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Coffee Break: AirPod Carrying Strap

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People seem to like AirPods because they stay in your ears, they're low profile, and there's no cord to get tangled — but I don't think everyone really intended to be wearing them around their home all the time during calls. This AirPod carrying strap (leather with a magnetic lock) looks like a nice thing to have if you don't want to keep throwing your AirPods in your pocket or keep wearing them around. I like that it's colorful, because if you have a roommate or a partner or kids living with you, they can easily see if you're on the phone, and it's harder to lose. It comes in the pictured red as well as white and blue, and black for a more discreet option. They're $60 at Nordstrom. AirPod Carrying Strap

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  1. E

    That is hilarious. Buy a $60 carrying strap for your wireless headphones! Or, you know, just buy over the ear wireless headphones or (gasp) headphones with wires.

  3. Pure Imagination

    Agree, this post is hilarious.

    I’m a bit nervous about the forthcoming announcement from Governor Newsom about the plan to re-open the state of CA. Things have been reasonable so far and I hope they’ll continue to be, but I’m nervous that my boss will jump at any chance to re-open the office ASAP given how much she hates WFH. In some ways, I feel like it’s a different world and companies are going to have to be more flexible, but in others, the tanking economy gives employees less leeway to walk away. Fingers crossed it doesn’t become an issue.

    • Anonymous

      Compared to hospitals and restaurant kitchens and grocery stores (all sorts of fools eat) and bus drivers and meat-processing plant workers, I feel like office workers aren’t rightly first in line to be worried aloud these days. Especially if you have an office. Of if we won’t go back, we should not be accepting of a world where others take very grave risks and we won’t accept far less.

        • Pure Imagination

          I don’t agree with this. Office/desk business that can be conducted from home, like mine, should be done at home as long as humanly possible to reduce the risk for EVERYONE.

          • Anonymous

            I think that it is helpful for people to stay home if they can (and for maybe non-NYC non-SF, parents will have to stay home). But I’ve been home for a month and it is humbling to be at home in a townhouse while grocery and maintenance workers are expected to work with minimal PPE and even with PPE healthcare workers are getting sick and dying. I can only reconcile what I feel like is cowardice and entitlement with the thought that I’m not interfering. But I rely on the risks of others. And making donations to foodbanks feels like such a paltry way of helping those who are truly suffering.

    • Anonymous

      Why shouldn’t she re-open it? That would at least allow some people to WFH. The people with no childcare / schools will likely still have to WFH. I guess most offices would still be half-empty. And if no spikes result, we could all relax a bit.

      • Pure Imagination

        Because she is very much the type to re-open it on the slimmest shreds of evidence that it’s safe to do so (and in fact, she’s been sneaking into the office during the closure). We work in the heart of San Francisco where it’s very crowded during normal times and we have an open office layout. 19 of 21 employees take crowded public transit to work. There is exactly one employee with a child and he already works part-time; if she re-opens, I’ll pretty much be the only employee with a “legit” reason to WFH (since I have a high-risk condition), although there are several others who would prefer it for safety reasons as well. The tl;dr is that I’m worried about safety for all of us, but also that I’ll be singled out as the demanding princess who wants an exception.

    • Anon

      My husband’s employer is in an “essential” and made everyone work from the office under the first CA shelter in place, even though none of them are front-line. They sit in front of computers, basically, and could do 100% of their jobs from home.

      The second round of shelter in place orders clarified and said non-essential employees at essential businesses must work from home, so he’s been home since then. For some reason, some of his colleagues have been voluntarily working in the office. This seems to be to impress the boss, who is the person who doesn’t trust anyone to work from home.

      Today they let everyone know what someone who has been coming into the office regularly has now tested positive for covid-19.

      I’m just like WHAT DID YOU THINK WAS GONNA HAPPEN???

      I feel like it’s way too soon to be business as usual.

      • Anonymous

        At this point, if they are + are they also not recovered also?

        Based on the NYU study, where the main risks are >65 and BMI >30, I would just prefer to get it over with. I don’t have any risk factors and since everyone else is staying home (as have I, for the past month), I would be a non-spreader to others. What I don’t want is to get it in the winter or when I might already be sick with the seasonal flu or something else or while travelling. I’d like to have had it BEFORE I get on a plane again and so that I can go visit elderly relatives who are high-risk after I’ve recovered.

