Do you struggle with wearing a mask in shops?

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I've always struggled with having to wear a mask and feel like I'm suffocating although I'm fully aware that I won't. I get anxiety attacks and my anxiety is based around feeling too hot and not being able to get enough fresh air.

Last couple of weeks have been a real struggle. Anybody else feel like this? I wonder how much longer we're going to have to keep wearing them.

Those who say 'I don't wear a mask', out of interest are you exempt or do you just not want to wear one?

If you are struggling and panicking why do you keep wearing them? Read the exemption list - you are exempt.

No, I do not struggle. Next!

Wouldn't call it a struggle, but yeah a nuisance otherwise -- face sweats, specs fog up, can't hear people, people seem to not hear me clearly, can't see as well.

Well how do you think the poor shop staff feel ?
At least as customers you are only required to wear them for a short while.

Yes, I absolutely hate them. My glasses steam up and I've tried every spray, wipe suggested. I just hate them. Fortunately I haven't needed to wear a mask at work.

Plenty of staff don’t wear masks. Their face, their business.

No

I hate wearing one, just sweat buckets and my nose runs. I wear one all the time at work and caught covid during the first lockdown whilst wearing one. I avoid shopping as much as possible and just use online as do a lot of people I know.

Masks are not optional where I live. Millions of people manage to wear them everywhere, including me.

No.

@7Worfs

If you are struggling and panicking why do you keep wearing them? Read the exemption list - you are exempt.

I don't in shops anymore. I realised how much I'd been struggling when they got rid of them in July so haven't gone back to them. I have to wear them if I leave my work area at work, my manager is insisting on official proof that doesn't exist.

No it doesn't. I have to wear a mask, visor and PPE all day at work in the NHS and I just have to get on with it. No point moaning all the time.

Your manager is uninformed, and worse, a little totalitarian cunt.
Having grown up in an actual totalitarian regime, I have very little time for its sweeping advancement in the West.

No, but I do get a really itchy nose!

Yes, if I’m wearing glasses as they steam up ☹️

I have hearing loss so it makes communication extremely difficult at times. But I wear one and persevere to protect others.

I've not been wearing one and no one has said anything to me.

I don't wear one, they are a waste of time. I have a deaf friend who relies partly on lip reading and she is finding mask wearing a nightmare.
I smiled at a child yesterday who smiled back, that is how things should be imo.

@7Worfs

Your manager is uninformed, and worse, a little totalitarian cunt. Having grown up in an actual totalitarian regime, I have very little time for its sweeping advancement in the West.

Yes, I agree. I tried saying no official exemption existed in England and I was told that I wasn't exempt then.

No, I don't struggle at all, since you ask. I wear a mask when in public and at work, as I want to protect those around me. It would be selfish not to.

I work in retail and have to wear one all day, no problem but a pain with glasses steamed up all the time when trying to work. There is a fortune to be made if anyone can find a solution that works!
Personally I have no issues with customers choosing not to wear one for whatever reason, I may feel differently if I was sharing a home with anyone vulnerable however.

I stopped wearing masks ages ago - I'm triple jabbed. It felt so liberating not to wear masks any more. I've never been asked why, neither has DH.

Nope. I wear them at work and in shops, with glasses and I don't have any issue with it. If anything, I find my asthma is much better outdoors in the winter if I wear them.

Shops I usually find not too bad, as the time is limited. It's work I find more of a problem. Glasses fogging is an issue, and I also find I get terrible dry mouth and nose.

We've also recently been given new masks at work, they are very thick and tight, and I really find they make me feel awful. Headaches and like it is an effort to breath. If I didn't need the money I might think about taking a leave of absence.