Two Mask Stories

1.  This week, I was watching German news, and this German political guy had run off to Beirut after the explosion.  I won't discuss the political gain or imagery of this visit....but the guy did a one-minute chatty session....which you couldn't understand much of anything he said.

About halfway through this, I looked at his mask, and then realized...he had two masks on.  The 'under-one' was the expensive N-95 'super-duper' mask (with a filter).  The 'over-one' was a cheapo surgical mask.

I'm guessing he was awful fearful about getting Covid-19 there, but all this chatty hype was basically worthless because you couldn't understand nothing much he said.

2.  This week, I was reading over a blog from a guy who is hired-up and working for a company.....doing office-time at home....during this Covid-period.

He admits, since early May, other than one day at work.....everything has worked fine at home, and he's getting more done.

So he gets onto this discussion....the team lead changed out.  His crew (around ten) got a new 'boss', and the boss about ten days ago sent out the memo on the weekly conference video session (an hour where all projects are lightly discussed).  The boss wanted two or three significant things done in a different way.....then said that everyone who appears on camera within the group....NEEDS to wear a mask (yes, while sitting at home).

In the day prior to this next session, this guy had a chat with two guys in the group, and they all voiced the opinion that was dumber than s**t.

So the day of the conference session comes up, and guy number one is on the group video 'show', but if you blew his picture up....you'd notice that it's a single picture of him with a mask on, the mouth never 'moves' and simply audio going on in the background. 

The second guy?  He's taken up the live voice/video thing, but his voice is heavily muffled....like South Park's Kenny McCormick.  Nothing he says is understandable but he's waving arms and sounding agreeable to what everyone says.

I will offer this opinion....the longer this mask crap goes on....the more crazy things will get, and HR folks will get involved....dictating the style/type of mask, and the sixty-four rules of company mask policy.