this got me to thinking practically...about 'the drip'.....perhaps people still wear them for mostly that large particle droplet prevention, and that more folks actually ARE sick, have colds and whatever, winter nose, and have drippy noses or from many other reasons....my dr of acupuncture friend is still glad to wear the mask due to 'th…
this got me to thinking practically...about 'the drip'.....perhaps people still wear them for mostly that large particle droplet prevention, and that more folks actually ARE sick, have colds and whatever, winter nose, and have drippy noses or from many other reasons....my dr of acupuncture friend is still glad to wear the mask due to 'the drip' and so are the grocery employees especially the ones who spend time hovering over the vegetables. I am not advocating it as a solution, but rather trying to understand why folks consent to them and sort of like them...because 'the drip' is an embarrassing human experience and sometimes a sign of ill health/posture as well. Societally we have lost our tolerance for all things that might 'contain germs'. (Party store door handles are of course exempt). About a third of the staff at a large grocery had masks this 2nd week of October. Older shoppers as well, I being one of them who suffers from the drip (I use a hankie, it's a new invention). I happen to have a very serious nose shape and together with my stoopyish posture (i click all the day long after years of a physical job) 'the drip' is something I would like to fix, but with better posture, better health and more looking up at trees. Thanks for talking about 'the drip'; it's ok, sometimes. Gross. But ok. Except maybe now the drip actually does have true baddies in it, nanos and spike gel....so I really don't know what to say, maybe the unvaxxed drip, that has the fewest nanos (from environmental sources incl. breathing the exhalations of the recently or ever vaxxed), we may not really know but I do worry in this direction because it is my job apparently. I am a very proficient worrier indeed. But not masks, hankies instead. Hankies!
I think the masks are false security because people touch them constantly to adjust them and so they are contaminated. If people are sneezing on them or coughing on them or sniffing on them and then touching the masks, then touching something else, I would think that would be a transmission risk more than not wearing one.
I am visiting family in Illinois and went to Saturday Vigil Mass at a rather large church. Maybe it's Illinois' lingering Covid regulations, or maybe it's just that it was a church full of fearful people, but there was such a bizarre display of masking going on. The two greeters were wearing masks. Only one parishioner among the 50 or so present had a mask on. The priest wasn't wearing a mask, until he began to pray over the Eucharist. He put one on at that point, and wore it until the final prayer, when he took it off again briefly. He put it on again to stand by the door and greet the departing parishioners. That was bad enough, but what was worse was the Eucharistic minister who had his mask repeatedly droop below his nose, and kept pulling it up with the same hand he was using to distribute the hosts. Pick up a host, drop it in a parishioner's hand, pull up his mask. Mask slips down as he intones "Body of Christ," so he pulls it up again, over and over. It was the most simultaneously distressing, angering, and darkly amusing experience I have had since this stupid circus began in 2020. I will never visit that parish church again, so help me.
Wow. I have seen similar displays of masking theater in other contexts and I agree with you, it’s at once baffling, infuriating and amusing in a ridiculous sort of way. I am with you though, that display would definitely make me never want to set foot there again. How could one, as a member of the congregation, trust those buffoons to dispense wisdom and good counsel after witnessing their idiocy??
Exactly! This is why I hate getting a server in a restaurant that is wearing a mask- you know they are fiddling with that thing constantly and now they are touching your plates, eating utensils and maybe your food!
this got me to thinking practically...about 'the drip'.....perhaps people still wear them for mostly that large particle droplet prevention, and that more folks actually ARE sick, have colds and whatever, winter nose, and have drippy noses or from many other reasons....my dr of acupuncture friend is still glad to wear the mask due to 'the drip' and so are the grocery employees especially the ones who spend time hovering over the vegetables. I am not advocating it as a solution, but rather trying to understand why folks consent to them and sort of like them...because 'the drip' is an embarrassing human experience and sometimes a sign of ill health/posture as well. Societally we have lost our tolerance for all things that might 'contain germs'. (Party store door handles are of course exempt). About a third of the staff at a large grocery had masks this 2nd week of October. Older shoppers as well, I being one of them who suffers from the drip (I use a hankie, it's a new invention). I happen to have a very serious nose shape and together with my stoopyish posture (i click all the day long after years of a physical job) 'the drip' is something I would like to fix, but with better posture, better health and more looking up at trees. Thanks for talking about 'the drip'; it's ok, sometimes. Gross. But ok. Except maybe now the drip actually does have true baddies in it, nanos and spike gel....so I really don't know what to say, maybe the unvaxxed drip, that has the fewest nanos (from environmental sources incl. breathing the exhalations of the recently or ever vaxxed), we may not really know but I do worry in this direction because it is my job apparently. I am a very proficient worrier indeed. But not masks, hankies instead. Hankies!
I think the masks are false security because people touch them constantly to adjust them and so they are contaminated. If people are sneezing on them or coughing on them or sniffing on them and then touching the masks, then touching something else, I would think that would be a transmission risk more than not wearing one.
I am visiting family in Illinois and went to Saturday Vigil Mass at a rather large church. Maybe it's Illinois' lingering Covid regulations, or maybe it's just that it was a church full of fearful people, but there was such a bizarre display of masking going on. The two greeters were wearing masks. Only one parishioner among the 50 or so present had a mask on. The priest wasn't wearing a mask, until he began to pray over the Eucharist. He put one on at that point, and wore it until the final prayer, when he took it off again briefly. He put it on again to stand by the door and greet the departing parishioners. That was bad enough, but what was worse was the Eucharistic minister who had his mask repeatedly droop below his nose, and kept pulling it up with the same hand he was using to distribute the hosts. Pick up a host, drop it in a parishioner's hand, pull up his mask. Mask slips down as he intones "Body of Christ," so he pulls it up again, over and over. It was the most simultaneously distressing, angering, and darkly amusing experience I have had since this stupid circus began in 2020. I will never visit that parish church again, so help me.
Wow. I have seen similar displays of masking theater in other contexts and I agree with you, it’s at once baffling, infuriating and amusing in a ridiculous sort of way. I am with you though, that display would definitely make me never want to set foot there again. How could one, as a member of the congregation, trust those buffoons to dispense wisdom and good counsel after witnessing their idiocy??
Exactly! This is why I hate getting a server in a restaurant that is wearing a mask- you know they are fiddling with that thing constantly and now they are touching your plates, eating utensils and maybe your food!
Yes!!