Do you feel like an absolute d**k in a mask?

[NC4NW123]

Whether you agree with them or not... do you?

No because everyone else is wearing them.
It's the people who aren't wearing them that look like d*s

Yes because disposable masks are a pile of shit, and I can't get enough air in in a fabric one. The disposable 'one size fits all men and some women' is too big and the nose strip doesn't hold properly,
Result? Mask slides up my face into my eyes (even though I fold the top over and stick it with tape to make it smaller). As if that wasn't enough, I then make funny faces under the mask, opening my mouth wide to try to stop it obliterating my vision. Needless to state, I go out as little as possible!

Not at all. Everyone’s wearing them, and I probably look better in one. See, I’m aging, and the bottom part of my face is starting to sag a bit. So when I’m going out in public, I put on eye make-up and the mask – smoldering eyes and half my face covered up makes me look mysterious

How on earth can you tell who is medically exempt and who's just a dick
The ones that have gone to the trouble of buying a mask, taking it with them, and then carefully arranging it over their ear, not covering their mouth or nose are more likely to be ignorant twats that don't understand that they should be covering thier nose and mouth, not their chin and neck.
If they were medically exempt, presumably they wouldn;t buy or carry a mask.

No, I just feel like a responsible person who's helping to keep the virus under control.

Some of the people who don't wear them, also don't have valid exemptions.

@W00t

Subjugating? Who on earth am I subjugated by? Unnatural? What, you mean like the rest of my clothes that I wasn't actually born in? Dehumanising? How, really, just how is wearing a few square inches of fabric across my mouth and nostrils dehumanising? I'm still human, still look and act like a human.

Germy I'll give you- that's the point of masks, to catch germs either in or out.

I was just about to write the same reply but yes this ^^

No, I don't feel like a dick in a mask. Because (nearly) everyone's wearing one in the places I'm expected to wear one?

@SunshineCake

I’m not a journalist, I was just wondering if others felt like I do, I wear them but hate them with a passion. Feel like I’ve always got something on my face ( which obv I do 🤣 but that it needs removing like a fly )

I actually like it!

Quite weirdly, it reminds me of when I was much younger and living in a much colder place (-10°C, proper freezing!), I would wrap my face in a scarf and hat, so you'd only see my eyes. My face would feel nicely warm and moist compared to the cold air. Face masks feel like that (the good ones, that you can actually breath through, not the crap ones that suffocate you).

I guess having generally dry skin makes the moist feeling more soothing than oppressive. Oh, and everyone wears them, so not self conscious at all now.

@NC4NW123 I feel like you do but seems like very few others feel the same. Weird what people will accept today but not yesterday. Face coverings used to be highly controversial for a variety of reasons.

Anyone else have allergies? I've found my allergic conjunctivitis flares up on days I go to town and use the mask.

My face would feel nicely warm and moist compared to the cold air

That's the bit that's deeply unpleasant. I don't want a "warm moist" face. Can't bear the things but I wear them of course because I don't want to be a dick even if I feel like one.

I have noticed generally less coughs and colds in our household since lockdown, socially distancing and washing/sanitising hands everywhere we went - even before the mask wearing rules came in. My son was forever getting colds even during the summer - hasn't had a single one since March.

Actually there’s arguments from scientist and doctors that it doesn’t reduce the spread. The government for months said that science shows it doesn’t reduce the spread even on the government website it says it may help and that social distancing and hand washing still must be followed. It also gives clear indications of how the masks should be handled which people don’t do.

Scientists now argue that masks do help in combination with other things.

Not one single thing does it. It is a combination of things we do that slows spread. If you will only wash hands but do nothing else, it will have low effect. If you wash hands, keep distance and wear mask, you have great combo.

Also. "The gov said" isn't really a good argument with this government 👀

‘Despite the fact they are dehumanising, subjugating, unnatural and germy, the genie is out of the bottle’

Big shout out to all the other subjugated, dehumanised germy mask wearers. This has got to be one of the funniest, most ridiculous things I’ve read so far 😂😂😂

Despite the fact they are dehumanising, subjugating, unnatural and germy, the genie is out of the bottle

Bless.

I quite like them, I feel more anonymous

yes op!

Yeah, my glasses steam up,and I have a naturally quiet voice and end up having to shout at people and because I'm very pale I flush easily so the bits of my face that are visible go red and rashy because of the warmth of the mask, my eyes seem to go red too. I also find the mask seems to wrap itself round the arms of my glasses so when I take it of it's stuck round them or pulls my glasses off. All of this makes me feel like a dick. Other people probably don't notice but that's how I feel, and all this makes me flustered and scatty - I end up going the wrong way because I can't see because of my fogged up glasses - stuff like that.

No!

I've just got use to it.

I sometimes leave the supermarket, pack car, get in and get ready to drive off when I remember I'm still wearing it!

No. I actually started wearing them a few weeks before they became mandatory, so I did feel strange at first, but now it's become 2nd nature and I barely even notice.

No.

Not at all

Not at all.

But I am deliberately crinkling my eyes and using my eyebrows to show some expression in case my voice isn't clear enough for people. (Trying to make my words more definite as well).

I'm going to turn into an old bird with a posh voice and enough crows' feet for an entire flock/murder/conspiracy by the time they aren't compulsory anymore.

Absolutely.

I hate the blasted things. I can't wait for the day I no longer have to wear a mask.

@BogRollBOGOF yes this is me. It takes far longer to calm/cool down than it does to get hot and flustered too. The colder weather is going to make it all worse too.

I love having half of my ugly face covered