Mayor Welsh Retracts Remarks Encouraging People to Wear 'Bird Box' Masks to Prevent COVID-19

Boson MASS - (UPI) - Boson Mayor Martin Welsh has walked back the comments he seemed to make telling people that they could get some protection from corona virus by wearing a blindfold the way people in the Netflix series 'Bird Box' did.

While there is some benefit from wearing protective eye gear, such as goggles, or a face shield, there are problems with using a blindfold to for protection from germs.

The city health department refused to answer questions about the mayor's remarks and urged anyone with questions to go directly to the health department website of Massachusetts state web site.


Many cultures in the past believed that diseases could be spread by a person looking at an infected person who gave them the 'evil eye.' 

The evil eye is a curse or legend believed to be cast by a malevolent glare, usually given to a person when they are unaware. Many cultures believe that receiving the evil eye will cause misfortune or injury, while others believe it to be a kind of supernatural force that casts or reflects a malevolent gaze back-upon those who wish harm upon others (especially innocents). Talismans or amulets created to protect against the evil eye are also frequently called "evil eyes".
 
The idea expressed by the term causes many different cultures to pursue protective measures against it. The concept and its significance vary widely among different cultures, but it is especially prominent in the Mediterranean and West Asia. The idea appears multiple times in Jewish rabbinic literature. It was a widely extended belief among many Mediterranean and Asian tribes and cultures. Charms and decorations with eye-like symbols known as nazars, which are used to repel the evil eye, are a common sight across the world.

But there is no evidence that such charms do anything besides give the wearer something to do, and something to believe in, which may calm them down.



So, if the mayor is trying to calm people down, that is a good aim one observer noted charitably. 

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