What Does Your Face Mask Say About You?

Every day, I hear inspiring stories of the resilience and positivity on display across our community. More and more people are wearing masks when they go to the store or other appointments. In West Barnstable, one local is working to help provide those masks to both community members and healthcare providers.

Our Neighbor Sherry Green-Star has been making masks since Mid-March with one goal in mind: To keep the virus from spreading. She has not only provided masks to nurses doctors and friends on Cape Cod but has reached people in CO, MO, NY, KS, NJ, MA, NH, ME and Canada! Sherry has provided masks to the emergent Corps in Barnstable, and most to nurses at NYU Hospital! You SEW girl!

The awkwardness of wearing a mask is over. Especially when they are this cute! The one assumption I hated at first was when I wore my mask others thought I was the one who was sick, not the one protecting myself from getting sick. I want to wear a sign attached to me that says: “not contagious, but protecting myself from getting sick” to avoid the looks/stares that come from wearing a mask in public. Now, face masks as fashion accessories seem like an inevitable future.

***CDC recommends wearing cloth face coverings in public settings where other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain (e.g., grocery stores and pharmacies), especially in areas of significant community-based transmission.

CDC also advises the use of simple cloth face coverings to slow the spread of the virus and help people who may have the virus and do not know it from transmitting it to others.  Cloth face coverings fashioned from household items or made at home from common materials at low cost can be used as an additional, voluntary public health measure.