Face masks

[Doctor Carrot]

My weapon of choice.

 

[krtek a houby]

I can actually understand this. Wearing a mask continually for a whole day is, I think, a big ask. For a start, the proper grade masks are generally disposable, and paper based, and get quite soggy after a while. Furthermore, a lot of people seem to experience skin irritation after wearing a mask for a while. Customers are in the shop for comparatively short periods of time, and can enjoy some mask-free time between shops - staff don't have that option. In a way, I think visors on staff and masks on customers is a perfect compromise - the visors should prevent any gross infection risk (sneezing, or being sneezed upon), while the customers' masks deal with the more routine levels of risk.

We wear masks at work and in the hot summer it can be a bit much. Thanks be for air conditioning. Do get to slip off the mask, in between customers, which is great as the irritated skin was causing grief.

 

[8ball]

My weapon of choice.

WHERE’S YOUR MASK!!??!?

 

[Orang Utan]

WHERE’S YOUR MASK!!??!?

it's a face covering - easier to communicate with customers that way

 

[Marty1]

My weapon of choice.

A Darth Vader mask would be cooler.

 

[scifisam]

Im sure this has been answered upthread but why do the staff in my local supermarkets, tesco, sainsburys and the co-op not seem to wear them? I would have thought they should be the first to wear them?

In my shops some staff wear them and some don't. When they're on the till, they're behind a screen, and they never use the till next to them, so they're not a big risk there. If they choose to wear a mask or not, they won't send much on to me.

On the shop floor I find it a tiny bit weird when some shop staff don't wear masks and also don't socially distance, but that's getting better.

 

[LDC]

...I have to say that the vast majority of people not wearing a mask are under 30 and mainly men.

That's my observation as well, and usually when they're in twos or more.

 

[8ball]

That's my observation as well, and usually when they're in twos or more.

Whereas women seem to prefer the “under the nose” look from what I have noticed.

 

[Doctor Carrot]

My favourite one is when people pull the mask down to talk to you. I didn't think it was possible to be that dense but apparently I was wrong.

 

[Doctor Carrot]

A Darth Vader mask would be cooler.

I've given this some serious thought.

 

[Badgers]

 

[Steel Icarus]

Don't be a member of the fucking evil empire then you fuckwit

 

[Steel Icarus]

I overheard a very entitled woman moaning at the Farm Foods checkout that masks were stupid and she didn't see the point as "I get tested every two weeks, and anyway it's not nearly as bad as the papers say".

Essentially "I don't care if I contribute to spreading a global pandemic that has so far killed 800,000 and incapacitated millions more".

She WAS wearing a mask, though, and properly, so y'know, little victories

 

[Badgers]

Just stopped at Sedgemoor Services. About a third of people not wearing masks walking in. Irritatingly one of which had his NHS lanyard and id hung round his neck

Most people without masks on were middle aged blokes. Also a lot of families at the services as usual with the mum and kids wearing masks but the dad not bothering.

McDonald's had a strict queuing system with staff insisting on hand sanitiser before ordering

Toilets were grubby, loads of people without masks and no distancing in there

 

[izz]

Marcus Fysh, MP for Yeovil, thinks masks should be banned in schools

MP says schools 'should not pander to scientific guff' over masks

From September 1, schools in England will have the discretion to order secondary pupils and staff to wear masks in corridors and other communal areas

www.somersetlive.co.uk

e2a apologies if this has been posted before., it's a couple of days old but I only saw it just now.

 

[Steel Icarus]

I think Fish should be banned from schools, and all Tory MPs other than the Education secretary, who should be compelled to visit a few to see what they actually are.

 

[izz]

Astonishing isn't it ? I absolutely get the need for businesses to keep running and earning money, for young people to continue their education, for life to just carry on but taking a few easy precautions is being politicised and turned into an excuse to get all frothy-mouthed and angry. Baffling.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

 

[izz]

As an aside, does anyone have any idea at all why masks could be considered 'dehumanising' ? I'm genuinely baffled, to me, everything about a person expresses their individuality (height, build, body language, gait, voice, clothes, hair, general vibe) and their face is just a small percentage of that, and anyway people are expressing individuality by their face covering choices.

