Anne N. Mouse: Blog

I remain highly skeptical of the mask... Though there is reason to believe it may work. So I continue apace in looking for something to answer the issue of trapped moisture that becomes a hazard in itself. However that may not answer my other complaint about masks and freezing or near freezing temperatures. That complaint has to do with fogged safety glasses... This I'm certain of: injury to eyes in saw mill settings without safety glasses is 100%. Fogged safety glasses is like being blindfolded... Not good for safety in an industrial environment.

I saw a comparison about the mask as if people were running around pissing on each other.... Now I think that doesn't quite fit the issue, as it is more like people are running around tooting... Now you can smell a toot even if the tooter has on jeans, but you run a much smaller risk of e. coli infection if he wears them rather than doesn't. Thus the point of the mask as well, stopping the aerosolized virus. Paper mask became mush due to moisture, but maybe I can find something at the ski store....
If I can keep from being blinded by fogging... Oh and I need a reading lens but have to have a 'bifocal' as my reading lens causes everything over 24 inches away to be a blur too.

Oh one final word on masks... In not wearing one I would be following the example of Gavin Newsom and Nancy Pelosi....
Which informs my calling them fascistic.
I must wear a mask but they may forego it if it pleases them...

I'm still unconvinced of the efficacy of a cloth mask versus a virus. This is especially true in areas that are essentially out doors... Well I don't work out doors in the classic sense where I'm entirely exposed to the weather, but I do work in a 'building' that is probably about 1/2 the size (or maybe less) than a super-Walmart... Say 50,000 square feet give or take 5,000 as a guess (hey I'm just guestimating and it may well be a WAG [wild Assed Guess]) But in the 'walls' there are three doors that are at least 18 feet tall and wide enough to pass a 20 foot load of lumber through with ease two of which remain open at all times while we are in operation, and one which is only open if the gang rip is running (most of the time we are operating this door is open...) in addition there are 4 sliding doors that would easily admit my small truck that are mostly open. Thus I say the building barely meets the definition of having walls. Anyway the temperature is usually within a couple of degrees of whatever the out door temperature is, which at this time of the year means within a couple of degrees of freezing water...
Needless to say that means that a mask is like being waterboarded with a freezing cloth at this time of the year... Dogs is supposed to have a wet nose, I is not! But wet is less of a worry than frostbite at this time of year, and chapping is a given if wearing a mask for any length of time in the described environment.

Well with that rant in the bag, I'll move on to the boot report. As reported when I started this job I bought a pair of 'logger' style boots by Georgia Boot. Then this spring, having liked most everything about the boots I bought except that I wanted some with a lower heel and a shorter upper, I bought a pair of rumbler style boots this spring, maybe April? (again by Georgia Boot) I've been mostly pleased with those boots, except that now I've discovered that the nylon upper is giving up due to the extreme nature of the wear they get on my job... I don't kick as much lumber as I used to, but I do push heavy loads of lumber around...

So, comfort 7 of 10 wear worthiness? 5 of 10 with the proviso that my job is very rough on boots

Well that wraps up my report from behind the frozen mask in the land of Maosom...

The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it. - Joseph Mengele.

It's just a mask.
It's just two weeks.
It's just to keep from overwhelming the health care system.
It's just 'non-essential' businesses.
Its just until we 'flatten the curve'.
It's just until more cases go down.
Its just to keep others from being scared.
It's just a couple more weeks.
It's just communion or singing.
You can still meet.
It's just until we get a vaccine.
It's just a few side effects.
It's just a bracelet.
It's just to let others know you're safe to be around.
It's just an app.
It's just to let us know who you've been in contact with.
It's just a few more months.
It's just a YouTube video.
It's just an email account.
It's just to protect others from hate speech.
It's just a few people.
It's just a credit card company.
It's just Google ads.
You can use cash.
It's just a few places that don't accept cash.
It's just a little chip.
It's just for medical information and paying for things.
It's just so you can collect your benefits.
It's just so you can go to work.
It's just so your kids can go to school.
It's just so you can travel.
It's just so you can get a driver's license.
It's just so you can vote.
It's just a statue.
It's just a building.
It's just a street name.
It's just a song.
It's just a piece of paper.
It's just a flag.
It's just a piece of cloth.
It's not just a piece of cloth.
It's not just a mask.

Those who stand for nothing, fall for everything.

I found an early version of a shmart car in my price range, needless to say I'm pleased to have transport that probably can do a round trip from where I work to Redding and back on less than 6 gallons of gas.... I haven't checked that out entirely yet, but it seems that the trip down hill is easier (one wonders why [NOT!]) on gas than the trip up hill... From Redding to where I work 3400 feet difference in elevation (give or take a few) So a long climb up lots of hills, or a long drive down the same hills.
Of course since the car is super light, and only has a 990 + or - cc engine, hills at all are problematic... Like some grades are 3rd gear! So that will slow me down some, not that it will be enough should Yogi bear of his cousins decide to cross the road too close in front of me...! I saw one that got hit by a freight truck just outside of Lake Head city... I thought, you know, I ought to slow down... Well top speed for my shmart car is about 70 miles per hour, down hill with a wind at my back....
Oh its a mid nineties Geo Metro, so not hybrid or anything like that, just a 3 cylinder engine that is supposed to be one liter, but I think it may be a tad smaller than that...
After I paid the graft to Kalifornication to get the car from Orecant I still have an emergency fund in place! Whoopee!

Masks are problematic for me for more reasons than just the general discomfort of wearing one. I had not been having too much problem with PTSD mostly just angst that could be from any situation. But since I started wearing the bandana (not a mask if at all possible!) even that is triggering something that must be related to PTSD. Now as I go through the day, even when I am careful to keep (maybe because it is even then barely within) the bandana out of my sight, I feel like there is always something in my peripheral that I can't quite ever see, and it is about to cause me to jump and turn at points.
I can wear glasses, no problem... Good thing too, 'cause I can't read without the damned things any more.... So maybe I'll get over the bandana making me jumpy, but I think it has to do with not being able to see other people's faces, even if the bandana is not too bad now that the weather has shifted.