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Frittataz · 2021-07-19T05:46:34+00:00

Clearly this is fine legally speaking but AIBU to expect not to be asked to wear a mask from today onwards? I’ll wear one when attending hospital/doctors appointments but that’s it that’s were i draw the line. I shouldn’t be expected to explain myself right? I’ve wore a mask from the beginning and stuck to every rule. I won’t be rushing out to go to nightclubs as I didn’t do that before covid and i don’t suddenly feel the need to surround myself (closely) with lots of other people but I am looking forward to taking my daughter shopping and going to the cinema without having to wear a mask.

SiobhanSharpe · 19/07/2021 14:36

I shopped in a huge Tesco's store this morning -- it was quiet and i would say that about 65-70 percent of shoppers wore a mask.
But many others did not, including at least one management/clipboard type person working in there.
I walked in without one and someone handed me a leaflet about that day's special offers but no-one challenged me at all. ( I have eye problems and cannot see very well at the moment and the mask makes it much worse. )
Yet just at the weekend i received an email from Tesco's chairman saying they would be asking customers to continue wearing masks.
I reckon in a couple of weeks the proportions of masked to non masked people that I saw today will be reversed.

Doodlebug71 · 19/07/2021 14:37

@hamsterchump

I've kept a list of what individual pubs and shops etc have said about masks and will be avoiding the ones who are trying to make them mandatory and choosing to use the other ones who've said it's a choice and up to each person. Presumably this is what should please those definitely continuing with masks, they can keep their to own places and I'll keep to mine. There seems to be enough of each so seems fair enough to me. I do hope the small businesses don't come on in a few weeks to moan about their recovery not being what was expected though. Suits me fine, I like shopping online and won't miss most high street shops anyway to be honest, be nicer if they were all restaurants and bars and leisure places with much needed (hopefully affordable) accommodation above anyway.

You'd choose to put yourself and anyone who comes into contact with you at risk like that? Really? Sweet Jesus.....

That personal responsibility thing the govt has been talking about: you are doing the exact opposite of that.

Finknottlesnewt · 19/07/2021 14:38

I thank god to be blessed with teens /young adult children who are thoughtful enough to put others before them - for the fee minutes it takes to shop/have a haircut / travel on a bus.

Do people still not understand that masks were NEVER about the wearer but about protecting others from the aspirations (virus carrying droplets) in YOU breadth .. NOT about you not breathing stuff in.. (how was that going to happen with just a piece of Colton over your face)

People who choose not to wear a mask are not making a choice about THEIR personal freedom ... they are making a judgement call that THEY won't infect others . Which is complete bollocks .

Not freedom day for me or many others.. it's back to the start.

peboh · 19/07/2021 14:38

I'm not wearing one by choice. However if I was to go in a store and they were to ask me to wear one, I would do so out of respect for them. If I don't have to, great. If I'm asked then that's also okay.

CynsterBitch · 19/07/2021 14:41

@MrsDThomas

If it required I’ll wear it when asked. Otherwise no.

If moaning minnie somewhere gives a disgusted look, ill happily tell her that i have a right not to wear it.

And they have a right to give you a disgusted look. Enjoy your equal right of expression

Parker231 · 19/07/2021 14:41

news.sky.com/story/covid-19-really-frightening-vulnerable-peoples-fears-over-ending-of-coronavirus-restrictions-in-england-12359035

Pepsee · 19/07/2021 14:41

I work in retail. I won’t be wearing a mask from today. I would never judge customers for choosing to wear one, or not wear one.

As a company we would absolutely never stop anyone shopping without a mask or even ask them to wear one. I can see it being 50/50 in my area.

MrsDThomas · 19/07/2021 14:43

People need to get off their soapboxes. The government are giving you a choice. Yes a choice. They have been law, people followed it. Now its a choice. So why the anger towards those who choose not to wear one? We were promised freedom after a vaccine, and this is the start.

MostlyMaple · 19/07/2021 14:43

@Doodlebug71 we can't live in a state of paranoia forever. We have to learn to live with covid now - I'm not muzzling myself just to pacify other people's fears, sorry.

FWIW I've worn masks religiously all the way through this and stuck to rules. But now we don't have to, so...hurrah.

MrsDThomas · 19/07/2021 14:44

@MostlyMaple 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

MostlyMaple · 19/07/2021 14:44

@MrsDThomas

People need to get off their soapboxes. The government are giving you a choice. Yes a choice. They have been law, people followed it. Now its a choice. So why the anger towards those who choose not to wear one? We were promised freedom after a vaccine, and this is the start.

Totally agree. "Lockdown" and mask wearing needs to end at some point.

Finknottlesnewt · 19/07/2021 14:47

I am not at all surprised by this.

A government whose leader has lead a life devoid of a moral compass - encouraging others to take personal responsibility for the health of others ... and people are surprised that so many are self absorbed. He truly has 'lead by example'

UrAWizHarry · 19/07/2021 14:48

@MrsDThomas

People need to get off their soapboxes. The government are giving you a choice. Yes a choice. They have been law, people followed it. Now its a choice. So why the anger towards those who choose not to wear one? We were promised freedom after a vaccine, and this is the start.

