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Published 16:58 16 Jul 2020 GMT
Yesterday, Walmart declared that all customers will be required to wear a face-covering at every one of its 5000+ stores as of Monday.
And in the UK, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced earlier this week that face masks will be mandatory in all stores from July 24, the BBC reports.
Now, I'm sure we can all agree that face coverings are a great way of helping to prevent the spread of COVID-19, but they can also be rather bothersome - especially for my fellow glasses-wearing friends.
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I'm sure any bespectacled person out there will have experienced the difficulty of trying to see after their warm breath suddenly condenses on their glasses thanks to their face mask.
Fortunately, Scottish optician Gordon Kyle, of Miller and McClure Opticians in Paisley, has shared some useful tips for wearing a face mask and glasses simultaneously.
Sharing his tips to his Facebook page, the optician captioned the video: "A couple of handy tips for spectacle wearers as mandatory mask-wearing comes into force."
Check out the handy video below:
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Speaking to the Daily Record about his video, Kyle said: "Lots of people have been complaining about the lenses fogging up and I wanted to give simple solutions to this.
"There has been chat online about using shaving foam, toothpaste, and even methylated spirits but my concern is that it could cause long term damage to the lenses.
"The other thing folk have mentioned for the lenses is washing up liquid. I’m just not convinced that it’s risk-free."
Gordon's three tips are as follows:
According to a CDC study published on Tuesday, the use of masks has been found to halt the spread of coronavirus, and the wearing of masks in public has been recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The benefits of masks are undeniable, and if you're in any doubt about the good they do, Bill Nye (The Science Guy) has taken to the social media video-sharing app TikTok to demonstrate to people why face masks are important.
"Why do people in the scientific community want you to wear a face mask when you are out in public?" Nye asks in the video.
"Masks prevent particles from my respiratory system from getting into your respiratory system... Blocking the movement of air is an old trick." He went on, per CNN.
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Nye demonstrates how a homemade two-layer cotton face mask with a pipe cleaner sewn in the top to conform to his nose prevents a candle from being blown out even when he blows hard through the mask.
He then continues his experiment in a second video, showing how an N-95 also prevents the candle from being extinguished when Nye blows hard through it.
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“The reason we want you to wear a mask is to protect you. Sure,” Nye says towards the end of the video.
“But the main reason we want you to wear a mask is to protect me from you and the particles from your respiratory system from getting into my respiratory system.
“Everybody, this is a matter – literally – of life and death. And when I use the word ‘literally’, I mean ‘literally’ a matter of life and death.
“So when you’re out in public, please wear a mask.”
Facemasks remain a contentious issue in the US with President Trump previously saying that people should only wear facemasks if they want to, however, even he wore one in public for the first time last week.
