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Shortly after California Gov. Gavin Newsom posted a meme on his Twitter page illustrating how you should wear a mask while eating, a similar meme attributed to Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak started spreading across Facebook.
Sisolak’s meme is different from Newsom’s in that it talks about how to smoke with a mask. In both examples, though, the rules call for lifting your mask off and on as you eat or smoke — exactly the opposite of what the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention instructs you to do once you have your mask on.
Besides telling you not to move your mask to your forehead or neck — something you’d have to do to take a bite or a smoke — the CDC says, “Don’t touch the mask and, if you do, wash your hands or use hand sanitizer to disinfect.”
So, which is it? Is it safer to simply sit and eat and drink — or smoke — without a mask, or should you contaminate it by continually moving it up and down your face? The states that require masks while eating apparently haven’t addressed that issue; the CDC seems to have missed it, too.
In the meantime, in another example of just how crazy the mask mandates have become, a Kansas youth symphony director has designed a special mask for woodwind and brass players, and the KU symphony orchestra has a video on Twitter showing how their entire orchestra not only social distances, but wears a mask while playing.
SOURCES:
Twitter Office of the California Governor October 3, 2020
Facebook October 6, 2020
Twitter September 8, 2020
CDC August 7, 2020
Times Record News September 16, 2020
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