There are health exemptions for people with asthma and other pulmonary problems but these states, besides claiming to allow exemptions, do nothing to let the public know there are some of us who couldn’t leave our homes if we had to choose between covering both noses and mouths or breathing!
Look at the video. It was the younger woman with mask well below her nose. Hopefully, it will help identify her. Doubtful anyone drives more than 20 min to go to Staples.
I have chronic lung problems from smoke inhalation pneumonia when my my wood stove seriously malfunctioned in ‘93.
They’re damaged.
They’ll never get better.
I’m at reduced capacity and even the least bit of obstruction is a struggle.
I have a n95 mask at the beginning and the first time I tried to use it, 5 minutes in the store and I nearly blacked out.
However, if you look at me, you would have no idea what’s going on inside...no one would.
I look “fine”.
This infernal heat and humidity causes me to struggle with NO mask at all.
Some people don’t wear their “disabilities” and other people torment them for trying to look “normal”, because the weaker of the herd are always the ones targeted by predators.
When this began, I was designated shopper for myself and two others.
My mom, who’s in her 80s, terrified and cancer survivor.
My husband, who’s triple bypass, CHF, broken hip recovering and generally not doing so great.
I have my own “at risk” issues but somebody had to suck it up and go get food.
I have literally been out every day since this started, mostly with no mask, no hand sanitizing and no particularly concerned about how far apart I was.
And I’m fine, considering.
But my mom, ever-influenced by every new PANIC newscast, is now telling me I’m going to “get it”.
I think not.
Since the mandatory muzzle deal, though, I’m having flareups of my chronic bronchitis because I’m rebreathing all the time.