Wearing masks everywhere indoors is so depressing

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AIBU to feel frustrated and, at times, a bit upset that I can’t really do anything indoors now, either on my own or with my kids, without wearing a god damn face mask? I’ve just about been able to tolerate wearing them whilst food shopping but that’s because I now take a lot of time to write out a list and meal plan beforehand and I get in and get out, as opposed to before, when I took the time to browse, picked out what I fancied, and maybe tried on some clothes whilst there. I can cope with this ok but what is depressing me is that my ds is desperate to go to a few indoor places like the trampoline park (our local one has strict guidelines in hygiene social distancing and staggering sessions) and I’ll take him but the thought of sitting there for an hour and a half opposite my dh trying to talk to him with a mask on or watching my ds play and he can’t hear me because of the mask, well it fills me with dread. I had a cinema pass which i’ve has for years but I’ve already cancelled It as there is no way I can sit for up to 3 hours with a mask on, it would be unbearable. Every day out we go on that is predominantly outdoors but have some indoor areas I’ll have to remember to take masks with me. If I nip to post a letter, pick up my medication, go into a public car park to get my car after work I have to wear a mask. I expect to be told I’m moaning but I can’t help it. I fully resent the fact that I am being told to cover my face and I have no choice in the matter. Please tell me I’m not the only one.

Somebody (I think in the 1950s) said that there would be no need to create a Stasi in England - the English people enjoyed condemning, censoring and snitching on their neighbours so much they would happily do it without being paid.

'Nobody's saying they WON'T wear a mask. Many people are saying that they DON'T LIKE wearing a mask.

Or do we have to pretend that we like things that we don't now? hmm'

Fair enough. I don't enjoy it either - or many things about 2020.

But for an answer as to why some of us may sometimes get unfairly snappy on these issues - look up Toby Young and his horrible Lockdown Sceptics' dating agency. Or don't, if you don't want to feel sick, as yet another health hazard of 2020!

'However would people survive the deprivations of a world war. '

We wouldn't. I'm very pro-mask, but no mask would save us from nuclear radiation!

Maybe some insects would survive.

Best just not to have a world war.

YABU. If you already find it hard to breath with a mask on, you'll likely find it really hard to breath with Coronavirus.

Yep, this

Coronavirus not only kills, it leaves behind damage in its wake, even to young, healthy people. It's no joke. Masks keep you from propelling aerosol droplets of the virus through the air. So taking off a mask and putting it back on is not a huge deal. If the mask captures particles of coronavirus that you sneeze out, it has served its purpose. It also has some protective effects.

Having a poo is kind of depressing too, but some things you just have to do because not to is worse.

@JuniperFather

Anything constructive you’d like to add other than quoting my whole post?

I think eventually the government will realise that mask wearing is severly inhibiting people's willingness to shop, visit indoor attractions etc and hence spend money. For economic reasons the requirement will be dropped fairly quickly.

My beef with the masks is not the things themselves, but the government mandating what we put on our bodies - this is a slippery slope, and an alarming precedent. When I do visit shops (which is now rare) I wear a visor.

@jgjgjgjgjg I hope so. I am emailing retail organisations and head offices of shops I would be visiting explaining why I'm not visiting actual shops at the moment, so that my displeasure is on record. (I'll start on emailing MPs after the schools have gone back.) If Her Majesty's Clowns change it from "compulsory" to "strongly recommended" in shops, I'll gladly go and out and spend; meanwhile I will not be a pawn in Boris's Game of Fear.

I think eventually the government will realise that mask wearing is severly inhibiting people's willingness to shop

It will be interesting to see the stats (if possible - since it would be hard to know if lower shopping levels was related to mask wearing or just concern about the virus in general).

On one side you have people who don't like masks claiming that huge swathes of people will be staying at home just to avoid wearing one and potentially causing economic collapse, but on the other side you have mask supporters claiming that everybody will feel safer with masks being mandatory and that they are now all going to go out and save the economy.

Both are clearly extremely biased, so it would be good to get some actual evidence one way or the other eventually.

I was in Stratford Westfield today (briefly) and I have never seen so many people wearing masks in such an ineffectual way - there is no way most people will ever wear them properly. No way mass making wearing is stopping anything, the British public just do not and will never use them properly.

