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Guilt Free Railing 10

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WouldBeGood · 01/08/2021 23:04

Is the end nigh?

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ResilienceWanker · 16/08/2021 09:33

[quote WouldBeGood]@ResilienceWanker I had to do an emergency dash to Tesco for trousers for DS last night as he hadn’t bothered trying his on til then… 🙄[/quote]
Ha! Glad it's not just me.... Grin

riverrunning · 16/08/2021 14:13

Glad to hear mr grovee is going back, good luck for the first day

OnceUponAWhine · 16/08/2021 14:15

No choice but to attempt the shops today, as only just discovered the school bag I thought would do another term or three is ripped. Thankfully no attempt at Clarks- who still have the ‘you’re not welcome’ barrier across and actually I could only see one parent by the children’s shoes- but what I did see was children masked up in the shopping centre (Did see some without masks too).
Do people realise this is no longer a requirement for under 12s? Toy shop for a birthday present, 3 children in queue behind me, masked up- toddler included. Awful. Why aren’t the stupid announcements that continue in the shopping centre 🙄kindly requesting mask wearing or not at all, but reminding this is no longer a requirement for children.
Coffee shop after and I’d say 50/50 to mask wearers coming in just to takeaway. They’ve stopped asking if you’ve filled in T&T, thank goodness, it was getting harder to remember my fake mobile number…

riverrunning · 16/08/2021 14:22

I've taken masks off mine but I'm amazed at the number of people still having their small kids wear them too.

shouldistop · 16/08/2021 14:29

A couple of months ago we were at the play park in the botanic gardens and there was 3 small children wearing masks while playing, outside Hmm

Y0uCann0tBeSer10us · 16/08/2021 14:31

I'm generally noticing people being a bit more relaxed about the masks tbh. The odd child I still see masked up really stands out (and does make me sad to see). At soft play a few days ago maybe a quarter of people weren't wearing masks and none of the staff seemed to care, but then you are very 'active' when crawling around after a toddler I suppose! Then at the school gate this morning, the unmasked parents probably outnumbered to masked ones, and the teacher on the gate had taken hers off too, in stark contrast to last year when just about everyone was wearing them. It's good for me, because the more people who are quietly dropping them, the more confident I feel to take mine off if it gets too much. It does feel as though people are just using their own judgement anyway, regardless of what Sturgeon says is in law (although I'm never clear what's law and what's guidance, and whether masks are effectively unenforceable anyway as the list of exemptions is so long and self-determined).

WouldBeGood · 16/08/2021 14:36

Guilt Free Railing 11!

Please let these threads become redundant soon

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WouldBeGood · 16/08/2021 14:37

I’m really pleased to hear tales of free masks. But people masking up little kids.. the mind boggles

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WouldBeGood · 16/08/2021 14:37

Free? Fewer

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latissimusdorsi · 16/08/2021 15:03

It's because no-one has a clue what the rules are anymore 🤷🏼‍♀️
And yes @WouldBeGood I was very surprised to hear you so happy about free masksGrin

ResilienceWanker · 16/08/2021 15:16

I confess, I forgot the first time we went out together, and I dutifully handed DS a mask as we were about to get on a bus. Blush He said "I thought I didn't have to wear it any more" - so our conversation a few days previously had obviously sunk into his head more than it had mine Wink I'd done the whole "you may want to carry on wearing one" thing, and he looked at me as if I was mad, and said that viruses were really really small and he thought about a million could fit through one hole in the mask fabric, so he wasn't convinced the cloth was really doing anything, infection-control wise (damn the BBC and their "facts about viruses" videos... not sure they're quite on message there). Mind you, he did also follow the GPS "blob" on my phone when we went down south, and removed his mask as soon as we crossed the invisible border into England. I appear to have raised a very rule-abiding anti-masker. Confused Well done me...

Y0uCann0tBeSer10us · 16/08/2021 15:31

His science is absolutely spot on @ResilienceWanker - wearing a mask (short of full PPE grade) to stop virus particles is like using scaffolding to stop marbles - the vast majority get through. Might explain why mandatory masks have had pretty much no impact on last couple of waves which have largely done their thing regardless.

ResilienceWanker · 16/08/2021 15:41

Apparently all the coronavirus in the world will fit into a coke can. Which is my useless fact of the day.

WouldBeGood · 16/08/2021 15:50

I love that stat

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NotSoLongGoodbye · 16/08/2021 16:24

Sorry I've been on holiday in England for a lot of summer. Do under 12s no longer have to wear masks in Scotland?? When was this announced??
I'm actually excited by this.

Scottishskifun · 16/08/2021 16:31

@NotSoLongGoodbye

Sorry I've been on holiday in England for a lot of summer. Do under 12s no longer have to wear masks in Scotland?? When was this announced?? I'm actually excited by this.
Was announced a few weeks ago (think it was the 3rd?) yes no masks for the under 12s "but they encourage it if they wish too 🙄"
NotSoLongGoodbye · 16/08/2021 16:37

Ah OK. I was too busy enjoying the masks (or not) in nightclubs stories before I headed off on holiday again. Gave up listening to Nicola a long long time ago

Lockdownbear · 16/08/2021 22:58

@NotSoLongGoodbye

Ah OK. I was too busy enjoying the masks (or not) in nightclubs stories before I headed off on holiday again. Gave up listening to Nicola a long long time ago
Glad I'm not alone, I have laughed so much at the thought of a pretty girl, picking up a good looking guy, only for him to reveal a face full of spots after he removed the mask (or vice versa)
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