Americans tend to neglect wearing masks when they’re mingling with people outside of their immediate household, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Southern California published on Thursday.
Of course they do.
We need to make those who don’t wear masks as socially unacceptable as smokers.
Shorter version: we’re doing it because you make us, not because we want to.
The essence of American exceptionalism is apparently refusing to grow up.
That and pollute like hell.
Where in the hell is it all these people find other people to talk to? It must be exhausting. I pick up every tenth phone call. No one knocks on my door, and if they do I automatically assume they’re begging for donations to something, so I ignore that too. Why are you in my house? Where did you come from? Did I invite you here? Or Miss Kitty did? Really? Sheesh, that was a moment of confusion. Isn’t it time you leave? And on your way out take out the garbage, make yourself useful.
Why, it’s almost as if there was a willful, deliberate failure to do the kind of intensive public information campaign on the specifics of mask wearing one would have expected in a country not run by psychopaths.
What else is being published in this month’s issue of No Shit, Sherlock?
Really? Next thing you’re going to tell me is not wearing a seat belt is related to being launched through the windshield.
Thanks Obama!
The early dithering over whether or not masks were helpful didn’t help, either.
A great many people latch onto the first thing they hear and then defend it as if it had been handed down from Mount Sinai.
I don’t wear a mask while socializing: I only socialize by Zoom.
Please, please, please, please - Wear a damn mask! Please.
The study ignores that this is probably mostly a Republican/Conservative problem. While they didn’t include an obviously relevant factor (i.e. political affiliation) in their survey, the demographic breakdown hints at the truth.
I think we can all guess the political affiliation of most of the >50% non-Hispanic whites and >50% rural households that don’t wear masks reliably.
Maybe what they need is bacon flavored liners for the masks? Or maybe some evocative scent such as used in exploding candles? Maybe they’d wear that. 
Because being around people you don’t live with is precisely when to remove your mask, because FreeDUMB!
Masks are face condoms. If you don’t wear a mask around each other, every person who has coughed around the other people is coughing on you.
That said the harder part some of us have households of 1 and this idea that we all live in nuclear family units and that we can be normal around them and mask up around everyone else when they don’t exist is not workable. What we need is to develop a sense of shared responsibility to a pod of people. My boyfriend isn’t in my house, but if either of us breaks quarantine for our pod that person has to have a negative test before we share air together. It’s not hard but it also doesn’t pretend that we are going to skype each other for a year and a half even if we are from different households.
Perhaps someone can devise a horrible scent that’s masked by masked, like old man fart or summer garbage truck?
As to outdoor exercising I follow Dr. Fauci. I run in the suburbs so I don’t see many people. When I do I pull up my gaitor until they are past me. If they get too close without a mask I cough sometimes just to give them a little something to think about even though I am not ill (but they don’t know that).
