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Mistake 4: Using a mask with with too many or too big holes.ĭon’t be a mask hole. It can easily ride up higher when you are speaking, breathing, or even humming Katy Perry songs, even above your mouth, which ain’t good. Unless you are wearing a plunger on your face, your mask won’t really fit snugly on your face when your mask is above your chin.

Mistake 3: Wearing a mask above your chin. The more that your breath and other stuff from your nose and mouth can leak out into the air, the more useless your mask becomes.

Your face covering needs to fit snugly on your face. In either case, you don’t want things spilling out of the edges, so to speak. This would be like wearing a super, giant-sized condom when that just ain’t your thing. If you look at many of the images with the #MaskingForAFriend hashtag, started by the Pandemic Action Network, you won’t see any noses or chins: This is the first of the following eight common mistakes that people are making when wearing masks or other face coverings: It doesn’t belong above your nose and mouth or hanging on your ear.The goal isn’t to look like Batman or Axl Rose.Īgain, when the mask is not covering your nose and mouth, you are rendering the mask not very useful or potentially even useless. It’s not a blindfold, eye mask, headband, or giant earring either. It doesn’t belong below your nose and mouth. Your mask is not a scarf, a chin strap that keeps your toupee on your head, or a turtle-neck sweater without the sweater part. It’s not protecting anything, except maybe people from seeing your neck or your goatee. And having your mask just on your chin? That’s a bit like wearing a condom on your scrotum. Unless you are a goldfish, you probably breath out of your nose, so covering your mouth is not enough. A mask is supposed to keep you from breathing out viruses into the air. When you aren’t covering your nose and mouth, you aren’t covering your nose and mouth, which is the whole point of wearing a mask. They are defeating the whole bleeping purpose of wearing a mask during this pandemic. However, there’s one teensy, weensy, itty, bitty problem with all of these “solutions.”