# Have You Gotten Any Hostility For Wearing (Or Not Wearing) A Mask? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 3, 2020, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-gotten-any-hostility-for-wearing-or-not-wearing-a-mask/917165 "2020-08-03T14:54:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-gotten-any-hostility-for-wearing-or-not-wearing-a-mask/917165/162 "2020-08-11T01:49:53Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > For people with fogging trouble: There are plenty of masks that don’t fog up your eyeglasses. The cheap surgical masks I have don’t fog them, and they’re reasonably comfortable. You really need a mask with a metal nose strip, IME. > > You can also buy your own metal stick-on nose strips from amazon and stitch them on, if you’re handy. They’re very cheap. [Here’s just one type.](https://www.amazon.com/Aluminum-Strips-Adhesive-Clinging-Bracket/dp/B087P1R7ZN/ref=sr_1_10?crid=2KD3DOQU2376O&dchild=1&keywords=nose+clips+for+face+masks&qid=1597110384&sprefix=Nose+clip%2Caps%2C190&sr=8-10) They’re quite cheap and if the adhesive fails ( due to sweat, mostly) you’re not out a lot of money. Just use the next one on the roll. I find that the home-grown type I have been using has been superb- until today. 100º, high humidity in NYC. Damned thing fell right off- and I was using quality Gaffer’s Tape to hold the wire in place. I use the plastic-covered wire clasp used to close new bags of Dunkin’ Donuts ground coffee. Free !! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-gotten-any-hostility-for-wearing-or-not-wearing-a-mask/917165/163 "2020-08-11T01:55:12Z")
Thanks! I have a hard time adding links on the cellphone. I found that the adhesive on the metal pieces don’t hold up on floppy fabric, so I stich it on, or cut a tiny slit in the fabric edge and slide it inside into position. $8.99 for 100 is amazingly cheap! ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-gotten-any-hostility-for-wearing-or-not-wearing-a-mask/917165/164 "2020-08-11T02:55:09Z")
In addition to having flexible wire to conform to my nose, i find it helpful to just barely tuck the mask under my glasses. My glasses are actually glass, so heavier than plastic, and perhaps that matters. But the weight of the glasses keeps the mask from leaking up towards my eyes. I am quite blind without my glasses, but haven’t had any problems with vision, even on muggy days. The other masks I’ve had good luck with were from Stark’s vacuum. They have a soft piece of cloth filling the gap between the main mask and my eyes, and it works great. I’ve come home from a walk with drops of condensation all over my cheeks, but my glasses stayed dry and clear. I gather those masks don’t fit everyone, but they work great for me. Pretty comfortable, too. ---
**Author:** ![Tfletch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tfletch1/32/5340_2.png) [@Tfletch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tfletch1)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-gotten-any-hostility-for-wearing-or-not-wearing-a-mask/917165/165 "2020-08-11T03:36:29Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > I find this claim to be dubious at best. Everything I’ve seen from the CDC and other reputable sources says that any face covering is better than no face covering. I just looked at that study before coming here. The idea is that the fibers are porous enough to do nothing more than break up larger droplets into smaller, lightweight droplets that will float in a cloud instead of falling to the ground. In addition, there may be droplets below camera’s sensitivity threshold. They work even worse than a single layer of bandana. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-gotten-any-hostility-for-wearing-or-not-wearing-a-mask/917165/166 "2020-08-11T05:10:06Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > You’ll probably never know if you kill somebody by not wearing one. But yes, you might do so. No. I won’t. Not a chance. This is hyper paranoia. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-gotten-any-hostility-for-wearing-or-not-wearing-a-mask/917165/167 "2020-08-11T05:18:07Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > No. I won’t. Not a chance. This is hyper paranoia. 165,617 U.S. dead. Every one of them was infected by someone who didn’t know they were contagious, except for the ones who contracted it from CV-19 patients. Many of the spreaders still don’t realize they carried the virus. Maybe your region hasn’t been hit hard yet. It seems as though you think that it can’t happem. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-gotten-any-hostility-for-wearing-or-not-wearing-a-mask/917165/168 "2020-08-11T06:15:00Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > No. I won’t. Not a chance. This is hyper paranoia. Yeah, I’m curious what you’re claiming that there’s “not a chance” of. Not a chance that you’re infected? Not a chance that you could spread the infection to someone else if you are infected? Not a chance that a person you spread it to could die from it? Whichever it is, how do you know? ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-gotten-any-hostility-for-wearing-or-not-wearing-a-mask/917165/169 "2020-08-11T10:39:26Z")
Are you magically immune from the disease? From spreading it? Your responses so far have been bizarre. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-gotten-any-hostility-for-wearing-or-not-wearing-a-mask/917165/170 "2020-08-11T12:31:50Z")
I was at a festival this past weekend being held at a park. There was an anti- suicide group there collecting donations and holding raffle door prizes and such, which was the reason I was there. There were a couple of decent local bands playing, food, beer, etc… A festival. There were a couple thousand in attendance with 98% not wearing masks. One of the group volunteers came up to me and told me I was making others in the volunteer pavilion uncomfortable by wear a mask while they weren’t. “Sucks to be them. I am not going 6 months avoiding that crap only to get it because I volunteered my time. And It happens to be the law and I’m an off duty law enforcement officer. How would it look if I flouted the law?” She backed off. But what fucking nerve, huh? ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-gotten-any-hostility-for-wearing-or-not-wearing-a-mask/917165/171 "2020-08-11T12:34:14Z")
