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Boston now meets two of three criteria for easing indoor vaccination requirements; change could be days away, Wu says

WBZ reports Boston is now below thresholds set for ICU occupancy and Covid-19 daily positivity rates but still slightly above daily Covid-19 hospitalization rates - and that Mayor Wu says a decision to end the requirement that people going into restaurants and other public indoor spaces could come within days - but that indoor mask wearing will still be required.

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Seems smarter to keep requiring vaccines but to remove the mask mandate. It "rewards" those who are doing the best by public health, and anyone who finally relents and gets vaccinated is a long-term win, whereas the value of masks disappears the moment they're not correctly on faces.

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A woman getting shit done. I'm liking it. Our Governor and his anticipated replacement (when such anticipated replacement gets there) should show up and get shit done this fast with an MBTA overhaul and swamp drainage. Thank u my Mayor!

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Where I work, there’s 99.4% vax/booster compliance, a .69% positivity rate over the last seven days (some 30 people out of ~5,000) but the word on the street is the ridiculous 09/11-esque Security The-atre of masks won’t go away until 2023, earliest, because “SaFeTy, LoLlaRsKaTeS!.” Meanwhile, the city is okay letting anti-vaxers back into indoor spaces, trusting those twats will wear masks?! Um. Does not compute.

Wu is gonna get (justifiably) creamed from every and all side when it’s time for re-election: I hope she’s held accountable for things done, and things left undone, as they say in my religion.

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I have a funny feeling that Boston is going to be the last city in America to end the indoor mask mandate. I am tired of the masks and don't think they are very effective at preventing covid (well, maybe the most cumbersome N95s do a little bit), and if I never saw one of them again it would be too soon. I blame the goofy protesters who set up shop in front of Mayor Wu's house for the prolonged maskmania. Hell if a bunch of knuckleheads showed up in front of my house every morning, scaring my kid, waking up and therefore pissing off all my neighbors, making hateful remarks about my ancestry and calling me Hitler on my birthday I would do absolutely everything in my power to thwart them and do the exact opposite of whatever they want me to do. As much as I have grown to hate those miserable face diapers, I will gladly wear one until I'm an old man if only it pisses those pricks off.

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The mask mandate was lifted between last May and late last August/early September with the Delta wave. Cases were below 100 per day in Suffolk for most of that time, they’re currently 250 a day and dropping. It’ll be lifted again, perhaps soon.

I have mixed feelings about mask mandates. They force irresponsible people to be more responsible, which makes normal activities like going to the grocery store more comfortable. On the other hand, at some point of very low transmission they’re not necessary, and while I might still wear a KN95, I won’t be too mad at people who don’t.

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But no masks for the inaugural dinner?

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Or do you have insider knowledge about the postponed celebration?

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He plays the hits

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Mayor Wu says a decision to end the requirement that people going into restaurants and other public indoor spaces could come within days

Requirement that people show proof of vaccination?

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