Mask wearing where you live?

[julieca]

Went to the supermarket today which was busy and only a few people were wearing masks. Nearly everyone was not. I have noticed over the last few months the amount of mask-wearing going down, and now very few people wear masks outside of the GPs surgery 9where they are still compulsory).
So are people wearing masks where you live, or have they mainly given up?

@julieca There were a few of us on here a while back who were saying that we couldnt see (logistically) how they could keep it up. The vaccine hasnt been as easily accessible as is being made out. NOT the fault of the volunteers before anybody starts.

I'm in England.
I don't see it as much when in the shops, but I get the bus every day and have noticed that a lot of people still wear them on public transport.

@MercyBooth

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Drakeford doing the hypocrisy dance whilst telling everyone else to avoid indoor crowds and wear a mask.

Our FM is better than your FM at hypocrisy We’ve had our FM at COP every day parading around indoors with no mask, having pictures taken with people from all over the world, sans mask. Drakeford popped up to Glasgow for a piccie too- the FMs were all with Boris for a picture, not a mask in sight🤣🤣🤣🤣😏 We’ve got an update on restrictions due this coming week…

A bit of a mixed bag, I work in retail, one day we will have people mostly wearing masks and the next day hardly anyone is. I wear one on the bus and if the shop is too packed for my liking when I’m shopping, I don’t wear one at work though, I struggled when we had to wear them whilst working especially through most of summer. I’ve always kept a distance even before COVID. I like personal space, I’m mostly in a room in the back so don’t have to much customer interaction.

In Ireland and indoors is mandatory. I wear them outside too in case I bump into someone/someone gets too close/there's a queue etc. I get filthy looks because I'm generally in the minority

SE here.

I was in a huge and very well known indoor shopping centre yesterday.

Maybe about 20-30% of people in masks.

I wear a mask when shopping. But not for myself, I am 3x jabbed and not scared of covid. I wear the mask for your Nanna and the folk on chemo.

East Mids here.Local Co op staff don't wear them. Not many shoppers do either. That's the only shop I go into..usually shop online. I wear a mask in shop and at work. I wear a mask to visit parents as I work in healthcare and can come into contact with Covid. I will wear a mask when I go to Elizabeth and Mary exhibition in Jan. Luckily I am not affected too much wearing one..I know some people struggle. I can wear all different types now,tganks to 12 hour shifts!

@RoseRedRoseBlue

The problem with mask wearing is the contradiction. People will moan about a lack of mask wearing in the supermarket due to risk, but will happily sit in coffee shops and restaurants for hours on end without one and are prepared to accept the risk in those environments. This is despite the fact that supermarkets are far more spacious and you are less likely to linger.

Exactly this. I have been to several school open evenings in the last few weeks. At one, most parents wore masks because they had reintroduced it for pupils, and sat families with a seat apart from others in the auditorium. In another, there was a refreshments session which was scarily (to me) jam-packed and barely anyone wearing a mask. People are sheep.

@user1487194234

The figures in Scotland are no better than in England despite the requirements to wear masks in England being dropped 4 months ago 🤷‍♀️ Out I about in a couple of bars in Glasgow west end last night You are supposed to wear masks to go to bar/toilet,very few were

I just went to a wedding in Scotland. The registrar reminded people to wear masks during the ceremony. Other than that, no one wore them. Didnt see anyone wandering round the hotel wearing them, no one.

And as you say, Scotland's covid record by population is worse than England's despite our removal of masks. Proof somewhat that masks are useless and just a signal of perceived virtue.

I'm in Scotland and most people in my area still wear them. Rules are different here though.

Also in Scotland. Compliance still fairly high inside shops but less so when walking round between shops in an indoor shopping centre, for example.

Given that we've just had 2 weeks of COP26 in Glasgow, with not a single fucker wearing masks, you can see why people up here are thinking WTF. And also there is precious little difference between our rates and rates in other places where masks are not required. And the waste, and the discarded masks lying on the street... don't get me started.

I wonder when we will be allowed to use our common sense and choose for ourselves.

Why on earth would you want to think for yourself, @EddieVeddersfoxymop, when you have Queen Nicola and Prince Swinney to do that for you?

They simply don't give a shit, hospitality is up in arms about the damage their vaccine passports is doing to their trade, they still have all kids in secondary schools in masks all day, and that's before we get to the ridiculous stuff about wearing masks to walk into Nandos but remove as soon as you sit down. I think they also still want parents wearing masks - outside - on the school run.

Control freakery at its best.

@KatherineJaneway

I'm in London and mask wearing in the supermarket is very low now. I still wear one but I am starting to question why as I am one of the few who does.

Mask wearing on the tube is about 40% to 50% from what I have experienced, I travel twice a week

I think as per pp is depends which supermarket you go to. I went to a big Waitrose last week and everyone was in a mask. Tesco Express not so much.

