Just going to walk in to work and refuse outright to wear a mask. I have a voice recorder that I plan on bringing with as well. I'm going to start doing my job without a mask, refuse to wear one, and tell them to give me a written letter of termination otherwise.
EDIT: Guys, prayers worked, SCOTUS didn't completely betray us all
I work with Covid patients in the hospital and we wear masks that severely limit breathing. You feel like you will pass out and you actually will pass out. We have respirators that you wear that are better. We have to wear these for tuberculosis also.
But we wear the cloth mask out of the Covid rooms and by about hour 9 out of 12 I get literally hostile over it. It makes my face hot and I feel not irritated but agitated. So when we chart we pull the masks down and I do it so often that I can’t recognize I’m pulling my mask down and not wearing it, it’s just a reaction to be comfortable or probably to breathe well.
No one in the hospital has said anything because they feel the same way. Patients haven’t said anything when I pull it down in rooms. No one.
We are all sick to death. The only time I try to wear it after I’ve had a mental breakdown at about hour 8 or 9 of wearing it is in the morning when management comes in. I know I’ve done this in front of them but they haven’t said anything as long as I wear the N95 in the Covid rooms. I think we are all up to fucking here with the masks and I was generally supportive in the early beginning before I knew that it caused insanity.
I can’t even tolerate wearing it under my nose. It’s rebreathing that hot air back in. It’s not that I’m out of breath. It’s that hot air on my face that makes me want to lose my shit.my suggestion for anyone else is to just pull it down under your chin for the most part and pull it back up when you are talking with someone. The point is to prevent droplets from flying out of your mouth on to another person. So logically why would you need to wear it when you aren’t on front of another person within 6 feet.
For the rest of you mask warriors, carry on. But just a suggestion that you can get away with it reasonably without any trouble as long as you are wearing it to walk in the hallway, but in your own space just pull that fucker under your chin, lol.