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Will you continue using a face mask after 19 July?

Will you continue to use a mask in certain situations after 19 July?

  • Yes

    Votes: 213 88.4%
  • No

    Votes: 14 5.8%
  • Maybe

    Votes: 11 4.6%
  • Don't know

    Votes: 3 1.2%

  • Total voters
    241
I only wear one visiting the supermarket and the like, and even just for that limited time sometimes I have to stop what I'm doing and step outside to get some air. I could totally understand people really struggling to do a full shift without having the option of doing that.
Like doctors and such?
 
Good lord, does it really need stating again that people are different and just because you find wearing a mask to be no problem that must mean it's the same for everyone else? It's such an unempathic way of looking at the world - "everyone is the same as me."

Especially since, if someone genuinely isn't anti-mask and does want to wear one to help stop the spread, why the hell would they pretend they're causing them bother?

8 or so, sometimes more, depending how long my shift at work is.

Isn't that only for the last couple of months though, not 18 months?
 
Not sure exactly what you mean but if it's wearing a mask i'll be a tiny minority....as i said (before people started piling in) i'm conflicted about it at the moment so haven't entirely decided and not whining or anything but not sure a lot of people get just how fucking awful this last 18 months has been for those of us working in supermarkets

I meant try to compensate for lack of mask wearing by improving other aspects of the environment such as ventilation.
 
i very much dislike them everything about it the whole thing, the sensation, the not seeing faces, all of it, but yeah its no big deal for me because have just been sticking them on for shops etc so probably all added up i've been wearing one for a couple of full days of someone else's 18 months, that is a totally different thing.
 
I think he may have already blocked me, and failed to see my profane outburst :(

His Urban75 experience must be becoming quite a lonely one...

I tried so hard to engage with him, but he wasn't interested, it became clear he's too far down the rabbit hole, so that effort became pointless, the only reasonable option left was disengage with him, and tell him what I thought of him.
 
i very much dislike them everything about it the whole thing, the sensation, the not seeing faces, all of it, but yeah its no big deal for me because have just been sticking them on for shops etc so probably all added up i've been wearing one for a couple of full days of someone else's 18 months, that is a totally different thing.

I've only worn them in shops and an issue (apart from steamy specs) has been not being able to see people's lips when they're talking to me. It's surprising how much we rely on that sometimes and my hearing is only partially shit. I'm sure those who rely very heavily on lip reading will also be glad to see the back of them.
 
I've only worn them in shops and an issue (apart from steamy specs) has been not being able to see people's lips when they're talking to me. It's surprising how much we rely on that sometimes and my hearing is only partially shit. I'm sure those who rely very heavily on lip reading will also be glad to see the back of them.
hadn't even thought of that. yep.
 
I've only worn them in shops and an issue (apart from steamy specs) has been not being able to see people's lips when they're talking to me. It's surprising how much we rely on that sometimes and my hearing is only partially shit. I'm sure those who rely very heavily on lip reading will also be glad to see the back of them.
The other day I was trying to book a hairdressing appt for my daughter, in person, and the combination of being near an open door (to help circulate air), him not speaking English all that well, and both of us wearing masks meant that we might as well have been communicating by semaphore in the dark.
 
I've only worn them in shops and an issue (apart from steamy specs) has been not being able to see people's lips when they're talking to me. It's surprising how much we rely on that sometimes and my hearing is only partially shit. I'm sure those who rely very heavily on lip reading will also be glad to see the back of them.
This^
My hearing is a bit fucked from standing inside speakers at raves, and coupled with a muffled voice behind a mask, I'm finding myself asking people to repeat themselves a lot.
 
The other day I was trying to book a hairdressing appt for my daughter, in person, and the combination of being near an open door (to help circulate air), him not speaking English all that well, and both of us wearing masks meant that we might as well have been communicating by semaphore in the dark.

Loads of times I've asked someone to repeat something several times and it's usually been resolved by them pulling down their mask and repeating it s-l-o-w-l-y :D
 
Well I tried to come up with some ways that people can think about compensating for some behaviours with others. When no alternatives seem available, its even more important to try to live with the masks for a while longer.
 
Already fewer people are wearing them in the shop. Or have them hanging round their chin. I’m back to jumping backwards when a customer wants to speak with me. It’s going to be utter hell after the 19th.
I have a feeling we're gonna go from arguing and getting abuse from people that don't want to wear them to people that don't like it because hardly anyone will be wearing them.........(probably keeping mine on for most of the time as i have the joy of the services dept)
 
I've said this elsewhere, but also possibly here, so apologies if I'm repeating myself. Also, I'm in Wales, where some sort of sense appears to still prevail...

But my take on this is that I am going to carry on wearing masks in public places, regardless, for two reasons. Firstly, because I think that the government approach is now as far away from immunological reality as it has ever been - and that's an achievement in itself. And, secondly, on the basis that if people who couldn't give a fuck if twats came up and started giving them a hard time about mask-wearing keep on wearing them, it might encourage other people to carry on wearing theirs.
 
I've said this elsewhere, but also possibly here, so apologies if I'm repeating myself. Also, I'm in Wales, where some sort of sense appears to still prevail...

But my take on this is that I am going to carry on wearing masks in public places, regardless, for two reasons. Firstly, because I think that the government approach is now as far away from immunological reality as it has ever been - and that's an achievement in itself. And, secondly, on the basis that if people who couldn't give a fuck if twats came up and started giving them a hard time about mask-wearing keep on wearing them, it might encourage other people to carry on wearing theirs.
Also people wearing masks who deck people who refuse to and are arsy about it less likely to get lifted than the maskless muppets
 
I've said this elsewhere, but also possibly here, so apologies if I'm repeating myself. Also, I'm in Wales, where some sort of sense appears to still prevail...

But my take on this is that I am going to carry on wearing masks in public places, regardless, for two reasons. Firstly, because I think that the government approach is now as far away from immunological reality as it has ever been - and that's an achievement in itself. And, secondly, on the basis that if people who couldn't give a fuck if twats came up and started giving them a hard time about mask-wearing keep on wearing them, it might encourage other people to carry on wearing theirs.

My position exactly. Though I know that as a relatively large (in all dimensions sadly) man in a non-customer facing job I am in a privileged position.
 
Definitely, I'm basically in favour of opening up most things tbh but I haven't had my second jab and I'll probably always wear them in crowded places such as the tube or crowded shops from now on tbh. Think the advice to ditch masks is pretty worrying if I'm honest.
 
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