MASKS

Gingergirl

My opinion is that it won’t stop a second wave if there’s going to be one and it doesn’t protect the actual wearer from contracting the virus. Nearly all of my shopping is being done online. I will wear a mask if necessary eg public transport if I use it, hairdressers....situations where you’re up close and personal and can’t move away for some time. I agree that it will be the final nail in the coffin for many shopping centres. Not the best decision the government has ever made.

“It doesn’t stop the actual wearer.....”

.I’ve heard it all now.
If everyone is wearing one then everyone is protected.

I seem to recall that the introduction of mask wearing was supposed to give us all confidence to go out and about shopping and spending money to get the economy going again? Clearly not working if the above responses are anything to go by. I had not worn one until yesterday (did a big supermarket shop on Thursday evening!) but stopped at a garden centre on a whim yesterday - couldn't wait to get out and take mask off - mind you I have never been keen on garden centres!!

I too gasp for breath in a mask and do have an exemption card. However, on the couple of times I've had to go into a shop I have worn a mask but have now bought a couple of Perspex visors which I will use instead.
Maw, if another thread irritates you just don't click on it! From the number of responses plenty of people do still want to discuss it.

Sorry ladies, but I feel the majority of you seem to be a bit wimpy over this. Wearing a mask is a good idea - those countries that encouraged the wearing of masks from the start had a much lower death rate. I believe in this approach. e.g. it's usual if one lives in Japan and feel unwell in any way, a mask is worn in consideration of others. It is a custom we should adopt.?

It's not only about trying not to catch it, but also not spreading it if you have it. A neighbour of ours did her supermarket shop, hours before her positive Covid test came back (she was confident she didn't have it). She had no symptoms (but a colleague had) - they both work in the same office in a hospital which is why she was tested, but developed symptoms 3 days later and was off work for 3 weeks. She is now mortified because she knows she will have spread it around everywhere she went. if she had had to wear a mask, that would have been avoided. lots of us will get it and have no symptoms or only mild ones (and mistake it for something-else) so wearing masks makes sense to me.

My opinion is that it won’t stop a second wave if there’s going to be one and it doesn’t protect the actual wearer from contracting the virus. Nearly all of my shopping is being done online. I will wear a mask if necessary eg public transport if I use it, hairdressers....situations where you’re up close and personal and can’t move away for some time. I agree that it will be the final nail in the coffin for many shopping centres. Not the best decision the government has ever made.

Oh and yes our High Street is just about gone now

I do not wear them out and about I see no sense in the fresh air unless you are going to be in a close knit group situation which I m not
I put one on as required in any shops I go in I still stay browsing and having a interesting time unless of course I m in a shop with a queue then I wouldn’t be so greedy
I miss trying shoes/clothes on a lot
I don’t wear one in the shop I work in as no other staff member does and it seems pointless to be the only one I work mostly on my own anyway I do put one on if I go out on the shop floor or to the kitchen area so far I haven’t seen any customers not wearing one
I wear one in the buses and again most people seem compliant
I spent an hour in a supermarket last weekend (no queues) and only saw one lady without (she was probably exempt)
But it won’t become a habit with me as soon as we get the go ahead mine will be gone although I m sure like in China and other Far Eastern countries some people will wear them always now

I don’t mind wearing a mask at all. Problem is I lose them as I have a few places to store them eg pockets, car, key hooks in kitchen etc. My son is designing face masks .His big sellers are ones for football supporters. A few gransnetters have bought from his website thank you.
www.fxg-masks.co.uk

I’m impressed by the number of mask wearers near us, on transport, locally and in town. Even one older couple in the supermarket who had exclusion lanyards dangling, were wearing masks on Friday.

Cutting down on the checkout chat, because you/they can’t hear is sad for those who need that bit of social contact but it makes getting in and out of shops so much quicker.

Sadly the high street may well suffer even more than it had already, but looking at town on Saturday it seemed that even masks and queues didn’t stop the shoppers.

I can not breathe with a mask on, I have asthma, and it makes it worst, I also have terrible anxiety wearing one so I have got an exception badge

Final nail in the coffin for the high street.

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Ohhhhh heck ! There are indeed rather a lot of threads under the heading 'masks' ...sorry for adding another, in future I know what to do .....

Cheers

I just think we should wear them as we’ve been asked to.

I had a lot of errands to do yesterday and it meant bobbing in and out of several shops. Everyone was wearing a mask but I noticed that when speaking to a shop assistant, who was standing behind a perspex screen, they couldn't make out what customers were saying. A couple of times I saw customer pull down their face masks to make themselves heard. Defeats the object of wearing them really.

Farmor15

Search facility on Gransnet is very poor!

If you type into Google any subject that interests you, then add Gransnet, everything on that topic that has ever been discussed will pop up, even threads from way back.

As for mask wearing, only when & where it's compulsory. But I do buck the trend when it comes to online shopping, never bought a thing online, that's not to say I haven't seen something online that I would like, or need.

We went to an Hawaiian themed wedding a couple of years ago, I wanted a hat and saw one on a Belgium website. Being able to speak French I phoned the milliner, wouldn't you know it was that part of Belgium that was Flemish speaking. However, the lady spoke excellent English, she explained that the hat, plus carriage was two hundred Euros. She could take Paypal. Take what? Pay-what?

Two days later I received a phone call from Belgium: "You have sent me two hundred Euros, in cash!" "What's wrong with that?" "But it's in cash, notes, money." "Does that mean I can't have my hat?" "No, it's on it's way, but I can't believe it, you are the first person that has ever paid me in cash from an online enquiry." "So?" "So good bye and thank you."

Worked well enough 30 minutes ago

Yes * farmor* I agree.

Search facility on Gransnet is very poor!

Serendipity22

Apologies for starting the UMPTEEN thread about masks but before I posted I did type in the search box to look for the topic on masks, assuming that surely one has been started, nothing came up, which I was surprised at and so that is why there is yet another topic on masks ...

@ Serendipity

Maybe it might be an idea not to go starting new threads when there are 20 already - is there anything new to warrant a new thread?

Maybe those who don’t want to read any more threads on masks could just not read them . ?

Obviously wearing one when I go into a shop or similar, but certainly does not enhance the experience. Don’t enjoy shopping at the best of times, and this does not encourage me to shop any more than absolutely necessary.

Apologies for starting the UMPTEEN thread about masks but before I posted I did type in the search box to look for the topic on masks, assuming that surely one has been started, nothing came up, which I was surprised at and so that is why there is yet another topic on masks ...