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[darchildre]

A phenomenon I do not understand:

The library does not require masks for vaccinated people. We have a sign saying that recommend them for vaccinated people, but they are not required. We do still require them for unvaccinated people but we aren't checking, except for kids, because we know they aren't vaccinated.

A large proportion of people still come in wearing masks, of course. That's great - I've gone back to wearing one when I'm in the patron areas as well. But about a quarter of the patrons wearing masks - choosing to wear masks - are still wearing them wrong. Mostly, wearing them so that their noses aren't covered.

I get that some people don't find masks comfortable and don't want to wear them. What I don't get is the idea that you would make a deliberate choice to do something that isn't required of you and then deliberately do it wrong.

Plus, now that we're not requiring masks, I no longer have any standing to go up to strangers and tell them to cover their noses, so I just have to quietly seethe to myself instead.

Comments

[bluapapilio]

I see this surprisingly often, even from health care workers, and I also seethe. Just, why??

[silveradept]

It might be "my spouse makes me do this" or some similar thing where going without would be unacceptable, but weaponized incompetence is just aggravating.

(Or they could be people who still believe, despite having been told they're wrong all this time, that it's mouth breathing that's the problem. Or they're the people who want to take the mask off to sneeze.)

[frenchroast]

This also drives me crazy. It makes absolutely no sense.