        • Anon.

          I don’t know where to start with this comment.

          1. Yes, age and BMI are risk factors for developing a severe case that may require hospital care incl. ICU/ECMO, and potentially leading to death. But: 40% of hospitalizations are within age 20-54. (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/health/coronavirus-young-people.html)

          2. Even if you are “lucky” and don’t require hospitalization, you may feel very sick for a while. Accounts everywhere in the media suggest that for many people, this feels like the worst flu they ever had, and that for some it takes 3-4 weeks to feel somewhat normal again.

          3. It is not clear how much immunity you acquire once you’re “over with it”. There are reports of people testing positive again after previous negative tests. Questions: Can the virus linger in the body? Are current tests not sensitive enough to detect SARS-CoV2 and th positive again test is a false positive? How fast does the virus mutate and how infectious is it in someone having had a previous infection with another strain (also see: influenza).

          4. What point is there for you to sit in an office alone if everyone else who has a risk condition, or coworkers with children/elderly/persons-at-risk at home will continue to stay home?

          • Anon

            Is it even clear yet that everyone who recovers is going to feel normal again? That has not been true for everyone who recovered from the original SARS.

        • Anon

          If you’re asking me, no his coworker is not recovered. His coworker is newly diagnosed this week.

        • Anon

          By the way, if YOU want to get Covid-19 in order to get it over with, go for it. I’m sure there are many ways you can expose yourself.

          But you don’t speak for everyone else. You don’t speak for me.

          I do not want to get it, and I think it is the height of selfishness to feel the restrictions should be lifted just because you are not afraid of the risk to yourself.

        • Anonymous

          By the way, if YOU want to get Covid-19 in order to get it over with, go for it. I’m sure there are many ways you can expose yourself.

          But you don’t speak for everyone else. You don’t speak for me.

          I do not want to get it, and I think it is the height of selfishness to feel the restrictions should be lifted just because you are not afraid of the risk to yourself.

        • LaurenB

          I can’t even with this comment. Do you understand that this is not just about you and the personal risk you are willing to take? This makes the tone-deafness of AirPod wired holders seem like … nothing. Are you really so naive as to think that just because you’re young and fit, this is going to be nothing more than a common cold? Do you really not get that plenty of young and fit people wind up in the hospital, wind up infecting the health care providers thus taking them off duty to help others? Yes, we get it – YOU’D love to go visit elderly relatives. Well, I would have liked to have gone to my 100 year old grandmother’s funeral last week, but we don’t always get what we want.

          • Never too many shoes...

            I am so sorry, LaurenB. My heart hurts for everyone in this terrible circumstance.

    • Anonymous

      I think askamanager might have an old post about what to do if your employer is unreasonable … from back when closures were just beginning. You might still get something out of that. One tip I think is to push back as a group—if no one is willing to go in or if you’re aware that you aren’t the only one with concerns it helps (so you’re not singled out as the unreasonable employee but part of a group of reasonable people who of course expects their employer to act responsibly.)

    • Anonymous

      Think of it this way: how many of your co-workers have younger (say <14) kids and working spouses? That crowd won't be coming back until schools reopen. They can't. So if your office is say 50% occupied or less, that is the office you will come back to. Not your old office.

    • Anon

      So basically what Newsom is saying, if we meet our goals as a state by the first week of May, which includes having the curve continue flatter than otherwise predicted and having critical infrastructure in place, he will then consider loosening restrictions. For now, it’s unchanged.

      As one of his constituents, I am supportive of this path.

    • Anonymous

      My profession is essential but our office is still slim-staffed because no one wants the headline risk of anyone being a major vector. I go in 2x/month, which is typical, and stick to my office. It is a ghost town. Just because some things are “open” doesn’t necessarily mean fully-staffed. Top management is very, very concerned about getting sued and getting a bad reputation. I think many places are that way, so a mid-level boss is probably not the decider on this.

      Spouse’s business is also essential, but they are WFH to minimize risk. If to many of them (or us, in my job) get sick, we will really be in trouble.

