Will you continue to wear a mask in public after Jan 27th?
Poll: Will you continue to wear a mask in public after Jan 27th?
Total Members Polled: 684
Discussion
Countdown said:
I can understand why wearing a mask is a big deal for some people. What i can't understand is why OTHER people wearing a mask is a big deal for some people.....if somewhere between 1-99% people chose to wear a mask post-pandemic I really wouldn't give a toss
The fact that you could see 99% of people masking up post pandemic and 'couldn't give a toss' probably tells us all we need to know about you. 
bad company said:
I’m on a cruise ship right now, Seabourn Encore. There’s sanitizers at the entry to every bar & restaurant and it takes just a second to do as you enter. No hardship at all and as you say it helps to keep Norovirus away.
Are you having to wear masks on cruise ships these days?bad company said:
Ari said:
bad company said:
I’m on a cruise ship right now, Seabourn Encore. There’s sanitizers at the entry to every bar & restaurant and it takes just a second to do as you enter. No hardship at all and as you say it helps to keep Norovirus away.
Are you having to wear masks on cruise ships these days?paulguitar said:
Ari said:
It amazes me that people are prepared to pay to go on a holiday where they have to strap a bit of cloth across their face, but each to their own I guess.
I'm heading back to NYC next week, and to do so I need to use an aeroplane. To be allowed on board I have to 'strap a bit of cloth across my face'. Am I delighted I have to do that? No. However, in order to go to NYC (or anywhere else on a 'plane) I have to do so. So I will. It's not great, and I hope it won't be for much longer, but, I will somehow find a way to handle it.
Missy Charm said:
Real world data has failed to show any significant correlation between mask wearing and a reduction in case rates, and that ought to be that. It isn't, however, because the 'non-mask' position has for various reasons become associated with the right and the 'mask' position associated with the left. One is now expected to display one's allegiance to certain parts of the left by wearing a mask, regardless of whether one actually believes the mask does anything at all. Certain people, almost, can be seen as 'identifying' as mask wearers and putting the things on accordingly.
I agree totally with this, and find it utterly bizarre. GSE said:
mike80 said:
The strangest thing I've found is teenage kids still wearing them. I live near a high school, and if I'm walking my daughter to school in the morning I see at least 50 per cent of high school kids with masks. Most not actually covering nose and mouth though!
Are schools still insisting on them? Is it a weird teenage fashion thing? Are teenagers these days much more caring than I was at that age..? I even see them in the supermarket with unmasked parents.
I see a lot of this too. It's weird. Are schools still insisting on them? Is it a weird teenage fashion thing? Are teenagers these days much more caring than I was at that age..? I even see them in the supermarket with unmasked parents.
Teenagers are our future - they have been programmed to think that way - to think that it's the new normal - by those who have vested interests in maintaining control.
M1AGM said:
Brave Fart said:
M1AGM said:
Our school still requires facemasks to be worn everywhere outside of the classroom.
Really? Blimey, I had assumed mask wearing in schools had ended; seems not. Have they said when it will (end, I mean)? Have they said "it'll be when cases in the area are below x per 100,000" or something?And classrooms still have all the windows open to maximise ventilation.
My OH is a teacher and her school has completely ditched the mask requirement (albeit, I think kids can choose to wear a mask, I don't think any are though).
I guess hers is following the science, rather than The Science.
monthou said:
So there are no kids at your wife's school with over-protective parents then?
Difficult to understand, hard to reconcile, nonsense.
You're DESPERATE to try and create an argument aren't you? Difficult to understand, hard to reconcile, nonsense.
Any pretence at logic or facts has long since sailed with you people, you're reduced to petty nitpicking to try and... actually I'm not even sure what you're trying to achieve.
Oh well, best of luck to you.
head patients, the worst are middle aged men apparently. Pretty much the PH demographic. Guys, look carefully at yourselves and don't be a dTurtle Shed said:
What's the difference between a dentist's rcveption and any other room with a few people in it?
Doctors' surgeries, hospitals. care homes I just about recognise a case for masks. Such places have ill/vulnerable/both people around.
People at a dental surgery aren't ill though, and when it comes to the medical bit dentists have always worn masks, and patients simply cannot.
At my dentist you have to wait in your car, they don't even use the waiting room. You can cram into the bookies next door though, or the pub next door to that.
Utter nonsense.
It is an utter nonsense isn't it? Doctors' surgeries, hospitals. care homes I just about recognise a case for masks. Such places have ill/vulnerable/both people around.
People at a dental surgery aren't ill though, and when it comes to the medical bit dentists have always worn masks, and patients simply cannot.
At my dentist you have to wait in your car, they don't even use the waiting room. You can cram into the bookies next door though, or the pub next door to that.
Utter nonsense.
nick30 said:
They're clearly still trying to keep a very tight grip on The Narrative. 
Big Sainsburys this morning, staff are now 99.9% 'anti-mask hardmen', as normal people were hilariously termed by someone on here recently. It was quite busy with shelf stacking, I think I saw one staff member wearing a mask.
What was more interesting (because the majority of staff have been AMHM for a while) was the customers. Previously a real stronghold for the masked crusaders at an easy 85%+, today less than 50% were peering over bits of tatty Esty cloth and keeping The Fear alive, a very marked reduction.
It's almost as though, as soon as the mainstream media stop bombarding the general population with Covid fear propaganda, people are able to gain a sense of perspective.
What was more interesting (because the majority of staff have been AMHM for a while) was the customers. Previously a real stronghold for the masked crusaders at an easy 85%+, today less than 50% were peering over bits of tatty Esty cloth and keeping The Fear alive, a very marked reduction.
It's almost as though, as soon as the mainstream media stop bombarding the general population with Covid fear propaganda, people are able to gain a sense of perspective.
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