AD's! Rishi needs you to Go Down For Your Town

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New thread. Do your civic duty.

I’m going to pick my ring tomorrow. Am I going to have to wear a fucking mask??

How are there ten pages of this thread already? I’ve had a lovely day being absolutely nowhere near the internet but it’s been spoiled by the BBC news flash on my phone that the government is considering making masks mandatory in shops... why?? Why now?

And I just won’t which means I won’t be going shopping at all and doing my civic duty by spending money I haven’t got 🤨

@Allflightscancelled, ours too. Totally non Dementor. An employee even opened up a new till for me .
I am also glad that I am not the only one who has lost their concentration ability. I am trying to regain it but it is very hard.

I had a feeling that masks might become mandatory in shops quite soon and ordered some off Amazon while they are cheap as a scarf will be a bit hot in Summer, I had to get some anyway as the hairdresser asked me to wear one. I hope we don’t have to wear them as it will put me off going to the shops even more than hand sanitiser and one way systems do, in HoF I spotted disposable gloves for if you wanted to touch stuff, it just sucks any joy out of shopping.

If mandatory masks come in for England I am definitely sticking to online shopping.

What about cafes do you think?

It would greatly reduce any fun shopping for me and just be used on essential trips to local co-op - would take the fun out of shopping.

I will wear a mask/covering on public transport
I will wear a mask/covering in medical settings

I refuse to do so in open air settings... beach/pavements/park etc
I refuse to do so in supermarkets where I'm not spending longer than a few seconds in contact with another person

I can see why masks in shopping centres might make sense. But, in all honesty, I would then avoid in-person shopping. My crush on Rishi responsibility to the economy only goes so far

@Orangeblossom78

What about cafes do you think?

This is why I want to bash my head against a wall.

You cannot wear a mask when eating or drinking in a cafe, pub or restaurant when you are naturally sat there for a long time.

Yet they want to mandate a mask for shopping when you aren't in there for as long.

@TheOrchidKiller

OH wants me to go out on the town for Rishi tonight. I'm afraid I have a headache.

Too tired following the black-&-yellow hazard tape someone has plastered down the centre of the corridors at work.

The corridors are no wider than the hallway of a standard Victorian semi, or our 1990s cardboard box house. There is no need to make two lanes out of the corridors, and no actual space to do it without making it look stupid. A colleague pointed out that we've spent 15 weeks -longer actually because we were doing social distancing before most places- being able to let each other pass in the corridors without tape. But as we are not allowed to use common sense, the building is slowly resembling an angry wasp.

The tape isn't sticking very well to the carpet tiles so the risk of tripping over it is much higher than inhaling covid off a passing body.

Also, only one person on the stairs at a time. Technically you can get one person on the bottom step & one on the top step and be more than 2m apart, but that's not allowed.

Cue much naughty behaviour this afternoon with people doing deliberately silly walks across the tape, & mock-shrieking, "DON'T WALK ON THE WRONG SIDE, YOU'LL DIE!"

The ADs were clearly in work today.

Side eyes at TheOrchidKiller, you don't work at the same place I do, do you?

Right, I'm going to the pub. Dc are at their dads. Fuck all this.

I'll be raising a glass to you all ❤️

I’m not too bothered about masks, I’d rather not wear one but if it’s a condition of doing things I want to do I will.

@Spudlet

Flaming exhausted here now. I’ve just cut out all the pieces of the dress I’m making. It’s a cocoon dress in olive linen. I’m shattered! Just (ahahahaas ‘just’!) got to see it together now... 😬 I forgot to buy interfacing at the sewing shop but frankly, I’m not sure I can go through all the rigmarole of trying to get in there again so I might see how it is without it... is that mad?

I am not making a mask to match it, you’ll be glad to hear.

I actually did make a mask, this afternoon. If I'm going to have to wear one on the bus, I at least want it to be reasonably pretty and not scratchy plastic.

My brain couldn't compute any of the online diagrams, so I used a scratchy plastic one to work out the dimensions.

