Will you continue using a face mask after 19 July?

[moochedit]

Went into town yesterday - maybe 10% of people masked ouside.

Barbers - 100% masked, socially distanced seating, name and phone number taken.
Waterstones - 100% masked (both branches)
WH Smiths - 100% masked
HMV - 100% masked
Poundland - one shopper unmasked.

In the pub, walked in with my mask on and bought a beer at the bar. None of the staff had a mask on. Went back for my second pint, forgot to put my mask back on, and I'm afraid it felt quite good.

Sainsburys today - maybe only 80% - unmasked staff and shoppers.

It's a pretty mixed bag down here. I'm going to my first indoor gig since March 2019 on Wednesday. Might be best to take a mask, but I doubt many will be wearing one.

10% masked outside is pretty high. I don't see many people round here with masks on outside either before or after "freedom day". The odd person yes but nowhere near 10%. I've never worn a mask outside except maybe when carrying shopping bags out of a shop to my car and my hands were not free to remove it.

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

Majority of people in my carriage on the tube tonight were masked, same on the buses this morning.

 

[Elpenor]

Out of the four passengers I could see in my train carriage - only one was.

Two florid looking elder gentlemen, and a railway employee on duty travel were not All would have been double jabbed.

I can’t say I enjoyed wearing one for three and a half hours but I did it as it’s the right thing to do.

 

[Sue]

Went into a supermarket (well wee Coop) for the first time since last Monday. I'd say most folk were wearing masks.

 

[NoXion]

I'm going into the office tomorrow. I will definitely be masking up. I'm also taking the next two days off work, so I'll at least have that if turns out that venturing forth leads to a crappy day at work.

 

[nosos]

It's very odd to find yourself the one masked person in a small supermarket full of otherwise unmasked people.

 

[gentlegreen]

In the pickle shop today, only the manager had a mask - under his chin - no other staff or customers.
But I had no probs wearing my FFP2.

 

[existentialist]

It's very odd to find yourself the one masked person in a small supermarket full of otherwise unmasked people.

It appeals to my defiant side...

 

[Numbers]

In Manchester y/day and last night I was rather surprised at how little masks were being worn. That’s in shops, bars, hotel.

 

[PursuedByBears]

In Manchester y/day and last night I was rather surprised at how little masks were being worn. That’s in shops, bars, hotel.

I was in Preston yesterday and noticed the same thing.

 

[Pickman's model]

In the pickle shop today, only the manager had a mask - under his chin - no other staff or customers.
But I had no probs wearing my FFP2.

the chin is particularly vulnerable to covid so should always be kept masked

 

[Spymaster]

In Waitrose the other day, I reckon about 80% were wearing them but they were almost all pensioners. Far fewer in Sainsbury. I’m in a restaurant now and there are 23 people sitting at tables with nobody wearing masks, including the staff. There’s someone sitting outside waiting for a takeaway. She wore a mask to come in to order her food.

 

[Numbers]

I was in Preston yesterday and noticed the same thing.

Where I live in Newham has been a bit lax with mask wearing but at times y/day I was the only person wearing one.

 

[Maltin]

I’m in a restaurant now and there are 23 people sitting at tables with nobody wearing masks, including the staff. There’s someone sitting outside waiting for a takeaway. She wore a mask to come in to order her food.

Have you experienced people in restaurants/pubs before sitting there wearing masks? Makes eating and drinking a tad difficult.

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

the chin is particularly vulnerable to covid so should always be kept masked

you mean
don't take it on the chin?

 

[Lord Camomile]

10% masked outside is pretty high. I don't see many people round here with masks on outside either before or after "freedom day". The odd person yes but nowhere near 10%. I've never worn a mask outside except maybe when carrying shopping bags out of a shop to my car and my hands were not free to remove it.

If I'm travelling pretty much anywhere I'll put my mask on before I leave, for various reasons. Partly because it's simply easier than on/off all the time, particularly with the type of mask I have, and also it reduces me touching my mask/face. But also because I figure it's some kind of small visual socialisation thing.

All that said, I'm about to run out to the post box about 500m from my flat, and won't bother with a mask for that. Honestly don't know if I would for a longer journey that didn't take me indoors at all.

 

[scifisam]

Supermarket today was still around 80% (inc me). Local Co-Op.

One odd thing I've noticed is that parents with young kids seem to be the ones most likely to not be wearing a mask now. Seen a fair few entire unmasked families even on the tube, where it's still mandatory and everyone else was masked up. I highly doubt that, on all the occasions I've seen this, both parents are exempt (though I wouldn't go up and ask them), and their kids won't have been vaccinated either.

 

[Skim]

The only place I don’t wear a mask is the gym, where I happily surround myself with grunting, heavily breathing youth to a pumping selection of uplifting pop.

The rest of the time, I mask up to the nines and death-stare anyone in the chilled aisle who dares to get within six feet of me.

 

[Petcha]

On the tube yesterday, about 60% wearing masks. They've also taken down all the signs asking people to wear them despite Sadiq saying he was going to keep enforcing the rule on TFL.

 

[Pickman's model]

Have you experienced people in restaurants/pubs before sitting there wearing masks? Makes eating and drinking a tad difficult.

Spymaster likes a challenge

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

On the tube yesterday, about 60% wearing masks. They've also taken down all the signs asking people to wear them despite Sadiq saying he was going to keep enforcing the rule on TFL.

we have video evidence of "the other" corbyn removing those, stop blaming the angelic TFL for this

 

[Petcha]

we have video evidence of "the other" corbyn removing those, stop blaming the angelic TFL for this

Well they've also stopped the tannoy announcements asking people to wear masks. I doubt 'the other corbyn' controls those

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

Well they've also stopped the tannoy announcements asking people to wear masks. I doubt 'the other corbyn' controls those

That's what HE wants you to think...

 

[Supine]

I’m starting to respect the people who don’t need to wear masks but still put one on their chin. Not sure what they are trying to achieve but hey.

 

[8ball]

I was in hospital the other day and there were a couple of ‘under the nosers’ among the staff. If I’d been in charge of that A&E there would have been harsh words at the very least.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

The nose jobs are basically taking this piss and are worse than people who simply don't wear masks.

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

The nose jobs are basically taking this piss and are worse than people who simply don't wear masks.

I suppose you could always use nice nose job as a snidey comment

 

[iona]

I saw a new variation recently - mask on over nose but pulled up above the mouth so the wearer could smoke a cigarette

 

[wtfftw]

I'm pleased to report that nursery drop off and pick up are still at 95% compliance. The parent bulletin no longer mentions masks so I thought more wouldn't.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

A brief trip to Westfield White City yesterday (where masks are now just "suggested" - not that there was ever full compliance anyway that I remember, though plenty of time to hassle me for taking photos on my phone ) suggested fairly low mask-wearing in the main areas, 10-20% maybe, though for an indoor space it's unusually huge and well-ventilated, and no particular reason to hang around.

Might have been better inside shops. I only went into Waterstones to pick up a book I ordered and all the customers there were wearing masks.