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Are you wearing a face mask in Public?


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Anyone got a recommendation for decent reusable masks? Preferably some cottage-industry type operation deserving of some support.
 
Anyone got a recommendation for decent reusable masks? Preferably some cottage-industry type operation deserving of some support.

Got mine from Studio Masachuka which is a small clothing firm who’ve repurposed to making masks during covid
 
The disposable ones I got are so much better! And it's sort of pleated, making it easier to fold down when necessary without actually putting it on your neck. Way easier to breathe in and much less glasses steaming.

I am starting to adjust to the N95 mask a bit, which is a relief, but it's still hard enough that I really do have to take it off now and then to breathe properly, which is not terribly sensible. And at roads I still have to pull it down so that I can see to cross, due to the steaming up. Think I'll just order some more disposable ones.
 
Anyone got a recommendation for decent reusable masks? Preferably some cottage-industry type operation deserving of some support.
I've been looking carefully at this because my new role will mean I have to spend a lot of time with people I don't know.

The best I've found for price and quality is from Renault F1. Even though I'm not a Renault fan, but am an F1 fan, these are the ones I'm buying. I'm waiting till next week because they have a special limited edition of something. They've not said what it is but if it's going to be masks...

 
All of the ones which have elastic ear loops are pants. Absolutely agonising after a day with bands behind your ears. I have made a sort of cloth strap which catches the ear straps on a button at each side, but loops round the back of my head, taking up the tension which would normally just pull on my sore ears. Also, I use a continuous paracord, which threads through tags at the side of the masks and tensions with toggles at the back of my head -good for pulling on or off without faffing with ties. I have made bloody loads , with various styles, shapes and materials and am now sick to death of them. I knocked up an origami shoulder sack, for a treat. Has got me right back into sewing though.
 
One of those freeman of the land type wankers upsetting a young shop worker. He's already closing accounts and deleting videos so just need some real world consequences now.


That cunt is properly spoiling for a barney.

And I note that he saves his nastier aggression for the "some woman who told me to wear a mask", not the older and more confident male staff member. Which makes him a bully, too.
 
Seems the Dutch head medical honcho has said masks don’t stop the spread and in fact could be counter-productive, so next to no mask wearing in Holland except on public transport (as you can’t distance there) and the Dutch are happy that they don’t need to “wear a nappy on their faces,”
 
Just been to the local big Tesco and I'd say over 99% were wearing face coverings, customers and staff. I know the situation around the country is patchy but I'm surprised at how well it is going with no need for any real enforcement.
 
I've seen a number of masks advertised that are supposed to be easier to wear for people with sensory and anxiety issues. I can't remember the website but that is something people have mentioned in terms of having difficulty with masks so I'll post it on here.
 
Just a quickie on washing masks, if you are using the N95/FFP2 type mask which may give some protection to the wearer as well as others
then washing them for re-use may destroy the electrical charge on the filter media which plays a part in the mask's effectiveness
If Washing is only method available for decontamination then drying with an electric hairdryer (not a posh anti-static one obvs) can re-charge the media
 
Just a quickie on washing masks, if you are using the N95/FFP2 type mask which may give some protection to the wearer as well as others
then washing them for re-use may destroy the electrical charge on the filter media which plays a part in the mask's effectiveness
If Washing is only method available for decontamination then drying with an electric hairdryer (not a posh anti-static one obvs) can re-charge the media
Although that's useful they really are only designed for a single use.
 
Was just in Clacton Tesco. Most people masked up but a whole family either no mask or under chin, another couple of people with faces like bright pink angry dough going out of their way to invite people to say something and two staff having a good old chat to a maskless customer about how stupid masks are

Essex has had 8,000 C-19 cases
 
That cunt is properly spoiling for a barney.

And I note that he saves his nastier aggression for the "some woman who told me to wear a mask", not the older and more confident male staff member. Which makes him a bully, too.

how was the guy more confident? he turned away as he didn't want trouble it seems or want to challenge the guy. what people dont realise and even some staff in shops dont realise, is that shoppers are not on public property. when you enter a store, you are on private property and you can be asked to leave. he should have asked the guy to stop filming and leave the store. but he didn't want any part of it and allowed the guy to continue to film and harass the female staff.
 
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