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If you've been out today what has been the general consensus?

367 replies

TheAntelope · 19/07/2021 16:56

Been shopping this afternoon and was so nice albeit really strange to not wear my mask! I hesitated going in at first because it felt like I'd forgotten something!

If you've been out today, what did you find was the general consensus of people around you either wearing or not wearing masks?

I actually didn't see anyone in a mask which surprised me as I thought quite a lot would still wear them!

OP posts:
Lottie4 · 20/07/2021 07:44

Fortyfifty - my DD also in a front facing role. She woke up yesterday announcing she was cancelling a couple of things that felt high risk with numbers going up. She's at uni and really needs her second vaccine before going on a language course (starts end August) and year abroad, so can't risk catching covid and not getting vaccine. Not freedom day here.

SamMil · 20/07/2021 07:47

I went to the shop twice yesterday and everyone I saw was still wearing a mask, including me.

anon12345678901 · 20/07/2021 07:57

Most people at the leisure centre yesterday were wearing masks, including myself. I'll wear it in the shops too when I go and at work.

Fortyfifty · 20/07/2021 08:02

@TheAntelope
That's what is so annoying isn't it? Or young people have been locked up waiting to live their lives. Summer comes and rates of covid have rocketed meaning it's so likely they will catch it and then it will interfere with other sumner plans, so it seems pointless making those plans, only to risk more disappointment.

Fortyfifty · 20/07/2021 08:03

Sorry antelope - that wasn't meant for you.

Chimboo · 20/07/2021 08:21

@RockingMyFiftiesNot you are correct. A loo with multiple cubicles and a communal sink area…despite there being multiple cubicles, only one person was going in that part of the building at a time. Goodness knows what else I could have meant, I think some people enjoy being difficult!

RufustheBadgeringReindeer · 20/07/2021 08:35

@Moonface123

A lot of smugness on here as usual. Non masked people are not selfish, why are the fearful hysterical brainwashed ones, ones pointing the finger to the ones who have actually got the courage to get on with their lives ? When is enough enough ?
Seriously

Have you read your post

People not in a mask are courageous

People in masks are afraid, Hysterical and brainwashed

According to another poster people in masks just need to think a little and see how mask wearers are harming millions 😩

I don’t really understand why people upset and annoyed because they feel put upon and insulted are doing exactly the same thing

And i agree that people shouldn’t be insulting either way…

Zenithbear · 20/07/2021 10:02

I think that as well as wearing masks, people should carry little mirrors to check how self satisfied they look.

igelkott2021 · 20/07/2021 10:11

@TheAntelope

Been shopping this afternoon and was so nice albeit really strange to not wear my mask! I hesitated going in at first because it felt like I'd forgotten something!

If you've been out today, what did you find was the general consensus of people around you either wearing or not wearing masks?

I actually didn't see anyone in a mask which surprised me as I thought quite a lot would still wear them!

I went out yesterday afternoon. My area has been very compliant with mask-wearing.

In M&S, everyone was wearing a mask including staff.

In Waitrose I'd say it was about 70% wearing masks and 30% not.

Etulosba · 20/07/2021 13:55

I called in to a shopping centre on the way to work. I left my mask in the car by mistake and felt very self conscious. Most of the people inside were wearing masks.

amicissimma · 20/07/2021 14:49

I wouldn't say there was much change in my local town. Practically no one under 30, maybe 35, has been wearing a mask for weeks.

I'd say about 2/3 to 3/4 of people in supermarkets were wearing them. Most people masked in Boots apart from a young woman who was cough, cough, coughing all the time I was in there. And a man in Waitrose who was explosively sneezing his way maskless round the store. About half the queue in Costa.

PinkSpring · 20/07/2021 15:11

Went out for the first time today with no mask, I had one with me just in case but I didn't use it. I live in an area with a high number of elderly and most of them stopped wearing masks ages ago so I would say it was about 50/50 of those in masks and not. A few small businesses have said they would prefer customers still wear masks but they won't and can't enforce it.

