ADs, Corvids and the sequacious masses

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No more leisurely shopping trips anymore. Masks suck any last part of it being enjoyable away.

As PP said this will save me money in the long term and with the economy tanking that's probably a good thing just incase something happens to my job.

It will be interesting if shops see a change in footfall once they become mandatory. I wonder what they will do if those that scream for masks still find an excuse to not venture out and those that hate them stop shopping in person.

We always fly first class as we want the flight to be part of the holiday experience. We actually have cancelled our long haul flight when they introduced masks and wouldn't dream of spending thousands for that experience so it does change behaviour but not always in the way they want.

@torydeathdrug Yes, Greta's silence is deafening, isn't it, about the environmental waste of masks, and lots of them ending up in the sea? Perhaps she has been muzzled. The only things I've heard her say since Covid have been "I believe I've caught the virus" and "the world should have tackled climate change with the same urgency".

I hope that they don't "clarify" the rules to exclude visors, because that's the least offensive compromise I'm prepared to wear; apart perhaps from a Scream mask. If I was a motorcyclist (which I'm not), I'd wear a crash helmet in the shops, and they would not be able to ask me to remove it.

@bakewelltarts
Sorry couldn't tag you on the last thread. Was a bit late to the game.

After being in a queue for 4 and a half hours with TUI yesterday I got through and a lovely lovely woman sorted my holiday out, she was so patient and listened to me complaining (nicely...I never lose my temper with shop staff or call centre staff, my problems are not their fault) and she even gave me a few extras. Tbh I was amazed.

However I've not had my confirmation email yet and my old holiday is still on my app.....I'm hoping its a technical glitch and things have stopped going wrong and I can get excited about seeing my family again!!!

I'm absolutely gutted about the masks. I will now not be going shopping, ever, unless it's absolutely unavoidable. Online shopping only for me.

Amazon must be rubbing their hands with glee right now.

They're not going to introduce them in schools are they? I have a 4 year old due to start reception in September, I feel sick at the prospect of her being forced to wear one, honestly don't know what I'd do.

I can't deal with the "it's just common sense" comments from various idiots on my facebook feed. Not from where I'm standing it isn't, but I don't dare question any of this publicly anymore.

Looking at what the bbc Boris mouthpiece is saying, rules to follow the public transport ones - so under 11 exempt (which spares my kids at least) and hopefully the previous criteria if you can’t wear one.

My anxiety is such that now I’m going to start wearing a sunflower lanyard out - and I have never thought of myself as “disabled” and have ordered a “ can’t wear a mask” card as I am freaking the hell out so badly.

Regarding masks, like I said on the last thread I would wear one in the shops if it did away with the Social Distancing in them, after all, youre only supposed to wear them when social distancing cant be done. And it shops it can.

If they told us to wear masks but did away with the queuing for a hundred years to get "a few bits" from Sainsburys.....Id do that.

But Ill be fucked if I still have to do while queuing up like some fucking clown.

And no bloody "shaming" by the mask gestapo on Social Media. God I wish we could fine them......

Masks. So, if I'm understanding rightly:

It's lunchtime. Sit down for an hour and have a sandwich and a slice of cake in a cafe - crack on, no mask required and hey, here's £10 off as well.

OR: pop into Waitrose for 5mins to buy a sandwich and a packet of crisps to take back to the office - this is very very dangerous, and in case you accidentally breathe while you are in there, you must wear a mask.

I don't get it

Looked for the thinnest thing I can buy for a face covering that looks least like I’m angling for a job on Holby. It will be pointless, it is intentionally pointless.

Considering making myself a little lace crochet number with many passive aggressive holes.

There's nothing I want so much that I'm prepared to wear a stupid mask to get it.

This.

Im glad I bought some masks a while ago.

Prices will be insane.

I'm actually OK with masks if they then drop any social distancing in shops.

Any shop that insits on social distancing on top of the masks will not be getting my custom.

#nomasks

Found you! Oh well, I didn’t want to go shopping much anyway. But all this mask rubbish (literal and metaphorical) bodes very ill for singers. DD and DH both sing in choirs in normal times, and God knows when they might be able to do that again.

What worries me most is when we’re going to get any real freedom back. Freedom to, not freedom from...

It would be incredibly childish to buy one which says "fuck the Tories", wouldn't it?

