iinavpov, 1 month ago

@jon
I think the mask signals you don't want people near you.

And so people oblige.

jon, 1 month ago

@iinavpov it doesn’t. It signals I’m not an idiot and don’t want covid.

iinavpov, 1 month ago

@jon
I'm not disagreeing, but note that this is quite compatible with "I don't want people close to me!"

The point is that the other person made a choice that may not have been ill intentioned towards you.

jon, 1 month ago

@iinavpov it’s possible it wasn’t ill intentioned. Their facial expression conveyed otherwise.

jon, 1 month ago

Just over 900 PPM CO2 here on this train. I’ve seen worse, and seen better. It’s quite full, so the air con is doing a half reasonable job drawing in fresh air from the outside (either that, or it’s the ill fitting doors on this Régiolis)

grlodi, 1 month ago

@jon Where’d you find a CO2 meter? Amazon I suppose?

jon, 1 month ago

@grlodi eBay. The Protmex meters are cheap and good enough.

eWalthert, 1 month ago

@jon Also on our way to Paris on the f.k.a. Thalys but forgot our masks 😷, while a person next to us keeps caughing.
What where we thinking‽

jon, 1 month ago

@eWalthert I’ll pass you a spare mask at Nord shortly 🙂 (I’m arriving Bercy then going to Nord to go to Valenciennes)

eWalthert, 1 month ago

@jon That is really kind of you! We have 1 hour transit to catch a train at Montparnasse, we will surely be able to get some.

But my partner is really excited about the possibility of meeting such a rail celebrity.

jon, 1 month ago

@eWalthert Ha. I’m just some dude who travels to interesting places and writes about it! 🙂

eWalthert, 1 month ago

@jon @kupfers
So, they did not let us on, after running through Montparnasse and being there 3 minutes before departure.
But we luckily had a plan B.

– Masks 😷 ✅
– Changing our ticket 🎫 without paying extra ✅
– Finding a heart shaped potato 🥔 ✅
– Visiting Agnès Varda 🪦 ✅

(Listen to the Small Potatoes episode of @radiolab, if you like to know why)

jon, 1 month ago

@eWalthert @kupfers @radiolab glad it worked! But damn that’s annoying still.

sarajw, 1 month ago

@jon people are totally bizarre.

How dare you be a hoity-toity mask wearer who thinks you're too good for this air we're all breathing!

Oh. I meant that to sound silly and snarky but that probably is close to the thought this guy had. People are still daft.

I wear brightly coloured masks in the hope I still look sort of friendly when wearing them. Probably looks even more virtue-signally to the people who get worked up by that stuff!