those two organizations are basically at polar opposites on many issues but they are totally in agreement on mask wearing. Case positivity rates are approaching 5% here after being below 1% for the past three months. So, until the FDA approves vaccinations for young children, wearing a mask indoors at parochial, private and public schools in the city of Denver is the intelligent, humane, and most protective thing to do in order to give those unvaccinated kids the only type of protection they have from contracting and/or spreading Delta Covid 19 whether it is spread by them or by break through vaccinated students or staff. Kids need to be in the classroom. So do the teachers. If that is what it takes to keep them safer, that's okay with me. So is requesting that any teacher or staff member that wants to work at a publicly funded school inside the city of Denver needs to wear a mask indoors and be fully vaccinated by September 30th or take a leave of absence until they can get it done.....or not. I don't know what the parochial and private schools are doing about that. I do know that the private school I worked at for 25 years full-time had some very intelligent anti-vaccine proponents and many children were not vaccinated for ethical/spiritual reasons for some diseases. Getting chicken pox, measles, and even whooping cough was considered a good thing. Getting Covid 19.....I don't know what they think of that matter. Anyway, at most schools here, the student's safety comes first and not politics.
As for the border of Colorado closing.......I never heard of that. There were some closures of roads that crossed state lines between Colorado and New Mexico into Navajo and other Tribal areas. Some counties in Colorado requested that their residents stay within the county. I live on the county line so I ignored that since my doctors, work, grocery store, shooting range and many of the places I like to metal detect were in the next county.
As for wearing masks while detecting, presently I don't when I am by myself. It is just too hot. I definitely did back during the winter when it actually felt good and I didn't want mask police to bug me if I wasn't wearing one. I prefer to be left alone when I am detecting......When I am on group hunts with the local metal detecting club many are wearing masks and all of us wore them until mask mandates were lifted back in April here. We still wear them at indoor meetings since our club meets at a county run facility that requires mask wearing if there are more than 40 people at the meeting and most of our members are over 50 years old.
