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One unexpected discovery for me was that wearing a tight FFP3 mask is quite pleasant during cold winter weather. It's very effective at warming up the air, pro

One unexpected discovery for me was that wearing a tight FFP3 mask is quite pleasant during cold winter weather. It's very effective at warming up the air, probably because it mixes it with the one in the dead space.

deftnerd 6y ago
I've had the same experience in general. my lips often get chapped in sub freezing weather, but that hasn't happened this year.
- trhway 6y ago
  now once some designer/fashion gets a wind of it, the masks will become a new niche clothing item - a nose/lips warmer like say ear mufflers.
  - samus 6y ago
    Masks are a part of fashion in Asia already - habitual mask wearing in public has been a thing at least since SARS.
CarVac 6y ago
It's pleasant in short bursts but I find that after walking to work for 25 minutes in sub-freezing weather, my mask gets clogged with condensation and becomes stifling to breathe through. During the spring though, I found that wearing a mask completely prevented all of my seasonal allergy symptoms.
MisterBastahrd 6y ago
I found that too, especially when I had some bronchial / throat irritation that would normally encourage me to cough.
Jabbles 6y ago
This is probably because it eliminates the wind chill factor.
- gruez 6y ago
  Yeah it basically acts like a ski mask for a good portion of your face.
switch007 6y ago
And even that benefit isn't enough for many people to wear masks unless absolutely required (e.g. inside shops). It's been unusually cold the past few weeks in the UK and I've seen less and less mask usage on busy streets and even shop queues.
- Wowfunhappy 6y ago
  I can't speak for anyone else, but in NYC I've been finding I have to take my mask off outside or I literally can't see, because that's how much my glasses fog up. Like, I walked straight into a pole one night. After that, I decided that the increased risk of getting COVID was lower than the risk of getting hit by a car. I do know it's not this bad for everyone, and I have tried different methods to mitigate it—anti-fog spray, different masks, etc. From what I've read it's largely dependent on the shape of your face, so I assume I just lost the lottery there.
  - switch007 6y ago
    Oh, I sympathise even though I don’t wear prescriptions. I do like to wear sunglasses quite often, and even thought it’d help reduce a vector of infection. But I can’t get a mask and sunglasses combo that works for more than 10 seconds!
  - Mediterraneo10 6y ago
    I mitigate it by simply not covering my nose. Before I started doing that, condensation on my glasses was so bad on certain days, that I had to have my partner lead me by the hand across pedestrian crossings, because I could see neither the lights nor cars. Mask laws were instituted to get people to cover both nose and mouth, but it is interesting to see different levels of observance across Europe. In small-town Poland, for example, I see a lot of people not covering their nose, while in Romania I saw that people were very diligent about covering their whole face, and I have laughed to watch Albanian news and see that a lot of people in the street just have the mask over their chin with neither mouth nor nose covered.
    - Wowfunhappy 6y ago

deftnerd 6y ago

I've had the same experience in general. my lips often get chapped in sub freezing weather, but that hasn't happened this year.

trhway 6y ago
now once some designer/fashion gets a wind of it, the masks will become a new niche clothing item - a nose/lips warmer like say ear mufflers.
- samus 6y ago
  Masks are a part of fashion in Asia already - habitual mask wearing in public has been a thing at least since SARS.

CarVac 6y ago

It's pleasant in short bursts but I find that after walking to work for 25 minutes in sub-freezing weather, my mask gets clogged with condensation and becomes stifling to breathe through. During the spring though, I found that wearing a mask completely prevented all of my seasonal allergy symptoms.

MisterBastahrd 6y ago

I found that too, especially when I had some bronchial / throat irritation that would normally encourage me to cough.

Jabbles 6y ago

This is probably because it eliminates the wind chill factor.

gruez 6y ago
Yeah it basically acts like a ski mask for a good portion of your face.

switch007 6y ago

And even that benefit isn't enough for many people to wear masks unless absolutely required (e.g. inside shops). It's been unusually cold the past few weeks in the UK and I've seen less and less mask usage on busy streets and even shop queues.

Wowfunhappy 6y ago
I can't speak for anyone else, but in NYC I've been finding I have to take my mask off outside or I literally can't see, because that's how much my glasses fog up. Like, I walked straight into a pole one night. After that, I decided that the increased risk of getting COVID was lower than the risk of getting hit by a car. I do know it's not this bad for everyone, and I have tried different methods to mitigate it—anti-fog spray, different masks, etc. From what I've read it's largely dependent on the shape of your face, so I assume I just lost the lottery there.
- switch007 6y ago
  Oh, I sympathise even though I don’t wear prescriptions. I do like to wear sunglasses quite often, and even thought it’d help reduce a vector of infection. But I can’t get a mask and sunglasses combo that works for more than 10 seconds!
- Mediterraneo10 6y ago
  I mitigate it by simply not covering my nose. Before I started doing that, condensation on my glasses was so bad on certain days, that I had to have my partner lead me by the hand across pedestrian crossings, because I could see neither the lights nor cars. Mask laws were instituted to get people to cover both nose and mouth, but it is interesting to see different levels of observance across Europe. In small-town Poland, for example, I see a lot of people not covering their nose, while in Romania I saw that people were very diligent about covering their whole face, and I have laughed to watch Albanian news and see that a lot of people in the street just have the mask over their chin with neither mouth nor nose covered.
  - Wowfunhappy 6y ago