Welcome back: Restaurants, movie theaters, gyms reopen in L.A. County today
LA TimesCrystal Garcia, an assistant manager at Planet Fitness on Imperial Highway in Inglewood, wipes down treadmills with disinfectant while helping to prepare the gym for its reopening after being closed since July. “Now that we’re open, it’s certainly a good birthday,” Canter said Monday. As L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer noted Monday, “just because certain activities are allowed, or certain reopening protocols are revised, does not mean that these activities are 100% safe and without risk.” “We’re still in the middle of a pandemic, and whenever there are more opportunities for interactions with people not in your household, there could be more transmission of the virus,” she said during a briefing. “I feel like people are just eyeing you, asking, ‘Are you leaving?’” Rivera said. “It’s not a matter of when the government says you can open, it’s when people reestablish that routine,” said John Connor, owner of Tudor House, a historic dinner theater in Lake Arrowhead.