The official line is that staff do not need to wear them. I would if I was customer facing all day but a long shift with a hot face is not great for them.
The customers have no excuse for a 10-20 minute shop.
Face masks
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The customers have no excuse for a 10-20 minute shop.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
So here’s a possible conundrum - what happens if someone goes out shopping for a face mask, only to be refused entry for not wearing a mask?
Steal the face of a dog, instead
8ball
Decolonise colons!
So here’s a possible conundrum - what happens if someone goes out shopping for a face mask, only to be refused entry for not wearing a mask?
lots of places will give you or bring you a face mask to the door.
girasol
Addicted to handstands!
yeah, I don't get that, but maybe they find them comfortable?
I really don't like wearing a mask, not in summer. However, they will be nice to wear on cold days... Double the condensation when walking indoors for us glass wearers though 
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
The same way we got them Marty one of your oppo's brought themSo here’s a possible conundrum - what happens if someone goes out shopping for a face mask, only to be refused entry for not wearing a mask?
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Went through Heathrow this morning, good as place as any to document flying in the time of Covid:
Loads of people milling around outside the terminal, when we get to the door it becomes clear, there is a person on the door asking what time your flight is, if you're too early you can't come in, limiting the numbers in the terminal.
The terminal was as busy as pre-Covid, but we were on an 0840 flight, so 0700-ish is always a busy time I guess. Everyone travelling was wearing a mask. A couple of travellers walked through the terminal in paper suits, the kind the police make you wear when you do a murder and they want to examine your clothes. Check in was as normal, but they make you remove your mask to match up your passport with your face. Security was as normal. We went to the BA business lounge, you are asked to take a seat and then not move except for the bog. There is a QR code on the table that is specific to that table, click it and a menu appears, they bring your food and drinks rather than self service, they have closed the Concorde Room, Galleries North and B gates lounge, meaning there's enough staff to do this table service, it was very slick. Masks off for the duration there once you are seated.
Boarding was last row on first, working up to the front rows, mostly worked. Cabin crew masked up too. They asked you to try to remain seated as much as possible, only use the lav if the green light was showing. Food and drink was paired down, but the booze still flowed. Masks off for food and drink, which for the people three rows behind us meant the whole flight as they were having some kind of celebration and the miniature champers keep heading their way all through the flight.
Just before landing they tell you to remain seated and not go to the overhead lockers once landed until they call your row number, they repeated that once we touched down and again when we reached the gate. Once the air-bridge was connected they asked rows 1-5 to sod off, so we did. Everyone stayed masked up until they left the terminal building.
Overall the whole thing felt as safe as it could be, and I feel I am a bit more nervous than average of the plague, so all in all, not too bad.
BB2 masked up...
Loads of people milling around outside the terminal, when we get to the door it becomes clear, there is a person on the door asking what time your flight is, if you're too early you can't come in, limiting the numbers in the terminal.
The terminal was as busy as pre-Covid, but we were on an 0840 flight, so 0700-ish is always a busy time I guess. Everyone travelling was wearing a mask. A couple of travellers walked through the terminal in paper suits, the kind the police make you wear when you do a murder and they want to examine your clothes. Check in was as normal, but they make you remove your mask to match up your passport with your face. Security was as normal. We went to the BA business lounge, you are asked to take a seat and then not move except for the bog. There is a QR code on the table that is specific to that table, click it and a menu appears, they bring your food and drinks rather than self service, they have closed the Concorde Room, Galleries North and B gates lounge, meaning there's enough staff to do this table service, it was very slick. Masks off for the duration there once you are seated.
Boarding was last row on first, working up to the front rows, mostly worked. Cabin crew masked up too. They asked you to try to remain seated as much as possible, only use the lav if the green light was showing. Food and drink was paired down, but the booze still flowed. Masks off for food and drink, which for the people three rows behind us meant the whole flight as they were having some kind of celebration and the miniature champers keep heading their way all through the flight.
Just before landing they tell you to remain seated and not go to the overhead lockers once landed until they call your row number, they repeated that once we touched down and again when we reached the gate. Once the air-bridge was connected they asked rows 1-5 to sod off, so we did. Everyone stayed masked up until they left the terminal building.
Overall the whole thing felt as safe as it could be, and I feel I am a bit more nervous than average of the plague, so all in all, not too bad.
BB2 masked up...
Cid
Proper break this time
Is this just to show off your ability to blag prime aviation perks?
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Cid
Proper break this time
Other than the business class lounge, free-flowing booze, comfy chairs, legroom...
just jealous. Incidentally BB2's mask wearing is sub-optimal, should fit to bridge of nose. I suppose with kids on flights there's not a lot you can do... But yeah.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Other than the business class lounge, free-flowing booze, comfy chairs, legroom...
Incidentally BB2's mask wearing is sub-optimal, should fit to bridge of nose. I suppose with kids on flights there's not a lot you can do... But yeah.
The champers they serve in club Europe is pap beyond words though. No decent maker does 1/4 bottles
She was just low riding her mask in that shot, when reminded it can be worn properly.
HOT
Cid
Proper break this time
I'm not sure it is a particularly big issue... It's just that the policy hasn't been that well articulated.
mr steev
magic thought wizard
It's probably got something to do with the fact we've been told by the govt we didn't need to for the last 3 months. That washing our hands and SD is enough, talk that face coverings rather than masks are not very effective and that masks should be left for front line health workers, etc. There is also confusion about why now? Why didn't we have to wear them during the peak. I was speaking to a group of homeless people yesterday, and they all were convinced that if they were going to get it they would've had it by now.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
It's an issue because the confusing and variable narrative around masks in the UK has given people the idea that it's somehow negotiable, rather than simply being a bloody good idea. They've watched a government trying to "game" Covid-19, now they think it's their turn.
Yossarian
⏭️
Sounds reasonably safe - are they socially distancing seats, or was the flight at normal capacity? I flew from Glasgow to Toronto in late March - they restricted seating to about what seemed to be about 50% of capacity, only around 50% of passengers, and a similar proportion of flight crew, wore masks.
No drinks were served and instead of a hot meal service, they handed out plastic bags with a ham and cheese bun and bottle of water inside, so not a big difference from the usual service on Air Transat.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Been wearing ours since Feb but now in the heat it's uncomfortable and the beard is flaking from long-term wear. Still preferable to the lungs flaking, admittedly.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Flight was almost full, as there are far fewer flights now so the ones operating are all busy. On board there is no distancing, Alitalia is but this is not commercially viable. So whilst the airports are distanced you have to accept there is a risk on the flight itself, however with the mitigation in place that was good enough for me, someone not on the at risk level but also fairly scared by the whole thing.
dessiato
🇪🇸 my spirit is crying for leaving
I‘ve not Seen or heard any flakiness around 5G, chipping, or government sinister conspiracy here. When it does pop up it is nearly always from Brits.
Why? What’s happening there that is making the U.K. so paranoid?
I can accept that the government there has, and continues to be, as sketchy as fuck over the issue, but where is the application of good sense from the people?
Why? What’s happening there that is making the U.K. so paranoid?
I can accept that the government there has, and continues to be, as sketchy as fuck over the issue, but where is the application of good sense from the people?
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Maybe you’re not mixing with the right kinds of locals? In the UK I have never spoken with a 5G nutjob but their idiotic ideas pop up on various Facebook forums, are you a member of your local town/village Facebook group?
dessiato
🇪🇸 my spirit is crying for leaving
Yes, I am. It usually talks only about local events, art shows, the film festival etc. There’s no conspiracy lunacy.
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