Face Masks in shops

If it helps anyone - I looked into face masks last year. I need to wear a face mask and face visor whilst I am turning. I did find my glasses only steamed up when I wore a mask that had no metal piece over the nose.

Narrowboatnan like your mask and sense of humour in that shop sign!

I don't like the idea of wearing one but here in Blackburn we have to start wearing them from today because of the rise in cases here. So I shall start to wear them.

Oopsminty I sent your YouTube clip to my sister who declares vehemently that “She isn’t going to wear a mask!” . She messaged me to say how stupid those people were, not seeing herself as one of them at all
m.youtube.com/watch?v=DaFSH0K4BdQ
I think they’re crazy, but at least they have the courage to come out in public and say what they think. I’d rather have the anonymity of Gransnet. Imagine if we had to post videos of ourselves making our views known.

For goodness sake. Just wear the damn things.
I did see a lady on the TV who has COPD and she has a letter from her doctor saying she can’t wear a mask.
But for most of us just wear one and quit whining about your rights.

Grannynannywanny oh, how I agree! If only people would stop and think of people they could be, unwittingly, infecting because the mask is not to their liking!

There are vulnerable people who have been shielding all this time and we need to think of them. How are they going to feel as they prepare to take their first tentative steps outside and realise that some folk don’t want to wear masks because they are uncomfortable? If I hear one more person say it’s an infringement of their civil liberties..arghh !! ?

saetana as I mentioned earlier we have the same problem, however our understanding from The Letter, shielding will be at least till beginning of August so my husband is not going inside shops or other peoples houses at present. As I am unable to drive and he can , it’s still online shopping except odd bits (milk etc) so he can pop me to the nearest small shop and stay in the car.

Some shops are going to be taking temperatures of non mask wearers. This should be interesting. (It’s a joke, by the way!)

I wear a mask on the odd occasion that I accompany DH on shopping trips. Now I know how racehorses feel wearing a sheepskin noseband. ?

Map of the London Underground in case I fancy taking a trip ?

And besides the WHO meant the proper contraption used in ICU for the over '65's, not a surgical mask, which next to nobody is going to do. Shop staff could wear shields as they do in hairdressers unless they are already behind a screen like in supermarkets. Obviously staff would have to wear them for 8 hrs while the shoppers just for the 1/2 hr or hour you are in shops.

But staff don’t have to wear them !!!!

Furret I think the WHO mentioned medical masks for the over 65's but I think that's OTT. Let's just get people wearing something!

But not compulsory for shop workers !!!!!!

Joplin I saw the news clip showing thousands of disposable masks floating in the sea.

Queuing outside the supermarket recently I’ve also noticed them strewn around the car park by customers who remove them and discard them at their feet.

On a very windy day last week a few had actually taken flight and were stuck in the trees in a wooded area behind the car park. The splashes of bright blue provided a lovely contrast to the black bags of dog poo that had been hung on the trees by other lazy idiots!

John crace as usual hits the nail on the head.

Woodlane, that sums it up perfectly! ?

In principle no issues but introducing the rule now is a bit like asking for condoms at the baby shower....

I’m sure I read somewhere that although cloth face coverings are ok, the over 65s should wear a medical mask. Or did I imagine that?

“Matt had now decided that masks in shops were a good idea after all. Though not such a good idea that they would be introduced immediately. Far better to wait another 10 days for that as the government had top level intelligence that the coronavirus had declared an amnesty and wouldn’t be infecting anyone before 24 July. Which will come as a huge relief to shop workers who have a mortality risk 60-75% higher than the rest of the general population. After 24 July, there would be a £100 fine for refuseniks: before then just a possible death penalty.“

John Crace

I would expect shop staff to be wearing masks when customers do.
Seems strange to say the least.

Very strangely the latest news is that it’s customers that are expected to wear a mask in shops NOT the staff I find that very strange, as you know I work in a charity shop and have been told it’s voluntary for staff, well that’s ridiculous, how can you expect customers to wear them and not staff

Saetana

Please note if you have asthma, COPD or other breathing difficulties then you do NOT need to wear a face covering - this group of people are exempt. On the other hand, how exactly are people supposed to prove they are exempt? My husband has COPD - he tried a mask and just cannot breathe but is worried about being accosted by people because he is not wearing one so he will not go out anywhere. He has been shielded since March and this new rule means he is going to be housebound for the foreseeable future. Please remember once it becomes compulsory on the 24th July that if you see someone without a mask then they may well have a medical condition that prevents them wearing one - breathing difficulties are an invisible disability so please do not jump to conclusions or accuse people who are not wearing masks.

People who can't wear a mask shouldn't be in a place where they need to be within two metres of anybody else. The virus doesn't care about exemptions.

Lucca

FarNorth

Wow!
Tory party members are cutting up their membership cards and vowing never to vote Tory again - because of masks.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/conservative-activists-membership-cards-mandatory-face-mask-a9617866.html?fbclid=IwAR2d7NNHpnu4hLAd6M-R5VJDhZVeG_36FL3TbJnPf1TX_dgTWNuOUAu7HEk

Oh come on. That’s beyond pathetic

It tells you a lot about what kind of people they are.

Shizam

Claustrophobic. Can’t breathe. Steams up glasses. Hate the b@@stard things.

How would you cope with a ventilator?