Who isn't wearing a mask today?

[ItsVousNotMoi]

AIBU not to wear a mask on the train today? What can anyone do to you anyway??

FREEDOM!!!!!!

It says ventilation is more useful than arguing about masks, not more useful than wearing them. In reality, both are super important, and ventilation is chronically overlooked. So many places will fastidiously scrub and wipe every surface but won’t open the bloody window - the one thing that would actually make a difference! Wearing a mask is essential in a poorly ventilated space, of which there are far too many.

Ventilation is really important.

I was explaining it to my kids when one of them brought Covid home from school.

It's like Robinson's squash (other brands are available). If you put some in a glass of water, it tastes like squash. If you put the same amount in a pond, it will taste like pond. Ditto ocean. If it's watered down enough, it's not squash anymore.

And I'm sick of the hygiene theatre. By all means wash or sanitise your hands, and it's great to pass over lift buttons and doorknobs etc with a wipe and all that but it does jack if you are breathing in Covid particles through your mask because the bloody doors and windows are shut.

I went to a museum of sorts today....Ndola and outdoor spaces. The indoor spaces were huge and open, but at the same time there were a lot of people inside and so groups were obviously standing in crowds and standing next to each other and I would say about 75% of them were unmasked.

It felt so nice to feel like life was normal again (of sorts).

People still wearing masks must be seriously gripped by anxiety it’s not normal

Aaand here comes the wind up merchant……

People still wearing masks must be seriously gripped by anxiety it’s not normal

Nah they just aren’t selfish cunts.

@Watapalava

People still wearing masks must be seriously gripped by anxiety it’s not normal

You may not have realised but there is a pandemic in these abnormal times. It is possible also anxious for some given the severity of the pandemic so far and the changes to normality around the rest of UK outside England, let alone globally where masking is normal and a civic duty of care mutual protection risk mitigation measure which is possibly lost on those who are invincible and arguably more likely to have inadvertently spread than those who are precautionary.

@FloFlower

Aaand here comes the wind up merchant……

Covidiot not comedian. It’s spread because of careless care free attitude. Forever the cause and never the solution.

Been nice and mask free, apart from at work since 19th it's lovely, no need to call people cunts, that's behaviour is uncalled.

@ResIpsaLoquiturInterAlia - I’m not buying it I’m afraid. Perhaps I’m naive but surely people don’t think like the pp. I’m convinced that a lot of the posters on here (and it’s largely the same names over and over again) are on the windup.

@Watapalava

People still wearing masks must be seriously gripped by anxiety it’s not normal

No, Watapalava, just following the current government advice that it is 'expected and recommended to' in some situations?

"You are expected and recommended to continue wearing a face covering in crowded and enclosed spaces where you come into contact with people you don’t usually meet. In particular, where the risk of transmission is likely to be greater."

Perhaps you hadn't read the latest government guidelines Maybe you'd better do so before you claim anyone wearing a mask must be 'gripped by anxiety' and 'not normal'.

I am not gripped by anxiety, but I am continuing to wear a mask out of respect for others.

People still wearing masks must be seriously gripped by anxiety it’s not normal

Nah they just aren’t selfish cunts.

So people who choose not to wear a mask, when they aren’t even required anymore, are selfish cunts?!

I don’t wear a mask anymore and people who see me as a threat because of it can just avoid me can’t they? I can’t think of many situations where a masked person would be forced to be in very close contact with me for a prolonged period of time in a small unventilated area?

It seems you think we all have a moral obligation to wear them so at what point does it stop becoming “selfish” to not use a mask? When do you think it’s ok for people to make the choice not to use one anymore?

So my mask wearing shop floor worker teenage son, who is wearing a mask (and so are all his colleagues on his shift) at work, just tested positive today. He hasn't been out since his shift Saturday when he says most customers we're not wearing a mask and he had the. coughing and spluttering around him with no distancing. He is really upset as he has done everything right and found out because he is doing his twice a week lateral flow tests. 10 days after no masks and it happens.

People not wearing masks should think about others, he is now isolating in his room away from us, unable to go to work, unable to go and see his dad for his holiday (due Sunday), don't know how it will develop for him, but I'm not fully vaccinated and he has a young baby sister who is not protected.

So yes, big thanks to those not wearing masks

@ItsVousNotMoi quick question. Would you be comfortable sitting next to someone who works with covid positive people without a mask and then brag about freedom day?

@enjoyingscience

It says ventilation is more useful than arguing about masks, not more useful than wearing them. In reality, both are super important, and ventilation is chronically overlooked. So many places will fastidiously scrub and wipe every surface but won’t open the bloody window - the one thing that would actually make a difference! Wearing a mask is essential in a poorly ventilated space, of which there are far too many.

This.

The good news is that you're in a minority, OP. ONS data released today shows the vast majority of us continue to wear masks and help to protect each other by reducing the spread of infection in our communities.

Went shopping today, 7 shops in total, I didn't wear a mask, but say it was 50/50 split on them.
Seen a few people still wearing the sunflower lanyards and no mask?

Went to Aldi today. I wore my mask and cleaned my trolley etc. I’d say 80% wore masks.

The good news is that you're in a minority, OP. ONS data released today shows the vast majority of us continue to wear masks

I don't believe it having gone out and about,.

Are the ONS actually going out and about or are they just surveying, as what people say they do and actually do are two different things.

Whatever the ONS data is is immaterial as it’s criminal offence in the UK apart from England and optional again in England only if the retail, office and transportation operators amongst others permit non risk mitigation measures in the middle of a pandemic. It is the Covid data that literally counts but however there is little data on long Covid disabilities but possibly more on Covid disbelief. Hopefully the third wave is less health and wealth damaging if we all collectively do what is right and necessary to prevent more bad pandemic issues.

I hate the things but I've still worn it this week as I've had potential exposure to a positive case so although I don't have to isolate I do want to reduce any risk to others. Doing daily LFT too. None of those things are required but want to make sure I keep others safe. Once this period is up I may well decide to not wear a mask unless I have any concerns. Think it's just a point of remaining aware of potential exposures and considering others.

Whatever the ONS data is is immaterial as it’s criminal offence in the UK apart from England and optional again in England only if the retail, office and transportation operators amongst others permit non risk mitigation measures

So it's not illegal in majority of the UK.

I choose not to wear a mask I'm not forcing you not to wear one, so why try and do that to me.

@Againstmachine

Whatever the ONS data is is immaterial as it’s criminal offence in the UK apart from England and optional again in England only if the retail, office and transportation operators amongst others permit non risk mitigation measures

So it's not illegal in majority of the UK.

I choose not to wear a mask I'm not forcing you not to wear one, so why try and do that to me.

Some of us are following the science as well as our conscience as a civic duty of care to others especially those with least health privilege and not invincible super spreaders. Others who may not share this view or indeed feel exceptional and entitled are free to illegally (subject to changes and u turns etc) do what they like as long as they feel comfortable with others treating them in the same way and don’t complain when Covid restrictions are enforced. Some evidently never followed any science and hence the Kent variant in the first place and so far 0.1-0.2 million Covid fatalities and possibly over a quarter of the population already previously infected with some not fully recovered. Covid is a disease that can be mitigated so the choice is yours where legal if not moral.

Except we haven't got a civic duty of care to anyone, protect yourself don't expect everyone else to.

Masks are largely irrelevant, and do little to combat spread.