BY PATSY MORRISS
“I LOVE YOUR MASK!” “I LOVE YOURS TOO!”
My dermatologist and I greeted each other as she entered the exam room wearing a facemask by the same designer as the one I wore. Hers, of course, was just for cosmetic purposes, and covered an N95 mask like most of the physicians wear. Mine was acting alone, but it did offer the added protection of a coffee filter between its layers. I’d like to thank Matthew McConaughey for teaching me that trick. But who knew complimenting each other’s masks would ever be a thing? Back in the spring, when the pandemic was new, and we really didn’t know what we were doing; masks were hard to come by. What few existed were needed for front- line workers, leaving the rest of us to rely on YouTube videos showing us how to make our own. That’s where I learned the coffee filter trick, and how to make a mask from a scarf. The day I wore the scarf mask I was told I looked like a cute bank robber, so I didn’t wear it again.
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