"For Katie Daly, who manages Renegade’s Pub in East Boston, Saturday is cause for anxiety. Renegade’s has been open for the vast majority of the pandemic, and Daly has had to play mask enforcer for most of that time. 'Customers had an air of anger because they’d been trapped inside for so long,' Daly says. 'I had to enforce [the mask mandate], and it pissed a lot of people off.' And that was when the mandate still existed. 'Now I can’t say much. Don’t get in someone else’s personal space, and don’t get mad at me for not wanting to take my mask off.' Daly thinks that the lifting of restrictions was abrupt and fears that once people are no longer mandated by the state to behave in a certain way with regard to masking, they’re going to do whatever they want. She’ll continue to wear a mask until she feels comfortable taking it off, whenever that may be." - Terrence Doyle
