Will you continue using a face mask after 19 July?

[Leafster]

I'll carry on wearing a mask in shops etc. I've managed to avoid using public transport since the pandemic began but if I had to, I'd wear a mask when travelling this way.

It'll be interesting to see what happens with the removal of the one metre plus rule. Nearly everyone I cross paths with outside adheres to it now. It seems a sensible precaution when cases are still too high for my liking and predicted to increase but maybe others will see it differently.

 

[wayward bob]

will almost def still be law in wales anyway.

 

[Plumdaff]

I think we'll still be mandated to do so here in Wales for some time longer, which I agree with.

That said, some people here already don't wear them, but I won't be one of them. It seems like such a minor inconvenience for such a potentially major improvement in public health, and I'd hoped we might become culturally very comfortable with wearing masks on public transport, especially in the winter months, like places in Asia routinely do. It doesn't seem to be the case though.

 

[wayward bob]

older kids still wearing them in school too

 

[dessiato]

We don’t have to wear masks except indoors or busy places. Nonetheless I still wear mine. Better safe than sorry.

 

[moomoo]

Has anyone else got in the habit of freely mouthing obscenities at people that piss them off in public? I'm afraid I won't be able to stop if the mask comes off and I'll get beaten up.

This is one of the reasons why I shall continue to wear my mask at work.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Yes, and I’ll still be doing my best to avoid busy places/areas, because anyone thinking opening everything back up on the 19th is a good idea must be fucking insane.

 

[Glitter]

Honestly, probably not. Maybe on the train if I have to go back into work but 9/10 times I forget and have to go back for one.

Tbh I only really wear one in shops as I don’t go anywhere else that I might need one and I’ll never remember if I’m not getting sent back for it.

 

[gentlegreen]

I look 10 years younger wearing mine.

I made a point of wearing mine all the way back from the shops just now.

 

[Spymaster]

I look 10 years younger wearing mine.

 

[marshall]

Absolutely. It's become second nature to me in shops and on public transport. Not exactly a hardship is it? Same with carrying a hand sanitiser, can't believe I never used one before.

 

[Voley]

Yep. Will also still be avoiding busy places indoors for the foreseeable future too.

Really uneasy about all the restrictions being ditched on the 19th. I wouldn't be at all surprised by another Autumn lockdown.

I'm really struggling with the logic behind ditching masks in particular. It doesn't affect the economy, we're all used to wearing them and it reduces the transmission that's taking off worryingly right now. Only reason is to appease the assholes in his own party. Fucked right off about it if I'm honest - my parents are both immuno-compromised and are considering staying home again because of it.

 

[flypanam]

I look 10 years younger wearing mine.

Makes me more handsome too.

 

[editor]

I'll certainly still carry one around with me and put it on where it feels like the right thing to do, risk-wise. But probably not if I'm going to the loo in an empty pub.

 

[neonwilderness]

I'll probably continue in some places, shops, public transport, etc. Other places will depend on how busy/safe it feels.

I am planning a trip to London in a few weeks and a bit apprehensive about needing to use the tube to get from Waterloo to Wood Green.

I'm travelling down to London a few days after the restrictions are lifted and am already feeling a bit about it.

 

[MickiQ]

I don't like wearing masks and would prefer not too but I have dutifully worn one throughout when I am supposed to. I will probably play it by ear for a while at least and take one with me and then decide whether I feel I need one when I get to where I am going.I haven't used public transport since February last year and aren't likely to any time soon. I hardly go to shops much these days either.
I can't imagine that mask wearing generally is going to survive much as a thing past 20th July though

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

I'll certainly still carry one around with me and put it on where it feels like the right thing to do, risk-wise. But probably not if I'm going to the loo in an empty pub.

Yes this. I'll wear one to the shops etc. It has felt a bit pointless wearing one for five seconds to walk between a pub door and a table though, don't think I'll do that any more.

 

[Steel Icarus]

I can't imagine that mask wearing generally is going to survive much as a thing past 20th July though

I think you might be surprised.

 

[The39thStep]

Still compulsory over here and likely to be until August/September.

 

[Badgers]

100% yes in all scenarios

 

[killer b]

Probably. I think there's a good chance of a fairly swift u-turn on all this stuff anyway.

 

[Sue]

We were chatting about this on a work call earlier. The overwhelming consensus was that ditching everything on the 19th is madness and they'll be backpedalling within weeks.

I'm not really planning on changing anything tbh so will keep on with the masks for the forseeable,

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

To anyone saying they won’t anymore, it’s a choice, you’ll see if you feel safe etc - retail workers don’t get that choice, they’re going to have face you whatever.

Wear a fucking mask you selfish pricks.

 

[Espresso]

I will keep on wearing mine, no question.

 

[Orang Utan]

no public poll?

 

[Mr Retro]

I’m so relieved and glad it’s being left up to individuals to asses and make their own decisions based on what they perceive as the risk. I believe should have been policy through all this. I won’t wear a mask after 19th. I will respect those who decide they still want to.

 

[gentlegreen]

At least two of the shelf-stackers in my local Aldi are already not wearing masks - 30-somethings I'm guessing, - so borderline in terms of vaccination.

 

[planetgeli]

Yes I will. I too hoped, or hope, for an Asian like cultural shift on this.

And I still get angry thinking back to that back-to-school guidance in September from the Welsh government that told me face masks had little value, were absolutely bottom of the pile when it came to protection, and that I would be told to remove it at the gates if I came to school in one.

 

[LDC]

I’m so relieved and glad it’s being left up to individuals to asses and make their own decisions based on what they perceive as the risk. I believe should have been policy through all this. I won’t wear a mask after 19th. I will respect those who decide they still want to.

FFS, you thick prick. Why is it so complicated for you to understand that just making things a 'personal choice' in a pandemic is not a fair, sensible, or caring position? It's one thing to agree with the easing now, but to say it should have been personal choice all the way through this is stunningly moronic.

 

[gentlegreen]

Thinking about it, having left the festering virology experiment where I used to work (where I was resigned to getting flattened once or twice a year until eventually two infections kept me off work for weeks,) , I will be grateful for the precedent set by Covid so I can wear a mask in supermarkets for a long time into the future.
If anarchy prevails, I will get my flu jab this winter.