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Masks on public transport

106 replies

shallIswim · 02/10/2021 12:38

Aibu to expect people to wear masks on public transport when TFL say it's mandatory?
I reckon a quarter of people aren't. And no one challenges them.
I'm so cross
Entitled special people pah!

OP posts:
doublemonkey · 02/10/2021 13:33

Yes, YABU.

Enough already.

cardibach · 02/10/2021 13:33

[quote seaandsandcastles]@cardibach I’m not interested in what excuses are peddled out to try and get people to wear masks. I’m just not wearing one.[/quote]
I’m not seeing any excuses in anything I have said about masks. Neither is anything being ‘peddled’. The science simply says (whatever nonsense you want to believe) that wearing a mask can reduce transmission. Don’t wear one, but accept people may think you are a selfish dick.

Fromage · 02/10/2021 13:33

How do we "learn to live with covid" please?

I mean, we could let it run rife and then most of the expensive people - such as pensioners and cancer patients and those with disabilities - would be killed off. Is that what you meant?

Biker47 · 02/10/2021 13:33

I didn't wear one when I went to London last month, fuck that, I'm not wearing one ever again.

GabriellaMontez · 02/10/2021 13:34

[quote seaandsandcastles]@cardibach I’m not interested in what excuses are peddled out to try and get people to wear masks. I’m just not wearing one.[/quote]
Same.

luckylavender · 02/10/2021 13:36

@seaandsandcastles - I hate that language. It's so disrespectful and wrong.

GabriellaMontez · 02/10/2021 13:37

@cardibach I'm fine with you thinking I'm a selfish dick. And you can accept that lots of people think your thick for believing that a scrap of fabric makes a remote bit of difference.

KaycePollard · 02/10/2021 13:41

@Fromage

How do we "learn to live with covid" please?

I mean, we could let it run rife and then most of the expensive people - such as pensioners and cancer patients and those with disabilities - would be killed off. Is that what you meant?

Indeed @fromage

Call me naive (I probably am) but the selfishness of some attitudes here just astounds me. I know several CEV people who are now pretty much house bound for the foreseeable future.

cardibach · 02/10/2021 13:42

[quote GabriellaMontez]@cardibach I'm fine with you thinking I'm a selfish dick. And you can accept that lots of people think your thick for believing that a scrap of fabric makes a remote bit of difference.[/quote]
I never do this, but I think more people are likely to think you’re thick when you can’t spell ‘you’re’ than think I am. And masks do make a difference. It is t a matter of debate or opinion. Here’s a little bit of actual science for you to deny. www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02801-8

RudestLittleMadam · 02/10/2021 13:42

[quote GabriellaMontez]@cardibach I'm fine with you thinking I'm a selfish dick. And you can accept that lots of people think your thick for believing that a scrap of fabric makes a remote bit of difference.[/quote]
Oh, the irony Hmm

SwissCh · 02/10/2021 13:44

Those blue masks don't do anything anyway

They do. They are actually more effective at protecting other people than cloth masks.

KatherineJaneway · 02/10/2021 13:44

On the tube line I travel on it is between a third and half that don't wear masks. Seeing far less masks in Tesco too.

MereDintofPandiculation · 02/10/2021 13:45

@seaandsandcastles

YABU. It’s not law that I wear one, so I won’t. We need to learn to live with covid, not live in fear of it forever.
Yes, it's fine for you not to wear one, as the risk it's mitigating against is me catching your Covid. It's easy to be brave when it's other people's health you're risking not your own.
Sapphire387 · 02/10/2021 13:45

That ship has sailed. The government is going for herd immunity. I personally don't believe masks (or not) on TfL services make that much difference when you consider that they are no longer compulsory in a lot of workplaces, in shops... pubs and restaurants are all open, kids are all in school. Etc etc.

bigvig · 02/10/2021 13:46

[quote GabriellaMontez]@cardibach I'm fine with you thinking I'm a selfish dick. And you can accept that lots of people think your thick for believing that a scrap of fabric makes a remote bit of difference.[/quote]
Well said! The 'science' (whatever that is these days) at best is luke warm about surgical masks being useful. No-one can find a scrap of evidence that the minging dirty flappy masks that we were all bullied into wearing ever did anything at all.

Yummiliscious · 02/10/2021 13:53

Don’t be so judgemental OP.

There are exceptions in mask wearing:

  1. Young children
  2. Disabilities
  3. The thick
GabriellaMontez · 02/10/2021 13:55

@cardibach I don't know what is more embarrassing, correcting another posters spelling or sharing a link to 'science' that refers to the hairdresser story from last year!

BeyondMyWits · 02/10/2021 13:55

Wear an FFP3 mask yourself, make sure it fits. Then it is not so important what others do or don't do.

I'm one of the vulnerable, I have to use a bus, no point being scared to, find a way, get on with it. Life thankfully, goes on.

cardibach · 02/10/2021 13:56

@bigvig if your mask is dirty, flappy or minging it a)isn’t the right size or shape for you and/or b) you need to wash it. HTH

MadeOfStarStuff · 02/10/2021 13:57

YANBU

I live somewhere they’re mandatory on public transport but increasing numbers of people aren’t bothering. And it’s mostly, but not exclusively, young people, especially males.

I know there are people who are exempt but I don’t believe an entire group of 8+ young people are all medically exempt, which is something I see regularly.

MurielSpriggs · 02/10/2021 14:00

@BeyondMyWits

Wear an FFP3 mask yourself, make sure it fits. Then it is not so important what others do or don't do.

I'm one of the vulnerable, I have to use a bus, no point being scared to, find a way, get on with it. Life thankfully, goes on.

Agreed - this is clearly the sensible long-term solution for those who remain anxious about catching covid. Whatever the rights and wrongs of it, the evidence of our own eyes is that you can't expect everyone else to take responsibility for your health.
OutwiththeOutCrowd · 02/10/2021 14:01

For better or worse, I don’t think the government’s message of ‘we’re all going to get it sooner or later’ is compatible with mitigating strategies, other than if the health services are overwhelmed.

However I continue to wear a mask in crowded places as a courtesy to the vulnerable. I would like people in this position to feel they can still go out and have a good chance of avoiding the virus, whatever the government says, if they are reasonably cautious.

nc4565 · 02/10/2021 14:03

Yabu to say it's only men.

I'm a woman and I don't wear one.

cardibach · 02/10/2021 14:03

@MurielSpriggs and yet we expect everyone to take some responsibility for us when driving, don’t we? We expect everyone to behave in a prudent manner? And swear loudly (at least) at those who refuse to? The idea of community responsibility hasn’t been invented for covid. If everyone wears a mask in high risk, low ventilation areas, we are all less likely to become ill - and not just with covid. It’s not exactly a big ask, is it?

SoupDragon · 02/10/2021 14:04

minging dirty flappy masks that we were all bullied into wearing

Why on earth were you wearing a minging, dirty, flappy mask? Do you usually have problems keeping things clean?