Will you continue to wear a mask when they’re no longer compulsory?

[AngeloMysterioso]

I can’t really decide how I feel about it- as a pregnant woman with a tendency to get a bit sweaty in the face on warm days, I would like not to have to wear one whenever I’m inside a building that isn’t my own home. And I’m double jabbed so not at much risk. But then you’ve got people from SAGE and the BMA saying we should keep wearing them, and I’d imagine they know a bit better than Sajid Javid whose background is in finance.

What do you think?

YABU- I’ll continue to wear a mask
YANBU - I won’t be wearing a mask anymore.

I will in shops etc.

I'm a bit surprised to see the 50/50 split. I live somewhere that already ditched masks a few weeks ago and the transformation overnight was almost complete - it went from everyone in the shop to 2 or 3 immediately. And it's nobody now (besides the odd tourist).

Has it been more politicised in the UK? I suppose the cases are higher so that could account for it as well, but some people are talking about wearing them forever in some circumstances so it can't be purely that.

Yes, I will. I'm pregnant but now due. I've had to be so careful the last 9 months, I can't imagine not being so. I might feel a bit more confident after my second jab and if numbers go down.

Nope

No. Have never used s cloth one -re-use the one-use ones and only when I really have to.
Zero evidence masks ‘protect’ anybody. Good riddance.

No, no and no.

Unfortunately as an HCP I have to wear one for 11 hour shifts - I get enough hypercapnoeic headaches from that, don't want to be wearing the hateful things on my time off!

If I had any face masks I would burn them ceremoniously but I only tend to tie silk scarves around my face when in shops etc anyways.

If requested to at a hospital, doctors or care home I would. Otherwise, absolutely not.

Not a chance in hell

No I'm not wearing one again. I hate them

No. And once busy bars, clubs and events open it’ll seem daft to even consider it.

@NigellaSeed

It only really works if everyone is wearing a mask though

I don't think that's right. If you think that masks work then for every person who wears them the risk will reduce a little bit. Even if in every supermarket only one single customer wears a mask, in some of those supermarkets that person will have covid, and infection levels will therefore be slightly lower.

(Having said that, that single person will not be me!)

Hell no, unless I had a cold/sniffles in which case I think I would.

Yes. DF has terminal cancer and cannot risk picking up any infections. His consultant has said he cannot see us inside at all for the time being, and certainly not without masks in future. It's sad, I'll probably have to take my DD out of nursery with cases rising as they are but that's life unfortunately.

I’m so sorry @Shallow07 ☹️ What would you say to those who won’t wear them any more because they ‘hate them’? 😡

Will still be wearing them on the tube. Especially when it gets busier.

Absolutely not

Yes, I'll continue to wear one in busy places - public transport etc.

Nope only at work maybe.

@Shallow07

Yes. DF has terminal cancer and cannot risk picking up any infections. His consultant has said he cannot see us inside at all for the time being, and certainly not without masks in future. It's sad, I'll probably have to take my DD out of nursery with cases rising as they are but that's life unfortunately.

@atshall07 I'm so sorry about what you're going through now, it's tough and it's shit. Part of why I'm keeping wearing maks is because I've been in your situation before this shit and I know how it is keep the sneezing fuckers out of the house. I hope it all goes OK for your Da. A lot of people have been in your situation and we remember so we will do what we can to mind the people who were our mothers, aunts, fathers, children, cousins, siblings...

Yes. It's a small inconvenience at most for me but makes a notable difference for the vulnerable.

I have a feeling work might request us to wear them even when restrictions lift but if they can't enforce it I won't be wearing a mask.
I hate them. I'm better now but at the start I used to leave work feeling physically sick due to wearing a mask for so long.

Inside around strangers in busy places such as transport and supermarkets, I will. Outside I won't. It seems a small price to help curtail spread and to stop indirectly telling CEV people to isolate from normal tasks.

Yes, in busy indoor areas.

Not a chance. I get all confused in the damn things. Can anyone else relate

I'll continue to carry a mask. And possibly to wear it in very crowded and badly ventilated situations.
Thankfully I no longer need to travel on the tube and have learned to supermarket shop at 7am. I'll probably focus my efforts on staying away from crowded places.