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Idiots not wearing masks on the bus

68 replies

Dongdingdong · 20/10/2020 08:38

I live in London, don't own a car and occasionally have to take the bus to get to places.

Yesterday I got on the bus and counted five people not wearing masks. Two of them didn't have any masks on them at all, so might have been exempt or might not - who knows.

But the other three were wearing masks around their necks but not on their faces. The bus was quite busy and I was forced to stand near to one of these people, as there was nowhere to sit.

How selfish can you be to get on a bus and not give a damn if you infect other people? Does it really take much to move the mask from your neck to your face?

They were all young people so perhaps they simply don't care, as the risk to them is lower than other age groups. But they could try thinking of other people.

OP posts:
OpheliasCrayon · 20/10/2020 08:48

Another judging post. You do you. They'll do them. I'll do me.

TolpuddleFarter · 20/10/2020 08:54

If you believe your mask works, why do you care?

Pertella · 20/10/2020 08:56

Yes, yes, stupid, selfish, killing granny, awful people, deny them care.

Any more to add?

MrsPernicious · 20/10/2020 08:59

The problem Dongding is that many people are blissfully ignorant of the concept of masks. The idea that a mask can help keep you potentially contaminated droplets off other people, is just too an altruistic concept for some to grasp. Like the first two replies you got Sad

Mother40 · 20/10/2020 09:02

How can this be a judging post when 3 had masks round their necks? Obviously not exempt but couldn't be bothered to wear them. It is really selfish. If you can wear one you should.

Original poster
Dongdingdong · 20/10/2020 09:03

I see the Covidiots are out in force this morning!

If you believe your mask works, why do you care?

To protect the two people in the bus who weren’t wearing masks for (probably) legitimate reasons, for starters.

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Minerva00 · 20/10/2020 09:03

The pee analogy pretty much sums it up.

If we all run around naked, and someone pee's on you, you get wet.

If you have trousers on, and someone pees on you, some pee get through, but not as much.

If the person peeing on you has trousers on, they get wet, you stay dry.

I really can't understand why people don't get that wearing masks is mainly to protect others. What a selfish world we live in.

Jrobhatch29 · 20/10/2020 09:06

You lost me at "Covidiot"

Original poster
Dongdingdong · 20/10/2020 09:06

I really can't understand why people don't get that wearing masks is mainly to protect others. What a selfish world we live in.

This.

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SaskiaRembrandt · 20/10/2020 09:09

As PP have pointed out, masks are to protect other people not the wearer. Basically, if someone is not wearing a mask when they could, they are walking around saying 'look at me, I'm a selfish arsehole who couldn't give a shit about the health of other human beings'. That they try to hide behind people who genuinely can't wear masks makes them even bigger arseholes.

goldrabbit22 · 20/10/2020 09:11

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pineapplepizzas · 20/10/2020 09:14

You don't get irreversible brain damage from mask wearing  @goldrabbit22 but then you can't argue with stupid either

Cheesecake53 · 20/10/2020 09:14

@MrsPernicious

The problem Dongding is that many people are blissfully ignorant of the concept of masks. The idea that a mask can help keep you potentially contaminated droplets off other people, is just too an altruistic concept for some to grasp. Like the first two replies you got Sad
Exactly this.

I was on a bus and as soon as a woman came on, and sat down across the aisle from us, she pulled her mask under her nose. So clearly she could wear a mask, but chose to not bother with it on the bus.

TheSeedsOfADream · 20/10/2020 09:15

@goldrabbit22

Maybe they're not such idiots, after all.

Maybe they realise the terrible dangers associated with oxygen depravation from mask wearing - brain damage that's irreversible and damage to all organs of the body.

You wouldn't deliberately under water your body, just enough to keep hydrated to a certain degree but no optimal, and therefore, detrimental to the body in the longer term.

Why should it be any different with oxygen?

