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If you saw a pregnant woman pull down her mask for a few moments, would you confront her?

396 replies

ShutUpAlex · 24/04/2021 17:13

Had a woman confront me today I’m a supermarket for pulling my mask down for a few gulps of air. Suddenly felt very faint and breathless and just needed to suck in a few deep breaths, then returned the mask to my face.
Woman confronted me, accusing me of putting the whole store in danger and how people like me are the reason we are in this situation in the first place. She hadn’t confronted anyone else wearing lanyards, just me.

Was I being unreasonable? Should I have just left the store? Or was she being OTT.

OP posts:
QwertyGirly · 26/04/2021 14:08

I saw a women having a go at an elderly gentlemen on a mobility scooter the other day in Tesco, because he was 'not 2 meters' away from her. She had a real go at him, it was embarrassing and other shoppers defended him. SOme people are just idiots. She was OTT for sure.

nopuppiesallowed · 26/04/2021 15:19

If masks don't work and starve wearers of oxygen, I reckon surgeons, theatre staff and dentists wouldn't wear them. But they do.....

Mirw · 26/04/2021 16:49

There are times when I can't wear a mask. Nobody's business as to the why. People gave stopped shouting abuse or I assume they have asI now shop without my hearing aids. Unless they are literally talking into my ear, without a mask, I can't hear any abuse. I think you have to shut out the abuse and carry on. When it happens to them or theirs, they will get the message. "Mind your own business and keep your gob shut". Or as I think was said in some dead old book that people keep referring me to... Those without sin can cast the first stone.

Myfriendsays · 26/04/2021 18:44

Wonder if she would have tackled you had you been a 6 foot bloke with a big beer belly.

Like the others are saying you should have told her to piss off.

Butwasitherdriveway · 26/04/2021 19:25

[quote Ilovewatermelon]@Butwasitherdriveway

Yes the oxygen for my unborn child, I think I'll make that my priority thanks as well as the bacterial pneumonia and just sheer nonsense of it all.

Each to their own for those who want to wear one and buy into the fear propaganda. I'll carry on doing me. Chow[/quote]
Your original comment was ignorant.
Given you now know there are people on here who have lost people, your comments are now disgusting

I know someone who watchex their loved one die in ICU. I'm sure they'd love to hear that you think it's nonsense.

You won't mind if nobody treating you and hour child wears a mask then? The fact it's the riskiest for covid after 22 weeks obviously won't apply to you.

Bebethany · 26/04/2021 20:12

Smile having a FO face is good at times!

ellyeth · 26/04/2021 20:42

Unfortunately this is a great time for people who enjoy throwing their weight around. She sounds like a real bully.

CosmicHeat · 27/04/2021 08:46

Oh 2% excuse me, that's totally reason enough to loose our freedoms, be abused by our government, destroy our livelihoods, deprive our children of their education, wear ineffective, harmful and dehumanising masks and not see our families and take a highly experimental vaccine. Silly me Confused.

Meanwhile please explain to me why you are content to have to government continually lie to you, give misleading information and carry out a psychological warfare on you? Leave the emotion behind and apply logic.

Don't trust me, don't trust them and don't trust the 'fact checkers' do your own fact checking. Please explain to me why the 2020 death curve was no different than the previous 5 years (aside from April when the government killed Old people on purpose)? If social distancing, masks, excessive hand sanitising work how come the death rate in the winter wasn't drastically reduced? Or looking at it the other way, why aren't the monthly death tolls significantly higher for every month since March last year?

In N. Ireland 400 people die on average every week in the winter and this reduces to 200 in the summer. Not that we ever noticed because we didn't do a daily death count 57 deaths a day all through winter would be very depressing and worrying if you were told about it every day in the news with no context whatsoever. Please ask the questions of the data, listen to how you are given information, big scary numbers with no context. Ask yourself why haven't the supermarkets struggled to stay open, surely their staff should be dropping like flies.

Why are the questioners silenced so harshly? Science is questioning, trying to proof it wrong, not blindly following it like a dogma.

CosmicHeat · 27/04/2021 08:56

@pam290358 meant to add you in the comment above but it wouldn't let me edit it. Still trying to get to grips with this system.

Combandgo · 27/04/2021 09:09

She's being a jobsworth.
What a tool.

You did nothing wrong.

pam290358 · 27/04/2021 11:03

@CosmicHeat. I wasn’t trying to be controversial or unpleasant - just stating facts. All I know is that two people I loved dearly are dead from Covid, both my partner and myself were horribly ill with it, and although I really do feel for the people suffering as a result of lockdown and yes, some of the rules don’t seem to make much sense, I don’t see what else could be done to stop the spread. You only have to look at what’s happening in India now to see it out of control. Perhaps instead of spreading conspiracy theories you could look at the people just on this thread who have lost people to Covid. I’m all for sticking up for human rights but what good are the freedoms you’re talking about if you’re dead ?

pam290358 · 27/04/2021 11:07

Oh and the two percent is massively significant to those who have lost their lives to Covid, and their families. Or does that take second place to touting daft conspiracy theories and taking statistics out of proportion.

