Sometimes people wear masks because it’s actually a good idea, specially when your mowing grass on a hot and windy day. Unless you want to breathe in a ton of dust and grass clippings. I wear one when mowing, have for years. It’s that or spend the next day digging and blowing dirt boogies.
Yeah I know but in this particular case, he has never wore one. Plus he wore it in his truck too. With no one in there. Tbh, I could give a flyin' rat's ass... I just think its funny. Let me ask you this.. do you wear a life preserver while riding a bike if the bike path happens to go by a pond? You'd look pretty stupid right?
I don't think the risk for catching the virus goes to zero by simply being outdoors with no one in the immediate vicinity if there is a proper amount of wind present and people are otherwise around; or could suddenly become around. Someone wearing a mask, during a pandemic, outside, doesn't strike me as odd. I think some people wear a mask when they will eventually be around others. But they put it on before that happens to avoid the situation of putting it on once they see someone approaching. Optics. They may also want to avoid repeatedly touching their mask with their hands. Or their hands may be unclean, causing them to leave their mask on so that they won't have to touch it. Regardless, seeing someone trying to protect themselves, and by extension, whoever loves and depends on them, especially if they are at higher risk, would cause me to hold them in higher regard than folks who simply don't give af about wearing a mask--despite the possibility it may save a life or more. Maybe I would have thought it was funny when I was 10, or maybe 11 years old--but I hope not. Your comparison is flawed as you can know with certainty whether you are in a body of water; but you can't know with certainty where the virus is. Even so, that person might be transporting the vest/jacket; and found it easier to simply wear it while they were riding their bike to the destination--which could be a body of water.
Well you're certainly entitled to your opinion, and like I said I'm all for wearing the things in stores etc. But there's no way you are going to catch it outdoors walking down the street or or riding a bike etc. And what you said about "people that depend on them"... once again, these masks don't prevent infection. They prevent the spread. So if someone doesn't have it, walking down the street wearing a cloth mask they bought off Etsy to be fashionable isn't going to do a damn thing for anybody, so color me 11 years old... I think its funny. Common sense goes a long way my friend.
Right, just like you can get dust from a far away dusty ballpark blown into your eyes, even though dust is heavier than a virus; the virus can also be blown. Pollen is blown over distances ... and is heavier than covid ... and affects people. Somehow, you seem to believe that the virus is programmed to self destruct after traveling 6 feet. You said, "there's no way." Since you are certain, provide us your evidence, so that we all can be certain. You said that they "prevent the spread." Here's how: If a mask can stop the virus from passing through the mask while I exhale. Then it can stop that same virus from going through the mask from the other direction, while I inhale. Here's the common sense part: If you sneeze, your mask will "prevent the spread" and block the virus from leaving your mask. If you sneeze without a mask on; wouldn't my mask block your sneeze the same way your mask would have? And didn't my mask just prevent it from infecting me? It certainly does. Maybe that guy realizes what I just had to explain here?
If the guys an employee, boss may have mandated everyone wear them. That’s what’s coming down the line for employers, strict set of rules, CYA.