The company I work for has decreed that we will comply with the state mandate. I’m cool with that. I have been wearing one while shopping in public but not at work. Out of about 200 employees, there have been 1 or 2 that have been wearing a mask at work. Starting Monday we will all be wearing masks at work. I’m kind of relieved.
I'm in an area where mask usage has been minimal. State has decreed mandatory mask usage next Monday
Good on them. Let us know how the transition goes.
Indiana? I’m sure it won’t be enforced and all the right wingers will intentionally violate it.
Luckily a lot of grocery stores here are mandating masks now. Meijer, Walmart, Kroger, Aldi all have mask mandates. Other than the grocery store, I’m almost never indoors with other people. Supposedly the virus doesn’t transmit well outdoors.
Do they enforce them? Some stores here do; others post the signs but don’t stop people not wearing masks.
So far I’m noticing about 90% compliance rates around me. Which is good.
Around here, I never saw majority mask wearing in big stores but physically distancing was good. We just went mask law and it went off without a hitch. Every retailer seems to have the mask signs up and people are complying.
Eta: some sloppiness and jerkitude here and there, of course.
Ohio Governor just mandated mask use. Every store I went to today had full compliance.
The company I work for just said we have to wear masks unless we’re at our desks. Desks are already 6+ feet apart. Everyone was already required to wear a mask in the elevators so it’s not that much different. Now we have to wear them while getting coffee, using the restroom, nuking lunch, stuff like that. Some already were doing that and so far I haven’t heard anyone complaining. About half the company is still working from home, I’m assuming the anti-maskers will just stay home.
Be cautious that not all masks are cut from the same cloth, So to speak.
I saw that Duke study go by on Facebook, and was interested because I wear a neck gaiter for some activities. They seem to be focused solely on counting droplets. I wonder how directly that corresponds to effectiveness in blocking virus transmission, though.
Suppose the gaiter fabric turns one large droplet into five small droplets, each of which is one tenth the size of the original. Is that:
- Worse than nothing, because there are five times as many droplets?
- Better than nothing, because there’s half the amount of spittle and presumably half the amount of virus?
- Worse than nothing, because the large droplet would fall to the ground quickly but the smaller ones could remain airborne for longer?
- Better or worse due to other factors that don’t come to mind right now?
It seems like they’re answering a simple question that’s part of a much more complex situation. Maybe someone with better study-reading chops than mine can enlighten?
I think this is the problem. They’re saying it creates a microdroplet or aerosol cloud that can float around instead of fall to the ground.