Face Mask Issue

In this time of pandemic safety is the uttermost priority and importance and wearing a face mask can give us the two. But what if wearing a face mask become a major issue?

According to news there are people who refuse to wear facial mask but rather go to road as if everything is normal.

According to Psychology Today, there are factors in face wearing issue that is (1) Culture ; (2) Judgement and assessment of risk; (3) Confusion ; (4) Sense of control.

“The reasons according to the news are : (1) Culture – people wear mask because it is their long tradition to fight and prevent diseases and in other why they don’t wear face mask because it is not their tradition; (2) Judgement and assessment of risk – how one sees the risk that is why you wear or not wearing a face mask; (3) Confusion – if people do not know exactly or sure of something they may either wear or not a face mask, and according to news on this situation people opt to ignore the issue because of confusion about it. “Confusion about something is often dealt with by ignoring it; that is, if people cannot be sure what is the right thing to do with respect to face masks, they may default to a position of just not thinking about the issue and therefore not wearing them.” (Psychology Today); (4) Sense of control – if you felt control of the situation either by wearing a face mask or not.” (IZULAT)