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AIBU to say that if you won't wear masks and/or keep distance from others in public spaces you should stay at home

178 replies

CaptainMonkey · 26/08/2020 22:32

... and leave the rest of us to get on with the work of figuring out how to open up social spaces in a safe way without being distracted by your egocentric tedious freedom fighting? Why do you want to crowd people and breathe all over them anyway? If you don't want to be out and about without doing so, just stay at home. We've got enough to do right now and don't need your nonsense.

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bigknickersbigknockers · 27/08/2020 12:41

Captainmonkey I wear a mask so that hysterical people like you feel safe enough to go out and help stop the economy collapsing.
I despise wearing it, my glasses steam up, i feel suffocated and uncomfortable but I do what needs to be done.
But after some of your unpleasant comments aimed at people on here I feel like not bothering.
By the way even though I do wear a mask I fiddle with it constantly and absolutely never sanitise my hands on entering a shop so shove it right up your arse.

BonnieMcflurry · 27/08/2020 12:57

Nope
Refuse to wear a mask don't like it don't want to my baby hates it
We still go out everyday
We thank you for wearing one for us
😂😂

DarkMintChocolate · 27/08/2020 13:08

OP - we went to Eastbourne on Sunday. There are market stalls along the sea front. It was packed along there - probably only half the pedestrians were wearing masks and social distancing was impossible.

We had to stop at a motor way services on the way home to go to the toilet. We had masks on, but a lot didn’t. It was chaos. There was a one way system, but people were wandering all over the place. The one way system went round a central circular food court, so there were queues of people standing in the one way lane. Social distancing was impossible.

That was the first time since March that we had been anywhere crowded; but if that is typical of those sort of places; then bleating on about non mask wearers should stay at home, is pissing in the wind!

ilovesooty · 27/08/2020 13:11

@BonnieMcflurry

Nope Refuse to wear a mask don't like it don't want to my baby hates it We still go out everyday We thank you for wearing one for us 😂😂
Yes, so you keep saying. I've no issue with exemptions for people who can't wear a mask but the comments from "don't like it / don't want to /can't make me/ I'll do what I like / can't stop me people do annoy me and in my view make things more difficult potentially for people who can't wear a mask.
Bupkis · 27/08/2020 13:19

@BonnieMcflurry

Nope Refuse to wear a mask don't like it don't want to my baby hates it We still go out everyday We thank you for wearing one for us 😂😂
Oh stop sounding so pleased with yourself.
RoomOfRequirement · 27/08/2020 13:41

I wish all of the 'Well not everyone can wear a mask!' people would read this thread.

People are not angry at those who can't wear masks, they're angry at the selfish sanctimonious fools on this thread who brag about choosing not to.

Teal99 · 27/08/2020 13:58

I am not bragging, just a statement of fact.

In fairness to moi, I don't go to the supermarket anymore because of masks, my DH does it. I don't go to any other shop or anywhere that requires a mask. I am working at home, don't use public transport. So, my contact with people is minimal.

But I think I am going to start going to the supermarket again, but without mask. Just to join in with the pushback.

RufustheSniggeringReindeer · 27/08/2020 14:05

@BonnieMcflurry

Nope Refuse to wear a mask don't like it don't want to my baby hates it We still go out everyday We thank you for wearing one for us 😂😂
And thats fine i dont care what other people do

Taking the piss with the little happy faces is a bit off though Grin

itsgettingweird · 27/08/2020 14:22

Bonnie are you the baby in your story?

Don't wear one if you choose. But seriously re think your attitude. I wouldn't want to raise a child to be selfish and find it funny.

Bupkis · 27/08/2020 14:26

But I think I am going to start going to the supermarket again, but without mask. Just to join in with the pushback.

So noble....honestly, bon travail (are we doing French now?)

BonnieMcflurry · 27/08/2020 14:47

But I am pleased with myself
Who would want to wear one them horrible masks that make social interaction impossible and what horrible world it would be for our kids to grow up in

Bupkis · 27/08/2020 14:50

It is great when people lay out their true colours for all to see.

mbosnz · 27/08/2020 14:52

But I am pleased with myself
Who would want to wear one them horrible masks that make social interaction impossible and what horrible world it would be for our kidsto grow up in

It's a shame someone so immature is in charge of an infant.

