No masks after 19th July - Hoo-blardy-Ray!!!!!

[TeddingtonTrashbag]

As reported in the DM.
So happy if it’s true.

[quote Ginandfantalemon]@kindaclassy, yes I'm quite aware that masks protect others. but if they are no longer mandatory, then I need to get on with my life, so, therefore then, I will not care if anyone else wears one or not. It will be their choice and I wont judge.[/quote]
how on earth masks prevent you from getting on with your life in any way exactly?

Some of these posts allows me to understand how fascism starts and prevails

@TheVampiresWife

Maybe because we don’t want all the germy anti-maskers breathing their Covid breath all over us when we pop to the supermarket thanks

How do you know whether they're anti-maskers or exempt? Do only those who refuse to wear masks have germy Covid breath? Does Covid differentiate? Do you?

people who are genuinely exempt tend to respect social distancing for a start. Only anti-maskers, conspiracy theorists and the usual idiots behave with no respect for anyone around them.

@Twelvetimestwo

Some of these posts allows me to understand how fascism starts and prevails

I am sure car seat-belts refuser (and baby car seat refusers) use the same argument.

[quote Rainallnight]@apocalypsehow Why do you believe they’re detrimental?[/quote]

@Rainallnight

Hello. The virus itself is not stopped by makeshift pieces of cloth. It's too small. I think they provide people with a false sense of security and I think they are grubby things that are more likely to spread the virus through constant touching and pulling on and off.

Looking around any public place there are so many people wearing them around their chins or below their noses. I don't blame them in the heat. People are forever pulling them down to talk more clearly to me. I don't mind. I just can't play along that it's making a difference.

I know many people who wear masks and some who don't. They are all well meaning and considerate people. But the ones who do wear them pull scrunched up masks out of their pockets simply to comply with regulations. Very few of them believe the masks actually do any good overall. I personally can't join in with something like that if I don't believe in its value or efficacy.

Hand washing, yes. Giving each other space, yes. Vaccines, yes. Masks, not for me. It has never occurred to me before to join in with things I disagree with. Covid doesn't change that.

how on earth masks prevent you from getting on with your life in any way exactly?

If you struggle with masks doing the things you enjoyed (or things you have no choice to do) pre-covid will not be as appealing. Sitting in a cinema for two hours in a mask, going to a museum in a mask, working a twelve hour shift in a mask are all incredibly difficult. Life becomes more difficult. Surely you can see that?

people who are genuinely exempt tend to respect social distancing for a start

Funnily enough I've been told here constantly for a year that the reverse is true.

@TheVampiresWife

people who are genuinely exempt tend to respect social distancing for a start

Funnily enough I've been told here constantly for a year that the reverse is true.

you are confusing people exempt and masks refuser.

@kindaclassy I'm really not. I've been told that people in lanyards think they're invincible, lean over mask wearers to reach things in supermarkets, breathe down people's necks in queues... There's a year's worth of threads full of posts attacking mask exempt people.

@nordica I know everyone won't be vaccinated by 19th July, my daughter is 26 and doesn't get her first jag until 16th July. But I feel that once you have been double vaccinated, I see no problem getting a bit more freedom back and that should be the removal of masks. If I was one of the last lot be be vaccinated, then I would use my own initiative to keep myself as safe as possible. It's the younger ones now who need vaccinated, and in all fairness, I doubt the majority are caring so much about 'protecting others' My unvaccinated, as yet, daughter is just getting on with her life and knows her risks. But once the youngest have been vaccinated, are we then to going to have to protect anyone else, who for whatever reason, cant be vaccinated, or chooses not to be. If that is to be the case, then we will probably never see any normality again.

@Twelvetimestwo

Some of these posts allows me to understand how fascism starts and prevails

Some of these posts make me wonder how the human race got as far as it has.

@kindaclassy, masks certainly prevent me getting on with my life. I am exempt because of the anxiety they have caused me, but walking around with a lanyard round my neck would cause just as much anxiety too, simply as I would being judged by others. I have never been anywhere for a year since masks became mandatory (10th July 2020, it's etched in my brain). But I also realise, and it has became very apparent during the last year, that so many just will never understand, or even try to understand how hard it is. Just because we cant wear a mask we are not selfish, if that were the case, then I would be out and about, not giving a damn about anyone else. I have chosen to follow all the rules, and I'm sure there are many mask wearers who haven't. The only rule I cant follow is the mask one, therefore, I cant go out (other than for a walk), so you can maybe see that for my own sanity, I want masks to go. Sorry I'm ranting but it's bloody hard.

If masks make no difference they make no difference, wounds or not. Apocalypse now, what you say has no logic. Masks reduce spread of airborne droplets or they don't

@TheVampiresWife I think I remember a thread of yours on this subject last year?

Anyway, the op was lambasted, told to stay home, given a myriad of suggestions to enable mask wearing, etc. It was really horrible.

Maybe because we don’t want all the germy anti-maskers breathing their Covid breath all over us when we pop to the supermarket thanks

If you're standing that close to them that they are able to breathe all over you, I'd say the problem is yours not theirs.

Yippeeee!

Can't wait for all this Covid Theatre to stop.

Theres no peer reviewed evidence that masks significantly stop the spread. Despite mask wearing, cases have fluctuated the same way as some US states that scrapped masks ages ago.

The screens which the hospitality industry have spent millions on, have now be proven to cause more than good.

It won't be before long, when the evidence if it ever gets published as the government like to sit on reports that don't go with the scare agenda where masks will be proven to not significantly stop transmission and everyone will feel rather silly.

[quote WouldBeGood]@TheVampiresWife I think I remember a thread of yours on this subject last year?

Anyway, the op was lambasted, told to stay home, given a myriad of suggestions to enable mask wearing, etc. It was really horrible.[/quote]
I've started a couple of threads about it and yes, some of the responses were vile. And some of the suggestions were bizarre! I remember being linked to a 3ft tall clear plastic tube which sat on the shoulders with a comment along the lines of 'there, now you've no excuse'. It cost about £200 and had to be sent from America

Lots of comments about shopping but no regard for, or mention of, retail staff. Sad

@Flaxmeadow

Lots of comments about shopping but no regard for, or mention of, retail staff. Sad

Retail staff I know are delighted at the prospect of not having to wear masks for an eight hour shift anymore!

Agree @RuggerHug 🤣

TheVampiresWife

I'm tired of your incessant anecdotes.

That’s the one @TheVampiresWife! 😂

Can't wait for all this Covid Theatre to stop.
Theres no peer reviewed evidence that masks significantly stop the spread. Despite mask wearing, cases have fluctuated the same way as some US states that scrapped masks ages ago
This

@wewereliars

If masks make no difference they make no difference, wounds or not. Apocalypse now, what you say has no logic. Masks reduce spread of airborne droplets or they don't

Masks worn in sterile environments and changed regularly during surgery are not at all the same as homemade bits of cloth worn by the public. They are also only one of many ways used to keep that environment sterile.

There is no logic in comparing a surgical theatre to your local Lidl where people don random bits of fabric to make each other feel better.

Retail staff I know are delighted at the prospect of not having to wear masks for an eight hour shift anymore!

I don't know any who are, and I know several. I am one.