Why are hair nets OK, but not masks?

[lauradi7dw]

A number of the mask-refusers are not just refusing, they are trying to keep other people from wearing masks. There was video a couple of days ago of a woman tearing down the masks for sale rack at a Target, for example (it was the short movie equivalent of a selfie, with the perpetrator's own narration) I have started to wonder how they feel about food preparation people wearing hair coverings, often cheap-looking hairnets. I have seen beard nets. I don't recall hearing of boycotts or anything against such food establishments, because it's true of all of them. At some point, some health department decided it would be yucky to have a hair in food, and the whole country agreed. (not going to bother to look up the history right now). So the feeling is that a hair (which happens anyway) is terrible but it's OK to have someone drip snot into food? That's all I can conclude. This is not very coherent, but it's been bugging me since I thought of it.

Comments

[nosrednayduj]

I expect mask-refusers are only thinking of themselves as customers. Don't know if any of them have jobs in food preparation. I mean, obviously mask-refusers are only thinking of themselves and never others. But I don't think they care about rules for employees. They only care about rules for customers.

[sorcyress]

I feel part of the problem is that masks have been politicised into a "liberal" thing, which means that people *aren't* necessarily thinking about the actual uses, so much as a desperate "I CANNOT BE SEEN AS ONE OF THEM". Convincing them otherwise is...I don't know, I wish I knew better how to do that.

~Sor

[lauradi7dw]

There have been a few snippets from newspapers of 1918 going around, saying that some men rejected wearing masks because it made them look bad. I haven't done enough looking into it to know if there was party politics involved as well. I'd guess, without checking, that people weren't complaining so much about how wearing a mask made them feel hot, which many people are now. In those days, at least from photos, guys were wearing full (white linen) suits in the summer, so I can't imagine a face mask would add a lot of heat comparatively.