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Everyone in the pool! (Photo: DepositPhotos)

Enough already, right? Though the lung virus isn't gone and won't be for who knows how long, it's safer to emerge from quarantine with precautions and join the season already in progress.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer lifts the caution tape keeping many of us home, and lets many popular sites reopen next Monday. 

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Get wet, swimmers: Outdoor pools in Macomb can open now and those in Oakland can do so next Monday, county officials say. That covers swimming at country clubs, YMCAs, county parks and municipal recreation sites -- at half-capacity and only outside.

Those actions, which Wayne is sure to join, are announced as Whitmer lifts a stay-home order and lets the fourth phase of a six-step reopening plan take effect. Bars and restaurants can open June 8 at half-capacity and with other health safeguards. So can cafes, coffeehouses, breweries, distilleries, wineries and mall food courts.

"Only a small and shrinking list of businesses remain indefinitely closed in Michigan ... but Whitmer said even those types of services could soon be allowed to resume in northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula," Bridge Magazine posts with a handy rundown oif allowed activities. Excerpts:

► Group picnics, park parties, sports leagues: "Outdoor social gatherings and events are permitted so long as people maintain six feet of distance from one another and the assemblage consists of no more than 100 people," Whitmer's new order says. Indoor gatherings remain limited to 10 people, so no concerts, movies, lectures, bowling or bingo.

► Open-air fitness: Team training, group yoga and workout classes get an all-clear -- with six-foot distancing.

► Drive-in movies: The timeless tradition for families and couples is back, though few outdoor theaters are left.

► Libraries, museums: Doors can unlock Monday. Capacity limits, mask requirements and other safety steps apply. 


Reopening plan's final stages. (Graphic: State of Michigan)

No-go zones

  • Gyms, fitness centers, recreation centers, sports facilities, exercise studios.

  • Non-tribal casinos 

  • Amusement parks, arcades, bingo halls, bowling alleys, indoor climbing facilities, indoor dance studios, rinks, trampoline parks

  • Hair, nail, tanning, massage, spa, tattoo and piercing services

Related:

Gov. Whitmer Gives Green Light To Open Michigan Bars, Restaurants, Lifts Stay-Home Order, June 1