No Mask, No Entry, No Exceptions

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CharlesdeGaulle said:

For a moment there I thought it might have been you causing the fuss, with your 'exemption' and all.

Nope, I’m still in Florida waiting for a negative test before flying home. Mrs BC and I have been here since mid December so it really is time to head home.

Nice though though.

Edited by bad company on Thursday 20th January 22:53

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ValleyRed said:

RDMcG said:

Well, best not tor try not wearing a mask on a plane still...

Hopefully not a silly question but if I wear a mask across, say, my forehead, can they still say I'm not wearing a mask?

I think the term is face covering.

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Griffith4ever said:

RDMcG said:

Well, best not tor try not wearing a mask on a plane still.........Miami-London flight turned back because of a non-mask wearer. Flight cancelled. Tough for the other passengers.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/american-airlin...

Depends on the airline. BA were fine with me.

And with me. The crew were masked but didn’t make a fuss about unmasked passengers.

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21TonyK said:

So did you get a negative test result before flying home unmasked?

It sounds like you might not have, be honest.

I was referring to the outward journey and some other BA flights. I haven’t traveled home yet.

I was positive on 12 January, awaiting the result of more recent test.

UPDATE:- Test result negative so I’m heading home next week.

Edited by bad company on Friday 21st January 23:05

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Someone sent me this. Right up there with the photo I posted much earlier in the thread of the couple boating while masked.

MODS. I deleted the swear word!!!!

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quote=WonkeyDonkey]I still can't believe you think taking a super zoomed picture of a couple on a boat is a completely rational thing to do.

Yet you're the one calling everyone else crazy. Hmmmm
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This one?

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WonkeyDonkey said:

MYOB said:

Why the heck should people wear masks simply to reassure those that falsely believe others wearing a cloth over their faces will protect them?

It's utterly absurd.

Why the heck do you care what other people choose to do?

Read the post again, he’s not saying others shouldn’t wear masks.

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WonkeyDonkey said:

I've read it again, people can choose what they will and won't do. No point him getting upset by it.

I actually agree with that. I don’t wear a mask but others can do as they want, as long as they don’t ask me to wear one.

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WonkeyDonkey said:

Can this thread get locked and put to rest on Thursday?

I think it's ran its course a couple times over by now.

I started the thread but find myself in agreement with you. If this was Facebook I’d turn off commenting.

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Peter911 said:

My wife has to wear one when she goes. They've only just stopped doing temperature checks.

I think there is a lack of critical thinkers in the world.

It needs more people to just say no or say exempt.

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V6 Pushfit said:

Still fking idiots refusing to comply with simple requests.

If you don’t want to comply and it’s too upsetting for you then turn around and don’t use healthcare.

‘Critical thinkers’

We’ll be back to sheeple, cognitive dissonance and fitting the narrative again soon. Unbelievable.

Ah so we should just do as we’re told, presumably because it’s ‘following the science’?

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anonymous said:

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There in lies the problem. You obviously have no issue with being told what to do, the rest of us will carry on saying no.

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Derek Smith said:

Where did he think the air he breathed out went?

The masks are mainly to stop transmission to another person. The filtering effect was always secondary. There is research to suggest they have a positive effect against the flu virus for wearers.

If you cough, you expel germs at a fair old speed so risk infecting those nearby. A mask limits that.

If that’s the case why are cases in Asia where masks are widely worn not less than here?

Also why did Scotland have more cases than England when they carried on with their mask mandate?

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dave_s13 said:

Draxindustries1 said:

Who actually wears a mask anymore? We don't and know of no one else who does either..

Still mandated in some settings. And doesn't need to be, not now or ever again.

Mandated where?

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astonman said:

An FFP3 mask at £3 will surpass any of the above figures by some margin.
It completely shows that proper masks do work extremely well.

So why are the infection rates no lower in places like Asia and Scotland when they carried on with the masks after England stopped?

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oyster said:

irc said:

We had a huge experiment here. Scotland kept the mask mandate far longer than England. Did no better.

As a glasses wearer my glasses steamed up as soon as I went indoors with a mask on. Seemed my breath went round the mask not through it. So very little filtering effect.

I’m no fan of masks, but your two anecdotal nuggets of evidence are embarrassingly uninformed.

Why? Please explain.

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Graveworm said:

Your assertion is not supported by and is contrary to the tests and evidence

So I’ll ask yet again. Why is it that countries where masks are worn such many Asian countries and Scotland for a fair time after England don’t have lower infection rates?

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Graveworm said:

bad company said:

Graveworm said:

Your assertion is not supported by and is contrary to the tests and evidence

So I’ll ask yet again. Why is it that countries where masks are worn such many Asian countries and Scotland for a fair time after England don’t have lower infection rates?

The study above compared actual mask wearing against non mask wearing, in the real world (20 million subjects on many continents) and found after eliminating other variables that mask wearing reduced infection rates by 19%. No anecdotes no false comparisons just big numbers.

That’s over 2 years old and does nothing to explain why Scotland’s infection rate was higher than Englands while they carried on wearing masks. Even now many/most Asian countries are using masks but their infection rates are no better than in Europe.

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bad company said:

I don’t want to start another pro/anti mask debate, there’s been a few of those.

I’ve passed a few mainly smaller shops and cafes with signage saying you cannot enter without a mask, no exceptions. Does this contravene disability laws?

Nearly 18 months and almost 230 pages later this thread has definitely become another ‘pro/anti mask debate’, I’m amazed it’s still going.

Just saying.

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Mrs BC and I are crossing the Atlantic on a cruise ship. There’s about 500 passengers and as many crew so around 1000 people onboard. There’s just one couple wearing masks and we haven’t heard of any Covid cases onboard.

Everything getting back to normal.