The new normal: Slovakia’s President Zuzana Caputova matched her mask to her dress and shook gloved hands. [GFY]
The Cheesecake Factory is on a rent strike! [Jezebel]
Cats just love to squeeze through things. [OMG Blog]
Drake & Rihanna were flirting on social media. [LaineyGossip]
I love Dua Lipa but blonde Dua is something I cannot support. [JustJared]
If I liked & wore boots & had money, I would buy these MiuMiu boots. [Tom & Lorenzo]
Let’s not go overboard with the Lost retrospective. [Seriously OMG]
The Honest Trailer for The Rise of Skywalker. [Pajiba]
So many Waffle Houses are closing, omg. [Dlisted]
Actor Mark Blum has died from covid19
This is really sad. He was a great character actor. He is the same age as my mom. 😟
Rest in Peace
I’m in the south where Lilly Pulitzer reigns supreme. Not embarrassed to say that I’ve been wearing a Lilly mask on my jaunts to the grocery store.
How do you get a Lily Pulitzer mask, pray tell?
Etsy! I’m wearing it over a real mask.
Isn’t Slovakia’s president is the one in the viral string bikini pic?
Beautiful shade of purple but a bit too much time on her hands at this point.
They shouldn’t even shake with gloves. The virus isn’t absorbed by skin, it’s by touching things then your face… touch with gloves/ skin still it’s the same problem. As she’s taking them off, she could think she’s safe and pick up a stand on the outside. Unless she washes immediately after and doesn’t touch face.. but seriously be a better role model and don’t shake right now
Just bow like the Japanese!
Havent seen any shameful photos of OUR President!!! Nor i hope to see any. . She is a smart lady and we appreciated that in a country where ppl are living in lockdown since early march, where we have no medical face masks provided by the former government and people have been sewing masks themselves for the past two weeks, we appreciate that she has a handmade facemask and not one of the unavailable ones that should be put on ppl in front lines dealing with covid. The president unlike many former government members has empathy and tact.
If this is a cotten mask, it won’t shield her from a corona virus, same with these green surgical masks, but hey, better then nothing
I don’t think there is a body of evidence that proves that at all. In opposite, more and more countries who have a widespread mask wearing population are keeping their stats lower, though this Includes testing and social distancing)
Please, please if one can, wear a mask, hand-made cloth ones are useful up to 70% some studies show. Why not save other people and lower your risk of also getting the flu.
Spread the message to encourage as many to wear homemade masks as much as possible! Scarves or anything too!!!!
Well, you could put it also this was, K.T: The WHO recommends against wearing masks in community settings because of lack of evidence. On top of that, as a doctor, I can see that people are wearing surgical masks wrong (sides open, nose not covered) and it might give them a wrong feeling of savety.
What masks like the surgical masks can do is protect othere people to get your germs – that is why in widespread mask wearing population, they do were them when they cought a cold, for instance. It also protects you from touching your face, as we all do mutible times a day.
Scarves used as a protection against viruses is phantasm, I am sorry, K.T. 😉 Don’t spread THAT message, or you spread germs!
Like the mask. But there’s no need to shake hands, even with gloves. Stay 6′ apart!
I really feel for all the restaurant workers out there right.
But I just looked it up, and in 2018 Cheesecake Factory had such good cash flow they paid their shareholders $165 million with stock buybacks. Their CEO made over $6 million that year. Perhaps they should have saved a bit for a rainy day, or a global pandemic.
These little family owned restaurants aren’t going to have the negotiating power that the big chains will.
As long as no one is keeping masks from the medical people, why not be cute while wearing one? Good for her
There’s no point in wearing gloves and a face mask if you’re not infected.
This is a false and harmful narrative and I wish it would stop.
Yes we should save our N95 masks (and surgical ones at this rate) for health professionals who need it. However, spread would drastically decrease if everyone started wearing any type of mask like in Asia.
It wouldn’t. That sort of protection works for health professionals and infected people only.
@ Lucy you do know upwards of 50% in some areas are asymptomatic? No mask use is predicated on mass testing and distancing, testing which is obviously not not widespread enough in MOST of the world right now.
@Lucy so you go ahead and roll the dice for yourself, but don’t spread misinformation that “there is no point”
Thing is that unless you’ve had the test how can you tell that you are not infected? You can be asymptomatic and spreading it on to people. If you can get some masks it is best to wear one.
I assume all of the people pictured have already been tested. If they are indeed infected, they have no business being there.
It reduces the percentage change of getting it, based on material. This article lays out the reasons why masks are good for the uninfected, and what materials are best for improvised masks. It also mean that if you have it and don’t know it (incubation period or asymptomatic vector) you are protecting others, and right now there are a looooot of people in this category.
https://medium.com/@llebttam_45762/masks-work-wear-them-b450ac9f3b7d
I know this is my story but I travel a lot for work. 4 flights a week normally. And I started wearing masks on planes about a year ago and went from being so sick all the time when I’d get home with colds, sore throats, and one stint in a hospital (I’m 31 and healthy) to absolutely no colds since I started. In general I became more aware of the germy people around me, I wasn’t touching my face, and yes I wore my mask. I trust health care professionals yes, but I also trust that I use to be sick all the time and the mask, be it placebo or awareness or whatever definitely had a positive impact on my health after traveling.
I’ve gotten sick the last few times I’ve traveled by plane too. I came back from 2 weeks in the UK last summer and had to take 3 or 4 more days off. After this insanity, should we ever be able to travel again, I’m thinking it’s a good idea.
Oyyyy. Six feet apart and no shaking hands, even gloved ones!
I find it utterly creepy. I don’t have any issue with her matching it to her dress. It just looks far too much like something out of a post apocalyptic sci fi movie for me.
@Turtledove I agree with you. It looks like an outfit from The Handmaid’s Tale.
Hand shaking can go for all I care. I was never fond of it, too many people have clammy hands and their handshakes feel like handing me a dead fish. I won’t be sorry if that whole thing goes out of fashion forever. A nod, a smile or a small bow will do just fine.
Agreed. And the cheek to cheek kiss can go with it!!!! Too much in my personal space.
You don’t like boots? That is so confusing to me! These ones are cute but for sure not worth the price
I couldn’t find the price, how much are they? I would definitely get them if I had movie star money.
To the people saying that face masks won’t protect you: the point is to protect the people around you in case you’re infected. Most people carrying the virus are asymptomatic. Some countries in central Europe have everyone wearing face masks now.
I feel like I’m in the Twilight Zone. My entire family is so messed up. High School and University graduations cancelled, weddings canceled, elective, but necessary surgeries cancelled. It’s so upsetting. Her attempts to match are an inspiration at this point. At least she’s trying.