Take the bag and rub the end that you will eventually open between your hands. Paying this forward from a helpful customer in the produce section at Publix. 😂 It works!

This is a pandemic. If you don’t know what that is then google the 1918 one. We are talking about a virus that can kill you especially if you have underlying conditions or if you are over 55 but even younger people have died. Our death toll is over 195,000 now. It is not the regular flu for which we have treatment or a vaccine. It is not the cold! If you think just don’t follow guidelines as it will get you sooner or later, then you are giving up what control you do have and that’s over your own behavior. The prediction of deaths now is 400,000 people by December. Hopefully we will have a vaccine by then. There are no guarantees that if you do everything right you won’t get it but if you don’t try your odds of getting it go up. Also, this can affect all your organs of your body and they don’t know the long term effects.

Just for a few minutes observe what all of us do with our masks. In a short 10 minutes we fidget/adjust with them several times. Hand goes to face to do this. When we take a drink or eat we lay them down in unsanitary places then put them with the collection of germs back on our face. Did you know you can blow out a candle with you mask on? Do you really think these masks are stopping anything coming out of your mouth? If your healthy these masks do more harm than good. If your in poor health and are at risk I am wondering if they are also doing more harm than good. Just my thoughts and observations on this mask mandate.

Then why don't we just toss out all the law, rules . regulations etc. and live life like they did back in the days of the cave man. The strong survive and the weak get extinguihed.

I agree. I find my self going to do this when i am bagging my veggies. Have to stop.

OMG what was she thinking!! On the other hand we have all had our “moments” in the new normal.

you can't fix stupid

I'm with you kid.:ho:

They don't get it.

Do you really want other folks handling your produce, just to open the bag?

Excellent advice. Much better than using your saliva to moisten your fingers.

I think hand washing and general sanitation are much more effective. Hard to defend against the unseen, but I can find a way to stay a few feet away from someone who may sneeze.

I can NOT blow out a candle with my cloth masks or disposable masks. I can spritz water onto all our masks in front of a mirror and the mirror stays free if any water droplets.

I check all my masks before I wear them in indoor public places.

I expect any mindful person to check out their masks before going in public with them.

PRODUCE BAGS: Try taking an extra cart-wipe with you to produce. That will moisten your fingers enough to open the produce bags. NO LICKING required.

Worse is all the complaining and criticizing people do on social media. It’s a destructive practice. Spreads negativity through society.