undefined | Better HN

0 pointskelnos2y ago0 comments

I still occasionally see adults out in public wearing the chin diaper, or with the mask partially or mostly covering the mouth but not the nose at all.

I just don't get it. Why bother? Public outdoor masking rates even here (San Francisco) are anecdotally well under 10%. Why waste the time and effort (and in some places, social consequences) to do something like that completely ineffectively, when nearly no one else is bothering at all?

0 comments

1 comments · 1 top-level

cesarb2y ago

> I just don't get it. Why bother?

The "mask on the chin" allows one to quickly pull up the mask to cover the face, at the cost of potentially contaminating the inside of the mask (which then touches the face). The "mask not covering the nose" might be a badly fitted mask slipping down, or it might be the same case as the "mask on the chin" (allowing one to quickly pull up the mask to also cover the nose).

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse