Does anyone feel really uncomfortable seeing people in masks?

[Lissy23]

I do.
It feels to be like their ‘faceless’ beings.
I know this sounds really far fetched, but it’s how I feel.

I also find it very unpleasant being unable to see somebody’s facial expression and to know whether they are smiling at me.
I think I’m on the spectrum, possibly aspergers, I’ve been told by various therapists that it’s a possibility.

How will anyone meet a romantic partner if they can’t see their face? Only their eyes? I know eyes are supposed to be the ‘window the soul’ but I can’t bear not seeing somebody’s entire face.

I went to the pharmacy the other day and the pharmacist was wearing a mask, he was talking to me and I didn’t understand him at all. I didn’t think I relied on lip reading, but I obviously do. He said it twice and I didn’t get it, so I just pretended I had

I know this is all for the greater good. But I feel so depressed and anxious by it all, I already suffer with mental health issues.

I am finding it difficult reading books and watching tv programme or films because they make me tearful and remind me of life before all of this ‘new normal’. I’m wondering if I should speak to a doctor. But I have no idea how to word it.
I’ve already had people calling me selfish and childish (friends and family) for being anxious about wearing a face covering.
It isn’t just other people wearing them, I can’t breathe when I have anything covering my nose and mouth and it often induces a panic attack.

I don't think the oppression of women association has anything to do with this at all.

This is ignorant people with a massive chip on their shoulders who 'won't be told what to do' asserting their god given right to be selfish assholes.

People having to wear masks in shops will make me more inclined to visit shops. It will be a safer environment for shoppers and staff.

@mathanxiety

I don't think the oppression of women association has anything to do with this at all.

This is ignorant people with a massive chip on their shoulders who 'won't be told what to do' asserting their god given right to be selfish assholes.

Exactly!

countFiaco
I think it will lead to the death of the high street because why would you go to a shop when you can buy online?”

For every shopper who stays away, one will return. I want to be able to choose my family’s food. Because of vulnerable family members, one extremely, everything has been online for 4 months and I’m mightily sick and tired of fatty meat, manky fruit and 4 pints of milk to be used by the next day.
I have state of the art masks from Korea and look forward to choosing in 24th July. I always shopped online for everything else anyway, so won’t affect any high street shops any more than I ever did.

And frankly it makes no sense, we don't wear masks in restaurants or pubs or at work all of which involve being in close contact with others or a sustained period but popping into a shop does not.

I do. My work has a strict masks inside policy. As well as restricted access to the building.
Where I live, restaurants operate at 1/2 or 1/3 capacity, and larger outside areas.
No pubs open.
This is a UK contradiction.
And I can understand why the UK public is fed up of these half arsed measures.

People having to wear masks in shops will make me more inclined to visit shops. It will be a safer environment for shoppers and staff.

And this is why masks will be compulsory. They need the fearful ones to get out and spending again.

...it makes no sense, we don't wear masks in restaurants or pubs or at work all of which involve being in close contact with others or a sustained period but popping into a shop does not.

You should be wearing masks everywhere. After the second lockdown, which will happen about two weeks after schools reopen, if not sooner, you will find yourself wearing a mask everywhere.

(People working in shops wear masks and you need to wear one to protect them.)

After the second lockdown, which will happen about two weeks after schools reopen, if not sooner, you will find yourself wearing a mask everywhere.

Have you polished your crystal ball tonight ?

@userxx

After the second lockdown, which will happen about two weeks after schools reopen, if not sooner, you will find yourself wearing a mask everywhere.

Have you polished your crystal ball tonight ?

😆

There won't be a second lockdown. The country will go bankrupt.

@Waxonwaxoff0

There won't be a second lockdown. The country will go bankrupt.

There will be if numbers rise like crazy again.

To prevent another, people will have to keep having respiratory hygiene measures in their lives.
Distancing
Avoiding crowds
Hand washing
Masks
Work from home when possible
...

Or localised lockdowns which are in place rather than whole nation

True.

Millions under lockdown again as virus continues to spread | AFP