Lockdown, transphobia and a couple of minor medical matters

I was aided by a couple of people at a supermarket recently who affirmed me as female without any problems whatsoever. I was, a couple of days later, served by two people in a chemist where I was treated with suspicion without any questions, challenges or problems - one was the affirming young man whose helpfulness is why I started going there.

So the chemist’s assistant who claimed, a few weeks ago, that they wanted to check extra details for me was lying. It doesn't help that that person didn't ask those extra questions for the other customers I've now seen them serve.

So the COVID-19 lockdown isn't a trigger for bigotry: what is happening is that people let the shields hiding their hate slip when they are tired, distracted, or so busy that they're both.

I also have a couple of questions / comments on medical aspects of the lockdown.

Firstly, instead of doctors showing how they’re allegedly clever by showing how they use tape and other work arounds for the problem of glasses fogging up when wearing a face mask (moving the glasses out is unacceptable as it creates a mismatch of focal lengths - just ask ANY optician / spectacle maker), how about fixing the bloody problem in the first place?

The main problem is that the flexible wire straps need to be longer, and there need to be two, maybe three, of them side by side.

Also, it would help if facemasks were bigger.

Is it really so difficult to think of fixing the problem, rather than ways of adapting to the problem?

Also, I would like to know that the levels of infection control being taught are suitable for this pandemic, and we’re not being taught near-surgical infection control, which requires consideration of bacteria, parasites, and other less inclined to self-destruct viruses.

(For what its worth, I consider what they’re teaching us IS appropriate, but there have been a number of misleading comments about masks [along the lines of not being necessary, when I suspect the situation was a shortage], and thus there is likely to be some snarkiness about this - on both sides.)