Petition - Make it mandatory to wear a face mask in public during Covid-19 Pandemic

[newfunkychicken]

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/304397?fbclid=IwAR3AdnCG_2TM4mO1m2m_hHtYppGbj-gTd58D7RKHfg4Bb7x12clrVm1t990

[RolandOnTheRopes]

salema

[CaroleFuckinBaskin]

I'll wear a scientifically produced and confirmed effective mask, when given to me, and when all the morons stop doing Moronic things such as visiting family and friends, having parents look after their kids, gathering in the parks, driving 5 hours to Snowdonia for a day out etc etc.

And gathering on Westminster Bridge for a little party with the police every Thursday?

[CaroleFuckinBaskin]

I think the people who were shouting loudly about 'lockdown now' have now got a new hobby horse to ride.

Lol, I was wondering what the poor buggers were going to do now that it looks like lockdown might be coming to an end soon - now I know!

[PicsInRed]

Ginfilledcats

I'll wear a scientifically produced and confirmed effective mask, when given to me

Yes, exactly. One made to fit a small and female shaped face would be nice. Big hole in the market there.

[User202004]

Nope. What's with all the stupid petitions at the moment.

Can I petition to stop petitions?

[PicsInRed]

it’s only the flu

No, these were bandwagon jumpers. "It's just the flu" was a bandwagon they jumped on to mock those of us who could see a problem on the horizon. Then the "hand sanitiser doesn't work on viruses just wash your hands you stupid people" bandwagon. They didnt want any action from the govt as that was the fashionable bandwagon, then lockdown happened and they changed their tune and screamed for more severe lockdown as that was the new bandwagon ...and they discovered that they rather enjoyed being shut-ins with just "their little family", finding their anxiety relieved, and needed everyone else to be forced to do the same in order to make themselves feel normal. Now they focus their fear, anxiety and wagon jumping on the issue of face masks.

I wasn't convinced of the arguments that masks make you touch your face until more people were wearing them and I saw for myself. Repeated, constant face touching, with a false sense of security which means the've touched everything else first. Masks work, but only if worn right. Most aren't - most actually promote more face touching and therefore more risk.

Mask wearing = yes.
Compulsory mask wearing = NOPE.

[Ginfilledcats]

I'll wear a scientifically produced and confirmed effective mask, when given to me, and when all the morons stop doing Moronic things such as visiting family and friends, having parents look after their kids, gathering in the parks, driving 5 hours to Snowdonia for a day out etc etc.

[Sleepyblueocean]

"For it to do any good, there needs to be widespread useage of them, which given the selfish nature of people, will need to be compulsory."

It wouldn't be compulsory for everyone. If that was tried there would be legal challenges as there was with the exercise rules/ guidelines.

[StealthPolarBear]

I was wondering the other day how people with hearing loss are coping when out and about

[randomsabreuse]

Masks worn properly work, masks that don't fit or are the wrong fabric really make things worse.

Issue 1 - glasses. Unless top of mask fits really well they steam up, lots adding to face touching and potentially trips or falls... Many people wear glasses and can't wear contact lenses.

Issue 2. They are hot and uncomfortable. Unless you are accustomed to wearing them and not fiddling, you will touch your face more, including the bit where you've been breathing. If you then touch things (say fridge doors in the supermarket) you are spreading more germs than if you'd not been wearing a mask.

Issue 3. Limited useful life - useless once soaked through by sweat/breath moisture. How many would be required per trip out to remain effective, especially in summer/on the tube?

Issue 4. People acting more reckless because they have a mask on - already seen in supermarkets!

[AmelieTaylor]

Why don't you just wear one if you want to?

🙄 because the masks they are talking about people wearing in public, are to protect other people, not yourself. For it to do any good, there needs to be widespread useage of them, which given the selfish nature of people, will need to be compulsory.

[TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross]

I'm thinking about setting up a petition to make it compulsory for people to support their Covid-related bleating with links to rigorous peer-reviewed scientific data every time they post on social media.

[SnugglySnerd]

Would this include children because there is no way on earth my toddler twins would keep one on, they won't keep a hat or gloves on in winter. This rule would basically mean we couldn't leave the house.

[BubblesBuddy]

If it’s mandatory, it’s a legal requirement. It will then be enforced by the Police. The home made ones are not efficient and I don’t want others diverted from workers and others who need them. We have scientists with very varied views on this and other countries have a culture of wearing masks. So no. Not signing any petition to lose even more of my civil liberties.

[Worriedmummy1976]

This thread is deja vu from when ‘it’s only the flu’ and ‘well I won’t be staying in’ threads were going on. The science behind the masks is there and very soon the guidance will change to reflect that. Our government are just very slow to catch up and see nothing wrong with lying to the public to manipulate them. All the ‘masks don’t work’ talk was to stop people dashing out and buying them when they had been too slow to get supplies for the NHS.

[EasterIssland]

I went out for a walk yesterday with dh and ds not wearing a mask.
I saw 4 people quite close with each other, 2 of them in their middle 60s early 70s wearing a mask, we saw these 2 later on their own. the mask wasn't properly adjusted, they kept touching it and they weren't with the other 2 people they were so close to before
Now tell me were the mask really protecting them? Or were we better protected by socially distancing?

[MarginalGain]

If you accept the wisdom of masks in public today, for covid19, when do you think it should it stop, and why?

[longearedbat]

I think the people who were shouting loudly about 'lockdown now' have now got a new hobby horse to ride.
I won't be wearing one.

[Bubblesbubblesmybubbles]

Id wear one if it was suggested to help me or others. I dont have the skills personally to make one though so I'd need to know where to buy one!

Id also want to be educated on exactly how to take it off safely and also how long to wear it for etc

But how would you get small children to wear one? I cant even get a hat to be kept on?!

[PumpkinP]

Nope, if they were giving them I would wear one I do not want to make one!

[AlecTrevelyan006]

It a no from me

[Soontobe60]

I'll wear a mask when all the other idiots stop ignoring all the other requests to stay in, stop having gatherings like street parties, stop dropping their kids off at their parents house just so they can have a break, stop standing in the queue outside Tesco taking their mask down for a smoke right in front of me, stop picking up every damn youghurt pot to check the use by dates which takes ages even though I'm standing waiting to pick up one, stop letting their kids run round Tesco while they have a quick natter to a friend they've bumped into, stop taking their gloves off and leaving them in the trolley they've just used in Tesco!
Can you tell yesterday was a BAD day trying to shop in Tesco🤣🤣

[RapunzelinQuarantine]

Medical advice is that people who already have breathing problems shouldn’t wear them. I can’t breathe through a mask.

[salema]

@merryhouse you can repurpose a bra as a face mask. Just make sure you use the left cup. Otherwise you’ll look like a right tit.

[caoixr]

Our own scientists are saying now is not the time to be doing a controlled experiment on facemasks in the middle of an ongoing pandemic. We should be following other countries practices where they have infections under control. They all advocate their population to wear face masks.

News from a medical journal;

Prof Trisha Greenhalgh from the Nuffield department of primary care health sciences at the University of Oxford, and colleagues wrote a paper published by the British Medical Journal last week that argued in favour of “the precautionary principle”.
The standard level of scientific evidence is no good in this issue, she told the Guardian. Randomised controlled trials are the gold standard in drug development, but not appropriate to face masks in a pandemic, she said.
“The point is we have now got a hugely complex issue going on. The last thing we need is a controlled experiment. We need to follow the logic of complex systems,.”

Greenhalgh thinks the whole population of the UK should wear masks – just as they do in South Korea, where the epidemic curve is far lower than ours.