5 masks hacks that will improve your pandemic life
Foggy glasses, Face ID, awkward fits — here's how to fix it all.
We’re going to be wearing masks for a long time. That may feel hard to swallow, but we’re doing it because they work.
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A May 20 CDC report found that 139 patrons were exposed to two Covid-19 positive hairstylists in Missouri.
Both parties wore masks and no patrons were infected.
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Still, some find masks irritating.
That’s a small price to pay for keeping yourself and others safe, but there are also ways to make your mask a more seamless part of your life.
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A mask should fit snugly.
"If the air is going out the top, you don’t have your mask on correctly," Shan Soe-Lin, a lecturer at the Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, told the New York Times.
Try folding the mask in half, tying a knot around the elastic bands, reopening the mask, and putting it back on your face.
In a viral TikTok video viewed over 422,000 times, dentist Olivia Cuid guides you through the steps.
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In a TikTok, dentist Olivia Cuid demonstrates how to make a mask fit a smaller face.
People can also anchor the earloops on buttons sewed onto the side of a headband or hat.
In a 2011 paper in The Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England experts suggest dousing your glasses in soapy water, letting them dry naturally, or wiping them dry with soft tissue, to prevent fogging.
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Apple's IOS 13.5 update removes the traditional lag time between Face ID and the presentation of a passcode.
Here's the trick to "fool" Face ID developed at the Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab in China...
This tip is hit and miss. Some reporters have never succeeded.
A similar approach on a Samsung galaxy worked for reporters at USA Today.
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