That mask I'm wearing is from a bathroom remodel (replacing the subfloor, tearing out the walls, etc) from a couple of years ago. Super Pete McFly gave me a lot of help and I changed my avatar at the time. I am not trying to Covid-shame anyone for not wearing a mask.
Mask discipline is pretty shitty across the county line where I am. I live in Los Angeles county, right on the border with Ventura County, and I can see the compliance drop by about half once you cross over. I was at Lowe's and you got no masks on about 1/3 of customers, masks below noses or around necks on about 1/2 of everyone else. Come on, everyone.
We're wearing the old masks left over from the bathroom remodeling and I'm guessing they are not that effective at this point, but still give me a feeling of undeserved superiority coupled with anonymity, much like posting here does.
I'd argue they are quite effective. The mask's intent is not to keep the virus off you, your eyes and hands are out there hoovering it up. It's to keep you from spreading it around in the event you're an asymptomatic carrier. If it's covering your mouth and nose, that's keeping them pretty bundled up and it keeps your hands off them, which makes those better too.
I might have spent a total of 3 hot hours digging through attic insulation and tracing electric lines trying to figure out where some idiot electrician placed a remote receiver for my bedroom fan. Ultimately, I never found it, and I am having a different electrician come over Monday to hopefully save the day.
On the bright side, I am no longer pushing AC into my attic (found a pipe fell a bit creating a 2 inch gap) and randomly found five N95 masks on some AC equipment. I suppose they were used when some work was done on either the insulation or AC.
jeb wrote: I'd argue they are quite effective. The mask's intent is not to keep the virus off you, your eyes and hands are out there hoovering it up. It's to keep you from spreading it around in the event you're an asymptomatic carrier. If it's covering your mouth and nose, that's keeping them pretty bundled up and it keeps your hands off them, which makes those better too.
Good advice. My wife would probably argue that anything that keeps my fingers out of my nose is a good thing.