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I Always Try to Look On the Bright Side

With the face mask as fashion's new black, those of you who get annoyed when people tell you to smile won't have to deal with that. Just crinkle your eyes a little and they'll never know.
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Sssslm · F
The people there finally start wearing masks. in the news and from some of the posts here it seems that there are still quite a lot of people who don't know how the situation is and think wearing masks is unnecessary. what's worse, they criticize people who wear masks, creating a discouraging and even hostile atmosphere.
@Sssslm In the past two weeks there has been much less criticism and much more mask-wearing. Relative to many places, our state is still very mildly effected. We have 403 known cases and 7 deaths.

But even human beings eventually catch on, and we now have 3 months of history to inform our actions, unlike the first few countries

Our state Governor 'over-reacted' very early, God bless her.
Sssslm · F
Your state governor is visionary and she put people's health as a priority. when taking precautionary measures you should not exclude any possibilities even though there is not enough evidence yet. precautions are always speculative, otherwise they are not precautions.
@Sssslm There's a saying here: "Better safe than sorry."
Sssslm · F
@Mamapolo2016 my brother is in Canada. I hope people in Canada with start wearing masks soon. He has got masks with him but he dare not wear them because people there discourage wearing masks if you are healthy.
@Sssslm That's because they first told us they didn't do much to prevent getting the disease and the medical and first responder communities needed them.

Since nobody foresaw having to supply everyone on the planet with masks, there was a shortage and private citizens wearing them was interpreted as being selfish - like driving a Humvee.

Sssslm · F
I understand. But they should not have played it down. They must have some realiable information but decided not to disclose to the public. even if the shortage of masks is a reason, this doesn't stop them from doing other things to help. Since masks are already unavailabl, they should even do more to stop this coming to a country. @Mamapolo2016]
@Sssslm Magical thinking played a big part here. There, yes, but not HERE.