[Sue]

I think it also has something to do with dust and pollution. I spent a month in Thailand and Cambodia, and saw a lot of (mostly older) people in Bangkok wearing face masks to protect themselves from the exhaust from buses and tuk tuks. In the rural parts of Cambodia, people wore scarves (khammas) tied around their faces for the same reason. There’s a lot of dry red dust on the unpaved roads there. But the flu thing is also true. My husband goes to Japan sometimes on business; he says people there told him it was expected that you would wear a face mask if you had flu, in order to keep from infecting other people on the subway or in the streets. By the way, some older Chinese people in Toronto wear them too.

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Name : Sue, Gender : F, Age : 33, City : Toronto, State : NA, Country : Canada, Social class : Middle class,