Face masks

[danny la rouge]

For some reason the image of you in my head was one of a D'artagnan hairstyle.

My hair was once luxuriant. Alas not now. During lockdown I succumbed to the inevitable.

(The social history of lockdown should be Buzzcuts and Beards: the year of the virus).

 

[Numbers]

My hair was once luxuriant. Alas not now. During lockdown I succumbed to the inevitable.

(The social history of lockdown should be Buzzcuts and Beards: the year of the virus).

I'm sure we met once, maybe 2003/2004 at a meet up in London, can't remember any more details than that but I'm sure of it.

Assuming you were at London meetups all dem years ago?

 

[Cloo]

I favour the bandana. This is me at the moment, waiting in Woodside Health Centre for a blood test.

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My husband does the bandito look too and has 4 or 5 of those.

 

[danny la rouge]

I'm sure we met once, maybe 2003/2004 at a meet up in London, can't remember any more details than that but I'm sure of it.

Assuming you were at London meetups all dem years ago?

I’ve never been to a London meet-up. But I can access your dreams, so that may be it.

 

[Numbers]

I get them free in work, there's envelopes on the security desk with 2 masks per envelope, I pick up 2 in the morning and 2 in the afternoon (when front of desk change) so have been building up a good stock.

 

[Pickman's model]

I get them free in work, there's envelopes on the security desk with 2 masks per envelope, I pick up 2 in the morning and 2 in the afternoon (when front of desk change) so have been building up a good stock.

Remember to cut the straps before disposing so birds don't get tangled in them

 

[Numbers]

Remember to cut the straps before disposing so birds don't get tangled in them

There’s mask disposal bins in work too, I use 2 a day. I put a fresh one on going home, then wear it in in the morning, dispose of it in the bin, wear a fresh 1 during the day then dispose of it in the bin before putting on the evening one.

There’s a whole section on our Intranet about Covid, including about the masks, where they’re sourced and how they get rid etc.

 

[geminisnake]

Remember to cut the straps before disposing so birds don't get tangled in them

the ties are actually handy if you're a gardener as they have give in them for the plant growing, we used them when we mass planted some trees in August(pal works at a care home so loads of ties)

 

[Espresso]

I saw a man today at the back of a hotel - he was obviously a worker on a break. He was sitting on a low wall with a cup of tea next to him. He was reading his phone, mask dangling off one ear and he pulled a packet of fags out of his pocket and opened the box one handed. Still glued to the phone. He pulled a fag out with his teeth and put the fag packet back in his pocket and rooted about for his lighter. Whatever was on his phone must have been very interesting indeed because he was still glued to it. What happened next managed to distract him from his phone, though.
He set his mask on fire.

 

[SheilaNaGig]

Yikes!
We’re all learning new skilzz very fast . Or not.


I’d wear a bandana for sure except that they’re not good protection. Hopefully someone will invent one that does the job. In the meantime, and especially as the R number creeps up, I’m keeping my distance from everyone in a bandana or who has a loose fitting mask.

One of the problems is that wearing a mask makes us (me too) feel safer. I’m not safer, I’m taking necessary precautions. My colleague leaning in to say something privately is pushing past the protection, she’s not suddenly risk free because she’s wearing a mask.

 

[SheilaNaGig]

 

[Teaboy]

Just been to a local supermarket. Every single person not only had a mask on but was wearing it correctly. 100% out of quite a busy and large supermarket. One thing I did notice though is that too many people have forgotten about distancing. I suspect the two things are related to a degree.

 

[SheilaNaGig]

Just been to a local supermarket. Every single person not only had a mask on but was wearing it correctly. 100% out of quite a busy and large supermarket. One thing I did notice though is that too many people have forgotten about distancing. I suspect the two things are related to a degree.

I’m sure they are. And it was one of the reasons the bosses were reluctant to make them mandatory. Wearing a mask fools us into thinking we have a margin of safety we can play with, when in fact it’s only that the mask provides some measure of protection that makes it possible for us to continue shopping, travelling etc.

I find myself falling into the same soft zone and have to keep reminding myself to maintain distance. Not being able to read lips and facial expressions so easily and knowing my own voice is somewhat muffled doesn’t help though: those things make me lean in to hear / be heard. I’m working on polite and kind ways to say “take a step back please... cover your nose please...” and trying to speak more clearly without shouting, learning to use my eyes to smile, show reactions etc.

I know it’s hard work, all this. And dull tedious work at that. I think one of the reasons people are refusing to wear masks is because they can’t be arsed with all the dull housekeeping that goes with it.


