Masking Up

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Attempt #1 at a cloth face mask. I have an image in my mind of a museum case, decades from now, full of mannequin heads displaying the various types of masks worn during the Pandemic— all carefully sterilized by the conservators, of course.

Wore it grocery-shopping. Mostly it just made it hard to breathe, but I guess it did stop me touching my face, and about half the people in the Sobey’s lineup (Sobey’s has lime-ups as of this week, and longer than the ones I’ve seen for anyplace besides Wal-Mart) were wearing masks of one kind or another so I didn’t feel as conspicuous as I’d feared I would. Props to the big guy with the shaved head who was wearing a breathing mask I suspect had originally been intended for cycling or motor biking; it was black with a little design of flames down one side. He also had on athletic gear and a gold neck-chain, and he was carrying a colourful grocery bag. He had a whole Look going on, is what I’m trying to say.

Sobey’s is making all customers use shopping carts now, to force them to keep a distance from each other. They’ve got directional arrows taped on the floor, which I’ve also begun seeing at No Frills, though I find it more confusing than helpful, especially since I don’t recall the items I need to buy in the order that they appear on the shelves. 

Sobey’s did not have the light-weight brand of cat-litter I’ve recently begun buying, so after all that I had to make do with a small bag of generic clumping litter.

One the way home I noticed graffiti on a bus-shelter. I’ve been seeing posters for a few months for a medical drama called Transplant. Somebody had drawn a surgical mask on the lead actor’s face (which logically he should have been wearing from the start).

ETA: This one has ties instead of elastic, I think it works better: