If masks are made mandatory in England, will this put you off high street shopping?

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No - because mask is PPE and combined with other common sense mitigation measures provides extra marginal safety benefit.

Yes - if more people are out in public despite all wearing masks I will prefer to stay as social distance as possible from others who may be unknowingly asymptomatic super spreaders. Even though I only touch things I buy etc.

Wearing masks is a simple tool (combined with other obvious common sense behaviours) to maximum Covid safety and mitigate risks as therefore worn by billions globally including Scotland. Some English people may apparently have this new pandemic best described as exceptionalism entitlement anti rule and don't follow scientific advice ism. I think this particular "condition" tends to be only found in England but rare in most overseas nations were mask wearing is a bit like putting on a vehicle seat safety belt and seen as logical and mutually beneficial and respectful for non gambling types. I am guessing their may be some Covid performance statistics globally for nations that of course wear PPE and those that avoid PPE.

A face covering is not ppe

A face covering is not ppe

No. I've been food shopping only since lockdown. All else on line. We need to go shopping though. Masks would encourage me to shop.

Yes I hate wearing one

Yes, in my experience the people in shops wearing masks seem to think it makes them invincible and removes the need for them to social distance. In my opinion it'd be better if everyone just distanced properly.

Yes I’ll buy on line if this is the new stance

No it would encourage me to go if more people would cover their manky gobs with masks.

Very sensible step that should have been introduced weeks ago.

Most of the high street is online anyway apart from a Primark so no need to go out to the shops, supermarket online shop once a week and of course Amazon so no need for a mask or queueing. Keeping all the delivery drivers in a job as well

Yes.

Until now, I’ve preferred to do my food shopping in a supermarket but get everything else from smaller shops on the high street. Plus clothes and shoes. It was enjoyable.

Wearing a face mask is miserable & uncomfortable so I’ll get as much as I can at the supermarket and not bother with the rest, or buy on-line if absolutely unavoidable.

Any pleasure in shopping is gone so why bother?

After watching Boris Johnson on the news earlier today where he took his mask off, screwed it up into a ball and then stuffed it in his pocket to no doubt re-use later (the absolute opposite of how a mask should be handled), I find it laughable that he has the right to lecture and legislate on their mandatory use for health protection purposes when he clearly has zero understanding of how improper use can cause more harm!!

No I'd be more likely to shop on the high street. It's a safety precaution and anything that makes it safer makes me more likely to go out

Yes, I’d only do what i consider to be essential shopping. And only what I can’t do online. I loathe masks and I find I can’t really breathe properly when wearing one.

Yes

Not at all. Apart from those with health reasons I don't know why people get so irate about it

I won't do a lazy 3 hour browse and pick up bits and pieces. Who wants to wear a mask for hours? It'll be essentials only, I'll make the next year about saving loads. 🤷‍♀️

It's quite worrying from an economic perspective. I wonder what Rishi Sunak thinks. This will absolutely destroy the high street AND especially the malls.

Yes, I had to wear one a few times at a theme park last week and I was hot within minutes, I'd hate to wear one for a clothes shopping trip.

Yes because I feel claustrophobic when I wear one. Of course if i have to wear one I do but I feel like I am being suffocated.

Yes, hate wearing them.

As long as the queuing outside stops, I wouldn't necessarily mind wearing a mask. I wouldn't bother if we had to wear masks and still put up with the queuing and doing the social distancing dance everytime you meet someone else!

I already cba to shop because I cba with the queueing.

It has just been announced on the BBC that face coverings will be mandatory in shops from the 24 th July !

People who say they can't breathe properly in them seriously need to get a grip though, unless they have a medical condition.

@Grandmi such a massive shame for shops and their employees.

Sadly many including us will no longer be shopping until this is reversed :(