Hello! Thank you for stopping by today's quarantine blog! Today is Saturday, April 25, 2020 and next Thursday will be my last blog'antine!
I feel the dull-ache of perpetual anxiety as I reflect on everything opening back up in 2 weeks. Just when I've gotten into, and started to enjoy, my daily quarantine life routine. Now we have to start thinking about going back to work, gathering with people, going out to eat... It's kinda scary. Before, I had a sort of a vague idea of when exactly in the future we are going to get back to "normal" life. but now that future time has a date and it's in 2 weeks. I keep wondering how different it will be. I think it's safe to say that masks will probably be a part of our every day lives from now on. At least I kind of hope so. I feel much more comfortable going out into the world when I'm wearing my mask. Now that we will be interacting with people more often while having a our mouths and noses covered, I began to wonder what the psychology behind that is like? Are there some things that can only be communicated with our whole face? Things that we can't quite emote when it's half-covered? One thing is for sure, my eye-shadow is game is gonna be on point!
I'm not the only one recognizing that mask wearing will affect the psychology of how we communicate;
“[People’s] mouths will often give away their state of mind,” Susan Krauss Whitbourne, a professor emerita of psychological and brain sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst wrote in a Psychology Today blog post. “However, in a time when nearly everyone is wearing some type of lower facial covering, you’re left with the need to determine how the people around you are feeling with very limited cues.” -Miami Herald, April 21,2020
I also saw a New York times article talking about how having to communicate with adults wearing masks is scaring our children. I don't want to scare anyone but not wearing one scares me more. And as we've seen with our dear front line health care workers, wearing the facial PPE is destroying their skin. I do find myself wondering how I will prevent breakouts happening on my acne-prone skin when wearing a mask for several hours straight, especially while sweating.
However uncomfortable it may be, the CDC does recommend that we wear them, especially in areas of significant community-based transmission. Because I like to put a positive spin on things, I'll embrace the mask wearing as much as I can. I'm starting to think about what colors I can have and what patterns. Will I at some point have a mask to go with each outfit? Will I have "casual masks" and "dressy masks"? I dreamily think of buying a sewing machine and making my own. and I have to admit that I've seen some pretty cute ones for sale online. I think I'd love a good floral mask for Spring. or maybe haute couture masks are more your thing?
That's all I have for today! Tell me about your mask situation- are yours homemade? Store bought? N-95?
I'll see you back here tomorrow!
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