timmydownawell wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 4:04 pm

Jerry Atrick wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 3:17 pm

timmydownawell wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 2:22 pm
The thing is, if you're riding a bike/moto, you invariably have to pull up at traffic lights where you are less than 1.5m from other people. And also, I believe cops can fine you if you're not wearing a mask on your bike/moto.

A few months ago pretty much the few people that I spotted not wearing masks were almost all white. Now it's about 50-50, but given the tiny expat proportion of the population they are still well over-represented. Not to mention you give us all a bad reputation.

I don't live in Phnom Penh, maybe my behaviors would be different in a busy city - but I cannot wear a surgical mask on the moto; it doesn't stay on my face putting the helmet on and gets broken if I try.

Plus, I care far more about cranial protection while riding than about feelings and emotions of others, so it's helmet on and mask off

Pull up outside a shop, helmet off, mask on and in I go. If somebody is within 1.5m of me while my mask is off then they are, I don't lose sleep over it - why worry about something that I am powerless over?

Huh? I see hundreds of people wearing both masks and helmets every day!

Jerry Atrick wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 4:16 pm

timmydownawell wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 4:04 pm

Jerry Atrick wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 3:17 pm

timmydownawell wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 2:22 pm
The thing is, if you're riding a bike/moto, you invariably have to pull up at traffic lights where you are less than 1.5m from other people. And also, I believe cops can fine you if you're not wearing a mask on your bike/moto.

A few months ago pretty much the few people that I spotted not wearing masks were almost all white. Now it's about 50-50, but given the tiny expat proportion of the population they are still well over-represented. Not to mention you give us all a bad reputation.

I don't live in Phnom Penh, maybe my behaviors would be different in a busy city - but I cannot wear a surgical mask on the moto; it doesn't stay on my face putting the helmet on and gets broken if I try.

Plus, I care far more about cranial protection while riding than about feelings and emotions of others, so it's helmet on and mask off

Pull up outside a shop, helmet off, mask on and in I go. If somebody is within 1.5m of me while my mask is off then they are, I don't lose sleep over it - why worry about something that I am powerless over?

Huh? I see hundreds of people wearing both masks and helmets every day!

I wear a full face, branded helmet, not one of these shit chinese or thai plastic excuses for helmets; not possible to wear a surgical mask in it; i have tried

timmydownawell wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 2:22 pm

xandreu wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 2:10 pm So if you are outside, on your own, with no-one else in the near vicinity, especially if you're doing something like riding a moto where you're moving through air quickly, putting on a mask is in public is about as effective as putting a condom over your head.

The thing is, if you're riding a bike/moto, you invariably have to pull up at traffic lights where you are less than 1.5m from other people. And also, I believe cops can fine you if you're not wearing a mask on your bike/moto.

A few months ago pretty much the few people that I spotted not wearing masks were almost all white. Now it's about 50-50, but given the tiny expat proportion of the population they are still well over-represented. Not to mention you give us all a bad reputation.

John Bingham wrote: ↑Sun Aug 29, 2021 8:34 pm

clutchcargo wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 6:03 pm

timmydownawell wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 2:22 pm

xandreu wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 2:10 pm So if you are outside, on your own, with no-one else in the near vicinity, especially if you're doing something like riding a moto where you're moving through air quickly, putting on a mask is in public is about as effective as putting a condom over your head.

The thing is, if you're riding a bike/moto, you invariably have to pull up at traffic lights where you are less than 1.5m from other people. And also, I believe cops can fine you if you're not wearing a mask on your bike/moto.

A few months ago pretty much the few people that I spotted not wearing masks were almost all white. Now it's about 50-50, but given the tiny expat proportion of the population they are still well over-represented. Not to mention you give us all a bad reputation.

When these latest restrictions came in, didn't they threaten $50 on the spot fines for anyone found outside without a mask?

I remember Mrs Cargo berating me to make sure I did so when I went out.

Doesn't sound like enforcement was efficacious though..

Not too efficient but then I don't see many people out without masks. As I mentioned earlier my son and his friends were fined $50 each on one of the islands recently for not wearing masks, and they were in the middle of nowhere.

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