Most Massachusetts hospitals are eagerly dropping mask requirements. The 6% of adults of age 18 to 64 who are immunocompromised are worried this will give them Covid-19 (or some other respiratory illness).

1500 people have died from Covid-19 in Massachusetts this year. I expect there is no way to count how many contracted long Covid and whose lives are now ruined.

Hospitals should act to protect patients' health. When they must choose, they should choose to protect the wise patients who take precautions for their health and other people's, rather than catering to the foolish ones who neglect the matter.