You wouldn’t think wearing a mask would be that hard, but apparently it’s proven a difficult task for many during the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Take, for instance, that Kentucky woman who went viral for wearing a mask with a hole cut in the middle. There’s no point in wearing a mask with a hole; you’re as exposed as a team playing without a goalkeeper.
There are also the knuckleheads who refuse to wear masks, whether out of ignorance or simply not caring about the health and wellbeing of others. An asshole went viral this week when a Costco hero took his cart for refusing to wear a mask. When masks are so easy to find these days, there’s no excuse not to protect yourself and others when going out in public during the pandemic.
And then there’s Bayern Munich CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, who found a new way to fail at masks.
Rummenigge, a legend as a player for Bayern and West Germany, was caught by TV cameras wearing a mask without covering his nose, which like that woman in Kentucky completely misses the point of a mask.
Apparently Rummenigge didn’t watch his club’s own PSAs on how to wear a mask, the obnoxious ones that air on FS1 and FS2 constantly during Bundesliga matches. Let Robert Lewandowski show you the correct way to wear a mask:
Fortunately, not all of Bayern’s leadership failed at the simple task of wearing a mask. Former Bayern president Uli Hoeneß managed to figure it out.
And it wasn't just the TV cameras that caught the Rummenigge mask fail. Here he is again oblivious to how to wear a face covering while everyone else around him gets it right.
To reiterate, the mask goes over the mouth AND the nose. The point of wearing a mask in public isn’t so much to protect yourself but to prevent you from spreading germs to others because even asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic folks can spread COVID-19.
And finally, let’s hope Rummenigge washed his hands soon after the above image was taken, as he followed his nose-out mask wearing by blowing into a hanky.
(Screenshots via FS1)