      • Pure Imagination

        It’s impossible to say right now when testing rates are still horrendous. Ask me in a month or two?

      • Nesprin

        When effective vaccination or mortality reducing treatment is available (hydroxychloroquine etc is not demonstrated effective), or when new cases drop to low enough numbers that contact tracing/testing can be used, or when there’s a demonstration that people who’ve had it are immune and enough of a population has had it that herd immunity is a thing.

        • Anon

          Almost all of those things are likely 12+ months away! You’re ok living like this for a year?!

      • LaurenB

        Chicago area. I have access to our local hospital system’s COVID numbers (~120 cases, 16 deaths) and it does appear that they have plateaued a bit and we’re beginning to come down the curve, though it’s too soon to really call it. Our shelter-in-home is until April 30. Personally, I’m not going to feel good about going out in public (beyond groceries) til probably middle / late May.

  4. Liz

    Off topic. I have a question about stimulus checks. I can’t find a consistent answer online. If I have owed money for taxes this year and last year, does the IRS have my direct deposit info? I used direct deposit to pay. Thank you

    • Coach Laura

      Yes, it is said that if you used the direct debit or direct deposit, the IRS will use that info. Beginning Wednesday (tomorrow) you can supposedly go online to irs. gov and enter your information from your last tax return and then enter your direct deposit instructions. The site may also allow you to see the status/amount of your check. It’s phased out at certain salary levels and Forbes has a good article on the process if you enter “amount of stimulus check” into google.

  5. Smoke: vaping

    I need some perspective on dating. I’m in confinement at the moment due to COVID19 and have been talking everyday with someone I have been spending time with alot before this confinement started. We had been spending time going out on dinners regularly, and sometimes concerts. The last weekend before confinement started, he let me know he wants to be more than just friends, I was over at his house and ended up spending the night. This is someone I have grown fond of, and whose company I really enjoy. One thing that does bother me is that he is a smoker. He uses one of those vaping/e-cigarette things. I have always had smoking as a deal breaker, on dating apps I would ignore anyone who indicated that they smoked.But in this case we were introduced by a mutual friend. When we hang out before it was as friends and so this habit is not something I thought about alot. I did mention that I didn’t like that he smoked when we were together that weekend just so he understands any negative reactions I have towards it. Fast forward to now and I’m wondering whether I should still give this a chance? I know that people quit when they want to, so this post is not about trying to make him do that. For me the concerns are more about health, even though it’s an e-cigarette I think it’s unhealthy. I never quite imagined being faced with a situation where you spend time with someone who has a habit you disapprove of but you still end up liking them. Plus of course I know that I am also not perfect.

    • anon

      “I never quite imagined being faced with a situation where you spend time with someone who has a habit you disapprove of but you still end up liking them.”

      I don’t really mean to be mean, but I can’t imagine being in a serious relationship with a person who *doesn’t* have some habit, belief, practice, or something that I disapprove of. Only you can answer whether it’s a deal breaker for you. It sounds like you’re not just worried about the health impacts of vaping but rather perceive him as “a smoker” and are reacting to all of the negative things we associate with smoking. At least, that’s how it comes off.

      • Anonymous

        What a true statement about relationships.

        Personally I feel about vaping kind of like I felt about cloves circa 2002. It doesn’t make you cool or edgy, it’s not a less unhealthy alternative to smoking, you’re just a poser emo kid who’s fallen for the newest fad pumped out by big tobacco. I’m not saying I would absolutely nix a promising dude for doing one poser emo kid-esque thing, but he’d have to be cool with me giving him SO much flak about it. Like I’m def going to turn on the Cure or recite Byron every time he whips out the vape.

        • Anon100

          Cracked up so hard at your last sentence.

          No actual advice for OP, sorry.

    • Anonymous

      You aren’t even seeing the guy in person. Chill about this and see what happens.

    • Anon

      Smoking used to be a dealbreaker for me, but my partner smokes and I can’t imagine life without him so I got over it. Not saying you have to, but it’s possible you’ll change your mind on some of your priorities. That said, it seems like a really big deal to you since you’ve posted about it twice, so I wouldn’t lead him on if you know it’s never going to work out.

