Will you continue to wear a mask?

[Bazoo23]

I absolutely will NOT.

I'm counting the days until I can ditch the horrible things.

@Thewiseoneincognito and how about you use your own mind and stop being such a sheep.

Why are so many people talking about dirty bits of cloth. Surely people are washing their cloth masks after use? Surely...

I would like to think people have some common sense.

I'm agog start so many people angrily talking about burning their masks at the first opportunity. Seriously, do what works for you, but isn't it tiring to be so angry?

If wearing a mask doesn’t bother you and is a very mild inconvenience on the level of wearing a seatbelt, then good for you, lovely. But not everyone is the same as you. Some people, for all sorts of reasons, find wearing a mask to be a lot more difficult than you do.

Surely this is not that hard an idea to understand? Being all condescendingly ‘agog’ about how ‘angry’ people are for finding something harder than you do and still doing it anyway makes you sound a bit clueless.

@Tallpaulwho

Why are so many people talking about dirty bits of cloth. Surely people are washing their cloth masks after use? Surely...

I would like to think people have some common sense.

Because very, very few masks (if any) will be washed and/or disposed of after every single use.

Say you're out all day and you go into five different places over the course of 8-9 hours. People aren't going to carry a stash of 5 masks around with them - they'll use the same one all day and stick it in their pocket or bag so it doesn't get lost, and so it's right there when they next need to use it.

So the mask may be clean in the morning, but it's then stuck in someone's pocket (which may be clean too), and taken out at, say, the petrol station. It's worn, breathed on, and shoved (warm and moist) back in the pocket. Repeat 4-5 times over a day while the person goes about their business and the mask isn't going to be clean by the end of the day!

@Tallpaulwho

Why are so many people talking about dirty bits of cloth. Surely people are washing their cloth masks after use? Surely...

I would like to think people have some common sense.

Most aren't. Many people I know are wearing a mask for show, because it's expected, and because they don't want a fine.

People keep masks in pockets, in the car, in a bag. They are not washing their masks every use which is guidance. If you are doing the mask thing "properly" according to the government you'd be removing it after every use, sealing it in a ziplock bag and laundering - even if all you've done is pop into the local corner shop for a pint of milk.

Obviously people are thinking that laundering a mask after 2 minutes' use is way OTT. So are reusing masks multiple times. So by government standards they are "dirty". By anyone else's standards (apart from the MN covid police) they are fine for multiple uses.

I've been using the same disposable blue mask for a fortnight. Over that period it's been on my face for no more than 90 minutes.

[quote loubylou1010]@Thewiseoneincognito and how about you use your own mind and stop being such a sheep. [/quote]
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[quote loubylou1010]@Thewiseoneincognito and how about you use your own mind and stop being such a sheep. [/quote]
Comments like this are why we are the laughing stock of the world.

Genuinely interested as to why some posters think that the UK is so interesting to people in other countries, who are gleefully laughing at people here.

As if they don't have anything else to do with their lives, sitting on their sofa in Peru/Thailand/Uganda, having a good old giggle over the UK covid response.

@TheGenealogist

Genuinely interested as to why some posters think that the UK is so interesting to people in other countries, who are gleefully laughing at people here.

As if they don't have anything else to do with their lives, sitting on their sofa in Peru/Thailand/Uganda, having a good old giggle over the UK covid response.

Yeah it’s a bit odd. Are any of us laughing at any other countries? ‘Hahaha look at Brazil’s hospitals being overwhelmed because Bolsanaro played down the threat, so funny! Lolllll Indian hospitals ran out of oxygen, hilarious, my sides are splitting.’ You’d have to be an absolute sociopath.

Cant wait to be walking around mask free watching all the mask warriors silently rage because they cant enforce it anymore.

No. I'll be ditching mine as soon as possible. I still live in hope that they will no longer be mandatory after 19th July, but realise that that could still change.

I suspect they might be required still for things like hospital and other medical appointments so will keep one handy for those, but otherwise I won't be bothering with the fuckers.

@Bazoo23

Cant wait to be walking around mask free watching all the mask warriors silently rage because they cant enforce it anymore.

