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So far, the weather looks great for this Saturday.. </div>
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General high pressure moving in.. no precipitation, 5-10mph winds and Blue Skies!</div>
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We also have an just been given an update to VT's outdoor personal protection protocols, based on the CDCs new, more relaxed protocol for outdoor events:</div>
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<i><strong style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Acherus, Lato, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Face coverings:</strong><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Acherus, Lato, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">
Given the reduced prevalence of COVID-19 in our campus community along with the science that increasingly indicates that outdoor transmission is rare, </span><a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ft.send.vt.edu%2Fr%2F%3Fid%3Dh2a9c618%252C367a06a%252C367a110%26utm_source%3Dcmpgn_news%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3DvtUnirelNewsEmployeeStudentCMP_042821-sands-messages%26s%3DNJDEz0cduV9sDrG6pysQ7YDhka0bkvcaLE0zn-6gwGg&data=04%7C01%7Ct.weeks%40vt.edu%7C7740460a2f9c416cb93d08d90a4e11dd%7C6095688410ad40fa863d4f32c1e3a37a%7C0%7C0%7C637552152696600024%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=IBSKsLmB4V11M0dum6Fl3u2JfUX0yQcImWwiu2N9E3k%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="Verified" originalsrc="https://t.send.vt.edu/r/?id=h2a9c618%2C367a06a%2C367a110&utm_source=cmpgn_news&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=vtUnirelNewsEmployeeStudentCMP_042821-sands-messages&s=NJDEz0cduV9sDrG6pysQ7YDhka0bkvcaLE0zn-6gwGg" shash="kGYCRkQW1XdfGzgBRErb//VerS+0wQmEShgxK1J3qrMCXDxtoSpNC5sxurzfw79Qy2THJ3LIytkTwqFsvNfyesAHpyq4ENpYUJXdOvrfW5yTBtVaVG414ZE1PKlkOyT0XvFepeptOftw6D0heslhYjeiWkIP4RvQkOmNNb8aKuo=" title="Original URL: https://t.send.vt.edu/r/?id=h2a9c618%2C367a06a%2C367a110&utm_source=cmpgn_news&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=vtUnirelNewsEmployeeStudentCMP_042821-sands-messages&s=NJDEz0cduV9sDrG6pysQ7YDhka0bkvcaLE0zn-6gwGg. Click or tap if you trust this link." data-linkindex="2" style="font-family: Acherus, Lato, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(139, 31, 65); margin: 0px !important;">in
accordance with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Acherus, Lato, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;"> and the Virginia
Department of Health guidance, we are now relaxing the face-covering requirement outdoors on campus unless you cannot distance yourself 6 feet from others who are not in your pod. Face coverings are still required indoors on campus and outdoors in downtown
Blacksburg where distancing on sidewalks is difficult.</span></i><br>
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So it's recommended you have a mask with you for close one-on-one settings.. but it's not required to be worn 100% of the time. Use common sense. :)</div>
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As always.. If you have a flight that requires a 1515/unistrut rail.. please let us know (thanks to you all who already have!).. Also.. <a href="https://tinyurl.com/nrvr-rso-policies" title="https://tinyurl.com/nrvr-rso-policies">any students, first time flyers,
out of towners, or anyone flying any complex//research/high risk flights</a>, please fill out and submit a
<a href="http://server2.nrvr.org/files/NRVR_Pre-Flight_Data_Capture_Form_2020.pdf" title="http://server2.nrvr.org/files/NRVR_Pre-Flight_Data_Capture_Form_2020.pdf">
pre-flight data capture form to get pre-flight</a> approval BEFORE launch day.</div>
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Thanks all,</div>
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T.Weeks</div>
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