Any idea what is in people's minds when they wear the mask below their nose?????

[LAS14]

I just can't figure it out. Are they so out of touch that they don't know that the virus lives in your nose? Is it a timid "no masking" protest? Does anyone know anyone who does this?

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[TreasonousBastard]

1. I see it all the time. With most masks, your glasses fog nd nose my drip...

with it on properly. And a lot of them are simply mouth breathers.

[Bonn1997]

2. When the place doesn't require masks, it is mind-boggling

[Aristus]

3. All day, every day, I'm walking in to exam rooms, and the first thing I have to tell the patient is

"Mask up over the nose..."

I often have to say two or three times per visit...

[11 Bravo]

4. Lingering doubt over whether or not onlookers can tell they're an asshole just by looking at them.

[Dave in VA]

5. Maybe?

[orleans]

6. i think it's a mix of reasons depending on the person

a lot of kids don't care, or are oblivious, or prefer to suck on their masks rather than keep their nose covered (some can do both!) some kids said they can't breathe (which isn't true considering i've heard that from a few kids with flimsy, one layered material masks).

my daughter's mother in law (ex trump supporter) lost her partner to covid, she had a stroke (covid related) and has the beginnings of dementia. she lets her mask go under her nose even tho my daughter repeatedly tells her to cover her nose (especially when she's holding the grandbaby!)

i think part of it is the dementia but also part is "i don't like masks"

under the nose parents are either ignorant to the fact that even tho they are vaxxed can spread the shit, or they don't give a rats ass about other people's kids because i see lots of them either without a mask or chin masks or below the nose masks when they are indoors around other people's kids

[vanlassie]

7. I think there a lot of "Fuck You" in the nose out set.

[Ms. Toad]

8. I have never had a mask fall down

Nor do I ever have to grab it to readjust it.

I put it on, and it stays in place.

It baffles me that people can't properly fit masks after more than a year of this.

I'd say it was deliberate, except that my spouse's response when I ask her if she was masked in places which she knows are risky is, "I had it with me" as if carrying the mask is some magic talisman that will protect her. (She does have mild cognitive impairment . . . maybe that is the issue with everyone else, too.)

[blogslug]

9. I will say

A lot of masks slip down when the wearer speaks. I'm not saying there aren't a bunch of dumbasses who deliberately wear their masks under their noses. I'm just saying, a lot of masks are ill-fitted or are prone to slipping off the nose anytime the chin moves.

[SoCalDavidS]

10. It's Difficult To Breathe When It Covers Your Nose

They didn't realize that a virus can spread when you sneeze. They are, after all, MORONS.

[LAS14]

16. It can spread when you simply breathe. Maybe this is one...

... of the misconceptions that leads to masks under the nose. "I'm not sneezing."

[Raine]

11. To get a breath of air I would guess. nt

[Xavier Breath]

12. I don't personally know anyone like that

but I see strangers doing it all the time. My wife recently had an outpatient procedure done at our local hospital, and I witnessed a number of hospital staff wearing the mask below their nose.

I also see a lot of people, in crowded locales no less, wearing the damn thing under their chin. I mean, you had the right thought to begin with, so at what point did you decided it's advantageous to your health to throw caution to the wind and go 'commando?'

[rurallib]

13. it's easier than walking around with your middle fingers raised all the time.

[rickyhall]

14. Nothing.

[rickyhall]

15. Nothing.

[totodeinhere]

17. Believe it or not I even saw a medical doctor wearing a mask with his nose exposed.

You would think that as an MD he would realize that if the nose is exposed then the mask is totally ineffective. Or maybe he knows but he just doesn't care.

[fescuerescue]

27. Yes I just wrote something similar below

I saw my doctor a couple days ago and he was doing it as well.

[Chainfire]

18. I think that a lot of people do it because their employer instists that they wear masks, but

doesn't insist that they wear the effectively. Yea, I am wearing my mask....

It is just more of the stupid shit that we see every day.

[sanatanadharma]

19. Any chance to exert dominance, even so little as a nose flash...

Showing the nose is showing one's 'knows'.
The ego is always claiming, without bona fides, to be the best, east or west, saying "I know, I am superior".

The owner of the ego, being too subjectively identified with the fickle and changing ego, takes any opportunity to exert dominance and demonstrate 'specialness' through even so little as a nose flash...

We all have egos. We all have buddhi (wisdom).
Those with some objectivity use buddhi to see and seek reality rather than the echo of too much "me, my, mine", the subjective sounds of ego.

[Chainfire]

20. I have gotten where I like to go incognito.

Mask, dark sunglasses and ball cap pulled down to my eyebrows. My Mama wouldn't know me.

They don't wear the mask properly because they don't believe in masks, but someone is pressuring them to wear one.

[Drum]

21. Mouth breathers and they know it n/t

[Straw Man]

22. I think there are two camps.

The "Fuck you!" contingent and the plain-old morons.

[Greybnk48]

23. Cobwebs?

It's considerate of them to cover their germy mouths, but they're foolish to not filter the air that goes into their lungs via their nose.
It's not clear to me why someone would even bother with a mask and not cover their nose.

[lindysalsagal]

24. "Squirrel! No! Big human! Food! Wait, gotta scratch. Ooo, better."

[XanaDUer2]

25. Drives me crazy

saw this in the grocery and my job when I worked. At work, we were told to tell them to pull up the mask or no service.

And it is all sorts of people doing it. In public, I just move away from them

[fescuerescue]

26. I see alot of people with glasses do it

I noticed my doctor the other day was doing the same.

[Treefrog]

28. In the last week, I saw pics of both Schumer and John Kerry wearing masks that way.

Ugh.