Baker to ease outdoor mask requirements

Good point on the filtering out pollen use. I'm allergic to something that pollenates in the late spring early summer and last year was the first time I had no problems with it. It can only be because I was wearing a mask. No Claritin for me last year.

You mean when men dress up as women put on lots of makeup and act things out loudly on stage?

When things return to normal, you best get yourself to a Ryan Landry show.

Yes, Kabuki is still a thing. Relax guy.

Short of being in a dense crowd, there's never been any scientific basis for masks outdoors just briefly passing someone on the street or sidewalk. Just another notch in a long year of nobody actually understanding how the disease works vs. getting off on their side-eye culture war posturing.

If you make a bunch of rules that don't make sense, people will reject them when it does make sense (indoors, with poor circulation like on a bus). As if the disease sits patiently on the curb, held at bay by a mysterious force field away from those eating and drinking on the sidewalks and streets. Ridiculous, the people at the table are a bigger risk than the people just walking by!

(and yet, outdoor dining was well worth any risk for having some outlet of sanity).

It's time for people to vaccinate and get EXCITED to return to some sense of normalcy, and whether we need booster shots for the next decade… we'll simply move on to dealing with COVID if it becomes seasonal like the actual flu.

Some fake sense of perfect safety is not worth missing everything joyous in life for much longer. It would simply be time to adapt (and particularly, speed up the FDA approval process so we don't have to wait a year for a vaccine developed in a weekend now that we have manufacturing capacity). Now let's get on to vaccinating the rest of the country and planet.

When walking down Bolyston from the bus stop, quickly noticed that everyone was properly masked. Realized that I wasn't in Kansas anymore.

Going home on the 36 bus, some people had their masks completely under their noses and one guy had it completely under his chin.

(To be fair to my fair neighborhood, most of us pull up/put on our masks when we approach or pass someone. )

if personal responsibility is your mantra, then you *should* be wearing a mask when social distancing isn’t possible. the official guidelines change over time, but no one has ever been given a citation for lowering their mask when alone. so guess what, if you’ve been wearing your mask in public - YOU’VE BEEN FINE THIS ENTIRE TIME. when you keep pushing this “you do you” thing, sorry but it’s hard not to assume you’re one of the mask over mouth only assholes.

just crying about nothing at all.

So that substantial percentage of an entire county that got COVID from a church holding outdoor services is just a collective figment? So is the estimate of spread from activities (mostly outdoor) at Sturgis as well as the superspreader Rose Garden fiasco?

Do tell.