Our Covid-19 Protocols

*Updated March 20, 2023

Empower Oceanside believes in and takes COVID-19 seriously. The founder, Ana Maria, is fully vaccinated as is her family. In solidarity with the disability community, we strongly encourage the following: getting the COVID-19 vaccine when eligible and able, practicing good hygiene and hand washing, wearing a mask and maintaining social distance indoors, and to socially isolate and get a COVID-19 test if feeling ill.

In particular we are concerned with the health of those who are most vulnerable and unable to get vaccinated, such as babies, some disabled folx, elders, and those who are immunocompromised.

In our effort to practice harm reduction we ask that all participants of the co-op please wear a mask when we are gathered in an indoor, crowded space.

Each week prior to getting together, please check-in with yourself and your family to see how you all are feeling to make sure we’re as healthy as can be when getting together. Many of us live in inter-generational households with elderly parents, folx that are unable to be vaccinated, and/or people with disabilities and we will put their safety first.

Resources

• Mia Mingus’s article: You Are Not Entitled to Our Deaths: COVID, Abled Sumpremacy, and Interdependence

• An Atlantic Article by Ed Yong: The Pandemic’s Legacy is Already Clear: All of This Will Happen Again

• The Center for Disease Control (CDC)  updated information

• The California Department of Public Health's guidelines on COVID-19

• San Diego’s Covid-19 Updates