    • NOLA

      I’m really anti-smoking. I can’t tolerate it at all. That said, the dude I have been dating vapes when things are stressful (like now). He would occasionally smoke before and I always knew, even if he tried to hide it, so it’s almost better now because he can vape in the house or the car (when we went on a road trip) and I barely notice.

    • Anonymous

      Posting late – this would be a dealbreaker for me. You’re not crazy. If I can’t handle it long term, I cut things off early.

  6. Anon 2.0

    Has anyone learned a new language as an adult without being full immersed in a culture that speaks that language? I would really like to learn Spanish but other than counting to ten I don’t know how to speak it whatsoever.

    Any tips? Did you use an app? A specific program?

    • Anon123

      Find a language school or a really good tutor near you. Once you can speak abit, find a conversation group on sites like meet-up. Expose yourself through music, movies, books etc. This can get you to a good level but effort is needed.

      • Ness

        I agree,
        I am learning french and that is what I am doing. I have lessons once a week at work and on top of that I used Duolingo app and a news podcast in the tube everyday. From there I added Meet up groups, cinema, tv series and books and the last thing was to try to go to France at least once a year to hike.
        First year I dedicated my lunch break to grammar exercises but now only the homework the teacher gives us.

        With confinement there are plenty of online courses and Skype one to one lessons available you can try now.

        If Spanish is your option check Money heist in Netflix.

    • Anonymous

      I felt like I learned a lot from just keeping Univision on or Telemundo and putting captions on. I could read it fine and understood words, but I struggled with listening to native speakers speaking at native speaker speed.

    • Anon

      Babble is probably a good place to start. It’s not going to get you to fluent by any means (I don’t think you can do that without real, live, human instruction and interaction) but it will get you beyond 1-10.

    • BB

      Yep, learning French now through a mix of watching tv, listening to music, and having a private tutor. Honestly, I don’t think any of the apps really cut it if you want to be fluent. You can get pretty far if you’re willing to put in the time to find the best books and video/audio series and can commit to put yourself through them, but I just don’t have the self-drive enough to do it without the teacher as forcing function.

    • Anon

      This will make me sound older than I am, but when I wanted to refresh my Spanish I used the Great Courses Spanish class. I thought it was very well done. Spanish is quite regimented in terms of grammar and pronunciation, and the Great Courses class was on the academic side (vs. being a cute app throwing random pictures at you in a game type format), but was organized in such a way that the structure of the language made a lot of sense and didn’t feel like an insurmountable amount of knowledge. It comes with a workbook too.

    • Aquae Sulis

      I’ve made a really good start with Duolingo. I’m still using Duolingo, to learn new words and grammar, but I’m also now starting to listen to Spanish podcasts and read Spanish books (Harry Potter).

      • Ness

        If you want to try Spanish ones I suggest you Fray Perico y su borrico or El capitan garrapata (easy level) or Celia colection (from Elena Fortun) but if you can read a Harry Potter book in Spanish you should give a try to something from Jordi Sierra i Fabra.
        My french level is for Le petit Nicolas ones but I was able to read an Amélie Nonthomb without dictionary and undertand the plot. Anyone trying french should check “Versailles”.

    • anon

      This looks like the bra I wore in seventh grade. I still kinda want it, lol.

      • Anon

        It’s definitely not sexy, but I have a very difficult time finding bras that are comfortable and supportive, and this one is.

  8. anon

    I’d like to get a few basic, plain-colored tank tops for summer. Any recommendations for something that’ll skim the torso rather than cling? The older I get, the less comfortable I am with fabric clinging to my belly (which is proportional to my size, but kinda soft around the belly button region). I have tried sizing up, but I’m very pear-shaped. If the tank fits through the stomach/hips, it’s exposing my bra and b00bs. No thanks.

    • Mal

      I think woven fabrics vs clingy knits may help with this – I also find that tanks with side slits help give room for my hips but keep things from being huge up top.

    • anon.

      They aren’t super colorful but the Old Navy Luxe Tanks are the absolute best for me for this. I buy in a tall size for more rear coverage.

