My mom made everyone in my family cloth masks with upper and lower ties to go around the back of the head, and after using it a time or two I tied the ties on either side together to turn it into an ear mask (with dorky extra-long ties hanging down). Way easier to put on and take off, though I sometimes worry it may have less of an air seal than when it was cutting into the back of my neck and head. (Which I address by also keeping twelve feet away from everybody.)
I’m not seeing where he said he cares. He only puts on masks when they’re required - my assumption was that he only does this because he doesn’t want to bother with arguing about it. In other words I think he doesn’t buy into the silly “don’t murder others” nonsense but also doesn’t feel like being a crusader about it.
Nobody has said anything about my mask, which has a vent but also a filter between me and the vent. I’m not sure if people think bad things in my direction though.
I’ve gotten no negative feedback for wearing a mask, even when stopping in at the Shit N’ Git for my chewing tobaccy and Red Bull* and being the only one there in a mask. No stink-eye from the good ol’ boys.
*actually an Almond Joy and Diet Coke, but that doesn’t sound as colorful.
Nothing against my mask but I was angrily told off at my local Denny’s for “violating their social distancing policy” because apparently only a single customer can be Inside at a time to pick up their food and there apparently was a guy just taking his sweet time picking up their order already inside which I had no idea about. The tone of voice of the woman at the cash register was definitely of the “I’d take away your food if I could” attitude.
Similarly when I was at the grocery store last month I had a checker comment to the other about how “some customers aren’t following the social distancing policy” despite the fact I was clearly standing on the line on the floor it told me that I was the right distance away. Apparently you’re suppose to wait for the previous customer to be COMPLETELY clear of the register walking towards the exit before loading your groceries on.
Regional Victoria, Australia. Masks are just now becoming compulsory in public places, but I’ve been wearing one at work and while shopping for the last week. No comments really, other than one co-worker noting that my speech was rather muffled; I tend to speak quietly so I’m trying to speak more loudly and enunciate more carefully.
From a site called ‘Etsy’. They apparently have a lot of stuff hand made. I just did a net search for “behind the head face masks” and it was where one of the choices was.
While I’ve overheard a couple of snide comments about the need to wear masks, none were directed at me. Just kind of bitching to the store in general about the policy they disliked, I guess.
I, and a couple, got scolded by an employee at Petco for violating the “only one family can look at the fish in this circular area” rule that the store apparently has. There were no signs to inform us that this was a rule, so I guess we were supposed to psychically intuit? We were more than six feet apart, so…
I’ve encountered no issues. I wore a mask most of the time but not all of the time before it was mandatory (for one thing, there was a time when they were almost impossible to find); now that it’s legally mandatory and they’re available everywhere, it’s a moot point. The closest I had to any kind of issue was a long time ago when I was entering one particular grocery store that had just made them mandatory – the employee at the entrance just cheerfully gave me a free one.
As I think I mentioned in some other thread, while almost everyone here is cooperative with the new rules, there was a news story about a guy who was denied entrance to a store for not wearing a mask and unleashed a torrent of racist invective at the employee before they threw him out. He was undoubtedly surprised to hear that he had made the news and that there was a warrant out for his arrest; here in Canada, “causing a disturbance” is a criminal offense under federal law.
Sometimes it’s not so easy. There is a section of one grocery store here where it’s like a goddam maze and practically impossible to get from point “A” to point “B” without violating the arrows, which almost everybody does.
Otherwise, I do try to follow the arrows (although I notice that a great many store employees, in a hurry to do whatever they’re doing, very often don’t). I admit that in the liquor store, which has a number of short aisles in some sections, I’ll sometimes take a shortcut the “wrong” way if there’s no one else in that aisle.
There was the one time that I asked a grocery store employee about some item that I couldn’t find; he didn’t know either, and asked another employee, and in the end, both of them went charging down an aisle the wrong way with me trailing behind. Some old lady gave me grief for going the wrong way. I pointed out that I was just following two store employees who were helping me find something. She laughed and said she really didn’t care, she just enjoyed harassing people.
The only comments I’ve gotten were when I wore the mask with a monster face on it. It was cute, and it got a few positive comments. I don’t think that mask offers me any protection at all, and I don’t wear it much, but when mask wearing was brand new, I wore it when I planned to be outdoors and not too close to other people. Sort of an advertisement for wearing masks. I think it worked.
Claustrophobia with her mouth and nose covered, leaading to panic attacks.
Re arrows: If what I want is just five or six feet away from me, I’m going to go straight to it, not go to the next aisle, go all the way to thend of it, and do a U-turn to come back to the item.
I’m also not going to srand and wait while someone is trying to decide which iem she wants to buy – I’m just going to pass her.
Some establishments are quite poor in relaying clarity on their Covid policies and leave it to a bawling out by a staff member which isn’t the best for customer relations.
I know someone who also has issues like that. He wears a face shield, it doesn’t touch his face, so doesn’t make him feel confined. Perhaps that might be an option for your wife? It will help the herd know who cares and is possibly safe.
If I was in a room with your maskless wife, I would stay as far away as possible or leave if I didn’t have to stay.
Other folks who also don’t don’t feel they need to worry about spreading their spit all over the place probably won’t react that way and won’t worry about social distancing. Those folks seem to be in the news a lot now. Mostly because they are sick or dying.
My dad wears a full face shield since he works outdoors and a normal mask is too restrictive in 105 heat with heavy labor, and he says people occasionally give him bad looks or ask why he’s not wearing a mask despite the fact the only way you’d actually be in the way of his spittle is if you were directly under him.
I always shop following the arrows, entering and exiting the aisles at the marked points. But once I’m in the aisle, not so much- these oddball product shortages start to make it really difficult.
I walk past the refrigerator case and head for my favorite yogurt. Oh, look - they don’t have it and my second favorite is 5-6 ft behind me. Oh, and they’re out of my favorite chips and my alternate choice is 8 feet back. Next aisle, no Cherry Coke, so I have to back up to the Pepsi products. Then they’re out of my favorite cereal and my second choice is way back at the other end of the section. Seriously, this happened over a half dozen times on my last grocery run.
I’ll usually just back up unless the distance is huge, then I might go around. I’ll more likely to break the rules if the place isn’t crowded. If the aisle is empty I don’t give a second thought to going backwards to the other end to pick up something I missed.
If I went all the way around every time I needed something behind me instead of mindfully backing up, I’d be in the store longer, walking a much greater total distance and passing and potentially exposing more people. So I don’t.
