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I believe the messaging on mask wearing needs to shift.
I don't go out much, but when I do, I usually have trouble believing what I see with my own eyes.
"Please wear a mask in indoor settings" repeated ad nauseam by influential people does not seem to be cutting it, does it?
Masks are being worn under the nose.
Masks are lazily being worn on chins.
Single layer bandanna masks. Surgical masks with HUGE gaps along the sides and top, thus rendering them useless.
As per usual, officials dance on a fine line of keeping the economy open and trying to keep people from dying. It's been like this for almost two years, and it's not working. Reluctant maskers decide for themselves what constitutes "wearing a mask".
If you have gaps between your skin and your mask, you are not wearing a mask. If you have thick facial hair that pulls your mask away from your skin, you are not wearing a mask. If you are lazy and nonchalant about where your mask is located on your face, you are not wearing a mask.
You have probably noticed that both paid and volunteer firemen usually only sport mustaches rather than full beards, if they have any facial hair at all. This is because beards render their respirators useless, and they would likely face immediate death if entering a smoke filled building with a respirator sitting on facial hair.
1) Proper N95's need to be made available to everyone, for free.
2) "Please wear a mask while indoors" needs to change to "you MUST where a properly fitted N95 mask while indoors among others. Anything other than this, and you will be considered to be maskless, and you are doing nothing to provide an effective physical barrier to help protect yourself and others".
3) Media needs to be flooded with educational material on how to properly fit an N95 mask.
4) The above messaging needs to be consistent, truthful, and firm.
5) Specific, strong and borderline harsh messaging lends credence and legitimacy to the urgency that is necessary.
I know I'll catch some flames with this post, but Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Peace to you all anyway.
Wow.
1. Asking for more free shit. Not surprised.
2. Can’t get an N95 or equivalent you must be shunned! Even if you have a medical condition!!!
3. You don’t know what a true fit test is. I promise. It’s not putting on a mask and someone telling you it fits well or spraying something to see if you can smell it. I get fit tested every year and it takes about 15-20 minutes with you trying in masks that are hooked to a machine registering how much ambient air is coming in while you do exercises.
4. Then post the truth. Tell everyone how it actually works and that they’ll have to stand in line waiting to be tested and until they can get tested they can’t go anywhere.
5. Yes, please let the beatings continue until moral improves.
Oh, and everyone who is male will be required to shave every day and that shave inspected by one of the new 86,000 IRS agents before you can leave your home because … mask compliance.
Fascist bastards.
KC
