I cut a bunch of small horizontal slits in my single layer cotton mask.
Makes breathing a lot easier, and they’re not obvious.
No one has ever challenged me.
I bought a mesh mask at fakemaskusa.com
its funny....we're told its to protect other people but why do the nurses have to wear masks but not the sick patients?????
there is no logic.
I cut off the bottoms of the strings and tie the top two in back, so there is only one hoop to wrap around my head, and the bottom of the mask is loose. I can breathe more easily. It doesn’t look any stupider than the ones hooked around the ears. It’s also worthless, but keeps the occasional power tripper at bay.
Cutting slits is an excellent idea. Running on the treadmill will be easier.
My solution: I just make sure that I'm always eating, or sipping from a water bottle. Everyone is in complete agreement that masks cannot be required while eating, so I'm just doing it as much as possible when I'm required to wear a mask, but get tired of the stupidity after a bit.
I can make a bag of M&Ms and a large bottle of water last for a standard 2.5 hour flight. I can slowly munch on a corn dog up and down the aisles at Walmart for at least 30 min.
I'm afraid to look at the scale, however. ;)
Other indicators of mask insanity: every store requires only one entrance and only one exit. WTH? This literally ensures that EVERY person goes through the same area at some point. Minimizing risk would actually mean making as many entrances and exits as possible, so that any bug at Door A isn't affecting anyone who used Doors B, C, D, E, and F. By the current method, the only possibility is that EVERYONE passes by EVERY possible location that a virus may be in.