By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Affected person readers, I’m ending up a publish on Mass Common’s Kafka-esque and brutally silly new masking coverage, the place sufferers aren’t allowed to ask workers to masks up, even when immunocompromised. And so I need to ask you to speak amongst yourselves. –lambert
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