So, I walked out of Walmart the other day. While about 75% of everyone was masked, there were those individual running around without one. I can only assume they’ve been living in a cave, or think they have some immunity the rest of us don’t.
But I’ve really begun studying the masks of people who are wearing them. While the majority are wearing non-descript, functional things, others have gotten really creative.
An example was a girl at the register. Her mask must have been made of printed off a machine material and had lips on it. It fit nicely with her face, and only the added bulk revealed it was indeed a mask. The problem was when she spoke. The lips didn’t move. I hear a voice, but no lip motion. The entire event was a little like watching a ventriloquist in action and was just plain weird!
Then there was the guy smoking a cigarette while wearing a mask. He’d cut a hole in one corner so he could smoke while wearing it. I’m not sure what he hoped to achieve with it, but it reminded me of the joke of how some people wear a mask makes you understand why contraception doesn’t work.
Some of the masks are nothing less than works of art. The fabric is colorful, and the bedazzler has come out of the closet, and the wearer has made the mask their work of art. I guess this is the Covid answer to making lemonade out of lemons.
The most interesting mask was the guy who walked out of Walmart as I was walking in. It was leopard print, and at first I thought, “Whatever floats your boat.” But the more I looked at him, the more I realized there was something really wrong with the mask. He had a strap that went up and over his head down the middle to connect in the back with another strap.
Then it dawned on me.The guy was wearing a leopard print thong over his face.
I’m not sure I want to know where it came from.
William R. Ablan, pen name of Richard L. Muniz 
At Walmart, same as you, I saw a guy with a white tube sock tied around his face. If these mask become part of everyday life, there will be a huge market for custom face wear. I can’t wait.
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If you ever want to read a book that will give you nightmares, check out “The Hot Zone” by Richard Preston. What makes it frightening is every word in it is true. He says something interesting in that as we move into areas we haven’t lived in before, and as our environment changes, we can expect to see more and more epidemics break loose. Part of the challenge is going to be figuring out how we move forward in all that.
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I saw one fool in the Agway parking lot with a standard surgical mask with eye holes cut out, wearing it over his eyes, nose and mouth uncovered. As a protest.
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The problem with protesting anything is it works only against things that have an understanding of what you’re protesting against. Wow, that’s profound. I better write that down!
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My favorite mask that I’ve seen had a picture of the coronavirus with a circle-backslash symbol over it.
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