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Are you wearing a face mask in Public?

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Boudicca said:
Just seen this on my mask making forum, some kind of frame which you wear underneath the mask to keep it off your face and help you breathe and talk more easily. There was a debate about whether it created a 'gap' at the top, but worth considering if you have to wear a mask all day. Available on Amazon.

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Even if it's only a placebo, if it does the job...
 
MickiQ said:
I had a cider delivery a couple of weeks ago and asked to see photo ID.
I said seriously do I look under 18 to you (please say yes) and he told me that he had been told 10% of customers were company spies (he called them mystery shoppers)
He waited while I dug out my passport
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It's not a big deal. Sometimes they're fine with just being told your date of birth, because they have to enter that in their records. And they can get fined if they get caught giving age-restricted items to someone under age so I don't blame them for being careful. The rules should be like in shops, so that if you really don't look under 25 you don't have to provide ID, but you know what private companies are like with applying more stringent rules than necessary if it incoveniences everything except the bottom line.

Mystery shoppers do exist (I've done it - there's a website you can sign up to where you do mystery shopping for different companies and basically earn pocket money while getting freebies), though if 10% of his customers were mystery shoppers it'd have to be a really tiny company.
 
scifisam said:
It's not a big deal. Sometimes they're fine with just being told your date of birth, because they have to enter that in their records. And they can get fined if they get caught giving age-restricted items to someone under age so I don't blame them for being careful. The rules should be like in shops, so that if you really don't look under 25 you don't have to provide ID, but you know what private companies are like with applying more stringent rules than necessary if it incoveniences everything except the bottom line.

Mystery shoppers do exist (I've done it - there's a website you can sign up to where you do mystery shopping for different companies and basically earn pocket money while getting freebies), though if 10% of his customers were mystery shoppers it'd have to be a really tiny company.
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It was Amazon so I suspect his boss was bullshitting him
 
I‘ve found all of this interesting. In this town there’s a high compliance with few not wearing at all, or wearing improperly. But there’s a strong rumour that, because of people going to parties and weddings, there’s been a massive spike in cases. It isn’t true, but it has made people aware, and afraid, again.
 
Mrs Q and I went to Meadowhall Sheffield yesterday which is an enclosed shopping centre,Whilst waiting outside the shops for Mrs Q. I amused myself by passing moral judgement on my fellow citizens. I counted 8 people with no masks at all. 2 were men and 6 were women (surprising me I would have thought men were more likely rule breakers than women). One woman clearly had mild Downs syndrome and thus gets a pass all the others male and female looked healthy to me.
There were a lot of people wearing a mask but not properly, most not covering the nose and a lot not even covering the mouth. This wasn't in the shops but even though there's 2 floors and generous headspace its still indoors.
It was nowhere as crowded as the last time we went though which was last year sometimes.
 
Orang Utan said:
Mild Down’s syndrome? There are no degrees of it. You either have the chromosome or you don’t
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You have the chromosome or you don't but they vary as much as everyone else, some people manage to live a near normal life some need a fair amount of assistance. Clearly there is no way I could have made an accurate assessment of this woman on one sight (nor was I trying to, I was just taking a more tolerant view of her not wearing a mask than I did of the other 7). That said you did make realise she is the first person I've seen with it for a while, They were a lot more common when I was a kid there were 3 or 4 at the same primary as I went.
 
MickiQ said:
You have the chromosome or you don't but they vary as much as everyone else, some people manage to live a near normal life some need a fair amount of assistance. Clearly there is no way I could have made an accurate assessment of this woman on one sight (nor was I trying to, I was just taking a more tolerant view of her not wearing a mask than I did of the other 7). That said you did make realise she is the first person I've seen with it for a while, They were a lot more common when I was a kid there were 3 or 4 at the same primary as I went.
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Many people get tested during pregnancy and abort these days.
 
