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The people who want to keep masking: ‘It’s like an invisibility cloak’ | US news | The Guardian

More than a year into the pandemic, some people prefer to keep wearing their face mask – even outdoors in public

Julia Carrie Wong in San Francisco @juliacarriew, Mon 10 May 2021 06.00 EDT

Women wear face masks and sunglasses outdoors in public. Some are reluctant to give up the face covering. Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters

She’s been fully vaccinated for three weeks, but Francesca, a 46-year-old professor, does not plan to abandon the face mask that she’s come to view as a kind of “invisibility cloak” just yet.

“Maybe it’s because I’m a New Yorker or maybe it’s because I always feel like I have to present my best self to the world, but it has been such a relief to feel anonymous,” she said. “It’s like having a force field around me that says ‘don’t see me’.”

Source: The people who want to keep masking: ‘It’s like an invisibility cloak’ | US news | The Guardian