Editor:
I went to do recycling and noticed the signs requiring people to wear masks outside while social distancing. This “rule” is not on the B.C. government page of restrictions and rules. Could people and businesses refrain from making up their own rules? It confuses people who are already scared enough to not make rational decisions. I don’t need people giving me dirty looks when I’m standing outside at least 30 feet away from anyone else while not wearing a mask. I’ll wear one inside when it is required of me, but I’m not pandering to ridiculous made up rules by someone whose paranoia outshines their capacity to use their brain and common sense.
I don’t need a whole bunch of people saying “oh, but be careful!” I am being careful. I’m doing everything asked of me by the government and probably more conscious than most as I actually wash my hands properly. I watched as six people came into the public washroom and left and I was still washing my hands. Those same self-righteous mask wearers who are now invincible in their own eyes will now take those germs and the germs of many others before them and spread them around the next store they enter. And I’m the bad guy here?
And why are people shoving their masks in their dirty pockets? Or hanging disposable ones on their rear view mirror to use over and over again? You do realize that disposable ones are a one-use item, yes? You do realize that if you don’t wash that mask, and you put it in your pocket, it is now contaminated with whatever germs were in your pockets (how often do you wash your jacket?) from your hands which you probably did not wash properly? Then you are breathing all that in.
Not sure why the government hasn’t taught people how to properly store and use their masks; instead we get a 30-minute brief on glory holes. Seriously?
Alicia Passmore, Gibsons
