Why Asians wear surgical masks in public (2014)

Re:Why Asians wear surgical masks in public (2014) by rhacker on Monday March 18, 2019 @03:55AM (#19419348)

My wife stays the FUCK away from people wearing them - she thinks they are all ebola carriers. I think that alone is what keeps the mask wearers healthy - all the americans think the mask wearer is the sick one.

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Re:Why Asians wear surgical masks in public (2014) by marcus_holmes on Monday March 18, 2019 @05:17AM (#19419653)

that's absolutely true. Well, not the ebola part.

It's one of the examples I use to demonstrate differences between Western and Eastern culture:

in the West we would only wear a mask if we were worried about being infected with other people's germs.

In the East they wear a mask to indicate that they are unwell and to stop other people from being infected with their germs.

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Re:Why Asians wear surgical masks in public (2014) by m-p-3 on Monday March 18, 2019 @12:47PM (#19422704)

Yeah, wearing a mask won't really protect you from catchin something, but it will reduce the odds of you transmitting the disease to others around you.

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Re:Why Asians wear surgical masks in public (2014) by JohnFen on Monday March 18, 2019 @07:47PM (#19426541)

She would avoid me like the plague during allergy season, then! If I don't wear a pollen mask during that time, I will literally never stop sneezing.

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