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i often type face masks into the Twitter search engine. To see whats going on...................
Tonight i found this. I think its meant to be a parody.

twitter.com/andrewlawrence/status/1285171360139026432?s=20

I’ve driven through the Mont Blanc tunnel - think I held my breath the entire way - don’t say I don’t know how to minimise risk! 😁 from what I remember you’re staggered so there are big gaps between each vehicle - although I think this was 2005 or so, so it may have all changed.

[quote HeIenaDove]i often type face masks into the Twitter search engine. To see whats going on...................
Tonight i found this. I think its meant to be a parody.

twitter.com/andrewlawrence/status/1285171360139026432?s=20[/quote]
Love it - can we invite him to join us.

Interesting point in that video Helena. My village shopkeeper says he gets an adrenaline rush every time a man walks through the door in a mask... used to own a shop in Glasgow and was robbed and severely beaten three times by men coming in wearing masks. He’s not enforcing masks.

I love my skull jaw mask but I will never wear it unless everything else about me is quite clear that I am female and not young.

I would never dream of wearing it with jeans and a hoodie (even though I wear jeans and a hoodie) with dark glasses and the hood up. I am not a threat and I really would not want anyone to think I am.

Haven't watched the video yet as can't put sound on right now, but I thought a couple of days ago about the several many really quite nasty young lads I've taught over the years who would have been absolutely delighted with the masks situation. They'd have be revelling in having a legitimate reason to have their faces covered while throwing stones at cars, shouting abuse at passers by, shop lifting, etc. If mask wearing is still a thing in the autumn when the evenings are darker then anti social behaviour is going to go through the roof.

We have a Co Op here on the outskirts that is always in the local paper because its been done over. Im willing to bet they arent keen either.

Oh Christ yes. Halloween then so called Mischief Night.

@IAintentDead

I love my skull jaw mask but I will never wear it unless everything else about me is quite clear that I am female and not young.

I would never dream of wearing it with jeans and a hoodie (even though I wear jeans and a hoodie) with dark glasses and the hood up. I am not a threat and I really would not want anyone to think I am.

There’s a young lad round here has one and dd2 thinks it’s bloody hilarious every time she sees him. Howls of laughter at it as it has a “silly smile”

@mascotte Bon Voyage!

Rightio I'm officially just staying on this thread.....

Just bobbed onto one about flying where one poster keeps saying stuff like "you've looked at the risk of you catching it but what about the risk of you passing it on?"

YOU HAVE TO CATCH IT BEFORE YOU CAN PASS IT ON!!!! So surely if you've taken enough steps to prevent the first risk, the second will take care of itself?

Then there's "we are at the height of a pandemic" No we aren't.

Then there are the "120k people will die of covid in the winter, Valance said so" but the info Valance was using estimated 1,300 or 75,000 or 120,000?Quite a big fucking range there wouldn't you say?!

Oh and can I add in
"I'm a nurse, no way would I (insert random activity)".
Oh well if a random nurse on the Internet says I shouldn't then I won't. Surely if she has been working on a full covid ward that would skew her perception of risk?

As an aside my sil was telling me the other day that her friend (who is a nurse) got signed off with PTSD halfway through the crisis. Not because of how bad it was, but because of how bad they kept drilling into her that it would get. She was constantly made to feel on the edge of an apocalypse. In reality her icu saw 11 people from March to July and the hospital in the main has been almost half empty.

The anxiety that that hospital put her (and I'm sure many others) through is just awful.

I know @LivinLaVidaLoki. I've just read another where the OP has said 'Given that the pandemic is still very much in full swing'. I just can't even be bothered to reply. How can they look at numbers (do they look at numbers) and believe that?

@Ibake

I know *@LivinLaVidaLoki*. I've just read another where the OP has said 'Given that the pandemic is still very much in full swing'. I just can't even be bothered to reply. How can they look at numbers (do they look at numbers) and believe that?

I just read that too and cane swiftly back here for some rational conversation

*came

I saw that one too @Ibake and just did a huuuuge eye roll.

The one who made the comment about "you've looked at the risk of you catching it but what about the risk of you passing it on" claims to be a doctor.

My first thought was "probably a geologist, or something random with a PhD"

@SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito You're right about the masks facilitating crime; criminals covering their faces is the oldest trick in the book. I'm sure Her Majesty's clowns (who didn't really want masks in shops, but became sheep) know this. Sooner or later we'll have a headline including the words "masked thugs"; maybe there might be a u-turn thereafter? (Clutches at straws)

I still can't see any legislation for masks in shops on the government website. I think they have sold us a pup. Say they are making masks mandatory knowing that the vocal judgy type people will take it into their own hand to police it. It also means they can drop it quickly or quietly as it's just guidance.

After Friday I am tempted to write to my MP and ask them for the link to the legislation if it doesn't appear.

Re the legislation I was wondering who is going to action giving out fines? The police have said its not them, shop staff aren’t the mask enforcers and many have been told not to ask customers, so who will it be?

If the legislation doesn't appear I guess there won't be any fines but people will be in 'fear' of fines as they have been told it will happen so will comply.

Helena's video has been a good start to the day.

"There's bugger all you can do about it" is going to be my plan for today.

DF asked just prior to the masks in shops announcement, what happens if someone goes into a bank wearing a mask & holding something gun-like in appearance (we reckoned a baguette in a carrier bag, held horizontally)? He was only half-joking.

@Worldgonecrazy "Oh, I didn't think of that", would be Boris's reply, if asked. And @ButterMeCrumpets has it spot on: the general public have already proved they're willing to do the enforcement job, just like they did with Easter eggs. The fines would be more paperwork than they're worth. I expect some members of staff will try to remind people; but they'll lose out both ways. If the member of staff is masked, the reply might be "sorry, I can't hear you with that mask on", and if they're not, the reply will be the predictable "why aren't you wearing a mask, then?".

I expect the police will make a token appearance in shopping centres on day one, like they did in the parks. To be honest, I don't think Her Majesty's clowns really care about the masks; they just brought them in to be seen to be doing something, as a token gesture to bribe the hypochondriacs back into the shops, and (I'm almost certain of this) to give the public something new to squabble about, now that "stay the fuck at home" and "clap for the NHS" are no longer useful for playing divide and conquer. Maybe it's so they can say "we did it to add mask-making to Britain's manufacturing industry", even if many of them are made in China.

One slightly positive mask making story - a teen girl in my town has been making them and selling over FB, she's made enough cash to fund her & her brother's Scouts trip to Somewhere Foreign (can't remember) for when it eventually goes ahead. Boris would love her - entrepreneurial spirit and so on. I still hate the masks but good on her I guess!

Yikes, @Ibake - according to this there appears to be a cluster of cases in the area where my teenage nephew had his (totally non socially distanced) 18th birthday party, just over 3 weeks ago. Hopefully a total coincidence, and it was a great party.