I know I’m slow and all, but 2 years into this fucking fiasco I just discovered tonight at dinner why there’s a bunch of people who don’t like wearing masks and are forever complaining about how they’re short of breath.
They’re breathing through their mouths pretty much the whole time they’re wearing masks.
And I was like...mouth open? the whole time? Like...
I had to explain v gently how that lightheadedness and tightness was because of hyperventilation from breathing w the mouth open all the time. And have they tried consciously breathing through the nose only. But for so many people, there’s just a reflex where if something is touching the nose near the nostrils, the mouth drops open. And then I had to say, Have you tried pushing the top of the mask nose wire further up the nose, closer to the bridge?
