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New thread mash up title hope ok

re masks.

@TheOrchidKiller, I think the expression your mum is looking for is jazz it up If that helps.

'Downing Street has said it does not expect members of the public to report people not wearing masks in shops from Friday due to voluntary take-up of the policy.
Voluntary? What the fuck does this mean? It's as clear as mud. Is this a thinly disguised "it's not actually law"?

For my rare visits to shops (if I make them at all), I shall be wearing my visor: I intend to resist the muzzles as much as I possibly can.

At least the severe distress exemption is still there, which is great for those who need it.

The shops seemed busier today. Not sure if it was a last minute splurge. I know that’s why I was there.

What utter nonsense yet again.
It's mandatory but it's voluntary at the same time.
We will fine but we wont fine.

Bojo is more wishy washy than Charlie Brown is!

@ButterMeCrumpets

The only way this will change if the shops see and collectively complain about a lack of customers.

I noticed on another thread about wandering round the shops how some people had been and were saying how lovely and quiet it was. If it's "lovely and quiet" now without masks (probably mainly due to how incredibly dismal going shopping is just lately) we will surely find out next week whether all the mask wearers are now going to go out and bring the high street back to life. I sadly do not think that will be the case.

The frothers won't like seeing the word 'voluntary' I suspect they've panicked about people boycotting shops but don't want to back down from saying they'd make it law so they've brought in a new law but won't actually use it.

@Orangeblossom78 Are you allowed to use the changing rooms in your pool? I looked at going swimming again but because there's no changing rooms, showers or lockers I'm not going anytime soon. I'm undecided on whether to take DS when lessons start up again. Technically he's still young enough I could strip him in public so he can go home dry. There's no way I'll be putting his dry clothes on over his wet swim stuff in winter.

I've been to the farm shop. It was very busy. Virtually no one in a mask. We're going to m&s food shortly where I won't be wearing one either. Glad cafes are exempt. At least we can support the economy that way.

I noticed on another thread about wandering round the shops how some people had been and were saying how lovely and quiet it was. If it's "lovely and quiet" now without masks (probably mainly due to how incredibly dismal going shopping is just lately) we will surely find out next week whether all the mask wearers are now going to go out and bring the high street back to life. I sadly do not think that will be the case.

Given the amount of vitriol about everyone not wearing masks they bloody better get out there and prop the high street up.

I will be doing my bit for restaurants and pubs where I can legally sit with my full face on show

Given the amount of vitriol about everyone not wearing masks they bloody better get out there and prop the high street up

Indeed - I might start a thread next week about the lack of people in masks shopping on the high street and aren't they terrible for not saving the economy as well as saving lives.

Indeed - I might start a thread next week about the lack of people in masks shopping on the high street and aren't they terrible for not saving the economy as well as saving lives.

Dooooooo it...

Went to the top of the Great Orme was in a bloody big cloud, very damp. The park was still chained up despite the council saying that from today all parks would be open. There was another family there so we hopped over the fence too. It was a pretty miserable experience for them. They were cold and wet as were the rides from the mist.

Dropped the kids off the three year old was such hard work today the poor little man needs structure in his life.

Just been into my local town. Morrison’s car park was full which it hasn’t been for ages. Very few people wearing masks. It definitely felt a bit ‘storm before the calm’.

Well, hopefully all those shouting loudly for mandatory masks in shops will be out there spending for the rest of us after tomorrow.

@BellaintheWychElm

Given the amount of vitriol about everyone not wearing masks they bloody better get out there and prop the high street up

Indeed - I might start a thread next week about the lack of people in masks shopping on the high street and aren't they terrible for not saving the economy as well as saving lives.

Oh do it!

If i was brave I would start a thread saying how marvellous it was that mask wearing is now voluntary and no fines are being issued. Plus how great it was of Bojo to remind people to stop bring fecking tattletales stazi and not to report people not wearing them.🤣🤣🤣

Think MN might explode though!

Do these dementors not work/have jobs. Are they staying at home, having everything delivered, do they not need to go out into the real world at all?

