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[darchildre]

So, masks are no longer required in the library. There are some people who aren't wearing them; there are some people who are. All of that is fine.

What I don't get, however, is the people who are no longer required to wear a mask and are therefore choosing to do so, but are choosing to wear it incorrectly. We get a lot of people who still can't wear their masks so it covers their noses. I just watched a man sit and read a newspaper, wearing a mask so that it covered neither his nose nor mouth but simply dangled, ineffectively (and, I have to imagine, uncomfortably), in front of his chin. He chose to do this.

I don't understand that at all.

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[james]

!!! People with their N95 masks pulled down under their nose. WHY. (Our store has a Starbucks so sometimes they have a drink, but there are people with no drinks who have a really good mask on their chins. WHY.)

[sixbeforelunch]

I've seen this in stores. Same as you, I am baffled by people who voluntarily wear a mask, and then proceed to wear it wrong.

[frenchroast]

Add me to the list of people confused by it.

I still wear a mask indoors in public (immune-compromised husband means I'm still taking extra precautions), and will sometimes pull it down or let it off my ear to one side if I'm outside walking between buildings on my campus, but it goes back on correctly once I'm inside again. Otherwise why bother?

[silveradept]

I feel like these are the people who wish to perform, but don't actually believe in the virtue of wearing the mask.

Most charitably, perhaps they have to go places that still do require masks (and that they be worn properly), so they keep them around, improperly, so that they can remember to put them on properly where required.

It's still much more effort than actually wearing them correctly all the time.