Which would be fine, if we had a government that is in anyway competent or trustworthy.

We aren't being "given a choice" because the risk from COVID has gone way, we are being given a choice so the government can push the blame for things getting increasingly out of control onto the general public.

Doodlebug71 · 19/07/2021 14:49

This, on twitter sum sit up perfectly:

A sacrifice was needed so Tory MPs could enjoy a peaceful unrestricted summer holiday, all vulnerable people, NHS, public transport and shop staff are to be handed be into your nearest Wickerman as an offering to the old gods... The purge has begun.

Many of the vulnerable cannot have a vaccination, so they're stuck at the whim and mercy of people who need laws to mandate them into Doing What's Right.

Personal responsibility. What a joke. If that was a thing, we probably wouldn't need drink driving laws and so on.

lifehappened · 19/07/2021 14:50

@Nengineer ooh Covidiots, did you make that up yourself? How impressive!! have you used sheeple yet?

Finknottlesnewt · 19/07/2021 14:51

... and yes to a MN favourite expression, I WILL be judging everyone not wearing a mask in a supermarket, shop , heavily populated space as a) too thick to understand the concept of mask wearing and b) too self absorbed to think of others.

Nengineer · 19/07/2021 14:52

No I just use stupid uneducated twats who think a mask is a muzzle and a pandemic is a hoax. Sometimes murdering uneducated twats. But always twats.

Holdingontonothing · 19/07/2021 14:52

"Our morally bankrupt liar of a PM has said its OK to not wear a mask to protect people around me, so as per my legal right passed down by him and his cronies, I will do what I like and fuck you all"

Finknottlesnewt · 19/07/2021 14:52

@Doodlebug71

This, on twitter sum sit up perfectly:

A sacrifice was needed so Tory MPs could enjoy a peaceful unrestricted summer holiday, all vulnerable people, NHS, public transport and shop staff are to be handed be into your nearest Wickerman as an offering to the old gods... The purge has begun.

Many of the vulnerable cannot have a vaccination, so they're stuck at the whim and mercy of people who need laws to mandate them into Doing What's Right.

Personal responsibility. What a joke. If that was a thing, we probably wouldn't need drink driving laws and so on.

Never a truer word.

Doodlebug71 · 19/07/2021 14:53

[quote MostlyMaple]@Doodlebug71 we can't live in a state of paranoia forever. We have to learn to live with covid now - I'm not muzzling myself just to pacify other people's fears, sorry.

FWIW I've worn masks religiously all the way through this and stuck to rules. But now we don't have to, so...hurrah.[/quote]
It's not paranoia. Don't be so ignorant. Your whole post just demonstrates the lack of personal responsiblity that you're taking. None. You need laws to force you to behave. It's as simple as that.

Mixmeup · 19/07/2021 14:55

I'm not muzzling myself just to pacify other people's fears, sorry.

Of all the things there have been to eyeroll about in this pandemic - and there have been a lot - people calling face masks ‘muzzles’ has got to be the most ridiculously pathetic.

BanditoShipman · 19/07/2021 14:58

@Beendownthisroadmorethantwice

I’d quite like to see a study that shows the link between mask refusal and shocking grammar.

I was just thinking exactly this… there is a correlation between not understanding the correct use of there/they’re/their and not wanting to wear a mask!

Doodlebug71 · 19/07/2021 14:59

@MrsDThomas

People need to get off their soapboxes. The government are giving you a choice. Yes a choice. They have been law, people followed it. Now its a choice. So why the anger towards those who choose not to wear one? We were promised freedom after a vaccine, and this is the start.

Freedom for WHO?? For people too stupid/ignorant to wear a mask to protect others, as well as themselves? The vulnerable, and the CEV/CV are still stuck. They're even more restricted now, because all the mask refusers are delighting in the lack of mandate.

This isn't freedom. Covid is still here. Cases are rising rapidly. 50,000 new cases a day over the last week. The only freedom is your freedom to infect more people.

The Tories lifted restrictions so they coudl go on holiday without breaking rules. Those of you applauding that, and refusing to wear masks: you will have blood on your hands, and the Tories will blame you for it. So will everyone else who stayed masked.

wincarwoo · 19/07/2021 14:59

@Frittataz

Not really. There are poorly people in hospital who are genuinely vulnerable so in this instance I don’t mind wearing a mask, and like I said, the letter I got from the hospital states masks are required. Shops will not have signs outside stating masks are required and I assume people who are poorly will not be out shopping.

There are "people who are poorly" who aren't bedridden. And who don't look ooorly.

Wanttocry · 19/07/2021 15:00

Yet just at the weekend i received an email from Tesco's chairman saying they would be asking customers to continue wearing masks.

Yes, I had that email. I think what they meant was more generally that Tesco as a company were asking people to wear masks, but not that staff members would be asking individuals to wear masks.