The town of Brookline plans to start requiring that people medically exempted from wearing a face mask wear a plastic face shield instead – even though the town has a relatively low rate of coronavirus cases.
State guidelines already require that people who go into stores or use public transportation wear a face covering and maintain social distance. But they exempt "those unable to wear a mask or face covering due to a medical condition."
The latest line of attack against President Donald Trump is that he's inserting politics into government matters.
This has come up on at least two fronts recently — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's speech to the Republican National Convention, and the federal Food and Drug Administration's emergency-use approval of convalescent plasma as a therapy for Covid-19 patients. In both cases, it's an attack that reflects more poorly on the assumptions of Trump's critics than on Trump himself.