Phew! Remind me to sell the surgeon operating on my brain to take his mask off. Wouldn't want him going doollally on me.
TheSeedsOfADream · 20/10/2020 09:16

@pineapplepizzas

You don't get irreversible brain damage from mask wearing  *@goldrabbit22* but then you can't argue with stupid either
Grin
Mother40 · 20/10/2020 09:17

@goldrabbit22 A face mask can be safely worn for several hours. Don't really think brain damage was a concern for them on a bus journey!

AcornAutumn · 20/10/2020 09:17

@Dongdingdong

I see the Covidiots are out in force this morning!

If you believe your mask works, why do you care?

To protect the two people in the bus who weren’t wearing masks for (probably) legitimate reasons, for starters.

I’m exempt and my health is such that I’d fare the same with covid as flu and pneumonia and all the other nasties out there - it would not be good!

I don’t mind people choosing not to wear masks. I have concerns around bacterial infection with those. My best friend washes hers in Milton but I’m not sure how good that is. I can understand no one wants to breathe in disinfectant fumes.

AcornAutumn · 20/10/2020 09:18

Seeds - isn’t a lot of surgery done without masks now?

redcarbluecar · 20/10/2020 09:19

My suggestion is that you try not to look at other people so that you don’t notice what they’re doing and don’t get wound up. Appreciate this won’t always be possible, and am not saying they’re not being selfish (although would dispute the implication that non-MW are all young), but you don’t have to sit on the bus counting. There’s only so much you can control, and you can’t do an awful lot about strangers’ behaviour.

SnuggyBuggy · 20/10/2020 09:19

I understand some people are exempt from wearing masks but there is no class of people required to wear a mask but not actually cover their nose and mouth

Ginfordinner · 20/10/2020 09:20

What's so depraved about oxygen?😁

Cloudybean · 20/10/2020 09:20

Another judging post. You do you. They'll do them. I'll do me.

Except that's not how it works is it, if something is being done for the benefit of others, ie wearing a mask. If they were exempt it's unlikely they'd have them around their necks, no?

Mother40 · 20/10/2020 09:21

If no one is criticised for not wearing a mask etc and allowed to ignore all the rules, then cases will go up and up. If it's only the minority doing the right thing, the outcome is not.going to be good.

OpheliasCrayon · 20/10/2020 09:22

I wear one. I wear one all day at work and I wear one when I have to outside work. Because of my job I could risk other people so I so whatever the rules are.
Judging people though and starting MN posts to demonstrate how virtuous you are (by pointing out how everyone else is being terrible and killing people immediately by not following the rules to the same exacting standard as yourself ) is just really petty in my opinion.
Whilst I think we should do whatever the rules say I think posts like this are just the OP wanting a great big pat on the back for being better than the people they've seen. It's virtue signalling to the extreme.

Do I think people should be wearing their face covering under their noses? No.
Do I wear mine? Yes
Do I need to point out everyone else's flaws so I look amazing? No

To be honest if you have a mask round your neck you likely know you're being a knob and you're ok with it because you're obviously choosing to visually flout the rules. So a mumsnet post that you're never going to see isn't going to bother you.

Well done OP you wore your face covering when the other people didn't. Go you!

Is that what you want? Because it feels like you do. So that's why I reply the way I do to these messages because I honestly cannot see what the point of them is. We can all see people who flout the rules - we all know it happens.

Burnthurst187 · 20/10/2020 09:24

@goldrabbit22

Maybe they're not such idiots, after all.

Maybe they realise the terrible dangers associated with oxygen depravation from mask wearing - brain damage that's irreversible and damage to all organs of the body.

You wouldn't deliberately under water your body, just enough to keep hydrated to a certain degree but no optimal, and therefore, detrimental to the body in the longer term.

Why should it be any different with oxygen?

I've been wearing a mask for months and so have work colleagues, family and friends. None have suffered any brain damage. I guess we must just be lucky

Do you think that the world is flat too?