Are you wearing a mask when out in public?

Last night at WinCo foods my roommate and I were shopping with masks on, and almost nobody else was. This random middle age cute dude with no mask needed to study the same shelf of spaghetti we were. You could tell he was nervous approaching us.

As he got close and looked at us nervously, I said in a silly foreboding tone, "Diseeaaaassse! Diseeeeeaaaasssse!" My roommate, who almost never picks up on jokes quickly, said "Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead!"

The guy looked at us and said, "That's how I feel with all this mask shit."

Sometimes.

I don't wear the mask in my own car - I don it to go inside retail establishments, which isn't often - maybe every three weeks to a month.

I feel as if everybody’s talking like masks are now offering some kind of protection to the wearer, not from the wearer. Has something changed? I understood the only protection it offers is that it keeps infected asymptomatic’s from sharing the love. But your mask itself is not of sufficient construction to protect you from inhaling anything if it does get in the atmosphere.

R3, it's probably both, to some extent. But nobody's studying this crap. I can't even get a freaking covid test. Come on!