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Will Government announce mandatory face coverings in shops by Monday?

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Derbygerbil · 05/06/2020 20:38

It seems they are now convinced that face coverings are a good idea in enclosed spaces, and are happy to make mandate it.... They are desperate to keep infections down so they can continue to open up the economy, so my money is on them extending it over the weekend to more
places, still from 15 June to give people time to comply.... especially given the very recent WHO advice.

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HeIenaDove · 09/06/2020 00:09

queueing in order to manage capacity just now, I can't see how that will work in the wind, rain, sleet and snow of Autumn and Winter

Im even less likely to do it in the blazing sun. I cant stand the heat. Gets too hot in my flat i the summer I like to get a break from it not seek out more of it.

Chelsea567 · 09/06/2020 00:13

£60 for a box of 20!!! ShockShock

HeIenaDove · 09/06/2020 00:29

So the prices of masks are being hiked already.

Wont be long before we see videos of people being bullied on public transport for not wearing one.

TheCanterburyWhales · 09/06/2020 06:35

What will probably happen (happened here 2 months ago) is that CF shops hiked prices and the govt stepped in. We get surgical masks from pharmacies and the govt has set the price of 61c per mask as a maximum they can charge. There's much less choice here (you can't buy this kind of thing anywhere other than pharmacies or the big discount stores run generally by Chinese businesses)
If it becomes law over there I imagine people not having one won't be allowed onto the public transport in the first place. That's what happened here with supermarkets. No mask no entry.

Papatron · 09/06/2020 07:48

You don't have to social distance any more. Just carry a placard protesting an issue of social justice and you can do what you like without interference.

TheCanterburyWhales · 09/06/2020 11:25

Said the racist.

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Derbygerbil · 09/06/2020 21:44

Well, it seems I was well and truly wrong. I had been convinced that the Government would reduce the permitted social distance with a trade off that face coverings would need to be used.
But it seems we are ploughing our own path...

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ImaPinkToothbrush · 09/06/2020 22:45

I'm baffled why we didn't start wearing masks straight away. I ordered a box in January when we saw this coming.

They're commonplace in many Asian countries, even before Covid. It's totally normal to wear one in the street. I don't understand why the government here were so reluctant... was it to protect stocks?

ToothFairyNemesis · 09/06/2020 23:26

I am baffled as to why we didn’t do many things straight away!

SudokuBook · 10/06/2020 11:36

So when the virus was rife they didn’t help, and now there’s 1 in 1000 people with it they do.

Ok then.

Why are people so happy to go along with such absolute bullshit?

ToothFairyNemesis · 10/06/2020 12:41

@SudokuBook they always helped, they always protected other people by as high as 40%. The issue is the government have done every too late , and in half measures.
There should be both anger that masks were not introduced sooner and relief that they finally have been. Although again in half measures , masks should be mandatory for all public indoor places and private places of work excluding home working.

TheCanterburyWhales · 10/06/2020 13:05

They always helped, it's just that the govt wanted to take no responsibility for the people of the UK whilst expecting them to take on more responsibility than is decent to expect of any nation's people.

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Derbygerbil · 10/06/2020 14:19

So when the virus was rife they didn’t help, and now there’s 1 in 1000 people with it they do.

It’s now 1 in 1,000 because most people have been socially distancing... even those that haven’t will likely have had far less social contact than they did before - no big groups of strangers huddled together inside for long periods in cinema, buses and pubs...

Perhaps it would be 1 in 2,000 if face coverings had been standard.

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SudokuBook · 11/06/2020 11:16

They always helped, it's just that the govt wanted to take no responsibility for the people of the UK whilst expecting them to take on more responsibility than is decent to expect of any nation's people.

This is probably it.

Either they lied then, or they are lying now. Neither is great is it.

SudokuBook · 11/06/2020 11:17

Perhaps it would be 1 in 2,000 if face coverings had been standard.

And it might never have got as bad in the first place if they had said to wear them when 1 in 40 people had it. As it is now I just don’t see why we should believe them on anything

Ifailed · 12/06/2020 08:03

As the Government charges VAT on masks, I expect them to be made compulsory at some point.

jobhunter7 · 12/06/2020 17:12

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theonlywayisapple · 14/06/2020 16:56

Hope not. They are useless anyway

cologne4711 · 14/06/2020 20:07

If customers wore them, staff would not need to.

They are compulsory in shops in Germany so maybe we should do the same - a lot of commentators have suggested Germany has handled this all rather well - maybe we should follow their example

Exactly. If you really can't cope with them, use online shopping or click and collect instead.

TheCanterburyWhales · 14/06/2020 20:57

Why do you think medical practitioners and scientists don't say they're useless theonlyway?

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