This New COVID Variant Is Shaping Up to Be a Dj Vu Nightmare

[liberal_mama]

12. I'm a fan of horse racing and most people wear masks at the horse tracks in South Korea and Japan

I get a kick out of watching the live streaming of those tracks. Mostly everyone is masked except when eating or taking pictures.

However, I notice most masks are of the surgical and cloth variety, even though they have access to really good masks like KF94s. I know you can also buy excellent 3M N95 Aura masks in South Korea as I imported a bunch of them from Gmarket.

Since barely anyone masks anymore, I like to wear the vented version of 3m N95 Aura masks now because they are more comfortable in the summer. The vented Aura masks sold in the United States have those white braided straps that I hate, so I have to import the vented ones from South Korea with the blue rubberband straps. They also have the non-vented version for sale in South Korea because I'm sure vented masks would be frowned upon there.

It puzzles me that they aren't wearing better quality masks with the rates so high. However, maybe they are inhaling less viral dose at infection, even with the surgical masks, because their death rates are way lower than ours.