Here's my end of lockdown update. I stopped wearing masks a few months ago. True, I had to get back to shaving properly, and making sure there was no food stuck to my teeth. I abandoned the horrible plastic razor contraptions I used to buy at the supermarket and bought an old-school metal safety razor online, made I think in Thailand or the Phillipines, I can't remember which, along with a box of a hundred blades. Great blades, very sharp, but flexible. I like the technology. Best shave I ever had.
I'm inspired now to buy an electric hair trimmer. Time to go socializing again. No masks, no fear. I just need some new cool teeshirts.
Between not wearing the mask and shaving with the old-school safety razor, I feel liberated.
But my allergies act up again. Whatever. As long as I don't live near a toxic chemical spill, like those people in Ohio, and the air and water is not poisoning me, I can live with a bit of pollen. We have pills for that.