Mashing up 😄

[islaydarkblue]

Your wife is only partially correct.

In Hong Kong it really began in 2002 with SARS and awareness of not spreading infection to others, not a political myth or anything else but a fact. Its effectiveness I highly doubt, but it's why they do it.

Same in other Asian countries I travelled extensively in like China, Taiwan, South Korea, Vietnam and also Hong Kong.

For a long time I thought they looked rude until I had it explained to me properly over there.

My wife informs me that while the wearing of face masks in Hong Kong may have started in 2002 because of SARS they were certainly being worn in October 2016 because of pollution.

[Deebunked]

My wife informs me that while the wearing of face masks in Hong Kong may have started in 2002 because of SARS they were certainly being worn in October 2016 because of pollution.

Ok happy to agree that 14 years after beginning to wear those masks continuously they found a new reason to wear them in 2016 for your wife's trip 👍

The other countries will be the same lol

[islaydarkblue]

Ok happy to agree that 14 years after beginning to wear those masks continuously they found a new reason to wear them in 2016 for your wife's trip ��

The other countries will be the same lol

My wife was told that all the locals in Hong Kong wore face masks because of pollution from traffic fumes.
SARS was in the dim and distant past.