The Plus Side of Continuing to Wear a Mask

Ladybug724 · ‎03-12-2010

I realized that I didn't get sick at all this year. Not even a cold. If a mask can help protect from a disease like Covid, then it can help with everything else that could be spread.

Also, I feel like food service workers and anyone in the health care field should always wear a mask. It's less germy all the way around. Especially if someone is serving your food, I feel like my food is better protected (sounds wierd I know) if they have a mask on, especially if they're talking.

deepwaterdotter · ‎03-09-2010

This is the reason we will continue to wear masks inside in public.

Puppy Lips · ‎05-09-2010

We all have to do what we are comfortable with. I prefer to see people's faces. I also don't want to be "not sick" for so long that my immune system forgets what to do should I get a cold.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. Margaret Mead

beckyb1012 · ‎03-09-2010

I did not wear mine anywhere starting last Friday morning and all weekend out shopping ect. My mailman here in the office told me Friday he is going without his after that day while delivering mail.

There was an article in my local paper today of a restaurant here downtown where I work being able to find employees who will come back to work full time over unemployment benefits. All three photos taken of the cook staff and owner in the kitchen preparing food and none were wearing masks. Gloves yes but no masks. I did notice at a drive thru for a barbecue place here that the three employees I could see from my car none were wearing masks. I guess I did get used to that aspect of the mask wearing but it seems to be disappearing with the restrictions lifted.

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millieshops · ‎03-09-2010

@Ladybug724 For years, I have noticed that many people who have compromised immune systems wear masks when they were spending more than a few minutes in crowded spaces where the ventilation system may not have been updated - double whammy for them.

Now with most of my friends and I circling advanced ages with all the issues that seem to go with the age, I have no trouble listening to medical providers who know my risks. Right now that advice is limit crowds and wear a mask when you can't or when you choose to enter one.

So far, so good for me, but I had stopped paying daily attention to the local infection rate. I will go back to doing that in the weeks ahead. I am close to healthy enough to take some risks if those numbers stay low where I am or want to go.

Janey2 · ‎06-07-2010

@Ladybug724 Do you want waiters to wear masks? How about gloves? They are touching your plate to serve you food and who knows what they touched before they touched your plate and now you are eating from it. I am taking this to the extreme to point out where does it stop? Masks, gloves hazmat suits? Sometimes you are just better off staying home.

haddon9 · ‎03-09-2010

I really don't like them at all and question just how much they really prevent illness...yes it does stop droplets from sneezes but just breathing the virus is very small and can still get through. So they may help a bit. If one is more comfortable wearing it then by all means do so.

However it's been years since I've had a bad cold and decades since I've had the flu. I wasn't wearing a mask then and don't plan on to into the future. They just aren't natural to me and I also like seeing people's faces and hearing what they say.

sunshine 919 · ‎12-22-2013

I still get food to go. I wear my mask inside to pick it up. Yesterday I noticed waiters, waitresses and the cashier all were wearing masks.

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CelticCrafter · ‎03-09-2010

@beckyb1012 wrote:
I did not wear mine anywhere starting last Friday morning and all weekend out shopping ect. My mailman here in the office told me Friday he is going without his after that day while delivering mail.
There was an article in my local paper today of a restaurant here downtown where I work being able to find employees who will come back to work full time over unemployment benefits. All three photos taken of the cook staff and owner in the kitchen preparing food and none were wearing masks. Gloves yes but no masks. I did notice at a drive thru for a barbecue place here that the three employees I could see from my car none were wearing masks. I guess I did get used to that aspect of the mask wearing but it seems to be disappearing with the restrictions lifted.

If cook staff is working over an open flame they don't have to wear a mask and gloves have to be of a certain material, they can't be those one size fits all deli worker/lunch lady type glove.