Will you continue using a face mask after 19 July?

[Orang Utan]

I forget i’m wearing mine and leave it on when i’ve left shops n that. sometimes don’t realise i haven’t taken it off when i get to my apartment block and look for my mask to put on until i get to my flat door

 

[zora]

I'm a bit pissed off at just having come down with my first mystery something since spring last year. I guess it was bound to happen sometime...
BUT I do feel resentful because I still have greatly reduced personal contacts, have still not been in an indoor pub/restaurant/theatre whatever, so can only imagine I picked it up in my retail job. Mask wearing, as encouraged by the company, started off really high, but is now down to about 50% among customers, and what's worse is the amount of customers who think nothing of coming in for a leisurely browse while having a streaming 'cold' and still don't wear a mask! Argh!

 

[krtek a houby]

Tory party conference doesn't appear to be wearing masks or doing social distancing, lots of embraces and kisses.

 

[Miss-Shelf]

My colleague has just returned to work after having covid in August Hospitalised for 2 weeks despite being double jabbed

Renewed my sense that we are not out of a potential crisis yet

 

[Badgers]

Tory party conference doesn't appear to be wearing masks or doing social distancing, lots of embraces and kisses.

Hope

 

[krtek a houby]

Hope

A New Hope

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Tsar wars.

 

[Sasaferrato]

Still wearing a mask, carrying sanitiser and staying away from shops.

Last might I realised that I can count my shop visits since this began on two hands. I even use a petrol station where you can pay at the pump, applying sanitiser after doing so.

 

[kalidarkone]

I'll probably get grief for this but in short, as of Friday, I've given up wearing masks in shops. Practically no one else is. Transport, taxis, sure, will and have continued, no problem.

But with cases unlikely to go much lower for the foreseeable, I've arrived at, well if I don't stop wearing one now, when will I. It's only a face covering type I've got and yes could protect other people if I'm asymptomatic but when does that line of thinking end. Next year, 2 years down the line, never...

I'm quite happy and prepared to continue wearing a mask in shops and public transport for ever on the off chance that I may be protecting others.
I dont think wearing one is a big deal at all and I don't give a shit if others are wearing them or not.

 

[klang]

Tory embraces and kisses.

 

[gentlegreen]

Tesco this morning was probably 70 percent unmasked ...
There must surely be thousands of people repeatedly catching and spreading virus in their upper-repiratory tract - just waiting for their immunity to fail ...

 

[klang]

if I don't stop wearing one now, when will I

I was gonna stop wearing a mask but missed a good moment, so I'm stuck with one now.

 

[Sasaferrato]

I'm quite happy and prepared to continue wearing a mask in shops and public transport for ever on the off chance that I may be protecting others.
I dont think wearing one is a big deal at all and I don't give a shit if others are wearing them or not.

IIRC mask wearing in public places in Japan has been a thing for a long time.

 

[krtek a houby]

IIRC mask wearing in public places in Japan has been a thing for a long time.

Sure has. Flu season etc. Also a common courtesy thing. Nobody wailing about their freedoms during the pandemic. Apart from rich/alt right Americans here.

 

[nosos]

I've heard more and more people describe being hassled (to varying degrees) for wearing a mask.

 

[nosos]

We've been toying with the idea of leaving the rainy fascist island for a while now & if anything tips me over the edge it's going to be mask politics.

It's just so fucking infantile, for lack of a better word, to be unable to get used to a mild inconvenience in order to protect others. The scary thing is how widespread the misunderstanding seems to be that everyday mask wearing (at least with cloth or surgical masks) is about protecting the wearer rather than the wearer protecting others.

 

[existentialist]

We've been toying with the idea of leaving the rainy fascist island for a while now & if anything tips me over the edge it's going to be mask politics.

It's just so fucking infantile, for lack of a better word, to be unable to get used to a mild inconvenience in order to protect others. The scary thing is how widespread the misunderstanding seems to be that everyday mask wearing (at least with cloth or surgical masks) is about protecting the wearer rather than the wearer protecting others.

This is how humanity will end. Convincing ourselves that, just because we desire that a certain thing be so, it will.

 

[Orang Utan]

I was so desperate to get some fresh air today that I forgot my mask in the rush to get out. So I had to do Boots and Sainsbury’s maskless, with my t- shirt over my nose. Not effective and now the t-shirt is unwearable. It seemed that there weren’t many masked folk in public when I had the mask on earlier this week, but today when I was didn’t have one, EVERYONE ELSE was wearing a mask, including two dogs.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

I was so desperate to get some fresh air today that I forgot my mask in the rush to get out. So I had to do Boots and Sainsbury’s maskless, with my t- shirt over my nose. Not effective and now the t-shirt is unwearable. It seemed that there weren’t many masked folk in public when I had the mask on earlier this week, but today when I was didn’t have one, EVERYONE ELSE was wearing a mask, including two dogs.

You need to wear polo t-shirts. They don’t stretch.

 

[Orang Utan]

You need to wear polo t-shirts. They don’t stretch.

aye, I have some, not just today

 

[Magnus McGinty]

aye, I have some, not just today

I stopped wearing anything but because the others stretch. No idea how I cause it though but I do.

 

[Sasaferrato]

I was so desperate to get some fresh air today that I forgot my mask in the rush to get out. So I had to do Boots and Sainsbury’s maskless, with my t- shirt over my nose. Not effective and now the t-shirt is unwearable. It seemed that there weren’t many masked folk in public when I had the mask on earlier this week, but today when I was didn’t have one, EVERYONE ELSE was wearing a mask, including two dogs.

Masks are still mandatory in Scotland, however, there seems to be a dropping level of compliance.

 

[Orang Utan]

I stopped wearing anything but because the others stretch. No idea how I cause it though but I do.

street fighting probs - all that chest-beating and pant-hooting is very wearing on cotton

 

[Magnus McGinty]

street fighting probs - all that chest-beating and pant-hooting is very wearing on cotton

You don’t like people who you consider beneath you. We get it mate.

 

[Orang Utan]

You don’t like people who you consider beneath you. We get it mate.

says considerablyharderthanyow.


(he went to Sherbourne, newbies )

 

[Magnus McGinty]

says considerablyharderthanyow.


(he went to Sherbourne, newbies )

I’ve never claimed to be tough which would be frankly ridiculous because I’m not.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

looks at clock

(Sorry for nicking your line Pickman’s)

 

[Orang Utan]

I’ve never claimed to be tough which would be frankly ridiculous because I’m not.

oh good. cos I thought you were dead hard and proper tidy in a fight. i have no idea how i got that impression

 

[Magnus McGinty]

oh good. cos I thought you were dead hard and proper tidy in a fight. i have no idea how i got that impression

Me neither. Where did you get that impression?

 

[Orang Utan]

Me neither. Where did you get that impression?

I have no idea.