“I was in labor for four days and I wore a mask the whole time because I was supposed to. So, if I can do that, you can wear a mask on the bus.' Public health experts express concern as the T drops its mask mandate.
“Covid is most definitely not over,” said Shan Soe-Lin, a managing director at Pharos Global Health Advisors in Boston and a proponent of mask use. “It’s just really frustrating that still we’re not able to pull together as a society to take care of each other.”
“I was in labor for four days, and I wore a mask the whole time because I was supposed to,” she said. “So if I can do that, you can wear a mask on the bus. You can do it.” Liane Czirjak of Rhode Island is a professor at Suffolk University, who uses the T as part of her work commute and for visits to Boston.Czirjak said the mandate is dangerous for workers trying to uphold the policy. MBTA police have reported several incidents of attacks on operators who asked riders to wear a mask.
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