On 22 October 2019, in the northeastern part of the Tibetan Plateau in Qinghai, China, I met an obviously-ambitious sheep-owner.
Clearly, he was “improving” his flock, probably with help from Australia.
Some of his sheep greatly surprised me – very evidently, some of their “bloodlines” were merino.
The prosperous grazier’s mask was entirely appropriate to his dusty task.
However, wearing it would have been expressly forbidden in some other places/contexts, even in the much more open/democratic land of Oz…
However, here in Perth in February 2021, “mask rules” are now reversed, in certain contexts…as succinctly noted in a single-sentence letter from Mike Willis of Greenmount:
Never thought that I would see the day when you had to wear a mask to enter a bank.
(published in The West Australian, Tuesday February 2, 2021. Photo is copyright Doug Spencer)