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.

Deffinately not.

Yes.

Was having this discussion with my husband yesterday. We will wear a mask if the place insists on it even though I am exempt but we will not wear one just for the sake of it.

Yes I will. It reminds people we are still in a pandemic and some need to be reminded. I personally don't think the mandatory wearing of them in enclosed public places should be lifted.

@Booboospud

I’m 31 Weeks pregnant with an immune condition with my liver and due to this I won’t get the jab whilst pregnant as already high risk. So myself and partner will still wear masks until baby here and I can have the jabs. Unfortunately I won’t be mixing with any friends or family who don’t continue masks and distancing in public just to be on safe side until then.

You could get a proper respirator which is supposed to protect the wearer. I think it's ffp3, but I know ffp2 and n95 were made mandatory for a while where my family is and apparently they protect the wearer to not a bad level.

Yes, I was wearing the before they were made mandatory

Yes we should all wear a mask. Why would we not? Of course masks are not comfortable. Neither is death. Time to be a grown up, wear a mask and leave childish excuses in the nursery.

Yes I will be. metro.co.uk/2021/07/06/highest-daily-cases-since-january-as-uk-records-28773-new-infections-14884025/?ito=push-notification&ci=289541&si=26092362&ai=14884025

I caught a bad cold the other week for the first time in ages and it was awful. Body aches, headaches etc. I was ill for a while and still not fully better (not covid). I have been wearing masks. I wonder if it is such a bad one because I haven't been exposed to many germs (I don't actually know if it works like that?). I'm usually pretty good at fighting things off quickly.

I will be ditching the masks as soon as I can, but likely have to wear them at work for a while longer.

No, but I never get public transport. If I was packed onto a tube/ bus I might consider it for the next few months.

I’m honestly not sure opening everything up is a great idea right now, but as most additional changes are choices (nightclubs/bars/pubs/stadiums etc) and there’s no doubt people are suffering economically happy to see how it goes and make personal choices but I do not get the dropping of hands face space, which are minor inconveniences and it seems no credible Dr or Scientist believes it’s right either.. So we have a choice and I’m truly shocked at the total lack of consideration for others half the population appear to have.. in places where people have to go/be public transport, shops, hospitals, etc why on earth would you not make the choice to do what’s better for society vs your own personal minor inconvenience!? To put it in a context MN’s might grasp.. You’re a parent, who can’t swim, you’re walking past a river.. it’s deep but not dangerous, unless you can’t swim. Your toddler slips your hand and falls in.. if you go in you both drown.. and every single other person there, who can swim, maybe has taken life saving training, says oh no, sorry, far too inconvenient to get wet now, my glasses might fall off, I’ll be all damp and uncomfortable, and they all walk on past whilst your toddler drowns.. That ok for you? Apparently yes, and apparently exactly what you would do too. Millions of people are immunosuppressed, don’t get the same level of protection from vaccines, haven’t had their full vaccines yet, are children who won’t be vaccinated in time and are at risk of debilitating long Covid (approx 8%); and you won’t wear a mask for 20 minutes whilst you shop because “it’s inconvenient or gives you a rash or steams your glasses up.. Good god, just take a good long look in the mirror, and hope you or a loved one never need help from a stranger in an emergency..

Yes

@Dnaltocs

Yes we should all wear a mask. Why would we not? Of course masks are not comfortable. Neither is death. Time to be a grown up, wear a mask and leave childish excuses in the nursery.

I'm pretty sure I am a grown up. I don't need an excuse. I don't want to wear them, so I won't be wearing them unless I have to.

I am not worried that I will die of covid. I am vaccinated and not at high risk. I will wear them at work if I have to, or if I am spending time with a vulnerable person who asks me to.

Yes.

Yes I will
I think it’s a courtesy to others to do so
I don’t want covid or to have it and pass it to others so I will continue with non enforced mitigation measures where it’s sensible to do so

Masks make sense in crowded indoor places, such as tube. Just for avoidance of all airborne bugs. I’ve got used to them now, despite fog of glasses. So yes I will in certain places.

@Dnaltocs

Yes we should all wear a mask. Why would we not? Of course masks are not comfortable. Neither is death. Time to be a grown up, wear a mask and leave childish excuses in the nursery.

'Masks are not comfortable. Neither is death'

We are scraping the barrel now, we really are.

@RustyFig

I will. The point about masks is the protection they offer others, not the wearer. Therefore in my view it's a way to show consideration to those who are clinically vulnerable, which I think comes above discomfort/ feeling a bit hot/ fogged up glasses (I am a sweaty faced specs wearer btw).

This ☝️ If enough people stop wearing them inside buildings, in crowds and on public transport, vulnerable and anxious people will feel compelled to isolate again. Hubby and I will continue to wear ours.

Yes. I was having this very conversation with a healthcare professional this morning who was in close contact with me for 30 minutes whilst she treated me.
She will continue to treat me after 19th July and I will continue to wear a mask each time in order to protect her. As she will in order to protect me.

In busy places yes

I am not worried that I will die of covid. I am vaccinated and not at high risk.

But what about the people you pass it on to who are higher risk?

Neither is death
Quit the hyperbole, already.
Now all those at risk of ‘death’ who wanted s vaccine have been double vaccinated, completely deluded to be peddling this.

Actually I used to think I hated seat-belts. And if Johnson thinks it’s a grand libertarian gesture not to tolerate masks I am definitely not going there. It’s really not a matter of fear or slavishness but a relatively small thing that can be done to help keep sickness levels down, in a time of sickness at least.

At a medical appointment yes, walking the 45 seconds from the table to the loo in a bar, absolutely not

Definitely not