8ball
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No it doesn't because shop wearers don't wear masks, and everybody believes and trusts the Government.
Wear masks in shops
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No it doesn't because shop wearers don't wear masks, and everybody believes and trusts the Government.
Unless I am wrong the guidance that will apply in England from Friday is to the effect that customers must wear a face covering of some sort whereas shop staff can please themselves as to whether they wear a mask or not? Not sure I can see the logic in that unless the point is that the staff would be obliged to be masked up for hours whereas the customers would not?Am I missing something obvious cos ,on the face of it,you would think that unmasked customers might be confused to be prevented from entering a shop by an unmasked member of staff/security-guard?
its a genuine question-assuming staff are not required to have any kind of face-covering whilst customers are so required what is the reason for that distinction-is it simply to avoid discomfort for shop-staff or something more fundamental?
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Do remember that the mask hides a lot of your facial expressions, so all the more reason to project them with much greater intensity
. It does, of course, also prevent lipreading, so you can mouth pretty much what you want and get away with it... 
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Increasingly fewer with the passing of each day: at this rate, he'll be left with a Trump's Rump of swivel-eyed loonies by...shall we say, Christmas?
Ah thanks that's what I thought.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Let's just hope the virus knows what the arrows mean.
I’ll be wearing one for 8 odd hours.
it seems a bit perverse your employer would choose not to enforce the government mandated facemasks for customers rule, and instead make the staff do it. Maybe they're hoping it'll guilt trip the customers into complying or something.
Who knows? I’ve got some ready but if they don’t enforce it for customers then I’ll be buggered if I’ll let them enforce it for me.
Actually, that’s just me being bloody minded. I don’t really object to wearing one. Except when I’m counting flowers which makes me sneeze a lot.
Cloo
Banana for scale
Very slightly more people wearing them on local high st today, though it may be that some are putting them on as they go into shops - still less than 10% tho. Just picking up a set of fabric ones for daughter (think son might be under age it's required, IDK, who does?!), other half has also ordered some.
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
You get used to it. It doesn't bother me at all now I've found some masks that fit my face comfortably.
I don't think shops are 'enforcing' customers wearing them here but they almost universally are, in supermarkets anyway.
8ball
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Here’s hoping
8ball
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8ball
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Is your mask done yet? Got any pics?
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Don't talk to me about that &*^% mask! The printer ran out of filament about 9/10 of the way through, but for some reason it didn't pause as it normally would, it kept trying to print, so I have another scrap one.
I've ordered more filament but I'm so disheartened with it I don't know if I'm going to do it again. I might do a Bane mask instead.
8ball
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Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
ah well, you can;t win 'em all
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Went into a big Tesco's near me this morning. It's generally been really good with social distancing etc. although it has a bit slackened it off recently. Anyway, only about 50% of people were wearing masks today, and weirdly it seemed to be mainly 60+ year old not bothering, got a couple of tuts and shake of heads when people saw me in one too.
Anyway, I asked one of the store managers who happened to be hanging around what they were going to do as so many people didn't seem to be wearing them 2 days before they became compulsory, and she said it was store policy to not enforce it, only the police could. I said they why didn't they suggest it though as people came in, put notices up near the door reminding people etc, and she was totally disinterested.
Doesn't fill me with confidence that this is going to work as a measure.
Anyway, I asked one of the store managers who happened to be hanging around what they were going to do as so many people didn't seem to be wearing them 2 days before they became compulsory, and she said it was store policy to not enforce it, only the police could. I said they why didn't they suggest it though as people came in, put notices up near the door reminding people etc, and she was totally disinterested.
Doesn't fill me with confidence that this is going to work as a measure.
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8ball
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Doh! I was looking forward to the big reveal.
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
Tutting and head-shaking isn't even the worst of it. I've heard reports of mask-wearers being yelled at by twats who are no doubt buried up to their ears in conspiracy shite. Mainly in the US, but unfortunately that kind of bullshit has a following over here as well.
8ball
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Do you think it was conspiraloons tutting in your case, or do you reckon its something different? I wouldn't have thought there would be that many of them.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Just off the phone to a friend in the States.
She's had people shouting 'SOCIALIST!' at her in the streets when she goes out wearing a mask.
I mean, what the actual fuck?
Trumpists must be very confused after their dear leader tweeted that wearing masks is patriotic and nobody's more patriotic than him...
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
I think the tutters and head-shakers are just the idiots who think it's a touch of the flu. Conspiracunts tend to be more vocal.
8ball
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There seem to be a lot of relatively normal people who have picked up the odd bit of conspiraloonery, especially regarding the idea that the virus was created in a lab.
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