Please note that we still require masks in the store.  Want to know why?
1) We've got a trifecta of flu, RSV and COVID moving through our community.  2) The store is in a poorly ventilated old building.  3) Few of you breeze through in less than five minutes, and many of you want to put heads together to figure out complicated patterns and stitches. 4) Lily still has that pesky PhD in Immunology.  

When will masks stop being required? When all three of Lily's kids are snot free for at least a week.  (RSV seems to be peaking, we can hope for an early peak of Flu, and we'll see what the newly dominant BQ1.1 variant brings in the next few weeks.)  Bottom line: wearing a mask is a small gesture on your part to ensure the health of our most vulnerable populations, which the US as a whole has largely left behind in our collective eagerness to move beyond the pandemic.