Daily Check-In

[mecurtin]

This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time on Sunday) to midnight (8pm Monday Eastern Time).

Poll #23815 Daily check-in poll

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 71

How are you doing?

I am OK
63 (88.7%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now
8 (11.3%)

I could use some help
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
30 (42.9%)

One other person
23 (32.9%)

More than one other person
17 (24.3%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

Comments

[lilysea]

I had a horrible nightmare clearly inspired by COVID fears
and woke up hot and sweaty and feeling feverish. :(

I've been staying strictly at home alone, so my risk is low,

but it was still very stressful and upsetting.

[teaotter]

I'm looking for advice, or how-to links.

Wearing a cloth face mask makes my glasses fog up, and being unable to see makes it impossible for me to do the things I left the house for in the first place.

I got one with a nose wire, but the mask moves every time I move my mouth -- for example, if I speak, or smile, or make any facial expression at all. Then I either have to re-adjust it (touching the mask and my face), or the glasses fog up again.

I've tried soaping my glasses; I've tried putting absorbent tissue inside the mask to catch vapor; I've tried folding the top of the mask down. None of these work for me.

Are there any other suggestions out there? Is there a shape of mask more likely to work? Is it too large/too small? Do I just need to attach the mask more tightly so it can't possibly move? (I've bought velcro straps to try that out.) Or is the glasses fog just something I'm going to have to get used to?

[kathmandu]

One does not 'get used to' glasses being opaque. Ever.

First thing to troubleshoot is that glasses go on top of / outside the mask, not inside the mask edge. You're probably already on that.

It sounds like the mask might be too small for you. The square-ish ones should have pleats to allow enough fullness for your jaw to move down *without* pulling on the upper edge. If your mask doesn't have enough fullness, or if it's so narrow from side to side that the edges are right near your mouth and get pulled/bumped when you smile, that's a size-of-mask problem. You can try strapping it down, but there's such a thing as too tight --hurts and leaves pressure marks.

If you have a large, thin scarf, as in a ladies' decorative scarf, you could try wrapping that across your face and around your head, Lawrence of Arabia style, anchor in place with barrettes or clips or bobby pins, and see if that works for you.

[mecurtin]

I have very light-weight, large cotton scarves I wear like this:



One advantage is that I can take the scarf off when I go to the bathroom to wash my hands upon getting back, wash it in the sink, and after I squeeze the water out in a towel it will dry VERY quickly.

[teaotter]

I can't figure out how that's tied. Is it wrapped around twice?

[mecurtin]

Yes, it wraps around the back of my head then comes around to the front and is tied more less in front of my mouth.