@Taiwan_Luthiers You should have called for a fact check on Aisle 5.
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Forcing people to unmask is almost as selfish and stupid as forcing people to mask. Let them make their own fucking decisions. It has zero actual effect on you. āDystopian nightmareāā¦ donāt be a Karen. Move back home if itās that big of a deal-breaker.
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Add physical exercise to your class. A few hundred squats will make your students sweat heavily, making the masks uncomfortable.
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I would need a new phone, after smashing this one 
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Are they sitting close to other adults who are ugly and have bad breath? Maybe they should have the option
If they are adults they are paying customers, this limits your options. Depending on what you teach, you could spend the extra time to incorporate materials explaining how proper mask use is requires, including hand hygiene. If they have their noses hanging out or constantly adjust their mask without cleaning their hands after, the masks are useless (masks have value if used properly)
Or, you could just accept that it is what it is and be grateful you can choose not to wear one
A third option is to leave the country. For whatever reason it seems that many Taiwanese are not giving up the masks any time soon
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I donāt like wearing masks. Itās annoying. But if someone else wants to wear a mask, pierce their nose, dye their hair green, wear funky pale blue contacts, etc, more power to them. As long as theyāre not doing anything that affects my ability to teach.
Anyway, masks in Asia is a real āwhen in Romeā¦ā situation. Mask wearing predates the pandemic and only some navel gazing Murricunā who is trying to impose his culture would tell his class to ditch them. Like @TT said, at least itāll protect you from the severe halitosis that seems rampant here.
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Thereās really nothing counterfactual in what I wrote ā note the āif I remember correctlyā in that sentence (which you conveniently omitted when you quoted me). It just means that I didnāt remember correctly, and I covered that possibility in my post. The thing I reported on, factually, was my memory of what phone TL had, not what phone TL had. 
The likely origin of my incorrect memory is TL repeatedly mentioning iPhones, because Iām not sure why someone would keep mentioning iPhones if iPhones arenāt relevant to them. Besides, it isnāt reasonable to expect me or anyone else to firmly commit to memory everything that TL writes with 100% fidelity. Human brains have finite capacity, and thereās a lot of noise to filter out. 
I never said that!
I havenāt noticed bad breath at all. But, most of my students are wearing masksā¦
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You totally did!
I kid, I kid
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Lol, you had me to the Rocky bit, for a second I believed I totally did!
Disagree.He is a teacher and has right to see student faces. Its easier to read facial expressions and have a proper conversation. Easier to remember face and quality of teaching increase.
I am senior developer, and I donāt tolerate colleagues in my team have chewing gum, donāt brush teeth, smell bad and wear flip flops. We fired people for it. They are not on a beach, but in the office. They sign agreement before taking this employment and should honour it. Or move on.
So should OP student. Move to another classroom to another teacher. Or stop wearing masks
Thatās not how it works here. Heās in Taiwan, not the USA. Heās also not the head of the school, just some teacher as far as I can tell. He cannot just arbitrarily come up with his own rules. If Iām teaching I canāt make up a rule like āno hats in classā just because I think headwear is disrespectful. They would complain to my higher ups, and rightfully so. If OP feels entitled to work in the type of western setting he misses, he should probably move back to the west.
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Ha ha.
You mean like the morons have been doing.
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Donāt remember seeing 99 percent of students wearing them pre-pandemic.
Please donāt try and argue what is happening now is the same as people wearing them on scooters and the odd sick person wearing one five years ago. Itās not the same.
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Iād like to think that body autonomy is a human right. Even doctors donāt have the right to poke and prod without consent. Teachers are not bosses. They must (by law) respect the rights of young people. MOE has ruled that it is a studentās choice whether to wear a facemask or not.
Sidenote: How do you know whether people brush their teeth or not? Halitosis sniff test?
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Itās not anyone elseās business what someone wears on their face unless itās a security risk .
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My point is that Iām sick of seeing up to 90 percent of people still hiding their faces. It wasnāt like this in Taiwan before. I miss being able to see smiling faces. Iāve had some students for over two years and still have no idea what they look like.
As for freedom of choice, I didnāt have it for three years: mandatory masking (even outdoors for crying out loud), mandatory 14-day quarantines, and a closed border. And way longer than other countries. Didnāt feel like much of a free society to meā¦
It is kind of dystopia when you go to a department store and nobodyās smiling, most people hiding their faces behind these bird-beak style masks, and seemingly no desire to end the madness!
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Sidenote: How do you know whether people brush their teeth or not? Halitosis sniff test?
6 foot rule?
Very american opinion
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I donāt care if people want to hide their face (a personal decision that adults are free to make for themselves). What I do have a problem with is the way that masks muffle noise. Students already speak so quietly, when masks are on its simply impossible to understand what they want to say
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