rainbowpopeworld:

screencap of a tweet by @PlaguePoems, which says "So yours was the only masked face at the office and in the store on the subway and in the waiting room at least now you know the answer to your teacher's question of if you would be willing to do the right thing even if you were the only one doing it."ALT

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yep

(and there’s a nonzero chance that any teacher who asked you that question is also not wearing a mask.)

(my teachers seldom asked me that question, though. their focus was on getting me to act normal and follow rules, even ones I didn’t think made sense. because my sense of “what feels to me like the right thing to do?” was ALWAYS stronger than my sense of “what is the normal thing everyone else is doing?” ….and for a child in school, this was, at least 75% of the time, a discipline-worthy Problem.)

(but these days I still wear a mask as much as I can. And it still feels worth it.)

(I’m a pharmacy technician. the patients like me, which I think is partly because they feel I care about their health. I also don’t get sick nearly as often as other employees, so my attendance is very good.)

(And yes, sure, it is uncomfortable. I’m not gonna dismiss that as a whiny complaint. I do sympathize. Even though they’re excellent N-95s that I get as well-fitted as possible. The problems they cause ARE valid and NEED solutions, and I am trying to do my part with that as well.)

(See, my nose is tiny and I probably have a deviated septum. So unless I am extremely relaxed, all my exhalations are either mouth-breathing or high-pressure blasts through narrow nasal passages. So it never seals quite well enough to prevent me breathing onto my own eyeballs, at least a little tiny bit.)

(And over a ten-hour shift that gets to be a lot. My eyelash ducts are clogged and flakey all the time. I’m lucky I’ve –so far– not been vulnerable to actual eye infections, because then I would be creating another whole health crisis with the antibiotic overuse that would necessitate.)

(I am spending a lot of my creative energy and time on trying to improvise ways to get it to seal better and be more comfortable. I have been doing this for 5 years. I don’t know how close I am to a breakthrough that’ll actually help. But I’ll share if I ever get there.)