Don't make us ask, please wear a mask.
Jill McDevitt watched the conversation about face masks evolve over the last couple of months and realized it looked familiar.
“I was hearing about people getting very angry at others not wearing masks and it reminded me a lot of the conversation with not wanting to wear condoms,” said McDevitt, a San Diego-based sexuality educator, wellness coach and University of Waterloo graduate. But the biggest positive change, McDevitt says, needs to be making sure leaders and public health officials are on the same page with their messaging.
“Whenever you’re just like: ‘you’re a jerk, wear a mask,’ we’re missing opportunities to have conversations.”Hilary Bergsieker, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Waterloo, agrees that messaging needs to be consistent in order to get people to comply. She said some non-mask wearers in Canada may be dealing with a lack of trust in public officials who stressed early in the pandemic that masks weren’t effective but have since changed their tune.
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