    • Duluth

      Duluth Trading Company no-yank tank. I wear one every single day. (I work in construction so I appreciate that it isn’t low cut, doesn’t ride up in the back and is not see-through. I usually have a flannel button up shirt over it so even if a button gaps or comes undone, I’m still covered.) They wash up amazing and are really soft. Some of mine have been washed weekly for several years and haven’t faded.

  9. Anonymous

    I am really enjoying this new reality and am now actually anxious about it ending because I don’t want to go back to my physical office and to a lifestyle that had me burning out on like a weekly basis. I was really unhappy before the stay at home orders and I’ve really been enjoying the mental space to get back into creative pursuits, the time to focus on my fitness and being able to spend time with my dog and (virtually) my friends and family. Before all of this, I didn’t have time or mental space for any of that. Anyone feeling similar or do I have Stockholm syndrome?

    • anon

      I hear you. While I don’t like missing my family and friends, I do not miss my office at all. And not because of the job itself — because, like you said, I constantly teeter on the edge of burnout. Right now, I am getting the sleep I need and am not showing up to work completely worn out. I wish I could figure out a way to finagle my “normal” schedule this way, but OMG, I’ve been trying and failing for a decade now. I thought I was the problem …

    • anon

      Me too!

      It’s definitely not perfect and this feeling is coupled with bouts of feeling horrible about how tough it is to be truly productive from home, feeling socially isolated, and missing going to places that aren’t my living room, but wow did I need the break.

    • Anon

      OMG YES. I’m a lawyer and was falling behind on some non critical deadline. Then the courts just basically stayed everything and it was amazing. I still have plenty of work because I’m playing catch up and also advising our business clients. I’m not looking forward to returning to that faster pace though I am looking forward to be able to see friends and family in person.

      • crim lawyer

        lol I had a trial I wasn’t looking forward to running (client has a disability that complicates running the trial and will likely mean it will take five times as long). so now I have a nice long break before running it. and possibly it will be thrown out due to unreasonably long delay

    • Anonymous

      Yes. I felt that I was doing okay before, but I am doing so much better now. I have some health issues that make the process of getting ready and commuting especially draining for me. But I genuinely did not realize just how draining until now. I never want to give up this quality of life again.

    • anon

      Yep, same for me though for slightly different reasons. I hate my job, not a huge fan of any of my co-workers, and my actual office is small, dingy and windowless. I love being at home and working out of my bedroom in my PJs, while avoiding many of the worst parts of my job. I’m going to be sad to go back, that’s for sure. I guess the one thing I know now is that I really really need a new job, but that’s extremely unlikely now with the economy the way it’s looking.

  10. Getting on a plane again

    I got on a plane in October 2001 after 9/11. When am I going to fly again? My parents are in their 80s and while I’m obviously not visiting them right now, I want to dream of when I will see them again. They are a >12 hour drive away, so plane is probably the better option (would bring my kids, they have a great trick where someone will need to go to the bathroom potentially HOURLY, so I have refused to drive with them anywhere >4 hours).

    Christmas?

    :(

    • Anon

      I have plans to travel domestically by plane in July and August and am optimistic about keeping them. I obviously won’t violate a stay-at-home order, but it seems like those will no longer be in effect by July. I personally think things will be relatively ok from June/July to October/November and then we’ll see a big resurgence in the late fall/winter. I know heat and humidity don’t kill the virus or stop the spread, but there is some evidence they slow it and I think people will be extra careful when the restrictions are first lifted and then gradually get less careful, which will lead to more cases. I don’t expect to do international travel until summer 2021 and even that feels iffy at this point, because I really doubt we’ll have a vaccine available to the public by then (my BFF is a virologist and says the best case is fall 2021 for a widely available vaccine – healthcare workers and possible high-risk civilians could have it sooner).

    • Anon

      I would drive. Seriously a 12 hour drive with hourly stops is better than any plane trip at the moment.

      • Anonymous

        IDK — 2 hours in a plane where you can wash hands is one environment vs a lot of restaurants / restrooms and at least one hotel is hard to compare. I think if you are seated next to a person with a huge viral load and sharing air, that is different. But otherwise, it is a lot more surfaces to sanitize. I am betting that plane capacity is pretty distanced at this point.

