[Note 11/13: A couple of folks have left comments expressing doubts about whether, in fact, the mask in question was used for welding. It was.]
I’ve just returned to Shanghai after 12 days of roaming up and down Guangdong. I’ll have a bit more to say about some of what I saw down there in the coming days. For now, though, I leave you with what stands as one of my favorite photos out of several hundred that I took down there. It was taken this morning, just at the point where I was putting down my camera after deciding that – twelve days into the trip – there was nothing new for me to note. At just that moment, my traveling companion for much of this trip – a gentleman known to some as Big Dog – elbowed me and said: “Look at that guy’s welding mask.”
“What welding mask?” I asked.
“That one.”
“What are – Oh.” [Click to Enlarge]
Thoughts on Guangdong, the state of China’s economy, and an essay on Obama in China, all upcoming – after a night’s rest.
Don’t think that’s used for welding. He will go blind for sure if he used that for welding.
Sean – I had the same thought! But, incredibly, he was welding while wearing that thing.
Here in Shanghai you see a lot of those guys without a welding mask. They just look away if they are welding, very weird.
probably that mask should protect him from sparkles and pices of hot metal, but not from bright light 🙂
Sean, sadly, you’re completely right.
How much do welding masks cost?
What a terrible, needless waste of the precious gift of sight.
The Chinese can make 50 different types of faux seat belt plugs but can’t make an affordable welding mask??
For heaven’s sake, this is something to keep the dust off the face, Not a welding mask.
mtc – I know what you mean, but believe me – it was being used as a welding mask.
Stupid is as stupid does – ©FG