@BarkandCheese

I’m not too bothered about masks, I’d rather not wear one but if it’s a condition of doing things I want to do I will.

I'm the same, it's not pleasant but I will do it (can understand why some don't want to though)

I feel like crying. Why do I feel like this? Why are my feelings on masks so strong?

I've done loads of reading. I can get my head around the arguments for and yet the thought of doing so makes me feel ill. Which makes me feel like I won't be going anywhere or doing anything unless I'm prepared to suck it up and wear one.

We can't be the only ones who feel like this surely? Rishi's plan is fucked if people refuse to go out if they've got to wear a mask.

When I started reading your posts, my heart rate went up!

Channeling Hamilton....

Raise a glass to freedom
Something that can never take away
No matter what they tell youuuuuuuuuu

@PickAChew I’ve made a few masks for various family members but matching them to my outfit is more than a few steps too far! I actually found making DHs really upsetting. He wanted the elastic round the back of his head instead of his ears so I was standing behind him tying to the right length. It really felt like I was muzzling him. It felt awful.

He then sent me a selfie in his mask and sunglasses, saying he felt ready for a riot, so he clearly wasn’t too affected by it all. But it felt downright dystopian! I don’t mind wearing one too much, but fitting one to someone else really unsettled me, for some reason.

I want to be alone too (finally caught up with thread)
I used to have the house to myself every once in a while, or when kids were asleep and DH was out for work or drinks or whatever
I miss it so much
I wish I could go to the pub or a restaurant by myself - I have absolutely no problem with this ever. But both kids are up my arse from 7am to 8pm all day, 7 days a week (DH is useless: separate issue).
My birthday present every year for the last 4 years has been a night alone at a hotel with spa, and dinner alone at the hotel restaurant. It is beyond amazing. No one talking at me, or to me, or screaming and bursting into tears or throwing food on the floor.... ah the bliss. If I can't happen next year I'll be distraught. I live for it every year and it's the only time DH has been in charge of the kids alone for more than 1hour.....

I hate face masks. But if it means I can resume normal life then I'll wear the frigging thing

I love shopping in person (and online).

But if face masks become mandatory - goodbye, high street, it was nice knowing you.

If there was concrete evidence in their favour, and the rules were applied consistently, then fair enough.

At the moment I can go and sit in a a pub or restaurant for hours, talking and laughing with people, and a mask is not necessary.

But a mooch around a shop, on my own, for 20mins, is so dangerous to everyone that I might have to wear a mask? Absolutely ridiculous.

We have to make anti-muzzle noises. I'm that Saint Boris "let this slip" to test the public reaction. So we need to "let slip" that we might spend less money if we are made to muzzle up.

@Blobby10my dd has a folding camper. She loves it. She had three nights away last weekend.
She saw a smaller one than hers for £350 a few weeks ago
Wonder if it’s gone now.
Hers is made by Conway

@Littlebelina

Side eyes at TheOrchidKiller, you don't work at the same place I do, do you?

I don't know. Went out of the building this morning to do my rounds as it were, came back & the tape, along with other visual aids to remind us how to walk in a straight line had suddenly appeared.

I guess there are many cramped buildings covered in novelty sticky tape at the moment.

@Blobby10
There’s one on eBay for £750
My dd can get it up and running in 20 minutes
Amazing
It’s light enough for her to tow herself and she often meets her mates about 10 mins down the road for a night of camping, catching up and gin
It’s the new clubbing..I think

I keep feeling tempted myself ..and then I think you have a perfectly good static caravan

@wanderings

We have to make anti-muzzle noises. I'm that Saint Boris "let this slip" to test the public reaction. So we need to "let slip" that we might spend less money if we are made to muzzle up.

I agree. What can we do? All those plans I had to hit the High St? Forget it! Email is a start I guess but they need to realise the strength of people's feelings on this matter.

I genuinely think it will totally reverse any tentative shoots the hospitality and retail sectors had started to see. I just won't go out and that will be true for so many people. All those cups of coffee, little odds and sods purchases mount up enormously.

Fucking book club is going to be a dementory nightmare. Wish me luck, I'll check in later