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[redbird]

I spent most of the past weekend with adrian_turtle, before coming home Sunday afternoon.

We mostly took things easy, except for cooking, and the meals were pretty simple. Saturday, we each did a few Duolingo lessons(Hebrew for her, French for me, and I got a brief tour of (a particular font of) the Hebrew alphabet after noticing her Duolingo keyboard.

I took a Lyft to Arlington, and buses back, and ran errands that took me into stores, carefully: Apothka in Arlington for cannabis edibles (which Massachusetts isn't currently allowing delivery of), and CVS for two prescriptions, because the software wasn't cooperating with my attempt to have them both delivered this time. Also, briefly, the food shop on Trapelo Road, next to the outbound bus stop, which I decided would be safe after looking through the plate glass windows; they turned out not to have the bread I was looking for, so I turned around and left. Since I was walking home from CVS, this was essentially on my way.

I double-masked in both directions. On the trip to Arlington, I discovered en route that the outer (cloth) mask had slipped, leaving my face covered [only] with a medical mask. On the trip back, I took Adrian's suggestion of using a medical mask as a filter layer inside a cloth mask, which worked better.

My glasses fogged badly on the way home, which I don't think is connected to the double-masking. I was trying an anti-fogging spray that Adrian uses, but it didn't help and if anything made the fogging worse.

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[joseph_teller]

I have yet to find a solution to the glasses fogging problem.... no spray or trick seems to work in New England weather.

[redbird]

We're also in New England. Adrian also sometimes tapes her glasses to her face (with some kind of medical tape), which I haven't tried and therefore can't tell you more about.

The best I've found is to either carry tissues so I can wipe my glasses clean while I'm out, or carry rather than wearing them. (At this point I'm using them mostly as sunglasses and for astigmatism, so can leave them off if I'm not going to be reading much, my eyes are good enough to tell "71 Watertown Square" from "73 Waverly" without glasses.)

[joseph_teller]

I have bad eyesight, use composites for both walking and reading, and cataracts so that I cannot see even the distance to my hands without it being fuzzy. I have to rely on sound to hear cars etc. approaching at crosswalks if I can't see thru my glasses (and I have no peripheral vision from the cataracts).

I always carry a pocket package of tissues with me when I am out to try to deal with he moisture, but when we hit days like today (100% humidity rating when I woke up today and hanging between 80% and 100%) I can't travel as there is no way to use my glasses effectively. I need old school motorcycle goggles or some such that fit over them or something...

[redbird]

That's a lot to deal with.

Even before my cataract surgery, my vision wasn't as bad as yours.

[otter]

My glasses fog/frost in the winter, masked or not. I think for me, wearing a winter scarf makes fogging worse than wearing a mask does. Annoying in any case, as I can't see very well without mine.

[redbird]

I didn't wear scarves over my face in a long time, in part because of my glasses fogging. My eyesight now, a couple of years after cataract surgery, is better than it had been for decades before I developed cataract and had surgery.

On my mental list of "things I'm glad I had already dealt with before Covid, the cataract surgery is high on the list.