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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

When I've had to wear a mask:
I worked in a chemical plant. I had to wear a mask, gloves, a gown, and non-slip steel-toed shoes with sterile booties over them.

I worked for a sausage factory. I had to wear a mask and gloves whenever I went onto the factory floor to ask the supervisor about an employee's time card.

I visited a friend after a difficult labor resulting in an emergency c-section. I had to wear a mask to visit her, and her baby, who was in NICU.

Sometimes when living up north, I had to spread fertilizer mixed with diatomaceous earth on the property. While the clay (earth) isn't poisonous, it's fine particles of clay that can stick to your lungs and cause respiratory distress if you inhale too much of it. So I wore a mask. I wear a mask now when I spread it outside the house along the edge of the driveway, when we get ant-hills.

In the winter up north, I didn't wear something so flimsy as a mask. I wore a hijab. That's right. An extra-long pashmina wool scarf, covering my head, then wrapped around the back of my head, wrapped to the front to cover my entire face from the nose down and tucked into my jacket to cover the front of my neck. I'm not a Muslim. But they have the right idea about dressing for winter, that's for damned sure. The only part of my head or neck that was NOT covered with that thing was my eyes. And I wore glasses so THOSE were covered as well.

I believe he/she said "I can't remember any time in my lifetime where I was required to wear a mask .." I've said the same thing. Required is the key word.