To think mask wearing is going to wear thin before long ?

[Boogiewoogiebugleboy]

I’ve already noticed people starting to flag in Scotland. In Tesco today I was bored shitless doing the weekly shop and counting 20 people with masks on Chins and under noses. Kids using them as hankies 🤢. I heard also the government might be advising glove wearing. I imagine this is going to start to become very impractical for some people and they’ll just not bother / or bother going out. My DH is exempt from mask wearing and he went out without today expecting some comments but not a peep from anyone! Also the one way aisles have been removed too meaning more folk all crammed in to a small space not socially distant. I overheard a couple saying “ what’s the point wearing masks when we are so close anyway?”

I’m sure there was more moaning about seatbelts being uncomfortable when first mandated. People adapt pretty fast.

Yeah I'm sick of it too. Already avoiding going out.

Stopped at a farm shop today to buy some veg, wouldn't let me in because I didn't have a mask... Can't see them keeping that up for long tbh - £20 profit just walking out the door

@Jojobar

I'm having to use a neck buff that I wear for walking and pull it up over my face. It's not that effective but I wear glasses and hearing aids and there's no room for mask straps too.

I usually manage ok without my hearing aids but rely on lip reading and can't do that anymore because everyone's wearing bloody masks! 😩

I don't believe for a second wearing a mask does any long term damage and I'm more than happy to be compliant because ffs if this is the least asked of me I have no reason to winge (before anyone tries to poor poor me you haven't suffered like I have ....both of us lost our jobs and our transport as it was a company car not to mention the impact on ds1 asd because of covid it's not exactly been a picnic but even so....it's a mask for God sake not a requirement for national service for 2 years).

However I do think there will be a transition period as it takes some getting used to. I was masked in a shop earlier bent down and become hugely light headed and was very close to passing out. I had to sit on the floor with head down etc. I suspect it's because I haven't got used to moderating my breathing slightly in a mask and had been in the shop for a good while.

It just means I'll do less visits and shorter until I've become accustomed. I won't disappear entirely but I do think people will moderate their visits more until they are used to it.

Asthmatic here. Steroidal and standard blue inhalers. Multiple bouts of pneumonia which was non responsive to normal treatment. Needed steroid courses.

I wear them.

So can you.

Please wear a mask, it's for everyone's safety, it's for the economy. I know it isn't pleasant, but many of the best things in life, which ARE worth doing, aren't.

Don't be dicks.

I’m hoping I will get more used to them as I still prefer to do my food shopping in supermarket rather than online
The disposable ones I’ve got at the moment are awful so hoping the ones I’ve ordered are more comfy when they come
I had to go to chemist today to collect a prescription for a friend and there was a long queue so had to take my glasses off as kept fogging up

No quite the opposite

We shall become more accustomed to wearing them

The virus isn’t going away and no vaccine just yet

And no one likes wearing a mask but we are in his situation we either do our best to help keep down the spread of the virus or we prioritise comfort (and this deluded notion of having our freedom curtailed)

We've been wearing them a lot this week as we are in holiday abroad and using public transport, plus visiting indoor attractions. It's 30 degrees, hot and sunny. But it's fine - everyone is just getting in with it. I have seen hardly any adults not using one indoors or on trains/teams - maybe these area doesn't have many exempt people. They've been wearing them longer than we have in France but no one seems to be flagging in their use, especially not after just one day

Children under 11/12 don't need to wear one anyway so even if they get bored of them it's not really an issue.

I really don't see why so many people in England are finding them such a big deal. Yes they feel odd at first but persevere and almost everyone will find they are perfectly capable of wearing a mask for a relatively short period of time whilst they shop or go on the bus.

What a load of freaking entitled, moaning twats. God forbid they had to actually endure anything genuinely traumatic. It's a freaking mask. Grow up. And people think the young are entitled snowflakes.