I am sick of the people on here calling others selfish for not wanting to wear a mask any longer - it's now personal choice, it's your choice to wear one, it's my choice not to. I can't blame people for wanting to get back to some form of normality, especially younger people who have essentially sacrificed the last 12/18 months to protect the elderly and vulnerable.

I swear some people on here have been so brainwashed and scared that they would quite happily live like this forever. If you want to continue to wear a mask, social distance, etc then go for it but I want to get back to normality.

BareGrylls · 20/07/2021 15:32

I went to Lidl today. I wore a mask. I reckon about 3 in 10 wore masks. None of the staff wore them, all those wearing masks were older. Everyone I saw under about 30 was unmasked. Which is fine, but they are also the least likely to be vaccinated.
They have also removed the spots on the floor so people were back to queing up close.
I need to shop at Waitrose Grin.

Londonwriter · 20/07/2021 16:13

I went to a couple of newsagents and a laundrette this morning to try to advertise for a cleaner.

The streets were deserted with lots of small shops shuttered. A few more shops had opened by 10am. There were several cafes with a few groups of people eating indoors without masks, but the handful of people inside the supermarkets/pharmacies I passed were wearing masks.

It seems to be mostly blokes around here who are going maskless...

frozendaisy · 20/07/2021 16:14

Sat in barber waiting for child haircut, barber had masked I asked if he wanted either,/both of us in masks, said he didn't, so sat 4m away reading the paper, didn't feel odd at all felt normal, finally.

Wore one in supermarket as it was only the few customers without.

Happy to do either depending on circumstances.

Landslidelife · 20/07/2021 16:25

Opposite here most people still wearing masks. Dc works in a supermarket and has seen no difference last two days.
I've chosen to continue wearing a mask because people like my dc who work in these establishments do not have a choice and therefore I feel an obligation to wear a mask.

samsmum2 · 20/07/2021 17:01

I went to Tesco. Didn't wear a mask. I saw one other person not wearing one. Popped into Co-op later and not one person wearing one.

wendz86 · 20/07/2021 17:18

Been on train into London and back, would say 90% wearing masks. Westfield I would say most people aren't wearing them .

MercyBooth · 20/07/2021 17:22

If my local bus service (yes im looking at you Stephensons) still expects masks to be worn TURN YOUR FUCKING HEATING OFF and no, i dont want to hear belly aching about how it cant be done.

Backofbeyond50 · 20/07/2021 17:22

Swimming Lessons and those who previously wore them around their chins or not at all and stood next to each other chatting instead of using socially distance seats were the first to not wear them. Wasn't long before everyone removed them. I removed mine when sat down but put on whilst moving around or talking to Teacher. Staff all wearing them.

PuzzledObserver · 20/07/2021 18:21

@Whatever9999

I braved town yesterday for only the 3rd time since March last year. I'm one of those selfish cunts that have autism and can't wear one, even more selfishly I can't cope with other people wearing them. I would say 80-90% of people were wearing masks (just enough so I didn't feel I was the only one and being judged in quote the same way). Unlike the last 2 times I actually managed to remember and get what I needed (actually have some clothes for the summer now). I wore/carried my lanyard on the bus there and back but took it off in town. For me the hardest part was going against the one way arrows that are still.om the floor in the precinct, that had been something that stressed me right out previously, people not following the rules. I was actually on the phone to my partner, telling him how I was going the wrong way.
You are not selfish for being neurodivergent.
LucilleTheVampireBat · 20/07/2021 18:34

I can't quite believe some of the comments I'm reading on here! "Lower class"? How is this type of blatant classist language acceptable?

rubbletrouble · 20/07/2021 18:49

It's really nice to see around here, most people wearing masks in the shops, the lady on the till was thinking people today, which I thought was both lovely and a little sad that she was in that position.

Faith in humanity is realised and the majority are good people. You always get a few idiots.

MercyBooth · 20/07/2021 18:52

@LucilleTheVampireBat Its obvs anger at the "lower classes" for all the ski trips they went on at the beginning of all this Hmm

Bazoo23 · 20/07/2021 19:04

Been in 2 shops today. One had about 15 people in, only one masked.
Second one had about the same amount of people with majority masked.
I wasnt wearing a mask either time and neither were the staff.