        I am such a chicken — this is nothing like what a hospital or nursing home worker faces in any 18 hour shift (some PPE maybe for hospitals, but I doubt it in nursing homes) or un-PPE-equiped bus drivers and grocery store workers

        • Anon

          Yeah, plane passenger capacity is diminished by at least 75%, and the air filtration systems on planes are excellent (much better than cruise ships and hotels). I think flying is actually quite low risk at this point, although of course it’s selfish to travel for a non-essential reason, since you could be sick yourself but not symptomatic.

        • Walnut

          12 hours is doable without a hotel stay. It makes for a super long day, but you can reduce your exposure by packing lunch/snacks and basically only stopping for bathrooms and fuel. I’ve even done it numerous times with toddlers.

    • Anon

      I mentioned this on the mom’s page the other day but I will have to travel at end of October to adopt a baby if all goes well, fingers crossed. Flying with a newborn sounds terrible under normal circumstances, never mind a pandemic. It’s a 40 hour drive though. I’m looking into RV rental as a possibility so we could avoid public bathrooms. I’m seriously considering researching the cost of flying private but I’m guessing it would take a huge chunk out of our savings. I’m hoping so few people will be flying that it will be relatively safe. I have a friend that had to fly in an emergency and there were maybe 10 people on her flight total.

    • Anonymous

      Idk I’m still hoping against hope that I can go to Europe for vacation in July. If the travel restrictions are lifted I’ll probably go.

    • Anon

      I don’t know the answer to that; nobody does. But…with appropriate PPE, testing, and reduced case loads, you can safely fly to see your family. Heck – today, if you had an N95 mask and goggles, you could safely fly. So…we “just” need to get the supply chain up and running for that; not an easy task, but easier than waiting for a vaccine.

    • Anon

      I have a doctor’s appointment on June 3rd in Connecticut. I cannot miss that appointment. So, I am flying from west coast into New York, on June 2nd night, go up to Connecticut on June 3rd, take flight back home on June 3rd night. As previous poster mentioned, I am on look out for one or two N95 masks and will buy safety goggles for the trip.

  11. crim lawyer

    Hi everyone! I actually got to work from home today (I usually have to go to work in the morning and afternoon but today I was allowed to stay home). Had a really nice morning with my son, made him a good breakfast and got some housekeeping tasks done. I hope everyone else is doing well. Take care of yourselves :)

    • Anon

      Oh, your really gave me the giggles, thanks! :D :D

      I love these kinds of test, but scrolled very quickly, so when I reached the first samples I went “oh no! I can’t choose between these!” And then I realised ALL the first colours were bright spring, which is my colour palette (yeah, so I already know, pssh). And it *really* went downhill from there, all the rest of the line-ups really is not my thing. So yeah, thumbs up! Worked for me.

    • Aquae Sulis

      Interesting! It recommends Twig for me. I have tried that one on, but I didn’t buy it because it came out the exact same colour as my lips – I figured I could just use a clear lip balm instead.

  14. Villagers with sticks

    Tree pollen is high right now. I have allergies that even with shots and meds are putting up a fight. I am a bit worried that if I go out in public and cough or sneeze or blow my nose that I’ll get yelled at or worse. People seem to be really unhinged. My kids have been inside for a month with daily walks and it hasn’t happened yet, but a lot of people are out walking (sidewalks and in the street b/c there is so little car traffic now) that it is bound to happen.

    I feel like putting a painters tape with “ALLERGIES” across my forehead.

    And I was good about saving masks for healthcare and other workers and the truly ill (which I am not), so I don’t have a mask.

    • Pure Imagination

      Make or buy a cloth mask. It’s recommended anyway, but it will also forestall a lot or even all criticism you might get from others if you cough in public.

      • LaurenB

        I have ONE surgical mask that I wear in public that we had had on hand for quite some time. I really could not GAS about “criticism in public.” I know that I’m not taking from health care providers.

    • Anon

      Okay, your mask excuse is weak, there are literally a million tutorials online about how to make them, even if you don’t own a single needle or thread. And you should be wearing them out for things like grocery shopping, etc, anyway, according to the CDC.

