Face masks
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gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
I only go out once or twice a week to go food shopping.
I walk in the buslane if need be to socially distance and I have always worn my mask when I go in shops.
Also at work when I step outside my designated area - bog / kitchen area ...
8ball
Decolonise colons!
Similar to our work rules. It's easy to forget because it's only me within sight in my bit of the office and I'm right by the kitchen bit and rarely go near anyone.
I've noticed the staff in more shops seem to be masking up now (I don't go into many shops, so this may not be representative - I haven't been keeping abreast of the boring mask arguments on FB and TV).
Numbers
an ting!
Fools seldom...brilliant minds
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
We've had it so easy down this way up until now, but with the MASSIVE influx of tourists (and several tales, via NHS connections, of out-of-area people walking into various surgeries with Covid-19 symptoms, despite all the advice not to), I mask up if I'm going into any enclosed space outside my own home now. And, talking to my local friends and neighbours, they're generally taking similar precautions. I think, if we get a local outbreak now, that there is going to be quite a lot of hostility towards visitors.
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
I've been covering my face when going out since March tbh.
nyxx
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I’ve been wearing a cloth mask since the start of April & to begin with I wore it at all times when outside the home.
Started taking it off for the times I was cycling when it was deserted. Similarly if I was sitting in the park and no one was within about a tennis court’s range I’d take it off then.
I don’t leave the house with it one & I tend to put it on whenever I’m going to be near other people be that indoors or outdoors. eg, cycling a particular route which is mostly quiet but passes through a bottleneck of narrow road next to busy narrow pavement, I put it on in advance of coming to the more crowded areas.
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8ball
Decolonise colons!
Do you live in the UK?
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Yeah, wear one in shops when I need to get food. As my glasses steam up so much I have to handle things to check the use by date, because I can't see it otherwise.
It's quite surprising how much hot moist air comes out of your gob - I don't think I ever realised that in the ye olden days before masks.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Me too
8ball
Decolonise colons!
Beards don't count.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Happy to call it a muzzle as people need to shut the fuck up and stop whining
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I have a large collection of washable cloth masks
8ball
Decolonise colons!
I don't really have a problem with the glasses steaming up thing. I have a problem with air escaping around my chin sometimes tho
I have been lucky enough to either not experience or not notice this.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
I've been working from home since lockdown begun and haven't been to the office since 12th March. I don't wear a mask when I go outside but have worn one every time I have been somewhere that requires me to go inside, which in the past 4 months has been the local post office once, the GP's and hospital once, the garden centre once and the local pharmacists twice. I've been wearing one since March though not just since last week.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Think I've got some surgical tape somewhere so might give that a go to see if it stops it. It's deeply annoying - reminds me of going into pubs in winter and immediately losing the ability to see.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Gimp masks tend to be more airtight
8ball
Decolonise colons!
If you just stick a thin band of tissue paper to the inside top of the mask, that sorts it.
nyxx
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Yes
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Him still being alive makes me depressed.
You may be right Stavros but I heard that as "distressed" and he claimed that therefore brought him within one of the official exemptions?Not a fan of his I hasten to add.
You might be right. Either way, he was playing to his libertarian, contrarian audience, and, either way, he is a bell-end.
I am an enthusiastic mask wearer. I have sewn quite a few gaily coloured and decorated items which cheer me up no end...but mostly, I don't have to search around the house or in various pockets for my teeth and I don't have to talk to anyone either. Freedom.
Boudicca
Seaside Queen
I have come home from my first proper shopping trip with mask and have started watching youtube videos on how to make 'breathable' ones.
I have worn one in shops since it came in that we had to. As far as I can see, it seems to be observed in Sainsbury's but ignored in the corner shops I've been in. Sainsbury's has got bouncers on the door. Mo on the corner hasn't.
A woman I know bought a face mask on the internet and wore it around the shops until someone pointed out to her that it was half a boob tube with hair scrunchies sewn in for earpieces.
She said she wondered why it was so baggy round her face.
A woman I know bought a face mask on the internet and wore it around the shops until someone pointed out to her that it was half a boob tube with hair scrunchies sewn in for earpieces.
She said she wondered why it was so baggy round her face.
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