I do have asthma but don’t intend to use it as an exemption as can normally cope unless I get a chest infection too

I don't think there's much point, but if anything people will only get more arsy about it and start demanding we all wear masks on the park. People want to feel there's something about this situation they can control. The legislation is in force for 12 months, which tells you something.

This has been the argument all along. Peoples inability to be able to use them correctly (so not just wearing it in a shop but the handling of/storage/washing/knowing that they have to replace with a fresh one everytime they take it off, not just shove under the chin or unhook one ear) is just going to result in everyone coming down with every illness going due to all the germs they'll be plastering to the front of their face.

Exactly this. The thing is, effective mask-wearing only works if you’re literally popping to the corner shop for milk, or if you’re incredibly strong-willed and won’t fiddle with it, pull it up or down etc for the duration of an entire outing. You need to behave in quite a specific, self-aware way to make masks effective and sanitary and most people just aren’t capable of this in their daily lives.

We’re meant to be venturing out and about now, resuming some semblance of a normal life, which for most people means meeting friends, having coffee and meals out, popping into a shop because you like the look of something in the window - but properly hygienic mask-wearing and normal human behaviour don’t mix easily.

I haven't bought a mask and I don't intend to. I'm doing all my shopping online now

If you need to visit a doctor's, pick up a prescription or enter a hospital you'll need a mask. It's a bit silly not to have one in case you need it. Also your internet might go down and you've run out of food.

I have one with wire along the nose but I can’t afford loads of those masks.

The ones from 'designers' in Boots are only 3 for £15 and they have the nose wire in. They wash well and seem pretty durable so far. We are using them with sunglasses and not getting the steamed up issue like we did with the other ones.

I feel so claustrophobic wearing a mask due to being sexually attacked. I hate my mouth and nose covered

I can absolutely sympathise with this. If you have been attacked, and had a hand forced over your face, suffocating you, I imagine the flashback effect will be terrifying. You are one of the minority who will physically not be ablate cope with a mask.

Most people, however, can wear them if they make the effort.

I can not believe yen amount of morning and winging about mask wearing amongst those who have no valid reason not to wear one.

It's simple- those of us who can wear a mask should do so in order to help reduce the spread of coronavirus.

Those who can't, don't need to and should be in the minority if everyone else just gets on with it.

Non mask wearers without a valid reason show themselves as selfish.

Of course it's a bit tricky but it's really not that bad, certainly not bad enough to warrant all this pearl clutching and drama.

Thank goodness medical staff and other people on the gong line haven't taken this attitude.

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*able to, not ablate

@SmileyClare

Really xxx
Thank you

To everyone saying that there is no excuse, and if you are too ill to wear one you should not be out anyway, please just think for a moment. I can, off the top of my head, think of a whole list of reasons that might mean you can't wear a mask but still be well enough to go out:

With someone who lip reads,
PTSD causing a panic attack if your face is covered,
asthma,

autism causing a meltdown due to the sensory overload of wearing the mask
Skin conditions that make it painful to have something on your face,
arthritis in your hands that makes putting one on and off impossible
And many many other conditions that I have never even heard of.

So while I agree that there is a need for masks, there also needs to be many many exemptions, and anyone claiming they can't think of any reasons is either very thick or closed minded, or so lacking in empathy that its frightening.

"but if you are not wearing a mask for whatever reason, it's up to you to stay well away from other people. If you decide to come close to people, they are perfectly entitled to tell you off."

Everyone should be social distancing It's not ok to come too close to people mask or no mask.

I'm in Spain on holiday and its.so stifling wearing one out here In this heat. A lot don't wear them or just have them round their necks, arms, etc. Theres also zero social distancing, trains are full,
and no one way system in supermarkets. For a country that completely shut down they've certainly opened back up very wrong!

Last one.

Sorry I don't know how to reply to individual posters but have you tried disposable ones? I have been wearing re usable material ones and found them very hot and suffocating, I get on much better with the disposable ones,