Just a couple points here...Someone I think Tsing? mentioned that wearing a mask in Florida is a pain in the ass because it is so hot.
I lived in Florida for quite a few years in the Tampa area. Yeah, it's hot.
But what is the normal routing for someone in Florida, or any other state?
You exit your house or condo to get into your air-conditioned car. --- No mask needed.
You get to the supermarket. You step out into the parking lot. Whoo! It's hot! ---No mask needed, unless the Publix parking lot is jammed full of people standing in groups, hovering around your car. K, fine.
Then you walk into the store, which is air-conditioned. So it's not hot. ---Mask needed, so you put it on while walking to the entrance.
You finish your shop and walk back out into the parking lot where it is hot. Take off your mask, since it is not needed, unless there's that huge group of people hovering around you as you walk to your car.
Get back into your air-conditioned car, where it is cold and no mask needed. Use alcohol-based hand sanitizer when you get into car after loading the groceries.
Drive home, unload the groceries into the house where the mask is not needed, and wash hands with warm, soapy water.
Why is this a difficult concept?
It is like Vanz said early on in this thread. Is it totally necessary for healthy people, especially ones like myself and my friends who already had the COVID, to wear a mask in a crowded place? No! But we live in a society that has to help conform to a ruleset, so the rest of society benefits, to make up for the others who don't give a shit.
Wearing a mask is really not that difficult! And think of all the poor folks who have to wear them for 8-9 hour shifts in supermarkets, etc.
If they can do it for shifts, why can't we all do it for an hour? Geez!
I lived in Florida for quite a few years in the Tampa area. Yeah, it's hot.
But what is the normal routing for someone in Florida, or any other state?
You exit your house or condo to get into your air-conditioned car. --- No mask needed.
You get to the supermarket. You step out into the parking lot. Whoo! It's hot! ---No mask needed, unless the Publix parking lot is jammed full of people standing in groups, hovering around your car. K, fine.
Then you walk into the store, which is air-conditioned. So it's not hot. ---Mask needed, so you put it on while walking to the entrance.
You finish your shop and walk back out into the parking lot where it is hot. Take off your mask, since it is not needed, unless there's that huge group of people hovering around you as you walk to your car.
Get back into your air-conditioned car, where it is cold and no mask needed. Use alcohol-based hand sanitizer when you get into car after loading the groceries.
Drive home, unload the groceries into the house where the mask is not needed, and wash hands with warm, soapy water.
Why is this a difficult concept?
It is like Vanz said early on in this thread. Is it totally necessary for healthy people, especially ones like myself and my friends who already had the COVID, to wear a mask in a crowded place? No! But we live in a society that has to help conform to a ruleset, so the rest of society benefits, to make up for the others who don't give a shit.
Wearing a mask is really not that difficult! And think of all the poor folks who have to wear them for 8-9 hour shifts in supermarkets, etc.
If they can do it for shifts, why can't we all do it for an hour? Geez!
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