I think they think if 'they' have to go out its ok but everyone else is a selfish disease carrier for not staying inside just for 'them'.
Another common train of thought i noticed is that it's ok for every one else to work to keep their head above water and to provide services for the dementors but it's toooooo risky for them to go out among all those disease ridden plebs. Going out to work for 'them' is ok for anything else is purely selfish.

Newcastle was much busier, this morning, than it was 3 weeks ago. Had a splurge in John Lewis, dropped off ds2's school polo shirts that he was on the verge of outgrowing 4 months and 3 inches ago in the school uniform bank that had been set up in the shopping centre and wandered around Fenwick, looking at recliners. Fenwick had the most nonsensical one way system that just converged at a point rather than leading you around the store. I gave up and stuck to the carpeted areas :o

If mask wearing does put people off shopping, I can imagine it being the death knell for intu, given that people can't even pull their mask aside for a gulp of cooler air, in between shops.

It occurred to me that dental floss sales must have gone through the roof, mind. I know I'm extra careful to make sure I don't have any of my breakfast left festering before I put a mask on!

@BamboozledandBefuddled
"Those not wearing their masks properly over both mouth and nose will be "advised as to the right and safest way to wear a face mask"

O-kaaayy. Let's see how that goes, shall we?

If they're going to issue warnings before issuing fines for not wearing masks, how many warnings do you get before the fine?

Will there be Mask Awareness Courses like they do Speed Awareness Courses?

If you get caught wearing a chin hammock are you marched to the back room of the shop by Security & forced to watch Chris Witty videos?

I can imagine it now, turning up at a Mask Awareness Course, everyone introducing themselves one by one, " I only nipped out for milk, I'd left the mask behind by accident," and the instructor spitting, "Milk? Didn't you have any cheese you could use? There's no such thing as accidents, only carelessness!" Before showing the socially-distanced group photos of ventilators.

LOL at the mask awareness course. I'm feeling quite down & it cheered me up no end.

Masks still pretty thin on the ground in our town today

[quote TheOrchidKiller]@BamboozledandBefuddled
"Those not wearing their masks properly over both mouth and nose will be "advised as to the right and safest way to wear a face mask"

O-kaaayy. Let's see how that goes, shall we?[/quote]
It conjures up some lovely images!

Anyone use Intu shopping centres? If so, and you're exempt from wearing a muzzle, then you have to report to a security guard, who will escort you to customer services where you will be issued with a badge to wear. The only possible response to that is 'Go fuck yourself'.

I really want to go on a Mask Awareness Course!

bakingcupcakes Yes the changing rooms will be open, and the showers, but they are asking us to come 'swim ready' with costume on. Which makes no sense really as need to change afterwards. hey ho

Do these dementors not work/have jobs. Are they staying at home, having everything delivered, do they not need to go out into the real world at all?

Makes me think of this I saw today...

"Britain’s upper-middle-class professionals cannot believe their luck. They have, once again, emerged as the great winners from a crisis: ensconced in spare rooms, they are coping so well with the Zoom economy that they want to make it the new normal."
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/07/22/home-working-revolution-will-derail-middle-class-gravy-train/

Bath is still fairly maskless, apart from a few and some wheely riding teenage bikers in the main street (like yesterday, being very showy off with their mask wearing)

@LadyOfTheImprovisedBath

British pupils 'struggled to continue learning at home

One-in-three women said the situation was negatively affecting their own well-being, compared with one in five men.

Some 43% of home-schooling parents said their children's well-being was being negatively impacted by the experience.

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While nearly a third of working parents said the requirement to home school had been negatively affecting their job.

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A separate report by the ONS, found women were bearing the brunt of the home schooling experience, with women tending to carry out more educational and caring tasks during lockdown.

None of that was a surpise to me.

The Office for National Statistics research found that of the 52% who struggled, three-quarters of parents gave a lack of motivation as a reason.

My chidlren are highly motivated to learn but pointless filler work and poorly thought through tasks with bad instructions, no marking and feedback and in many case no work - did demotivate them.

“Pointless filler work and... “

You have articulated perfectly my feelings. My kids suck up knowledge like sponges. 2 minutes on sumdog doesn’t cut it.