Kids in village, minus masks.

People should not be shamed for calling out the BS excuses of those who won’t wear masks.  


“I’ve been talking with a lot of my colleagues about how the public is saying, ‘Thank you for being on the front lines’, they’re writing us thank-you notes and sending us pizza, ” she says. “We don’t need any of that. What we need is for you to stop exposing us.” Sarah Anderson, an OB/GYN in Colorado.

spontaneous said:

 He’s criticizing people who dare to criticize those who are making excuses for not wearing a mask.

If any commenters used vision impairment as an excuse for not wearing a mask, I missed it, and I apologize for validating them.

CDC says need 15 minutes of exposure (within 6 feet) over 24 hours..so even if you double to be cautious (12 feet per exposure and 2 days worth), you still need to pass a lot of infected people (generally without masks) over a short period.

Compromised peripheral vision, check

Difficult to breath in, check 

Uncomfortable to wear, check

Wears it to every single dispatch, absolutely

RichardR said:

Drummerboy, does your mask have a vent?  Masks with vents let the moist air out faster/better, although they are not good for protecting others. 

It has a vent but I plugged it up because I read, as you say, that the vent allows particles to be exhaled.

Well, had, anyway. That mask has bit the dust.

spontaneous said:

Compromised peripheral vision, check

Difficult to breath in, check 

Uncomfortable to wear, check

Wears it to every single dispatch, absolutely

 I'm glad he is staying as safe as possible under the circumstances.  Wishing both of you a Happy Thanksgiving.

100% Spontaneous.  If people think their cloth or surgical masks are uncomfortable, they should try the solid one with the screw-on filters.  Hot, wet, fogs up glasses, you have to shout to be heard.  But worn on every call these days.

Just to clarify, I absolutely wear my mask any time there are people around (well past six feet) as well as any time that it is posted as required.  I just don't see the need when I'm across the street or otherwise distanced from people (and I have glasses which complicates things.) But I DO have my mask with me at all times and am definitely pro-mask-wearing.

Ditto.  I wear my masks when out. The fogging, however, means I cannot participate in my regular volunteer activities because not being able to see could be dangerous for me and potentially others.

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drummerboy said:

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 I've tried many of those "hacks" and they help, but none are perfect, at least for my face shape/glasses/etc.  Usually when I manage to eliminate the fog, my glasses are not sitting in the correct position and that impacts the correction.  But I keep trying.

A friend who is a professional EMT has been subbing days every week in a nearby, large town. She said virtually every shift she works involves a fatality lately. Like nothing she has ever experienced, she says. Not 100 percent Covid-related on the surface, but she assumes it gets determined afterwards that many of the patients are positive. Her description of a 40-year-old mother who died as they were bringing her down a flight of stairs to the ambulance - as her children watched - is something that has stayed in the forefront of my brain, even though she barely shared any details. Incredibly scary. 

I don't want to be a crank - my glasses fog up too - but this extended discussion of what are minor nuisances reveals something about the self-indulgence and sense of entitlement of an advanced rich society like our own.  This isn't the Black Plague or the Seige of Stalingrad.  Most of us have not missed a single episode of our favorite television show, let alone a meal, during this entire crisis.  Adapt (Google solutions like someone above did), do what you need to do to keep yourself and others safe, and deal with minor inconveniences.

bub said:

I don't want to be a crank - my glasses fog up too - but this extended discussion of what are minor nuisances reveals something about the self-indulgence and sense of entitlement of an advanced rich society like our own.  This isn't the Black Plague or the Seige of Stalingrad.  Most of us have not missed a single episode of our favorite television show, let alone a meal, during this entire crisis.  Adapt (Google solutions like someone above did), do what you need to do to keep yourself and others safe, and deal with minor inconveniences.

    

I am glad you are able to view the deaths of millions of persons world wide as a first world problem. This is not true for many of us. I lost an immediate family member, and a close friend as a result of the COVID pandemic.  My child is an essential worker and his wife is a nurse who treated COVID patients during the last surge and may do so again.  Please don't tell me that my experience with COVID is trivial.  The problem with fogged up glasses is that glasses wearers are likely to remove their face coverings at a time when they should keep them on and get sick as a result.  Crowd sourcing solutions helps everyone with whom the glasses wearer might then come in contact.

I'm an essential worker too.   Perhaps you missed that.  And I know of people who died also.  Fogged glasses not as bad as death.  I manage to deal with the fogged glasses on 911 calls.  Others can manage in less demanding situations.

drummerboy said:

Do you think surgeons with glasses whine that their glasses fog up?

 So that's why my appendix surgery got *^#@Ed up.