• xxkickassjackxx@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Honestly I’m sad for everyone that works manual labor. Wearing a mask absolutely lowers the chance of both transmitting covid and getting covid, but working in 90+ degree weather lifting heavy shit for 8 hours a day wearing a mask sucks. It gets moist as all hell and fogs your glasses.

    Source: I unloaded trucks outside all day 5 days a week for the entire summer of 2020 and 2021.

    • SirStumps@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I was a cement truck driver during COVID. They do not wear masks. I also drove long haul and no wearhouse workers wear them either.

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      1 year ago

      A lot of people are doing manual labour in a mask even without COVID, but simply to protect their lungs from excessive pollution in a workplace. Don’t be sad, working in a mask is a norm.