It surprises me that there is such division in the Western world over the wearing of masks. One good thing abut living under a dictatorship, is that when the government says 'wear a mask', everyone does. No one cares abut your human rights or the right to be heard or the right to not wear a mask. You wouldn't hear of supermarket employees refusing to wear masks or people walking up and down outside parliament with placards. You would probably be shot or, at best, sent to jail for years on end. Really, it's not that difficult to wear a mask once you have got used to it even though many people here wear them round their chins or on their foreheads.
What I have discovered about mask wearing is that some people look more naturally like surgeons than others. They just have this look that says, 'scalpel, please, nurse.' In fact, were there a medical emergency in the supermarket, they are the first people you would run to for help, even if their knowledge of the human body didn't extend much beyond whether chocolate biscuits were more healthy than oat cakes.
Other people look extraordinarily like bandits and you tend to edge past them warily. The advent of the mask must have done some serious damage to armed robbers because now if they burst into a bank and demand to be given the money, no one would take them very seriously and perhaps just tell them to stand behind the line and observe social distancing. That's if they can even get into the bank; whenever I get there, it appears to have just closed.
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