I’m all for masking but I’m sitting across from someone doing this, and almost 6 years later haven’t we learned anything?
I went to a play recently, and I deliberately chose the performance where masks were required to be worn by the audience. Still had a dick-nose next to me, had to ask him to wear his mask properly twice.
If you don’t want to wear a mask, don’t attend a “masks mandatory” play, asshole.
Where on earth can this still happen?
It’s a community theatre, and they have one performance of each play they perform be mandatory-masks. One performance, out of maybe 20 performances in a run, and still there are assholes …
At this point they aren’t assholes, they are idiots. They genuinely think they are wearing it the right way, it isn’t from disdain for wearing the mask.
and almost 6 years later haven’t we learned anything?
No, no we haven’t. Our species really shows how many of us are just… primates wearing pants.
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Ngl I just take it to mean it’s not about infection control (it makes no sense) and that maybe they’re shy or paranoid.
Yeah, we’ve learned that my ignorance is as good as your “knowledge”…
People were never fully informed or educated, so what got accepted is much harder to undo (from habit and from just approaching the topic without a backlash). I noticed both improper mask wearing and the early improper glove use for contact when it was speculated a danger, but I had been taught haz material cleanup so knew a bit more than the average person. What got me was medical personnel who wore it wrong. THEY should know better.
Masking is optional out here, doing it wrong makes people look like idiots. They don’t have to wear one.
They may just not know that they are supposed to wear it on their nose
I always figure it’s simple incompetence.
this is the new “could care less”, idk why it bugs me so much.
Because it makes the mask pointless since air still goes in and out your nose a bit while breathing through your mouth. Its like they are purposefully trying to rub it in your face that they only care about themselves.
Consider it a sign to tell which people to avoid like the plague.
If they’re mouth breathers, then maybe it makes sense.
Maybe it’s like a safety blanket thing. Makes them feel better than having nothing.
Perhaps they’re more concerned about infecting others than catching something?
Well that’s not going to work with your nose out, in either direction.
A 0.01% protection is still better than a 0.00% protection!
That’s like acting confused when someone puts sunblock on their arms but not their legs. So they’re partially but not 100% protected. They’re still getting a benefit. Maybe they’re being careless with the mask, maybe they made a conscious tradeoff, maybe they have a deviated septum. What business of yours is it to even notice, let alone comment on?
Lmao what are you talking about? This is absolutely nothing like putting sunblock on only your arms and not your legs. Wearing a condom with holes in it isn’t partially protecting you. A space suit without a helmet is not protecting you. A cup full of water with a hole in the bottom does not hold water. A mask that does not cover your nose and mouth does not offer any real additional protection to airborne pathogens or irritants.
It is absolutely other people’s business, because what if a doctor told this person to wear a mask to reduce spread of a disease that the person is carrying? Now, they are putting others at an increased risk of contracting the disease. What if they are wearing a mask because they are immunocompromised? I don’t want to kill someone just because they are an idiot and wear a mask wrong.
Maybe think for longer than 3 seconds before acting self righteous, posting your gut response might make you look like a moron.
Except it completely defeats the purpose since you get air through and out of your nose, where things like COVID thrive. It’s not like sunblocking a portion of your body at all, you’re either protected (and protecting others) or you’re not. Do you not breathe or sneeze through your nose somehow? What are you doing when your mouth is closed, holding your breath?
A deviated septum doesn’t entirely block air from entering or exiting your nose. Wearing a mask over their mouth is going to drive more air through the nose than if they just left it off and breathed with their mouth open. It’ll be expelled in a jet, going farther. If they’re internally closing their nose, or it’s completely stuffed up, then there’s no reason to uncover it.
As a person sharing airspace with them, it definitely makes me check to be sure my own mask edges are sealed to prevent me bringing their germs home to my vulnerable family member.
When someone is not masked at all, it’s pretty easy to spot symptoms that remind me to check as well.
I don’t really expect anyone to mask anymore but it’s counterproductive to half-mask.
I notice people give me extra space with my mask, because they assume I’m ill. That’s a winwin for me.
That’s like acting confused when someone puts sunblock on their arms but not their legs.
No, its like changing half of the flat tires on your car and saying “meh, that’s fine”.
“It’s only flat on the bottom.”
