"Key goals to hit before moving to Stage 2:
The transition to Stage 2 will occur through a statewide modification to the stay-at-home order.
Opportunity for regional variations
During Stage 2, counties may choose to relax stricter local orders at their own pace."
Our best guidance would be from L.A. County because that takes into account the local status of health care resources. Besides, we're in that jurisdiction.
So here's what I think MAG Lab should do: close until the state declares Stage 2, and then wait until L.A. County allows low-risk businesses to open. Precautions should include limiting the number of members in the space at one time, wearing masks when others are present, and sanitizing high-touch surfaces frequently. A good time to do that would be both when we arrive and when we leave. The last one out should spray alcohol liberally on high-touch surfaces and leave them wet.
What MAG Lab members decided to do with the "soft close" is what the state is proposing for Stage 2. We should not move beyond that until the state declares Stage 3.
Yes, it sucks. Yes, we want to be making again. No, we don't get special treatment for being a hackerspace. We are members of a larger community in crisis.
Stage 3
In this stage high-risk work places will reopen. Newsom said those include: personal care (hair and nail salons, gyms), entertainment venues (movie theaters, sports without live audiences) and in-person religious services (churches, weddings).
Stage 4
This marks the end of the stay-at-home order and reopening of the highest-risk parts of the economy including concerts, convention centers and live audience sports events. Newsom said this stage will be implemented when therapeutics to treat patient infected with COVID-19 have been developed.
It's mostly the guidance and checklist from before.