Why Masks Suck!

 

Yes…I said it, masks suck. Masks are hot. Masks are uncomfortable. Masks fog up my glasses. Masks wearing in general tends to piss me off. Well, for twenty years of my life my job required me to wear a mask. And if wearing a mask wasn’t bad enough, I had to wear the thing in some areas that were 120 degrees at times.

 

How dare that company infringe on my rights and make me work safely. Didn’t they know I had rights? So what if I got hurt on the job, or inhaled dust and fumes? My choice right? Hell, insurance would have paid for it. And they were always slowing me and my partner down making us lock machines out before we worked on them. How stupid, machines make money only when they run, not shut down. And if others got hurt because we didn’t lock something out…well maybe they should have just stayed out of the way. Right?

 

Now that I have whined and cried like a little bitch and read it all back, it all sounds a little bit silly. But, as of now it seems much of the world has gone silly. Safety precautions often suck, but they do help keep us safe and those around us safe. It was a big deal at the plant I worked for, for everyone that came in went home at the end of the shift. So many of you reading this will relate to every word. Many still won’t care. But as I cringe as I put my mask on to go in Wal-Mart I know that whether or not the stupid thing is 100% effective…at least I tried to help by doing my part.

 

The way I see it, even with Asthma I survived hellish heat wearing a mask at work all those years, I will probably make it through fifteen or twenty minutes walking through an air conditioned store.