On the subject of people wearing masks below their noses, I'm particularly fascinated by people who wear N95 masks below their noses. They went to the trouble of wearing a particularly protective kind of mask and then, pulled it down? :confused: These people need to make up their minds. :oops:
 
Bahnhof Strasse said:
Many people get tested during pregnancy and abort these days.
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And not hard to see why, given the increasing levels of shit that people with disabilities, and their carers, have to take these days from benefits systems, etc. It's almost as if the right wing have managed to make some headway on the eugenics front... :hmm:
 
Bahnhof Strasse said:
Many people get tested during pregnancy and abort these days.
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I know Mrs Q was offered an amniocentesis test when she had Youngest Q since she was 3 months shy of 40 when Youngest was born, its one of the things it tests for. She was upset at the time since the nurse/midwife who called her up to recommend she had one was somewhat tactless saying things like "You might like to consider an abortion" before even had the test.
One of lifes irony though is that by the time she was 13 or 14 I had realised that Youngest is way smarter than either myself or her mother and unfortunately so had she.
 
campanula said:
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.
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I improvised a strap extension with an extra large cable tie for mine :oops: Ties around the back if my neck now but seems snug enough.
 
Just stopped at Sainsbury's. Old fella going in before me said 'I can't afford masks so not wearing one' to which the staff member replied 'No problem, I can give you a couple for free' :)

To which he replied 'I can't be dealing with that shit' and stomped past her glowering :(

Probably voted Tory and Brexit. I hope he dies a long painful Covid death :)
 
The province of Quebec will start fining people who do not wear their masks in indoor public spaces. The fines start at $400 CAD and go up to $6000.

montreal.ctvnews.ca

Defying mask rules in Quebec will now be punished with fines up to $6,000

As of Saturday, Quebecers who do not comply with public health guidelines amid the COVID-19 pandemic will be subject to fines ranging from $400 to $6,000.
montreal.ctvnews.ca
 
Just encountered a live one in Aldi, angry bald man in Rockports, late thirties maybe. No mask, staring at everyone clearly hoping for someone to challenge him. Actually took a step towards me for having the gall to queue up behind him. Then I made the mistake of saying "thanks" when he put the next customer divider on the conveyor belt.

"Look at all these idiots"
"Pardon?"
"Wearing masks. Sheep. Idiots."
"It's a weird time isn't it."
"No it's not. Nothing's different. Why are you wearing a mask?"
"Look mate, I'm just doing my shopping, I'm not interested in an argument."
"I bet you're not cos you haven't got one. You're all fucking idiots. Sheep."

I mean wear one or don't, but why be an aggressive cunt about it?
 
S☼I said:
Just encountered a live one in Aldi, angry bald man in Rockports, late thirties maybe. No mask, staring at everyone clearly hoping for someone to challenge him. Actually took a step towards me for having the gall to queue up behind him. Then I made the mistake of saying "thanks" when he put the next customer divider on the conveyor belt.

"Look at all these idiots"
"Pardon?"
"Wearing masks. Sheep. Idiots."
"It's a weird time isn't it."
"No it's not. Nothing's different. Why are you wearing a mask?"
"Look mate, I'm just doing my shopping, I'm not interested in an argument."
"I bet you're not cos you haven't got one. You're all fucking idiots. Sheep."

I mean wear one or don't, but why be an aggressive cunt about it?
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I'm just waiting for someone to try that on with me. I shall not be diplomatic - "At least I'm only a sheep, not a cunt".
 
Usually one or two maskless ones near me - but 99 percent adherence in my Aldi - including this morning father and young daughter both in fancy masks whereas most children were maskless.
 
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scifisam said:
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Mystery shoppers do exist (I've done it - there's a website you can sign up to where you do mystery shopping for different companies and basically earn pocket money while getting freebies), though if 10% of his customers were mystery shoppers it'd have to be a really tiny company.
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I've been a mystery shopper before. I found an agency that managed it and did it a few times. Sometimes it can be a little tricky pretending to be a genuine punter but for one of my assignments I actually could have bought what they were selling, but their customer service was atrocious.
 
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