CrunchyNutNC · 27/08/2020 14:57

what horrible world it would be for our kids to grow up in

Growing up in a world with people like you bonnie is scary enough.

ilovesooty · 27/08/2020 15:33

@RoomOfRequirement

I wish all of the 'Well not everyone can wear a mask!' people would read this thread.

People are not angry at those who can't wear masks, they're angry at the selfish sanctimonious fools on this thread who brag about choosing not to.

Exactly. "Don't want to / don't like it". Like spoilt children.
Teal99 · 27/08/2020 15:54

Not so much don't like it or don't want to, more that I don't believe they work or are necessary for the amount of cases - they are being touted now as the great protectors to get people spending, a material placebo for the worried and those who just do what they are told without looking at the evidence for themselves. WHO, the scientists and the politicians have flip flopped over this issue - they are no good, don't wear them to now, yes wear them now that the pandemic is over.

So, you carry on if it makes you feel like you are doing something for the greater good. I think by resisting I am doing the same.

MitziK · 27/08/2020 15:56

I agree. I was in my coop and a man in the queue way too close behind me with no mask said 'no point in wearing that hen, covid isnt here

I so started reading that, thinking it was going to be a really clever analogy.

I normally find that 'I'm not wearing a mask cos FREEEEEEEDOM' people tend to back away at the first little cough. (not infectious, just the after effects of catching a particularly nasty viral respiratory infection in March, IYSWIM).

AnyFucker · 27/08/2020 15:59

So, I was just in my local Co op

It was busy. At least 20 people in there inc staff. There was just me and one otherelderly lady wearing a mask.

Someone else in the queue said to her "if you carry on wearing that (mask) you will be dead by Christmas anyway"

Confused < sigh >

AnyFucker · 27/08/2020 16:00

There must be somethimg about the Co op. It's a Covid- free zone, obvs

TorkTorkBam · 27/08/2020 16:04

Everyone complies in my Co-op. Mind you I haven't been for a couple of days. Might pop out for a twix now and see whether people are in masks or not.

Bupkis · 27/08/2020 16:08

@Teal99
they are being touted now as the great protectors...a material placebo for the worried and those who just do what they are told without looking at the evidence for themselves
Are they? I thought they were "One simple way to slow transmission is the use of a face covering when it is not possible to distance from others, such as on public transport or in shops", which is from an article by Professor Devi Sridhar,Chair of Global Public Health, who has provided plenty of evidence of how face coverings can help as part of a range of measures in slowing down the spread of the virus.

I think by resisting I am doing the same.
I'd love to hear your views on how you are doing your part for the greater good, by being a noble resister of wearing a face covering occasionally.

PhilCornwall1 · 27/08/2020 16:13

Not talking about people who can't wear a mask. Talking about the tedious berks who won't wear one because freedom or whatever.

To be fair, I did assume the OP meant this.

You'll find the people that genuinely can't wear one, really will keep their distance when going into shops.

People complain how uncomfortable mask wearing is. It's not altogether comfortable going into a shop not wearing one, even if you are wearing a lanyard to say you can't.

I've had abuse from people and have had a go back, then couldn't be bothered with that. Now I just don't go in them.

RufustheSniggeringReindeer · 27/08/2020 16:19

@TorkTorkBam

Everyone complies in my Co-op. Mind you I haven't been for a couple of days. Might pop out for a twix now and see whether people are in masks or not.
Just popped to the co op in the next town and they were all in masks

And the village co op a few days ago

When social distancing started ds1 said People in the village were doing it a lot More than in the city he lives in...maybe its the same with masks

yeOldeTrout · 27/08/2020 16:25

"should" is a funny word.
I guess this thread is about the MORAL position.

The other thread (about risk aversion) was about the "for the sake of your own sanity" position.

I mean, people can choose to do things they know infuriate them, but it's unwise. Or they can choose to do selfish stuff -- but that will probably infuriate others and then the doers will get cross in response, too.

Maybe we can all agree that anyone who can't cope with the world needs to figure out how to not get so angry.

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