Kit BashirThe airborne swine flu put a stop (I’d say “thankfully”, but [FX:gestures at world]) to that nascent “mask ban” stupidity.
Millimeter wave radar made the “oh but the CRIME!” anti-maskers shut up, and being fucking *dead* made the “Waaah I cannot wear a mask because $BULLSHIT_REASONS and anyway herd immunity blah blah” people shut up.
Life, dear reader, as a person of neurospice makes face recognition hard at the best of times, and now in the Long Pandemic—with one hundred point zero percent masking happening—I’m SO glad to be working for a leading maker of radar glasses. My specs have a big “DEVELOPER ITEM: NOT FOR SALE” sticker but they work just like the ones that cops and airport screeners wear.
The AR overlay makes the mask fade to translucency, and the facial features render in spectral green. It’s a bit weird also having the skeletal structure rendered in blue underneath, and lets just say that when I saw my first lizard person underneath their prosthetic disguise it was a bloody near miss in regard to a bladder integrity failure.
You get used to them.
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