Yeah, that’s pretty bad. That festival sounds like a great day, if you’re the coronavirus. Hopefully, there were no spreaders there! ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-gotten-any-hostility-for-wearing-or-not-wearing-a-mask/917165/172 "2020-08-11T12:36:14Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > > [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > > > No. I won’t. Not a chance. This is hyper paranoia. > > 165,617 U.S. dead. Every one of them was infected by someone who didn’t know they were contagious, except for the ones who contracted it from CV-19 patients. Many of the spreaders still don’t realize they carried the virus. As well as people like me, who contracted Covid and fortunately recovered. > [@RitterSport](#): > > Are you magically immune from the disease? From spreading it? Your responses so far have been bizarre. Especially from someone who in the past has seemed so intelligent and thoughtful. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-gotten-any-hostility-for-wearing-or-not-wearing-a-mask/917165/173 "2020-08-11T13:55:39Z")
@Irishman I wear glasses, too, and I’ve found a solution to the fogging issue that works for me: double-sided tape. I put a strip of it along the top of the mask and press it close to my face, which serves to force my breath out the side. It also helps if my ears start to hurt from the straps, as I can simply unhook them and let the tape hold the mask in place. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-gotten-any-hostility-for-wearing-or-not-wearing-a-mask/917165/174 "2020-08-11T14:55:09Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > One of the group volunteers came up to me and told me I was making others in the volunteer pavilion uncomfortable by wear a mask while they weren’t. I tried to come up with something useful to say about this, but I got nothin’. That’s just nuts. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-gotten-any-hostility-for-wearing-or-not-wearing-a-mask/917165/175 "2020-08-11T15:09:48Z")
The only way there is no chance is if you are, and stay, in total isolation. Nobody who’s had any contact at all with other people knows whether they’re infected. You may be asymptomatic – a lot of people are – and you may have been infected by somebody else who’s asymptomatic. There is nothing “hyper paranoia” about that. > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > It also helps if my ears start to hurt from the straps, as I can simply unhook them and let the tape hold the mask in place. You can also tie something between the ear straps and turn any ear-strap mask into one held in place by the something across the back of your head. I use an extra-long twistie, because I have some; but all sorts of string or ribbon will do, or you can buy things for the purpose. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-gotten-any-hostility-for-wearing-or-not-wearing-a-mask/917165/176 "2020-08-11T15:40:22Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > One of the group volunteers came up to me and told me I was making others in the volunteer pavilion uncomfortable by wear a mask while they weren’t. Well, then, they could put on a mask, right? I shared in the Covidiot thread my son’s experience at a wedding this weekend, where people wearing masks took them off then they saw others not wearing them. Kind of a interesting psych experiment in social pressure. I wonder what percentage of people either wearing or not-wearing cause people to change their behavior? ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-gotten-any-hostility-for-wearing-or-not-wearing-a-mask/917165/177 "2020-08-11T16:15:40Z")
My guess is that it’s much easier to pressure people into not wearing them, since I’ve been in stores where everyone is masked except for one or two idiots, and they didn’t put them on. Masks are uncomfortable and annoying, and lots of people are itching for an excuse not to wear them. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-gotten-any-hostility-for-wearing-or-not-wearing-a-mask/917165/178 "2020-08-11T16:20:04Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > One of the group volunteers came up to me and told me I was making others in the volunteer pavilion uncomfortable by wear a mask while they weren’t. “You’re making us look like uncaring stupid dolts.” ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-gotten-any-hostility-for-wearing-or-not-wearing-a-mask/917165/179 "2020-08-11T16:27:57Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > Masks are uncomfortable and annoying, and lots of people are itching for an excuse not to wear them See, I have grown to _prefer_ being masked in most situations. When I’m masked I don’t need to worry if there is alcohol on my breath, I don’t have to “smile” at the cashiers stupid joke, etc. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-gotten-any-hostility-for-wearing-or-not-wearing-a-mask/917165/180 "2020-08-11T16:30:42Z")
I think you’re fairly unique in this. I’ve taken the route of going into stores as little as possible, so I spend very little time masked. When I go in, it’s get my stuff and get out. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-gotten-any-hostility-for-wearing-or-not-wearing-a-mask/917165/181 "2020-08-11T16:30:50Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > No. I won’t. Not a chance. This is hyper paranoia. And you blithely drive through stop signs, right? After all they’re impeding your right to travel freely and most of the time there’s no one there, so why not? Any time people get together without masks _viz._ the Tulsa Trump rally, people get sick and a few of them die. I’m fully expecting a _big_ spike in cases when the crowd in Sturgis disperses. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-gotten-any-hostility-for-wearing-or-not-wearing-a-mask/917165.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-gotten-any-hostility-for-wearing-or-not-wearing-a-mask/917165.md?page=10)