In Paris, you MUST wear a mask under your motorcycle helmet!

JQL

JQL

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Yes! You read that correctly! It's not a joke.

In Paris, you MUST wear a mask under your motorcycle helmet!

 
Well, it makes sense... the helmet is not any type of PPE device the way I see it. Around here, you don't even see anyone w/helmet in general or a mask when they ride. I wear a mask even in the miata with the top down. Better safe than sorry, or dead.
 
A Minnesota man, who went to Sturgis this year, has died of the virus.
Herd immunity is working.
 
I have seen bikers here wearing masks, also people inside their cars with masks. Then there are those that won't wear one in a place that requires it like a grocery store. Go figure. People are all different.

Brad
 
I think it’s pushing it a bit. Unless you are stopping to talk to someone close. I don’t see how you will get contaminated while riding.
 
Fredo said:
I think it’s pushing it a bit. Unless you are stopping to talk to someone close. I don’t see how you will get contaminated while riding.
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As I see it, it is not the cyclist at risk but the pedestrians that they pass or overtake. The mask is to protect others, not yourself.
My wife is Japanese and I have been to Japan many times.
There, prior to Covid, the custom has always been that if you have a cold, cough or hay fever, you wear a mask so that you don't give your germs to others.
It is consideration for others, not yourself. Unfortunately, in Western Society it is "I'm Alright Jack, $#@* you".
My wife and I were wearing masks very early after the virus came to Oz, months before they were mandatory.
We already had sufficient stock when the panic buying and shortages started. We guessed what was coming very early on.
We used to get very strange looks from people in the street or shopping centres. We were proven to be the experienced/smart ones.

Macka
 
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Macka said:
As I see it, it is not the cyclist at risk but the pedestrians that they pass or overtake.
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That's exactly what I was getting at. On the weekends over the past months I've seen packs of Lycra enthusiasts huffing and puffing their way down the back roads as usual.

Essentially a low flying cloud of aerosolized spittle floating down the road at eye level. I want to think riding up to a particularly large group one day recently I held my breath until past. Knowing my motorcycle helmet was sailing through their wake.
 
I think the main problem is all the mixed-messages we're getting. You have to wear a mask except "insert weird administrative reasoning here" is just confusing and allows some to challenge the efficacy of mask wearing.

If the message was consistent - everyone has to wear a mask when not at home, it would be so much easier.
 
While I don’t know this for sure I assume regarding bicycling that due the the physical nature of the activity that a mask could cause significant breathing issues so wearing one is not required. I don’t know if that also applies to other physical activities like running.
 
We live a block from a school that has some in-person learning going on and has track and field athletes working out -- with masks! I've noticed that when they're running, a lot of the kids take the masks off until they turn the corner onto the street where the school is located.
 
Running/biking with a mask or scarf over your mouth/nose was a technique used to increase an athletes aerobic capacity by making it harder to breath. I think they discovered it only helped the intercostal muscles but did not expand lung capacity.

I think that in dry conditions those tiny moisture droplets evaporate very quickly, but what happens to the virus that was attached???? In more humid conditions they don't evaporate as quickly. There is a lot we don't know about this COVID virus. Wearing a mask is the safe way to go but I see a lot of people who refuse to do so. Remember - those mask rules were made by politicians not scientists.
 
junglejim said:
Running/biking with a mask or scarf over your mouth/nose was a technique used to increase an athletes aerobic capacity by making it harder to breath. I think they discovered it only helped the intercostal muscles but did not expand lung capacity.

I think that in dry conditions those tiny moisture droplets evaporate very quickly, but what happens to the virus that was attached???? In more humid conditions they don't evaporate as quickly. There is a lot we don't know about this COVID virus. Wearing a mask is the safe way to go but I see a lot of people who refuse to do so. Remember - those mask rules were made by politicians not scientists.
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Not to worry. It will all magically disappear when summer comes. The heat and humidity will kill it. Or, so we all have been told.
 
suvcw04 said:
Not to worry. It will all magically disappear when summer comes. The heat and humidity will kill it. Or, so we all have been told.
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We have just come out of Summer and our infection numbers have been the highest of the whole period.
Don't get your hopes up!

Macka
 
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JQL, a little off topic but related to your video clip: I would find it very frustrating riding or driving in those pokey , crowded, cobble stoned little French footpaths that pass for streets. :poop:
Some of our footpaths and cycle paths are bigger than those that you showed us. (y)

Macka
 
Macka,

They do take some getting used to and are quite a lot of fun at times. Some are a real pain though.

I do like the small, country roads and lanes in France. You can see for miles and really enjoy some "interesting :D " riding...
 
Macka said:
We have just come out of Summer and our infection numbers have been the highest of the whole period.
Don't get your hopes up!
Macka
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Now I'm confused! How could you have just come out of summer in OZ when we have just come out of summer here? Unless my remembery is faulty (you never know...) the seasons are bass ackwards on either side of the equator, right? Did I miss sumpin'?

Mike
 
Mike, you are correct of course. It was a brain fart.
I was thinking of several things at once and what I posted was not what I was thinking.
I used to be able to multi-task but perhaps no longer.
Watching a Liam Neeson movie, talking to my wife and posting on a forum at the same time is obviously to much for me now.
Perhaps senility is striking early. :rolleyes:
Sincere apologies for confusing you.

Macka
 
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