@luckytran Called & left message: No mask ban, please. Masks are helping keep school bus drivers healthy, while lots of kids coming aboard are coughing, sneezing, and having all kinds of respiratory issues but get sent to school anyway. Many drivers and attendants who don’t mask up are getting ill, paying a high price for “freedom.”

But what about our freedom of choice—to do the smart thing?

@luckytran This is what I submitted:

I am a native New Yorker, now retired in California. I am living with lung cancer that was caused by post-9/11 toxic exposure as an office worker in Lower Manhattan. I wear a mask everywhere in public. Since Covid began, I do not travel or go to indoor events, all because I am prioritizing my survival. If New York enacts a ban on face masks, people who are immunocompromised like me will pay a dear price. I thought that New York was a better place than North Carolina, which is also preparing to ban face masks. Please reconsider the ban. You can save lives. Thank you.