Oh me too! I'm also looking forward to many more threads on here about how we should be masked up regardless "for the greater good" etc.

@TheGenealogist

Genuinely interested as to why some posters think that the UK is so interesting to people in other countries, who are gleefully laughing at people here.

As if they don't have anything else to do with their lives, sitting on their sofa in Peru/Thailand/Uganda, having a good old giggle over the UK covid response.

Maybe not rolling around laughing but there’s a fair few countries that scratch their heads at our high numbers and the number of ‘exempt’ from face masks, in many countries our excuses would not be accepted or tolerated by government or fellow citizens.

We should have this nailed and yet we’re so far from it, it would be hilarious if it wasn’t so serious and deadly.

it has literally no impact on me to wear a mask in crowded poorly ventilated places, and may help prevent chains of infection if I'm infectious and unaware

no brainer for me!

Sadly, no other person should be out at more risk because someone cannot or chooses not to give others the same protection they're receiving and if this means they cannot physically, in person, access certain facilities, than so be it. Given the ability to shop online etc and access many facilities online, they're not being excluded, they just have to use an alternative way to access. Nothing inhumane about that

Do you feel the same about people who are cannot/wont have the vaccine too?

Maybe not rolling around laughing but there’s a fair few countries that scratch their heads at our high numbers and the number of ‘exempt’ from face masks, in many countries our excuses would not be accepted or tolerated by government or fellow citizens.

You think? Most people overseas literally could not give a single fuck about our government's response. Same as I give no fucks about what's going on in Italy, or Sweden, or Mexico, or any of the dozens of other countries which I don't intend to visit and where I don't have family.

Most people aren't spending their days poring over statistics and working out a league table of who's doing best or worst. Most people are just getting on with their lives and dealing with the restrictions their own governmnet is placing on them.

I stopped on 21 June. Very few person le asked me. If they did I said I was exempt.

I think @Thewiseoneincognito just needs to become a handmaid and be done with it 🙄

@TheGenealogist

Maybe not rolling around laughing but there’s a fair few countries that scratch their heads at our high numbers and the number of ‘exempt’ from face masks, in many countries our excuses would not be accepted or tolerated by government or fellow citizens.

You think? Most people overseas literally could not give a single fuck about our government's response. Same as I give no fucks about what's going on in Italy, or Sweden, or Mexico, or any of the dozens of other countries which I don't intend to visit and where I don't have family.

Most people aren't spending their days poring over statistics and working out a league table of who's doing best or worst. Most people are just getting on with their lives and dealing with the restrictions their own governmnet is placing on them.

And yet here you are arguing over a subject you said you don’t give a fuck about on a thread debating face masks on Mumsnet 🙃😘

Maybe not rolling around laughing but there’s a fair few countries that scratch their heads at our high numbers and the number of ‘exempt’ from face masks, in many countries our excuses would not be accepted or tolerated by government or fellow citizens.

I'm eternally grateful that I don't live in some of those countries. At least in the UK, people weren't physically locked in their own homes :)

@loubylou1010

I think *@Thewiseoneincognito* just needs to become a handmaid and be done with it 🙄

💃🏻

@Bazoo23

Cant wait to be walking around mask free watching all the mask warriors silently rage because they cant enforce it anymore.

Yes absolutely for that reason I can’t wait .

a fair few countries that scratch their heads at our high numbers and the number of ‘exempt’ from face masks

That's weird. Why? Don't they have their own problems to care about? Why give a toss what Uk (or Brazil or Switzerland or Taiwan) - are doing.

[quote sadperson16]@JollyAndBright,how do you know it is mask wearing that has prevented the medical staff from contracting Covid?[/quote]
Because unless all five are naturally immune common sense says it’s wearing a mask and hand washing (in preproduction for removing the mask) that has prevented them catching it.

The two community nurses are literally going into dozens of peoples houses every day, and have been throughout the entire pandemic a good percentage of the homes they visit have been Covid positive patients.

Or do you think it’s just luck that they all managed to avoid catching the highly contagious virus?

Or do you think it’s just luck that they all managed to avoid catching the highly contagious virus?

Yep, pretty much.