I see a lot of people wearing masks here in Macomb County, Michigan. Not everyone, but more people everyday.
Just in the last couple of days I'm seeing more people wear them. Friday morning in West Memphis I went to Walgreens to pick up some hand sanitizer (haha just kidding, they don't have any) and I got there about 45 minutes before they opened. Forgot about the Central Time thing. So I waited.
There were already more than 20 people lined up waiting for the store to open. I didn't want to go in with that crowd so I waited until they cleared out. They all came out carrying as much toilet paper as they were able (allowed by the store), and then it morphed into carrying paper towels.
But as I sat there and watched the spectacle, I witnessed the horror of of people doing nearly everything these doctors on TV have been saying for weeks as reasons for not recommending people wearing masks. For weeks I've been dismissing the doctors' comments as a load of crap, because, I reasoned, there's no way that people are as stupid as the doctors are claiming.
Turns out, oh my goodness yes they are.
I mostly saw surgical masks, but a few N95 masks You don't constantly fiddle and adjust the mask. I saw people doing that. You don't pull the mask down to talk, then place it back over your face to listen, repeat. You don't wear a mask, then pull it down to smoke a cigarette, then casually put the mask back in place.
With an N95 respirator, you really do have to have it properly fitted, just like the doctors have been saying. But all you have to do is read the instructions that come with the masks to know how to do that. And there are YouTube videos that show how to put them in, fit them, test the fit, and how to remove them (there's a trick to removing them).
There's a little metal strip that goes across the bridge of the nose that must be pinched to form a tight seal at the bridge. I saw 4 people wearing N95 masks, and not a single one of them had pinched the metal strip over the nose. I guess they think it's just for show.
The woman in the picture below thinks that if she wears gloves she can't spread the virus to everything she touches with those gloves. But the funny/sad thing is, her N95 mask looks like a friggin' catcher's mitt on her face. Small animals can get in and out around her mask. She's wearing a Large, and needs to be wearing a Small.
I never thought people would be as stupid as the doctors have been saying, but there ya go, there it is right there.
On a completely unrelated but just as serious note...
This woman got stuck in the Redbox. The Walgreens security guard, who is they're too enforce social distancing and purchasing limits, helped the woman extract her arm from the machine.
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