@MLMshouldbeillegal ha ha yes, sorry I forgot that our leaders know what's best. I stand corrected

I see hardly any masks out and about. For me (and many other exempt people, I expect) it means that there's less abuse and going out is not the frankly frightening prospect it has been for a year and a half. I also don't see many people wearing lanyards anymore - I only wear mine for hospital appointments or if I get on a bus, say, and most people are wearing a mask (although that hadn't happened for ages).

@RuleWithAWoodenFoot

First day out of isolation for me. I'm still coughing, so is partner. We've been to a garden centre, a pub for lunch.. not one mask seen apart from us.

If nobody else was wearing a mask then it was a bit pointless wearing yours surely? You're both still coughing, yet went out anyway. Nobody else was wearing masks to "protect" you two, but you two (still coughing) wore masks.

Do people honestly find logic in these sorts of things?!!

We've been to a garden centre, a pub for lunch.. not one mask seen apart from us.

Most people will have been sat down in the pub, it's a bit hard to eat and drink with a mask on.

It’s about 10 - 20% still wearing them in shops and on buses in my city. Pretty much nobody at my university wears them, including me - not bothered with one since July 18th.

It's not surprising that in most places in England people aren't wearing masks. There's no requirement to do so. If people want to then that's fine, but no-one should be surprised that people aren't. Cases are low at the moment in many areas, including where I am in South London.

@MLMshouldbeillegal

I wonder when we will be allowed to use our common sense and choose for ourselves.

Why on earth would you want to think for yourself, @EddieVeddersfoxymop, when you have Queen Nicola and Prince Swinney to do that for you?

They simply don't give a shit, hospitality is up in arms about the damage their vaccine passports is doing to their trade, they still have all kids in secondary schools in masks all day, and that's before we get to the ridiculous stuff about wearing masks to walk into Nandos but remove as soon as you sit down. I think they also still want parents wearing masks - outside - on the school run.

Control freakery at its best.

They were certainly using some common sense in the Playhouse in Edinburgh on Friday night. 50% compliance.....maybe.

@RoseRedRoseBlue

The problem with mask wearing is the contradiction. People will moan about a lack of mask wearing in the supermarket due to risk, but will happily sit in coffee shops and restaurants for hours on end without one and are prepared to accept the risk in those environments. This is despite the fact that supermarkets are far more spacious and you are less likely to linger.

It's much easier to avoid a coffee shop or restaurant if you are worried about catching covid, but unless you get your shopping delivered most of us have to go to the supermarket .

I still wear my mask and I'm interested to see some people on here now seem to regard mask wearers as "joyless" at around the same time the Prime Minister appears maskless in a hospital and a vaccination centre. You don't know whether the person sitting across from you on the bus or across the aisle from you at the supermarket is clinically vulnerable or would lose 10 days pay if they caught covid and were unable to work. If you are medically exempt, fair enough but people who believe that masks don't work because Scotland and Wales have higher cases while ignoring the lower cases numbers in much of Western Europe (where mask wearing is far more common) baffle me. I wonder if more people are meeting indoors in Wales and Scotland because the weather is not so mild in many places there. Or does more testing take place there, meaning more cases are being picked up?

It's baffling how much anger there is towards mask wearers by come people on this thread. The anti-mask types have won. You don't need to wear a mask any more even with high case numbers and ambulances queuing up outside hospitals. Yet that's not enough for some people, they want to discourage anyone from wearing a mask. Some of those people you sneer at for wearing a mask could be CV/CEV, especially if they are wearing N95 or FFP2s.

I'm not CV/CEV myself but I am baffled as to what Mumsnet thinks these people should do. It seems they shouldn't expect people to wear masks on public transport so they will be at risk if they take public transport to work, but working from home also seems to be frowned up (interesting how it never was before the pandemic). I feel very sorry for CV/CEV people who seem to have been totally ignored in the current strategy.

London here and take the train/tube once a week at the moment. Lots of people maskless even on the tube where it's still a condition of carriage to wear one. Even fewer masks in local shops. I've noticed those of us who wear them, tend to wear the better quality masks now though - those who were only ever wearing a flimsy piece of fabric hanging around their chins have stopped so now it's mostly surgical masks and FFP2s.

Where I am it seems to vary depending on time - sometimes I go into the shops and everyone is wearing a mask, more or less, and other times I feel like I am the only one.

I have been in a different part of the country this weekend and it felt like more people were wearing masks there.

I do wish people would wear them on the trains though.

I've noticed those of us who wear them, tend to wear the better quality masks now though

I bought some FFP2 masks to wear on the train. If other people won't wear masks I'm not wearing a face covering to protect them, I am wearing a better mask to hopefully protect me a bit. Still wearing cloth ones in the shops though as I am only there for a few minutes and moving around.