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Kitsune, Maskless Crusader.'s avatar

Oh I know. Did that for years. Used to meet in coffee houses mainly. Would have to be masked, sit at different tables with at least one pane of plexiglass between us. If at their home or my home, which I have also done, same. People here are scared shitless. What exactly they are scared of, the virus, being the one at the office or school to get it or being in the minority or whatever, masks are essential for all commerce. We subscribe to a home shopping service. The delivery man wears a mask as they all do. I do not. The service keeps putting in notes requesting that households wear masks to collect their deliveries. In short, I have two choices. Ignore my training training and qualification for respirator use and don a mask early in the morning and wear it all day long every day and continue with the few remaining jobs I have or except the fact that I am unemployable. I am left hoping that classrooms will open up next school year and return to prepanic….prepanic what? Operations? Circumstances? Ah! Return to prepanic normalcy. That does not help in the job search though. Absolute madness.

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Bootsorourke's avatar

But the masking is not healthy? Right? I refuse to wear it in stores and such.

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Kitsune, Maskless Crusader.'s avatar

Masking is not healthy. Masks, respirators any safety equipment really are used only when it is less safe to do something without them. Masks should not be worn all day, everyday. Even those whose jobs require masks, such a surgeons change theirs frequently. There may different lengths of time but the one I have repeatedly found is 4 hours. Change the mask or respirator filter/s every 4 hours. If you touch the filter or mask, change it immediately. They are health risks and should not be used except when the task requires them. Being made to force my students to wear masks in class while I know they are unhealthy is unethical. So to unemployment I go.

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Bootsorourke's avatar

bless you tho. Need more like you.

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