CharlotteRose90 · 27/04/2021 11:11

I wouldn’t care or say anything. I’m not pregnant but I’ve had to pull my mask down loads in shops especially recently when I’ve been warm and thought I was about to pass out. Aslong as your not facing me I wouldn’t care.

SeaTurtles92 · 27/04/2021 11:11

I’m ok! I usually quite enjoy causing a scene but had my 6 year old with me and I was concentrating very hard on not being sick!

Hmm, now I doubt this actually happened.

Caszekey · 27/04/2021 11:12

I'd have come and asked if you were ok. I hope you are.

SeaTurtles92 · 27/04/2021 11:13

@LynnShelley

If masks don't work and starve wearers of oxygen, I reckon surgeons, theatre staff and dentists wouldn't wear them. But they do.....
This.
TheVampiresWife · 27/04/2021 11:27

from April when the government killed Old people on purpose

I loathe this government with a passion but even I think this is ludicrous.

And nobody suggests that SD/hygiene measures etc 'work' to halt the spread completely (if that were the case, it'd be a thing of the past by now). What these measures do is mitigate and reduce.

Lots of supermarkets have had significant outbreaks. A Tesco near me had 60-odd staff off with it at one point and yes, some of them died. Perhaps you should do some of that research you recommend so heartily?

TheVampiresWife · 27/04/2021 11:28

That was to @CosmicHeat

CosmicHeat · 27/04/2021 18:32

@pam290358 @TheVampiresWife

I'm not taking statistics out of context, I took the national office of statistics data and drew the graphs. Neither of you have adequately answered my questions, one example about a supermarket having a bit of difficulty, did it have to close for weeks on end?

When the government took infected elderly out of hospitals and put them into ill equipped nursing homes and locked them in with other highly vulnerable elderly, what would you call it? I call it killing them on purpose, which if it had been a genuine deadly pandemic not based on faulty data modelling would have made sense at would have freed up beds and resources for the young and useful ie. Taxable members of the population.

I think we can all agree death is bad, it's impact on families is harrowing and long lasting, however it is a fact of life and the question becomes what is the lesser of two evils. The impact of lockdowns and everything else that has come with it shall have far wider and worse impacts than covid, particularly when there has been no significant difference to death rates compared to previous years. We could have had targeted protection of the most vulnerable but no the government decided to take the harshest most harmful approach to the whole population. We are headed for a world of hurt in the hyperinflation and economic depression that is coming down the track, I'm no economist but I wouldn't be surprised if it makes the Great Depression look like small fry considering how much of the world will be impacted. No one knows what the long term impacts of mass injecting large parts of the population with a highly experimental vaccine will be. I'm sure those of you with older children can see the horrendous impact the lockdown has had on them.

Personally I'd rather take a spin at the covid roulette wheel than become a lab rat, I'd also rather take my chances with covid and the myriad of other things that could and will at some point inevitably kill me than be a prisoner at home. I want my child to experience the joys of the swimming pool, indoor play areas, playing with other children, in freedom and life as I experienced it. It is not a selfish thing to want particularly when the government has been proven to be lying again and again.

HoulYerWheesht · 27/04/2021 18:37

I’m sorry @Ilovewatermelon but I’ve got to stop you right there. It’s not “chow” it’s “ciao” Grin can we put that up there with Chester Draws MN??

Butwasitherdriveway · 27/04/2021 19:44

@HoulYerWheesht

I’m sorry *@Ilovewatermelon* but I’ve got to stop you right there. It’s not “chow” it’s “ciao” Grin can we put that up there with Chester Draws MN??
I can't believe someone with such well educated well informed clever views could spell it wrong....
nopuppiesallowed · 27/04/2021 20:05

Cosmic heat
You posted
'Also rather take my chances with covid and the myriad of other things that could and will at some point inevitably kill me than be a prisoner at home.'
I've got Long Covid. Until yesterday, I was pretty much a prisoner at home. Coronovirus has affected my breathing so I can't wear a mask or even a visor. After nearly 16 weeks today I managed a very short walk. Afterwards, it was like breathing through a wet flannel. People forget that many don't recover from Covid in 2 weeks. Over a million of previously healthy people now can't function as they did before - can't shop or do the things they could before they caught the bug. I've not been able to care for my elderly father and am just grateful I have no school age children to look after.

HoulYerWheesht · 27/04/2021 21:51

Right @Butwasitherdriveway?!?! Just can’t quite my head around it.

CHOW! 😂

Ilovewatermelon · 27/04/2021 22:16

@HoulYerWheesht @Butwasitherdriveway

Hahaha .. Look, even I laughed at this .. innocent mistake , I have a pet chow and it's what I text to partner when he's done my head in 😃

ALongHardWinter · 27/04/2021 22:51

I hope you told her to piss off.

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