 

[elbows]

The Netherlands has been somewhat rubbish over the issue of masks.

The governmet and related institutions continued to express skepticism about them, then reluctantly allowed trials in several cities when cases rose. But it sounds like there was poor public compliance and a drop in shop footfall, or at least these were issues in some places that some choose to draw much attention to. Now the 'trials' have ended. At least it sounds like they actually monitored these things closely and there will actually be some results and conclusions from them eventually.

I doubt this is the end of the issue in that country.

Amsterdam and Rotterdam stop requiring face masks in busy places - DutchNews.nl

Amsterdam and Rotterdam are stopping an experiment with face masks in busy places at the end of August. Both said that they were halting the experiment ‘as planned’ and will be waiting for the results of investigations to see how effective the measures have been. In a press release, Amsterdam...

www.dutchnews.nl

 

[existentialist]

As an aside, does anyone have any idea at all why masks could be considered 'dehumanising' ? I'm genuinely baffled, to me, everything about a person expresses their individuality (height, build, body language, gait, voice, clothes, hair, general vibe) and their face is just a small percentage of that, and anyway people are expressing individuality by their face covering choices.

I think that what these people mean by "dehumanising" is "making me do something I might not want to do"

 

[izz]

I think that what these people mean by "dehumanising" is "making me do something I might not want to do"

Oh bless you, so I was looking for a meaning and there isn't one

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Oh bless you, so I was looking for a meaning and there isn't one

They literally turn you in to a non-human; Zorro famously wears a mask and zorro is Spanish for fox, a non-human. All quite simple really...

 

[Steel Icarus]

They literally turn you in to a non-human; Zorro famously wears a mask and zorro is Spanish for fox, a non-human. All quite simple really...

The Mask, too. He's literally called after one

 

[Mation]

Really trying hard not to be judgemental of people with no mask on public transport. Obviously I can't tell whether they're not in fact exempt. But it's really hard with people who come and sit opposite me on the tube, especially when there is plenty of room to sit facing the same way and further away. I don't say anything, but I do need to get up and move somewhere else. It's really miserable; probably for them too

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Really trying hard not to be judgemental of people with no mask on public transport. Obviously I can't tell whether they're not in fact exempt. But it's really hard with people who come and sit opposite me on the tube, especially when there is plenty of room to sit facing the same way and further away. I don't say anything, but I do need to get up and move somewhere else. It's really miserable; probably for them too

I think we can be judgemental if we want. In Germany I didn’t see anyone who was exempt, everyone in every public enclosed space wore a mask. The only person I saw not wearing one was a smack head shoplifter in a supermarket by Berlin Zoo station, and he got nicked, should’ve worn a mask.

 

[Mation]

I think we can be judgemental if we want. In Germany I didn’t see anyone who was exempt, everyone in every public enclosed space wore a mask. The only person I saw not wearing one was a smack head shoplifter in a supermarket by Berlin Zoo station, and he got nicked, should’ve worn a mask.

Yes, but here, people have been told it's ok not to wear one if they're exempt. I wonder how the people in Germany who really can't wear one at all are faring.

 

[weepiper]

Strong correlation between Covid facemask deniers and people who loudly think Muslim women look like letterboxes

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Yes, but here, people have been told it's ok not to wear one if they're exempt. I wonder how the people in Germany who really can't wear one at all are faring.

If you are so ill that you genuinely can’t cover your mouth and nose with anything then it is probably not very wise to be out and about during this pandemic tbf.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

As an aside, does anyone have any idea at all why masks could be considered 'dehumanising' ? I'm genuinely baffled, to me, everything about a person expresses their individuality (height, build, body language, gait, voice, clothes, hair, general vibe) and their face is just a small percentage of that, and anyway people are expressing individuality by their face covering choices.

An awful lot of non-verbal communication does involve seeing subtle movements of facial muscles around the mouth. I've noticed it recently when wearing masks in supermarkets, little things like people working there can't tell whether I'm annoyed or not when there's some delay, which would usually be obvious by my expression.

But, you know, that's just the breaks isn't it. It's not like they're being worn for a laugh and there are other ways to express things.