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It takes a special kind of person to cover half their face with a dirty mask and make it harder for themselves to breathe just so they don’t catch a cold.
by nells 4y ago
It takes a special kind of person to cover half their face with a dirty mask and make it harder for themselves to breathe just so they don’t catch a cold.
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- s5300 4y agoWhere are your presumptions that the mask is both dirty & it makes the wearer have difficulty breathing? Projection of your overall health & cleanliness?
- DocTomoe 4y agoCompare that to East Asia, where wearing a mask during Flu season was a common thing to prevent your own disease to spread to others long before Covid was known (I've seen sources claiming they started doing so after the Spanish Flu). Of course, we cannot expect us Westerners to have that level of compassion and common sense.
- 4ggr0 4y ago> just so they don’t catch a cold. The people I know who still wear masks and myself wear them so that others don't get our cold, not necessarily to protect ourselves. A form of respect towards co-workers etc.
- 2muchcoffeeman 4y agoYes. Unfortunately it hasn’t stuck in Australia either. Back to people coughing all over everything out in public. I cannot remember a time as an adult where I have had so few sick days over a 3 year span. Guess that’s over now.
- 4ggr0 4y agoI noticed this as well, yes. I travel by train and the amount of people who sound sick is astonishing, lots of coworkers were sick in the last couple of weeks. Didn't get me yet, touch wood.
- techdragon 4y agoIt seems to have stuck slightly better in WA than the rest of Australia, possibly because we had the rapid return to moderate normalcy (with a border closure) and thanks to the prolonged border closure we basically got a 12+ month crash course in several levels of public responsibility. We had occasional mini lockdowns in between to keep untracked community spread at zero until the public health teams worked out the time was right between vaccination levels, delta spreading , etc. While it’s not a majority of people, I still routinely see people wearing masks out and about, particularly on public transport. But I suspect it’s primarily as a defence against other peoples germs. Which I’ll admit is why I’m currently looking at nicer less “hospital” masks, notably a few companies that make respirators had a mini boom and diversified into “everyday wear” models that didn’t look like you were fumigating for termites. There are reusable respirators that just look like nicer disposable ones now. It’s also helps that people don’t find it as weird if you have a mask on when riding a bike since that’s been sort of a normal look for a while, pioneered by both the Lycra wearing enthusiasts and the boom in bike couriers thanks to food delivery apps and no one riding as a courier wants to breath car and truck fumes all day.
- mensetmanusman 4y agoYou have to have a very special mask to clean exhaled breath sufficiently to prevent an aerosol virus with such a high R0.
- 4ggr0 4y agoSurgical masks are enough to help prevent the spread of COVID, it's not about 100% safety which is impossible, but saying that they're not good enough does not seem to be true.
- mensetmanusman 4y agoIt’s about 9% or 90% or 99.9% capture which is the difference in safely being in a room for 2 minutes versus 10 hours.