{"id":7707,"date":"2021-10-28T20:13:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T18:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=7707"},"modified":"2021-10-28T20:13:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T18:13:19","slug":"walking-without-masks-during-a-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/walking-without-masks-during-a-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking Without Masks During a Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>\n<p>For many people walking without masks during a pandemic is normal. This is confusing. We have known for months, or even seasons that the virus is airborne and that masks are a simple way to keep safe. Despite this people walk by the seaside without masks. It&#8217;s not just that they walk without wearing masks, but that they do not seem to be visible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can&#8217;t imagine walking without a mask. Even when I&#8217;m walking across fields with little chance of crossing paths with people my mask is at hand, ready to be worn. I actually go out of my way not to walk within two meters of people, especially people without masks. I always have a mask with me, and recently I started to favour an FFP2 mask, over ffp1 masks, because I feel safer. I am still likely to wear masks whenever I am within four meters of people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It takes one second to put on a mask, and to remove it. Today I wore it while walking about eight kilometres. It doesn&#8217;t bother me to walk with a mask. It is progress, for me to be within towns and cities, during this pandemic. I prefer the countryside, empty roads, empty agriculutal roads, empty trails. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/img_0610-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/img_0610.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"View of the Mediterranean Sea\" class=\"wp-image-7710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/img_0610-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/img_0610-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/img_0610-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/img_0610-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/img_0610-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/img_0610-scaled.jpg?resize=360%2C270&amp;ssl=1 360w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/img_0610-scaled.jpg?resize=150%2C113&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>View of the Mediterranean Sea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I went for a bike ride in the evening. 30 kilometres in one and a half hours. Nothing to challenge me, but the bike couldn&#8217;t cope. It kept skipping chain links and gears. That is distracting. I reached my goal, and then returned to the start point. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>For many people walking without masks during a pandemic is normal. This is confusing. We have known for months, or even seasons that the virus is airborne and that masks are a simple way to keep safe. Despite this people walk by the seaside without masks. 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