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and when it came to boarding my flight, besides the flight attendants who greeted each passenger with a blue surgical mask and the instruction to keep it on at all times except when eating, i made it all the way — wearing an n95 mask — to my hotel in munich without a single question about vaccinations or covid status. in fact, on three occasions, the hotel staff stopped to tell me that i didn’t have to wear a mask, another guest (maskless) commented that “ it’s over now,” as he pointed to my face, and a gentleman wiping a mirror in the hallway called out as i opened the door to my room, “you really shouldn’t wear a mask.”
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monica schoch-spana, a medical anthropologist at johns hopkins, told npr that as masks become optional, “some people will feel a sense of liberation, for others, a real sense of even deeper endangerment and in the middle, a lot of confusion.”
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