      • Anonymous

        Just stop. Fine if you want to do this, but the mask thing is unreasonable. The government absolutely told us not to get one, ordered us to not leave our homes, and now expects an arts and crafts project based on things we presumably have at hand? That is crazyness.

        You’ll look like a bank robber and they’ll probably change the rules agin before you get home. Stop expecting other people to do this. It’s craziness.

        • Anon

          You can buy them easily. It doesn’t have to be an arts and crafts project. Agreed the CDC was late on telling people to wear masks, but I don’t understand how that’s a justification for ignoring this guidance now. They’ve told us to wear one now, so wear one. Not that hard, and you will not look “like a bank robber.” 80% of people in my rural, politically conservative area are wearing cloth masks at the grocery store now.

          • Anon

            But she doesn’t wanna, isn’t that good enough? And you’re mean if you tell her otherwise.

          • Anon

            She says she doesn’t have one, not that she doesn’t want to wear one. Either way, I don’t think telling someone they should follow CDC guidance about public health is “mean.”

        • Anon

          Cool, definitely gonna listen to the anonymous person on the internet who thinks masks are “unreasonable” and wants to whine about it over the CDC.

          • Anonymous

            I mean I really don’t think any reasonable preson can take them seriously on masks. But people love craft projects and shaming others so…where is your mask?!

        • anon

          Now that we know more about the virus than we did in February, the CDC changed its guidance. An anonymous poster telling people not to wear a mask now, in April, because in February the CDC said not to (even if it was for spurious reasons) is illogical and frankly stupid. In February the CDC thought that masks wouldn’t protect the wearer, and that is still true. It protects others.

          Not wearing a mask now, in the US, means that you’re rude and you’re endangering others.

          When you wear a mask, you are protecting others. When others wear a mask, they’re protecting you. As an immuncompromized person, I resent those who don’t wear a mask or a handkerchief with two scrunchies for earpieces or a scarf or bandanna in public now.

        • Anonymous

          Little cloth masks protect against pollen. They do NOT protect against viruses. I think it’s the worst instance of virtue-signalling. And I love that *some* WFH people had tons of craft supplies on hand, but I am a person who is working 12+ hour days + home schooling + doing OMG so many meals and it wouldn’t happen even if we didn’t have a SAH order and the Michael’s or whatever was open. I don’t have time to read a tutorial; I had to read the whole d*mn CARES Act and a lot of state implementation of it. You might as well expect me to start my own chicken flock so I don’t have to go out for eggs and chicken. I mean, do you expect men to do any more than pull their t-shirt up over their nose? Even in a catastrophe, it’s more expectations on women.

          • Anon

            They don’t protect YOU but they protect others. If everyone wears a mask, it cuts down on virus transmission, maybe not 100% but significantly. Look at how much better Asia is than us. It’s not the only reason, but it’s one reason.

        • The Lone Ranger

          Several counties in my state are now requiring grocery store and pharmacy workers and customers to wear masks while in stores or picking up from stores.

          Masks are readily available on all sorts of purchasing sites and many designers are developing them. All of my neighbors are sewing them, and there are several non-sew methods of making them.

    • Anon

      Ok — I understand you’re attributing symptoms to allergies, which I am also suffering from. But the thing is that due to asymptomatic carriers, none of us actually know we’re not infected. Myself included! So if we are asymptomatic and sneeze due to allergies, we actually are putting others as risk. Wear a mask, take allergy meds if you can, and you’ll both avoid dirty looks and protect people.

      • Pure Imagination

        +1. Plus, people aren’t going to give you dirty looks because they hate you and want to see you suffer. They’re going to be freaked out because they have ill family members or aging parents or are one step away from being laid off and every instance of exposure, real or imagined, is another stressor. They can’t read your mind and know it’s allergies. Just wear a mask.

  15. Advice

    Can any of you who have recommended someone for a job somewhere you work or somewhere you associate with professionally provide any input into navigating the situation if it doesn’t work out? I recommended a close friend for a job (working for a non profit I work with as a contractor, and essentially working under a friend). It completely blew up in 90 days. Friend one is no longer an employee. Haven’t spoken to either friend in a week.

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