Hospitals in New York City, Los Angeles, Illinois and Massachusetts have recently imposed mask requirements in their facilities, citing rising Covid cases and hospitalization numbers.
The Baker administration announced Wednesday that the mask mandate for K-12 schools will be lifted effective Feb. 28. School districts still can choose to establish their own local requirements.
It s somewhat hard to believe yet oddly satisfying that on May 29, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is lifting the mask mandate.
Ever since March of 2020, I never got use to wearing face masks or neck gaiters, but then again, who really enjoys it? Doctors and nurses have been use to this sort of PPE practice for years, but for some of us who never wore a protective face mask in their life, such as myself, it s not exactly easy to dive right in.
However, on the flip side of all of this, once it s safe to be mask-free (at your own comfort), it s going to seem very different. We re going to constantly say to ourselves