04-27-2021, 11:24 PM
$tevie wrote:
I think people got in the habit of wearing a mask alone in the car when we thought that touching things could give us covid. I'm sure it felt easier to put it on and keep it on when running errands than to have to worry about contaminating the mask every time you put it back on after each stop.
Yeah, remember when we used to hear it said quite a lot, "Don't touch your face." Wearing a mask while driving could help remind you not to do that.
I'm sure some of the people wearing masks are doing so because they are more susceptible to bad consequences if they get covid. I don't blame them for not taking their mask off at all when they are outside their homes. It's not like I can tell who those people are out of all the people I see wearing masks, so I just sort of figure I'll give everyone the benefit of the doubt for being reasonable about the risks if they are wearing a mask even outside on a breezy day where everyone is moving around and well separated.