Back to online shopping for me.

I feel sorry for the police. They are going to be inundated with 999 calls from the Dementor Stasi about people in shops who dont look disabled enough.

I think I’m going to get a guido fawkes V for vendetta mask and wear with sunglasses for those occasions I absolutely have to go to a shop.

@ProfessorRadcliffeEmerson

Found you! Oh well, I didn’t want to go shopping much anyway. But all this mask rubbish (literal and metaphorical) bodes very ill for singers. DD and DH both sing in choirs in normal times, and God knows when they might be able to do that again.

What worries me most is when we’re going to get any real freedom back. Freedom to, not freedom from...

Absolutely- no mention of when the restrictions might be lifted. I think the emergency laws are for 6 months?

Thats a great (depressing!) Cartoon.

Very depressed by the mask news and sad for what itll mean for my local high Street which had just started to open back up.

It also worries me a lot that all of the "masks aren't to protect you but others around you" messages will mean people who DO have symptoms/test positive will think it entitles them to venture out "oh its OK- I was coughing and sweating profusely but I was wearing a mask". Shambolic decision from a shambolic government.

So I've seem some Ds saying that now rates are going to drop 'dramatically'. Not much understand of exponential decay there unfortunately. When it continues to drop away, very very slowly, as it already was, will they feel quite so gleeful?

I feel numb.
Had a terrible night's sleep for various reasons.
Lay awake working out how many masks I'd need for a shopping trip by public transport, if I did it "properly" ie had a clean one for each time I touched it - because I'm darned if I'm wearing the same mask for the entire trip, including outside the shops.

SEVEN! Seven bloody masks. Which no one is going to do so it's pointless.

I respect the wishes of anyone who doesn't want to go shopping because of this. But I fear for the jobs of those who work in the shops if trade drops off.

And I doubt it will help my highly anxious DM get out & about as she's deaf and lip reads and has enough trouble as it is.

Right, I've stayed the fuck at home whilst also going out to do the keyworker job, I've not seen my family for months and I've been forced to buy takeaway tea in a plastic cup & drink it in the rain, all at 2m and while following pointless one-way systems. I'll even wear your masks in shops because my world has shrunk so much there are few places I can go now.

When would you like me to hop on one leg backwards?

When I finally fell asleep I had a dream about people taking liberties.

Rates locally fell 0.02% yesterday and will continue to fall. Not because of masks but because that is the behaviour exhibited by Covid 19.

Love that the media are still running with the bubonic plague propaganda too.

And also, bears shit in the woods, the Titanic has sank and the pope is indeed Catholic.....

Well that was depressing but inevitable I feel. For me a mask is the lesser of two evils, the other being having my freedom to go where I want restricted, but I understand why some people don’t want to or can’t wear one.

Checking in.

Morning all. I don't understand why Project Fear is still the aim. Are we just misguided fools on here?

Sky News headlines are all doom and gloom this morning. Vallance has commissioned a report saying 120,000 more deaths if we don't prepare properly for 2nd wave. (Well, duh, of course we prepare, doesn't mean it's going to happen). They've gone back to Bergamo where the locals are still afraid. The long term effect of getting the virus. It's all doom, doom, doom.

And yet we all talk on here about actual infection levels, treatment options, median death rate etc etc and I'm just not worried about Covid. Why are so many people, especially young healthy females on MN still so frightened?

I'm more interested to read the attached ONS figure re the true death figure, which Sky still puts a negative slant on, totally ignoring the fact that at one time didn't ONS say it was about 65k? The huge drop is because of excess deaths coming down or maybe the mask wearing does resurrect Zombie Grannies after all?!

Gah! I'm pissed off. And also sad for my boys who both work in a supermarket and so now presumably will be wearing masks or visors all day long. Poor sods.

Long time lurker on this thread. I am so annoyed this morning. Posted this on another mask thread.

That’s me not going out for the next god knows how long. I am very much an impulse buyer and love going for a mooch round the shops. I often spend a fair amount each time as well. We are going to Cornwall 1st week of August and I would always buy from local independent shops. Sadly it will be these shops that will suffer as I won’t bother. It’s a good job that I went out last weekend and ordered my new sofa and dining table from the local independent department store because if I had left it that would be £6k they would have lost.