• xxkickassjackxx@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Honestly I’m sad for everyone that works manual labor. Wearing a mask absolutely lowers the chance of both transmitting covid and getting covid, but working in 90+ degree weather lifting heavy shit for 8 hours a day wearing a mask sucks. It gets moist as all hell and fogs your glasses.

    Source: I unloaded trucks outside all day 5 days a week for the entire summer of 2020 and 2021.

        • Skelectrician@lemmynsfw.com
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          1 year ago

          What do you do for a living? For many, wearing a mask while working is a recipe for guaranteed heat exhaustion. I’m not subjecting myself to that, and if the illness is anything at all like the last time I had it, it was a goddamn cold.

          Wearing a mask in a hospital full of people with compromised health and all sorts of contagions floating around is a really good idea.

          Wearing a mask outdoors in the summer time on a construction site full of other able-bodied people is just fucking silly.

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            1 year ago

            What kind of construction work are you talking about if you’re not wearing a mask? Anything that produces fine dust or requires working with volatile chemicals like paints and aerosols requires you to work in a mask at all times. Do you have any work safety regulations in your country?

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      1 year ago

      A lot of people are doing manual labour in a mask even without COVID, but simply to protect their lungs from excessive pollution in a workplace. Don’t be sad, working in a mask is a norm.