They are required to mask, but it doesn’t take away from his point. It’s pretty weird they have to wear masks for years already and up to the summer of 2025.
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That’s a good point. And a good question to ask is, why are so many Taiwanese employers still requiring their workers to wear face masks? When I inquired, the only answer I got was, “it’s polite to do so”, which I found to be a very discouraging answer.
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It’s theater
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That’s a good possibility. If true, then why are so many employers continuing to engage in this theater?
Customer demand.
If what you’re saying is true, then we’re back where we’re started: Taiwanese people want and expect society to keep wearing face masks!
I acknowledge that it’s hard to know for sure why mass masking continues here, and since everyone has their own reasons, all we can do is speculate. Though I am interested in actual reasons people give or actual school or business policies.
In any case, I would never have imagined this behavior would continue for so long.
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Everything is normal now. What, you think people are going to do what you want all the time?
Never-ending mass masking is normal? Really…?
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The new normal has fewer ugly people, cheer up
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Lol. I wish that make me feel better! But thanks anyway… 
I’m pretty sure Cliff awoke normally, had a normal day outside of the typhoon, and will continue to exist normally doing what he wants to along with the great majority of other people, despite his subjective feelings about their personal accoutrements 
You guys are right, things here back home have undoubtedly changed, but when I walk outside, at least it looks normal! 
Does that mean 90% of people aged over 50 on the MRT are sick then?
I kinda get that a lot of old locals here still wear masks, mainly because of the herd mentality and all the stuff on Taiwanese news that was drilled into them during covid.
But what amuses me is there’s a certain type of foreigner I see quite often in Taiwan who still perpetually mask up. They’re usually in their 40s or 50s, and look like a skinny, neurotic vegetarian who’s doing their 4th post grad degree on pre-modern Scandinavian poetry.
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OMgabs…40s or 50s people wearing a mask.
The horror lol.
Funnily enough you caught onto something, that is that some foreigners who are here a long time really become locals.
And then this becomes PERFECTLY understandable doesn’t it mate.
The same as an immigrant to the UK starts wearing trackies and trainers to blend in with the herd.
Speaking of sartorial matters ..a lot of the younger generations clothing style and tats are absolute cat, that is when they aren’t aping what we wore in the 90s.
Do I go around pointing this out all day to said afflicted, no sir I do not!