Chin mask wearing

[kerrymucklowe2020]

( happy for this to be moved to Covid thread if needed)
Seen so many people wearing masks on their chins! Which is bad enough, but ( not being sexist here by the way) but men have them on top of their beards!!!
Can someone explain this to me? How clean/effective is a mask once it's been on your chin? ( And then probably put back over your mouth and nose ) I find it revolting - what do others think?

People wear the masks along the river to use the cafes I presume. I don't carry scissors it's quite easy to take the mask home and dispose of there. Snipped. Have a look at the photos of the damage they do to birds.

Depends where you are. If you're walking between mandatory mask places, then fine for a breather without too much fiddling. No good in M&S food hall, though.

My biggest gripe is people wearing them under their nose. Do they not realise the nose/nostrils are also an airway, connected to the throat and lungs etc!? Literally no point in wearing one if you can't wear it properly.

I don't care. Wear it because I have to. I like watching other people behaving like fallible humans who prefer to feel the air on their face.

Masks don’t do anything

Masks are shit. I wouldn't bother getting worked up over this.

Masks are pretty pointless unless in a clinical setting.

I am a bit stunned to keep reading ill-informed responses like this. Masks are an effective measure, combined with social distancing, etc, to reduce transmission and spread of this virus.

"In practice, we don't yet know which has a greater effect — wearing masks to prevent infected people spreading to others or protecting well people from inhaling infected aerosols. Probably both are equally important."

www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-27/which-face-mask-works-best-filmed-people-sneezing-coughing/12494174

[quote cbt944]Masks don’t do anything

Masks are shit. I wouldn't bother getting worked up over this.

Masks are pretty pointless unless in a clinical setting.

I am a bit stunned to keep reading ill-informed responses like this. Masks are an effective measure, combined with social distancing, etc, to reduce transmission and spread of this virus.

"In practice, we don't yet know which has a greater effect — wearing masks to prevent infected people spreading to others or protecting well people from inhaling infected aerosols. Probably both are equally important."

www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-27/which-face-mask-works-best-filmed-people-sneezing-coughing/12494174[/quote]
I am saying masks are shit because I don't like wearing them (even though I do wear them). Not because I think they serve no purpose.

When I emerge from a shop I pull mine down under my chin. I put it back up again just before I enter the next one.

I really don't give a shit how other people are wearing theirs, or even if they are.

I really don't give a shit how other people are wearing theirs, or even if they are.

Then you haven't grasped the point of masks at all. Whatevs.

@cbt944

I really don't give a shit how other people are wearing theirs, or even if they are.

Then you haven't grasped the point of masks at all. Whatevs.

I have, but I am not prepared to get all hot and bothered over it. I do me, other people do them.

I don't give a shit what others are doing and won't go around criticising or questioning them. I refuse to be a mask zealot.

Nine times out of ten I see people take them off when they come out of the store and shove them in a pocket or bag, ready to be worn again when required.

I have some grave doubts that they are all then washing their hands.

I do me, other people do them.

Yeah... not so much during a pandemic.

But thanks for the great idea for my new line of banners and t-shirts:

"This winter, you do you in ICU!"

I will be straight onto it, after I've finished the run on the latest important fight for justice in a global pandemic:

"Wave walkies for doggies are a human right!"

When I see someone in a shop with a mask just on their chin (so not exempt) I say nothing because I assume they are either...

A tin-foil hat masks don't work I'm a free man/woman not a number plandemic nutcase who is going to spout a load of nonsense while spraying aerosolised droplets at me if I say anything.

Or someone who means well but lacks the ability to understand how a mask works - in which case it's not fair to give them a hard time.

Or both of the above (e.g..Trump)

Sorry slip of the keyboard of course Trump doesn't mean well.

That poster is ridiculous unless you're in a clinical setting. You're not scrubbed up and with surgical gloves on, so your hands are probably dirtier than your neck.

@HeIenaDove Haha yeah I’m the same - I don’t have a car anymore! So always on public transport for work - was away for a few days so was on 2 trains for a 3 hours - went to a few restaurants/pubs/shops and stayed in a hotel that asks you to wear masks while you walk around -but not at the table!
I have reusable masks that I wash - but still the one I have with me for the day goes in and out of pockets/bags etc - so I don’t think that’s any better than going on my chin!
I used to care more at the beginning about the germs - now I just wear the mask where I’m meant to even if it’s germy/dirty cus I put it in my pocket or whatever!
I don’t know what else to do tbh!

The comments on this thread show that people haven't grasped why we are wearing them. Its just to try and reduce droplets expelled by the wearer! Not to try and filter the air we breathe. Although there are some suggestions that they may reduce viral load absorbed.
All this talk of contamination sounds like we are working on a covid ward not shopping in Tesco!

Northernsoullover spot on.

I hate wearing a mask and when exiting a shop I either fully remove it or I move it down to my chin if I know I'm going to be heading straight into another shop. As far as I knew the advice on masks was to protect other people from me and anything I might expel and not to filter out covid. So I don't see how me temporarily wearing it on my neck exposes me to covid when the whole point is that masks are to protect others from me in the event I might have it and perhaps be asymptomatic and spreading it.

Can’t get worked up about it if someone is doing this outside , don’t care , not my business.