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Are you going to continue wearing a mask

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Orangesandlemons77 · 12/07/2021 17:03

After next week?

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TheVampiresWife · 15/07/2021 19:02

@JassyRadlett I'm in the North East. I've banged on about this so many times on here (apologies for sounding like a broken record!) but since you asked... In the past year I've been called a 'disease breathed tramp', had someone pull their mask down to come right up into my face and literally hiss that I don't deserve to go to hospital if I become ill, been spat at in a supermarket, been tutted/glared/eye rolled at more times than I can count, been 'reported' to shop staff and bus drivers, been talked about in stage whispers on buses, been told I need a smack, that I'm a selfish bitch, and on and on and on.

Incidentally retail/medical/transport staff have all been absolutely lovely. It's the general public who have been awful. And nearly all of them have been men. I was in Lidl last summer and this bloke was doing the whole glaring/tutting/talking to his wife VERY LOUDLY INDEED about superspreaders and snowflakes when we were in the same aisle. Just then DH - who had been in a different aisle getting something - came back and oh my god did the bloke blush to the roots of his hair and scuttle off sharpish. Having a go at an apparently lone woman is fine it seems but they're not so hard when a man shows up - which is depressing on so many levels, but also fucking hilarious Grin

TheVampiresWife · 15/07/2021 19:03

And I've decided I'm going to call my debut album 'Superspreaders and Snowflakes' Grin

StrongArm · 15/07/2021 19:07

No :)

Backofbeyond50 · 15/07/2021 19:09

people who CANNOT put on, wear or remove a face covering because of a physical or mental illness or impairment, or disability where putting on, wearing or removing a face covering will cause you severe distress if you are speaking to or providing assistance to someone who relies on lip reading, clear sound or facial expressions to communicateto avoid harm or injury, or the risk of harm or injury, to yourself or others ‒ including if it would negatively impact on your ability to exercise or participate in a strenuous activitypolice officers and other emergency workers, given that this may interfere with their ability to serve the public

Exemption rules suggest Exemption are for people who cannot wear a mask at all. So those who say they are exempt but generally wear a mask are on precarious ground. That especially means my perfectly healthy conspiracy theorist relative who is exempt but wears one some of the time whilst telling others who don't want to wear 'face nappies' what to say if challenged.
As an example I have asthma so I could say I can't wear a mask but 99% of the time I can wear one so I do. Only on one occasion did it get too much do I went outside for a bit.

gardeninggirl68 · 15/07/2021 19:14

wellno,nobody is on 'precarious ground' ...theres no laws!

Backofbeyond50 · 15/07/2021 19:17

Are you saying they are guidelines not laws? I haven't checked the legal status of the rules. @gardeninggirl68

Backofbeyond50 · 15/07/2021 19:18

Anyway in a few days it will be academic as the rules, laws, guidelines or whatever they are won't apply.

poshme · 15/07/2021 19:23

No I will not be wearing a mask in shops any more. Masks are there to protect other people in case I have infectious COVID.

I am double vaccinated, and currently have COVID. Once I am released to go out again, I will not be infectious. So I am no risk to anyone else, and will not wear a mask.

Againstmachine · 15/07/2021 19:27

wellno,nobody is on 'precarious ground' ...theres no laws!

Exactly people on here can call people all names, but there is no compunction to wear them, I think in a few weeks less and less people will wear them.

Backofbeyond50 · 15/07/2021 20:04

Well it said here it was the law.

Are you going to continue wearing a mask
Backofbeyond50 · 15/07/2021 20:05

Unless exempt of course

User135644 · 15/07/2021 20:21

When cases are in the hundreds of thousands again and hospitals full up, you won't wear a mask in a busy shop or train? Seriously?

Againstmachine · 15/07/2021 20:26

When cases are in the hundreds of thousands again and hospitals full up, you won't wear a mask in a busy shop or train? Seriously?

I'd imagine if masks.were that effective it wouldn't get that bad.

TerritorialPissings · 15/07/2021 20:29

@User135644

When cases are in the hundreds of thousands again and hospitals full up, you won't wear a mask in a busy shop or train? Seriously?
They were working so effectively in November and December…oh no, wait….!
TheVampiresWife · 15/07/2021 20:30

@User135644

When cases are in the hundreds of thousands again and hospitals full up, you won't wear a mask in a busy shop or train? Seriously?
I thought masks stopped the spread?
gardeninggirl68 · 15/07/2021 20:41

@Backofbeyond50

Well it said here it was the law.
as of monday that is no more.....personal choice only

laws, guidelines....all gone

Backofbeyond50 · 15/07/2021 20:55

@gardeninggirl68 yes I was talking historically and right now where there was a law or the law still applied. Your post implies there was never a Law.

Florelei · 15/07/2021 21:08

🙄

whatabelter · 15/07/2021 21:20

Yes I will

gardeninggirl68 · 15/07/2021 21:22

it was a totally unenforceable law. so pretty useless all round really

nobody was challenged on it or could get into trouble for self declaration as exempt. pointless

MercyBooth · 15/07/2021 22:38

Of course nobody should be spitting at anyone - but actions such as yours validate those who choose to behave so disgustingly

Minimizing spitting when this is the way Covid is spread reveals your true colours which you have nailed to the coercive control mast.

You arent bothered about spitting but you are bothered about someone not wearing a mask. We see you!!!

MercyBooth · 15/07/2021 22:44

@TheVampiresWife Like this cunt.....

TheVampiresWife · 15/07/2021 22:46

@MercyBooth

Of course nobody should be spitting at anyone - but actions such as yours validate those who choose to behave so disgustingly

Minimizing spitting when this is the way Covid is spread reveals your true colours which you have nailed to the coercive control mast.

You arent bothered about spitting but you are bothered about someone not wearing a mask. We see you!!!

I'm confused - are you saying I'm not bothered about someone spitting at me for being exempt (of course I am) and that I'm bothered about people not wearing masks (I'm not)?
TheVampiresWife · 15/07/2021 22:47

Ah @MercyBooth I get what you're saying now! Apologies. Wanged on codeine thanks to dodgy feet and not thinking too clearly Grin

MercyBooth · 15/07/2021 23:00

No worries. @TheVampiresWife Smile

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