No you can't talk on your phone whilst wearing a mask!

And a double yes to the post about the Stasi upthread.

"YABU. If you already find it hard to breath with a mask on, you'll likely find it really hard to breath with Coronavirus."

Covid full house bingo card full!

When I do visit shops (which is now rare) I wear a visor

Genuine question - why? They're great at stopping stuff reaching your eyes, but don't stop your exhalations at all (or prevent other people's reaching your nostrils. I hope you are keeping no minimum of 2m away from people

@wanderings

My beef with the masks is not the things themselves, but the government mandating what we put on our bodies - this is a slippery slope, and an alarming precedent. When I do visit shops (which is now rare) I wear a visor.

@jgjgjgjgjg I hope so. I am emailing retail organisations and head offices of shops I would be visiting explaining why I'm not visiting actual shops at the moment, so that my displeasure is on record. (I'll start on emailing MPs after the schools have gone back.) If Her Majesty's Clowns change it from "compulsory" to "strongly recommended" in shops, I'll gladly go and out and spend; meanwhile I will not be a pawn in Boris's Game of Fear.

You must be joking..... You are a troll, right?

Gov is not mandating what we wear on our bodies for their own pleasure or some twisted sense of humour. It's for HEALTH reasons.

Could you please also include in those emails that you will be writing that you find it appalling that we have to wear clothes when we go outside? Gov should not make it mandatory to wear clothes when going outside, as it is a restriction of our personal freedom! Please also include that you feel entitled to:

• go naked wherever you want
• spread whatever virus you want on whoever, regardless that you might cause these people to die or just be seriously ill
• be an idiot.

@CausingChaos2

I suffer from postural orthostatic tachycardia so standing up makes me feel faint, dizzy and breathless at the best of times. I wonder whether I would be exempt but can’t face getting abuse off strangers for not wearing one. I was quizzed at a hospital when I wasn’t wearing one - IMO if people aren’t wearing a mask they shouldn’t have to explain themselves to strangers.

Consequently I’m going out as little as possible for necessities like food shopping and not doing any shopping or browsing otherwise.

I have dysautonomia too and orthostatic hypotension and intolerance. I have an oxygen saturation of 90% which is now dropping to 83% at times - wearing a mask has no impact on me at all. In fact, I'm having respiratory physio as part of the management of dysautonomia and that's to help me tolerate the feeling of air hunger. I have to pinch my nose and hold it for as long as possible and then teach myself to breathe normally when I release my nose rather than take in a deep breath.

It's for HEALTH reasons. So Boris says. And of course, being the prime minister, he always tells the gospel truth.

So Boris says. And of course, being the prime minister, he always tells the gospel truth

You realise the advice to wear them is coming from a lot more people than just Boris?

In this horrible hot muggy weather it's diabolical. But still wearing them.

I'm wearing them for the bare minimum amount of time. I went to a garden centre yesterday, put it on to walk through the store and took it off again as soon as I was looking at plants. There's no way I'm going to a shopping centre and having to wear it the whole time I'm out.

Hearhooves Glad that you haven’t been affected by wearing a mask. Genuinely. But I hope the subtext to your post isn’t that just because you aren’t impacted, no one else can be.

No you can't talk on your phone whilst wearing a mask!

Eh?

@CausingChaos2

Hearhooves Glad that you haven’t been affected by wearing a mask. Genuinely. But I hope the subtext to your post isn’t that just because you aren’t impacted, no one else can be.

No, my answer was to show that having POTS doesn't mean you can't wear one.

Ah, so you are trying to dictate who is affected.

I don't think we can ever reach agreement between those iof us against masks and others for them. Hopefully it will all pass as I suspect a lot of people are not shopping as masks are so awful. Supermarkets by the way make least profits of all sectors of their work from home shopping so the huge increase in their profits you might have expected is not happening as the least profitable bit of what they do is the surging bit.

I have not dared wear my exemption lanyard so far and have just run in with a mask on when needed although not worn my Anonymous face mask yet as my son is against my doing so..... I am just trying to keep calm and go into a shop as little as possible. (We are covid free currently. My son just got his negative test back yesterday - no symptoms but he is going abroad this week to a country where everyone must have a negative test before getting on the plane)