I work at an essential plant with 600 people total across all shifts. Upper management put together goody bags with masks and told us we could voluntarily pick them up and use them and have put alot of great measures into place to help keep us safe. We already had a positive Corona case long ago, so I thought people would jump at this (FREE) opportunity to help protect each other with the bags of masks. Turns out, my friend and I were the only two that picked them up.

You can almost feel the snickering when people walk by and it's giving me flashbacks to being picked on in school for being fat, only it's a mask this time. I've had people tell me how idiotic it is because it's "too late in the game" and how pointless it is. I'm baffled, slightly embarrassed, but maintaining wearing it at all times while I'm here because I'm trying to do my part. Has anybody else experienced this? I feel alone in this and it sucks.

Thanks for letting me vent.

Edit: Thank you so much for all the support and kind messages. It means so very much! 🙂