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

[ShutUpAlex]

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.

She was taking out her stress on you because you seemed vulnerable 😥

People are crap sometimes

Since the minute I fell pregnant last year I can't wear a mask or face covering at all. It makes me extremely sick. I wore one at all times before then. I wore either a thin snood type or a disposable medical mask.

I forgot my lanyard the other day and had to wear a covering in a taxi, when I got out I was feeling dizzy for hours and was physically sick a few times. I'm hoping it goes completely after I have the baby as I feel a fraud wearing a lanyard when I'm not medically exempt but since its causing sickness and anxiety incase I'm sick I suppose that counts as exempt.

However no one has said anything to me, which I'm surprised at.

@FortniteBoysMum

Firstly may I point out lanyards are for the legally exempt. Whilst I wouldn't have said anything to you I did to the old that wearing his mask under his bloody huge nose. Now that really passes me off. Either wear it properly or don't bother.

legally exempt? thats non existent then....no such thing

I have worked in an essential store all the way through.....people are not allowed to be challenged if they are not wearing a mask...no need to prove why

but i do challenge those who pull down their mask to ask me a question or have it under the chin. and i also step back from them when they close in to show me something on their phone they want.

on the whole the British public have been very bad at dealing with the pandemic. disappointing but not surprising, they truly expect shops to be business as usual

No, of course I wouldn't. She's crackers.

I’d tell her where to go, these mask police are so friggin annoying. You don’t know peoples lives and quite frankly it isn’t no ones business. I know people are taking the piss by not wearing them when they can’t but it’s not fair for the ones who really can’t wear them to get abuse either.
Hay fever has hit me hard this week and I’ve been struggling to breathe so I too have had to pull down my mask on occasion to get a few breaths.

@IAmTheDuke > 'I have a ‘fuck off’ resting face so don’t tend to be bothered by them.'

I am so going to copy this now. I have my 'fuck off' face, but I'm now definitely going to adapt it to also being my resting face :) The covid bullies are even more annoying when you do your best to follow all the [constantly changing] rules, but they're there to call you out when you either need to adapt for a moment, or inadvertently slip up.

Yes I wear the disposable ones. I have a load left from when I worked in healthcare.

That's handy then! I was just saying they're better than the material ones. Have you tried silk? Apparently good aswell.

@Trunkysbun

I have to whip my mask down at every checkout I go to as my 'Face ID' doesn't recognise me with my mask on and no, I can't use my card I lost it months ago!

She sounds a nob

Type in your passcode then...

Although I do think everyone in this thread pulling their masks down frequently needs to get batter, filter masks. I barely notice I'm wearing it let alone need to gulp fresh air!

The disposable masks are horrible and I won't wear them anymore

I've had to give up trying anyway; even the visor was still enougn to cause frequent sensory overwhelm/ panic attacks.

No bloody way could I have worn the bloody things in pregnancy, first the sickness and exhaustion in the first semester, then the pain and exhaustion of SPD in the second semester. Plus being prone to fainting throughout.

With a heightened sense of smell and sensitive gag reaction to just about any innocuous smell, recycled breath was never going to be a healthy or safe option.

If someone isn't wearing a mask or has pulled it down, it's none of your business. So many invisible reasons, many linked to trauma or undiagnosed because they didn't interfer with life before and diagnosis processes would last far, far longer than the mask mandate. It's simply been a bullies' charter for nasty little power trips at the expense of someone in a vulnerable position.

V OTT

YADNBU& i wouldve told her to get fucked..just another example of BatshitBritain in covid times..Those that look vulnerable seem to be prey for this type of self-righteous confrontation&agro based on"public interest"..yeah right

Sure

@Laiste

So 21 (ish) posters have said YABU.

As far as i can see only one has been, at least, brave enough to actually post to say they wouldn't have been happy.

What are all these people going to do when mask wearing dies out? 'Cos it will. Soon too i recon.

Around 140 now but none of them seem to have posted giving their reasons why

@CorianderBee

Although I do think everyone in this thread pulling their masks down frequently needs to get batter, filter masks. I barely notice I'm wearing it let alone need to gulp fresh air!

The disposable masks are horrible and I won't wear them anymore

Are these the ones with the valve on the side?

Yanbu, I would of tore her a new one in front of everyone. Regardless of whether someone is pregnant or not, if you're having difficulty breathing you remove the object that is making it difficult.

@CorianderBee

Although I do think everyone in this thread pulling their masks down frequently needs to get batter, filter masks. I barely notice I'm wearing it let alone need to gulp fresh air!

The disposable masks are horrible and I won't wear them anymore

I'll pop down my local chip shop and get them to batter me one.....

Maybe some people can't afford a better mask? Nor think its worth it.

Nuttier than squirrel poo. Ignore and move on.
I’ve never said anything to anyone about mask wearing, either being worn wrong or not at all. I mind my own business, wear my mask to protect others from my germs and keep my trips to the shops for essential journeys only.
Some people are just shitheads. Sorry

You are absolutely not being unreasonable. I'm pregnant with my second and I have been so close to doing that exact thing. Masks, nausea, and general pregnancy breathlessness, are a rubbish combination.

She was wrong not you. But I dont agree with everyone trying to incite a showdown or wanting you to have retaliated and be rude back. Yes she could be a self righteous cow that loves policing others...she could also have recently lost someone to covid and be in a vulnerable state. She was wrong to tell you off, but in the same way she doesnt know/misread your situation, you also dont know what's going on with her. Let's not all encourage others to bully strangers

I I hope you told her to piss off!

You are only BU if you didn’t tell her to fuck the fuck
Off.

Just sending you positive energy. You were fine to it. Some people are so high in anxiety. Really no excuse. Just be kind to yourself and let it go.

I might have have spoken to you to check you were OK. I do that for elderly people or anyone who looks distressed.
Some people think Covid gives them an excuse to play policeman. Probably the only fun she gets in her sad life.