• Outdoors and unable to consistently maintain a distance of six feet from individuals who are not members of their household;
• In any indoor location where members of the public are generally permitted;
• Waiting for, riding on, driving, or operating public transportation or paratransit or while in a taxi, private car service or ride-sharing vehicle;
• Obtaining services from the healthcare sector in settings including, but not limited to, a hospital, pharmacy, medical clinic, laboratory, physician or dental office, veterinary clinic, or blood bank; or
• Engaged in work, whether at the workplace or performing work off-site, when interacting in-person with any member of the public, working in any space visited by members of the public, working in any space where food is prepared or packaged for sale or distribution to others, working in or walking through common areas, or in any room or enclosed area where other people, except for members of the person’s own household or residence, are present when unable to physically distance.

PSFCA Executive Director Garry Cathell spoke with Lombardi for clearance: “Yes, you should be using the plan your district provided and approved. Those plans address the situations that were put out by the PDE regarding returning to sports.”

A department spokesperson said the expanded mask-wearing order “is not going to be enforced by law enforcement and that no one will face civil or criminal penalties if they do not abide by it”. Instead, Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration is leaning on the “good sense and cooperative spirit of Pennsylvanians” to follow the order on their own to keep things opened up.