So what % of S Koreans would you estimate wear masks in public? -- I assume there is requirement to wear a mask since in your fotos I see people who are not wearing a mask.
I'd say 95%, but in cafes and restaurants, people take them off and often sit quite close to each other. On subways, you almost never see anyone without a mask. If you take it off on the street, no one will say anything. In very open area, as in a park or at the beach, people are more likely to take their mask off. Many of the homeless in my neighborhood don't wear a mask.
On city or long distance buses, everyone wears a mask. On trains, sometimes people let their mask slip down or even take it off, and it's no big deal, since there's no driver or conductor there to say anything. The idea of wearing a mask is not so much to protect yourself but other people, so it's a courtesy that Koreans (and Japanese too) are very good at.
Of course I meant I assume there is no requirement to wear a mask.
On subways, you almost never see anyone without a mask.
Are they required? -- in the city where I live, masks are required on public transit.
The idea of wearing a mask is not so much to protect yourself but other people, so it's a courtesy that Koreans (and Japanese too) are very good at.
Yeah, OK, but does that really make sense? -- to inconvenience yourself, or affect your own health via retained CO2, in order to "protect" others when you know you are not ill? -- anyone who wants to can protect him-/her-self by wearing a mask; they are free to do so -- and if I must also wear a mask, what good is yours?
Little of this makes sense to me.
But the mass obeisance to authority is very disturbing.
curious, with camera surveillance everywhere one would think americans would embrace masks and the anonymity they provide I'm delighted to have an excuse to hide my face from The Powers That Be but hey eahilf, go ahead and revel in OBAMA'S Panopticon!
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So what % of S Koreans would you estimate wear masks in public? -- I assume there is requirement to wear a mask since in your fotos I see people who are not wearing a mask.
I'd say 95%, but in cafes and restaurants, people take them off and often sit quite close to each other. On subways, you almost never see anyone without a mask. If you take it off on the street, no one will say anything. In very open area, as in a park or at the beach, people are more likely to take their mask off. Many of the homeless in my neighborhood don't wear a mask.
On city or long distance buses, everyone wears a mask. On trains, sometimes people let their mask slip down or even take it off, and it's no big deal, since there's no driver or conductor there to say anything. The idea of wearing a mask is not so much to protect yourself but other people, so it's a courtesy that Koreans (and Japanese too) are very good at.
Of course I meant I assume there is no requirement to wear a mask.
On subways, you almost never see anyone without a mask.
Are they required? -- in the city where I live, masks are required on public transit.
The idea of wearing a mask is not so much to protect yourself but other people, so it's a courtesy that Koreans (and Japanese too) are very good at.
Yeah, OK, but does that really make sense? -- to inconvenience yourself, or affect your own health via retained CO2, in order to "protect" others when you know you are not ill? -- anyone who wants to can protect him-/her-self by wearing a mask; they are free to do so -- and if I must also wear a mask, what good is yours?
Little of this makes sense to me.
But the mass obeisance to authority is very disturbing.
curious, with camera surveillance everywhere one would think americans would embrace masks and the anonymity they provide
I'm delighted to have an excuse to hide my face from The Powers That Be
but hey eahilf, go ahead and revel in OBAMA'S Panopticon!
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