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Surgical Mask Guy, or El Tipo De La Mascara in Spanish, is a viral video based on an interview segment on Colombian news program CityTV News. The clip shows how the citizens' concerns over spread of H1N1 have grown and how they were preparing to protect themselves from getting infected. Among the citizens interviewed was one man who gave faulty instructions on how to wear a surgical mask.

Origin

Surgical mask guy, or in spanish "el tipo de la mascara" it's a meme that borns at an interview of CityTV news when the H1N1 was spreading in Colombia and they were covering how the citizens were cautious and how they were protecting from it.

http://www.eltipodeltapabocas.com/

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He also got an interview from SoHo.

and facebook group.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/El-Tipo-Del-Tapabocas/93668597842

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