Commercial Fixed Wing
Flight Attendant Current
Situational Awareness; Confusion; Distraction; Workload
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Other / Unknown; Ground Event / Encounter Other / Unknown; Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence
General None Reported / Taken
Company Policy; Environment - Non Weather Related; Procedure; Human Factors
I started work of a 3 day trip.  1st day 13 hour duty day so almost 15 hours with mask on!! I tried to take several masks (maybe 15).  She said I could only take so much and I replied it gets wet so often I need to change it; especially if airline requires me to talk to people as much as we do.  She finally gave me more.  If I am required to wear something that I know is harming my health at least let me do less harm by changing it constantly. Then I was denied access to the bus because of social distancing.  Airline must pick and choose which guidelines it would like to follow because every seat is taken and there is no social distancing on an airplane; but I can't even get to work to get to the packed airplane cause I need to social distance.  This trip had 2 legs with severe turbulence.  I am the one that has to sit in a passenger seat.  I don't get the harness to keep my body from slamming all over the place.  Yes; people were crying and screaming; that is how bad it was.  But unfortunately our pilots took off without asking if we were okay.  Wow; but the next flight into ZZZ1; she screamed over the PA to sit immediately!!!  First officer made sure we were safe and apologized forever on how bad she felt with the last minute notice.  I again was thrown to my seat and no harness.  It is difficult to pass information on to each other that the passengers probably shouldn't hear; but there is no choice if I need to know.  The FA in the back has to yell to me; not only because of a mask; but because I am so far away.  Again; safety and security is tossed aside.  After the 13 hour duty day my head was throbbing.  I again get severe headaches the longer I am masked.  These days are just too long wearing a mask and now they put out an article to the public about the safety of wearing a mask on a plane.  I can do the same and say mask wearing does nothing.  Both articles would be correct; because they aren't peer reviewed science.  Science doesn't lie; people do.
Flight Attendant reported concerns with having to wear a face mask for so long throughout trips.