(See also remembering to bring it with you, using it correctly, stashing it correctly for safe retrieval and re-use when out and about, scrambling for the mask and the bus pass while wrestling an umbrella as the bus approaches in the rain, getting hot and bothered, slipping off the ears, tangled earrings and earphones, skin issues, and vanity issues : my eyelashes and eyebrows didn’t grown back properly after chemo so unless I wear heavy eye makeup (which I don’t want to do on the daily) I look pretty rough. Plenty of people haven’t recognised me with a mask, partly cos I’m lockdown-fatter, but mostly because the half of my face that can be seen looks like a boiled egg.)

 

[Cloo]

At the kosher bakery this morning, the staff were all wearing this very odd 'PPE' I'd never seen before, and which I cannot imagine is any us at all. The plastic bit leans away from the face so it seems to offer protection niether to the wearer no those around them

 

[weltweit]

Cloo that doesn't look very effective at all, the visors were supposed to protect eyes nose and mouth - at least that was my understanding.

 

[Roadkill]

I can't resist cross-posting from another thread the funniest thing I've seen all week, which was when a sharp-suited, suave colleague came into my building complaining how his (designer) mask fogged his sunglasses up, 'which just doesn't make you look cool.' He walked into the paper recycling bin and measured his length on the corridor floor.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Just been to a local supermarket. Every single person not only had a mask on but was wearing it correctly. 100% out of quite a busy and large supermarket. One thing I did notice though is that too many people have forgotten about distancing. I suspect the two things are related to a degree.

Have to say I've never seen people doing distancing at a supermarket at all, let alone following the arrows. I do only go to smaller ones though.

 

[zora]

Args, having another eyelid eczema flare-up. It healed so well and quickly last time that I put aside the idea of asking at a pharmacy about some meds, but might have to enquire after all.

 

[gentlegreen]

At the kosher bakery this morning, the staff were all wearing this very odd 'PPE' I'd never seen before, and which I cannot imagine is any us at all. The plastic bit leans away from the face so it seems to offer protection niether to the wearer no those around them

I'm not a client for cold cuts and cheese, but this virus business has made me look very suspiciously at deli counters ...

 

[Anju]

Just been to our local big Tesco and they had 2 people giving out masks at the entrance, someone wondering around offering hand sanitizer and regular announcements about distancing and mask wearing.

On my last visit a couple of weeks ago there were people in every aisle not wearing a face covering, maybe 20%-25% of total shoppers but today I only spotted 2 in the whole time I was there. Tiny bit of encouragement seemed to have made a big difference, which is frustrating as it seems like a bit of effort to make the requirements more visible when people are actually out and about, plus the providing of masks where needed would have been pretty effective.

 

[gentlegreen]

Apparently in Victoria, Australia where they had a massive anomaly, they're insisting on 3 layer masks.

 

[gentlegreen]

The till person in Aldi yesterday was wearing fingerless woollen gloves

 

[Steel Icarus]

Mask wearing much more widespread than before here. Think people are twigging that this region is about to get clobbered.

 

[Marty1]

Wtf

 

[platinumsage]

I'm not a client for cold cuts and cheese, but this virus business has made me look very suspiciously at deli counters ...

I haven’t bought any hummus or similar since March, especially with the outbreaks in cold food production facilities. Even cucumbers get washed with hot water.

 

[Artaxerxes]

I'm all out of my KN95/FFP2 masks and not entirely sure I trust ebay for them so where is a good source for these at this point?

 

[magneze]

I'm all out of my KN95/FFP2 masks and not entirely sure I trust ebay for them so where is a good source for these at this point?

Wiggle were doing some. Wiggle | Cycle | Run | Swim | Tri-Sports & Bike Shop

 

[Buddy Bradley]

Have to say I've never seen people doing distancing at a supermarket at all, let alone following the arrows. I do only go to smaller ones though.

Supermarkets (or shops in general) just aren't designed for staying 1-2m away from everyone else, unless every single person present tacitly agrees to shuffle at one consistent pace and in one unified direction.

I wonder, are shops in the far east - where mask-wearing and not spreading airborne diseases seems to be more of a cultural expectation - laid out any differently?

 

[gentlegreen]

I concur - especially if like me you keep forgetting something and having to take shortcuts.
If I have to be nearer than 2 metres, I will turn my back to them.

 

[platinumsage]

Supermarkets (or shops in general) just aren't designed for staying 1-2m away from everyone else, unless every single person present tacitly agrees to shuffle at one consistent pace and in one unified direction.

I wonder, are shops in the far east - where mask-wearing and not spreading airborne diseases seems to be more of a cultural expectation - laid out any differently?

It's the same everywhere.