Will you continue to wear a mask in public after Jan 27th?

[dave_s13]

bad company said:

dave_s13 said:

My place of work are finally recinding the requirement to mask up and social distance in non clinical settings from Monday.

With a caveat they will wind it back if whatever whatever something something happens......

That’s late, most employers stopped the requirement ages ago. Do you work in healthcare?

Yep... community NHS

[BigMon]

Ari said:

I understand completely.

Add to that the public being vocally encouraged to report on their neighbours, police forces taking on powers that they just didn't have and even absurdities like Derbyshire Police officers pouring black water dye into a beauty spot lake pool “to make the water look less appealing”.

The dying of the lake was nothing to do with Covid or it being a 'beauty spot'. It's because it was very blue and inviting to look at but that is due to the many noxious chemicals in it and, as such, it was toxic to anyone who swam in it.

I've just been from St Pancras to Paddington to swap trains and quite a few people are wearing masks on the Underground so they're here to stay I think.

Edited by BigMon on Friday 13th May 14:54

[anonymous-user]

Was in Tesco yesterday and hardly anyone wearing masks except one young family - mum, dad, a three kids around 9 years of age - all masked up. Poor kids!

[Brave Fart]

I had a hospital appointment earlier today and I'm pleased to report that they have dialled down the 'masks are mandatory' nonsense. There's a few signs to that effect, but the aggressive security challenge at the entrance has gone. No one mentioned my bare faced status, and they've even put back all the chairs in reception just like it used to be. The guy with the spray bottle running round sanitising everything has also been done away with (well, not murdered I don't think, just given a different task).

2019 style normality is creeping closer, it seems.

[CoolHands]

I had to get something from a busy pharmacy earlier had about 5 or 6 employees. All masked. Not sure why.

[21TonyK]

Brave Fart said:

I had a hospital appointment earlier today and I'm pleased to report that they have dialled down the 'masks are mandatory' nonsense. There's a few signs to that effect, but the aggressive security challenge at the entrance has gone. No one mentioned my bare faced status, and they've even put back all the chairs in reception just like it used to be. The guy with the spray bottle running round sanitising everything has also been done away with (well, not murdered I don't think, just given a different task).

2019 style normality is creeping closer, it seems.

Not in my local respiratory unit. Distanced seating, masks actively encouraged.

[21TonyK]

CoolHands said:

I had to get something from a busy pharmacy earlier had about 5 or 6 employees. All masked. Not sure why.

Really, you can't work that out?

[Donbot]

21TonyK said:

CoolHands said:

I had to get something from a busy pharmacy earlier had about 5 or 6 employees. All masked. Not sure why.

Really, you can't work that out?

They think masks stop viruses durrr

[remedy]

21TonyK said:

CoolHands said:

I had to get something from a busy pharmacy earlier had about 5 or 6 employees. All masked. Not sure why.

Really, you can't work that out?

The only logical explanation is they have a disorder where they spit when they talk. So they wear a mask to stop spitting in each others faces.

Unless there is another scientific reason why?

[survivalist]

remedy said:

21TonyK said:

CoolHands said:

I had to get something from a busy pharmacy earlier had about 5 or 6 employees. All masked. Not sure why.

Really, you can't work that out?

The only logical explanation is they have a disorder where they spit when they talk. So they wear a mask to stop spitting in each others faces.

Unless there is another scientific reason why?

There won’t be a scientific one. There will be lots of emotional ones though.

Same reason that you have to sit though a load of nonsense when you get on an aeroplane - “in the event of landing on water” is rarely followed by “your chances of getting out of the aircraft are minimal and your chances of survival are vanishingly low. That’s assuming we can actually land this enormous plane on water which is itself very unlikely”

People like the illusion of safety, which is fine. What isn’t fine is imposing nonsense measures on others as a result of said illusion.

[Donbot]

survivalist said:

There won’t be a scientific one. There will be lots of emotional ones though.

Same reason that you have to sit though a load of nonsense when you get on an aeroplane - “in the event of landing on water” is rarely followed by “your chances of getting out of the aircraft are minimal and your chances of survival are vanishingly low. That’s assuming we can actually land this enormous plane on water which is itself very unlikely”

People like the illusion of safety, which is fine. What isn’t fine is imposing nonsense measures on others as a result of said illusion.

I don't agree. Planes have successfully ditched in water. Whereas viruses have successfully made it through cloth.

[CoolHands]

21TonyK said:

CoolHands said:

I had to get something from a busy pharmacy earlier had about 5 or 6 employees. All masked. Not sure why.

Really, you can't work that out?

Well for one thing when I say it was busy, they were busy with repeat orders etc I guess. No one else (customers) were in there when I entered, got served, and left. So they are wearing them with their colleagues who they spend all day with even if they have no customers. And they don’t make their customers wear them. So it’s difficult for me to see why they are wearing them. Hope that adds some detail to aid your confusion.

[nick30]

CoolHands said:

21TonyK said:

CoolHands said:

I had to get something from a busy pharmacy earlier had about 5 or 6 employees. All masked. Not sure why.

Really, you can't work that out?

Well for one thing when I say it was busy, they were busy with repeat orders etc I guess. No one else (customers) were in there when I entered, got served, and left. So they are wearing them with their colleagues who they spend all day with even if they have no customers. And they don’t make their customers wear them. So it’s difficult for me to see why they are wearing them. Hope that adds some detail to aid your confusion.

I think a lot of people who have been working hard possibly long hours etc may not be aware of both the law and how most of the public have read about how the changes happened. That is the only way I can try to justify mask wearing now.

[CoolHands]

I think in the pharmacy’s case they are probably doing it because they think most customers (sick people) prefer it, and it also gives a fake veneer of clinical expertise. Like nail salons etc

This is in London so the rules have been gone for ages

[Seventy]

nick30 said:

I think a lot of people who have been working hard possibly long hours etc may not be aware of both the law and how most of the public have read about how the changes happened. That is the only way I can try to justify mask wearing now.

Serious question.

Why do you need to ‘justify’ mask wearing?

[Louis Balfour]

CoolHands said:

I think in the pharmacy’s case they are probably doing it because they think most customers (sick people) prefer it, and it also gives a fake veneer of clinical expertise. Like nail salons etc

I wonder whether nail salon staff wear them because of the dust generated by their work, not to engender an image of clinical expertise.

[Donbot]

Seventy said:

Serious question.

Why do you need to ‘justify’ mask wearing?

I know this isn't directed at me, but if you request other people do it then it should be justified.

[survivalist]

Donbot said:

Seventy said:

Serious question.

Why do you need to ‘justify’ mask wearing?

I know this isn't directed at me, but if you request other people do it then it should be justified.

Absolutely. I’m happy for people to wear whatever they want. Full hazmat suit if so inclined. Just don’t ask me to. Much less create some nonsense legislation based on fear and politics that tries fo force me to.

[Seventy]

Donbot said:

I know this isn't directed at me, but if you request other people do it then it should be justified.

You’re right, it wasn’t directed at you.

Nick30 worded it as though he had to justify it.

[nick30]

Seventy said:

nick30 said:

I think a lot of people who have been working hard possibly long hours etc may not be aware of both the law and how most of the public have read about how the changes happened. That is the only way I can try to justify mask wearing now.

Serious question.

Why do you need to ‘justify’ mask wearing?

Do you still wear and advocate for people to wear masks? I don’t know how you could now justify that.

You have been on this thread long enough to know the facts and truth, have you not?