• lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 months ago

    Masking outdoors with no one around. I heard on a podcast that it was still good practice so you’d remember not to touch your face, but it was mostly just hot and miserable.

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      8 months ago

      I know a few people who still wear surgical masks outside when the pollen levels are high because it helps with allergies. Not perfect, but the masks reduce enough of the pollen breathed in to be helpful without the sweating problems from n95 masks.

      • idiomaddict@feddit.de
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        8 months ago

        Yeah, I moved from the US to Europe in 2021 and wore a mask daily everywhere outside of my bedroom (I had eight housemates, including a very nutso Q person, who was trying to get covid to hasten his natural immunity and who did not shower for the ten months we lived together- he was the second worst roommate) until probably June of 2022. It wasn’t until then that I realized I have allergies to things that grow on this continent that I never encountered at home.