I am a mosquito magnet. Cannot spend 5 minutes outside even with repellant during bug season. So I do not spend any stationary time outside until after a hard frost. So there is another reason for my isolation.
I am a mosquito magnet. Cannot spend 5 minutes outside even with repellant during bug season. So I do not spend any stationary time outside until after a hard frost. So there is another reason for my isolation.
I am on the infectious disease response team, and even I don't bother with a mask when I am outside far from the madding crowd. I usually wear shoes though.Originally Posted by iris lilies
Well now, I have done that when I’m driving from one errand to another. I sometimes forget to take it off my face when I’m darting around the city. I also find that once it’s on me, I need to keep it on because all too often I forget to put on my mask and I am just about ready to step into a store and have to go back to the car and get it. But I do have the kind of mask that hangs around my neck so that’s what I prefer. I can’t get one to fit over my ears.
If you're appalled you're part of the problem. Personally if I have multiple stores to go to I put my mask on as I get out of the car at the first place, and then keep it on until I'm done at the last place. Feel free to be appalled with me as I go to all the intermediate places. I will continue to wear my mask because I don't want to kill you. I'd appreciate if you would do the same.
I too continue to wear my mask as I drive around town completing my errands, places too far apart to walk to in a reasonable amount of time, but close enough to drive within 10 minutes. Early on, I took to heart the notion that the outside of the mask is possibly contaminated during use, so it makes sense to continue wearing it, rather than handle it in between stops.
And the advice to keep moving- rather than “congregate and linger” - Seems very helpful in avoiding exposure to the virus, as are stores that limit the number of concurrent shoppers.
Sadly, dear friends who are sick.... tested positive for COVID.
I hope it is not severe for them and they recover quickly.
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I saw a Biden aide being interviewed. Over the course of a few minutes 5 times she touched the outside of her mask to tug it up as it slipped down her face. This is something I have seen a lot of in person. Masks are very impractical. I doubt even 1% of people only touch the mask with washed hands and clean the mask between each wearing. The laboratory studies on the efficacy of mask wearing do not match real world experience. The mask doesn't slide down the nose of the test dummy, the dummy does not speak jiggling the mask loose, the dummy does not wear glasses that fog up leading the dummy to slide the mask down so it only covers the mouth not the nose, etc.
And yet they work....
Does the dummy continue to whine about having to wear a mask?
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer." Mahatma Gandhi
Be nice whenever possible. It's always possible. HH Dalai Lama
In a world where you can be anything - be kind. Unknown
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