Why don't supermarkets ask everybody who comes in to wear a mask?

[newfunkychicken]

Or am i being thick?

[PestymcPestFace]

Something we totally agree on Sostenueto , a no deal Brexit at this time is another insane tactic. Gotta guess that it will make some people rich.

[Sostenueto]

If you want to make masks compulsory then the government will have to supply them. Even advising wearing one could take the supply of masks away from Frontline workers in NHS who need them more than Joe public.

[Pleasedontdothat]

I was listening to an interview with Peter Horby, who’s chair of the government’s New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag). He’s heading up the major Recovery trial into drugs for coronavirus and I suspect knows rather more about virus transmission than anyone on this thread.

He was asked about masks - he doesn’t wear one himself and says the evidence doesn’t warrant making them mandatory or even advisory for people in non-medical settings. Most people don’t wear them properly, they’re not fitted or they wear them walking along the street (where there’s no benefit to anyone either wearer or passerby) and pull them down to talk to somebody else. They’re uncomfortable, hot and have to be changed frequently and the benefits don’t outweigh the negatives. He says that hand-washing, keeping 2m away from other people and coughing or sneezing into your elbow are all more effective at stopping transmission and have less impact on individuals than mask wearing

[Sostenueto]

Oh definately. Dominic Cummings sitting on sage committee? His mate running the IT business which crashed yesterday!( NHS site for Covid tests) People already making money pestie and don't forget all the ppe companies puting up their prices like a box of gloves usually £2 now £16 and already exploited by now public buying them along with the demand now for masks. Less for NHS and more costly but who cares as long as Joe public can continue with their daily browse round supermarkets! I expect insect repellent to be sold out by Monday!

[Sostenueto]

pleasedontdothat another sensible poster!

[Sostenueto]

PS when looking at figures of hospital Covid deaths please add on at least 30% for those deaths in carehomes and in the community and you will see we reached the governments accepted level of deaths ( 20000) s while back. Yet another one of their lies. Also the government has this morning given you permission to use a and e and call an ambulance. You no longer have to be blue in face before you get help.