Pre mask shopping - will you?

If surgeons and all the rest of operating theatre staff can wear masks for hours on end, I can't believe that any of us has a reason for not wearing on for the half-hour or so it takes us to do a supermarket shop.
^No proper scientific test has been done to establish the consequences of wearing masks over periods of time."
Balderdash.

Just get on with it! I agree.
I am in Wales and it’s not mandatory but I wear one and so does my husband. I put it on before I leave the car and take it off when I get back. It’s really not an issue and not uncomfortable. You just have to get used to it. Don’t keep thinking about it and breathe normally.

Yesterday I visited Aldi, the Range and Tesco. Saw one (large and grumpy) man without a mask who also ignored social distancing. Amusing to see everyone else giving him a very wide berth and dirty looks, as far as masks allowed.
Since they've been compulsory here in Scotland for a week or so, they have simply become the norm.
Just get on with it.
Ps great respect for the clarity of NS's briefings. Her intelligent attitude has earned her (and the independent movement) much support c.f. the BJ and Westminster approach.

Just come back from M & S food several people already wearing masks with their noses out. A couple of others wearing gloves going from item to item having a fondle before choosing!

craftyone

yes, I am well stashed here. I even bought butter to freeze. If I have to wear a face covering, it will slip down over my nose when I am in the shop, I am neither a sheep, anxious, brain washed or scared

My 2 year old grandson manages to wear a mask with no issue. Are you seriously saying as a supposedly rational adult you're incapable?

Make your own choices for yourself but if you have no community spirit, I hope you stay at home so you don't put others at risk.

Plenty of people in the US who refused to be sheep dying of the virus.

I don’t like them but will wear one. I have had to wear one for just over half an hour on two occasions and I hated it. It makes me feel like I can’t breathe and then I get panicky and had a claustrophobic feeling. I’m such a ninny.

I understand why we're being asked to wear a mask. However, I feel that it is a nail in the coffin for the high street. It is so uncomfortable wearing them, especially when you wear glasses and they steam up, that there is no pleasure in shopping and people are not going to go out to browse.

I shall be going along tomorrow as per usual, but as I find breathing very difficult behind a mask I shall be carrying an exemption and a copy of the 2005 Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights regarding 'Consent' which states I cannot be forced to do something without my consent.
I will, of course, be respectful of others and keep my distance.

No proper scientific test has been done to establish the consequences of wearing masks over periods of time.

Anna Brees, an independant journalist, formerly working for the BBC did an interesting interview in the last couple of days about 'Keeping Britain Free.'

When I went shopping with my elderly mother yesterday I noticed that far more people were wearing masks than a couple of weeks before. However there were still many non mask wearers. All change tomorrow. I do hope shops will refuse entry to people without a mask. I think people who can’t wear a mask should get a note saying as much from their medical practice, not a doctor’s note, the doctors have enough to do, but from the practice nurse. People should not be allowed to decide they can’t wear one themselves, the same as people are unable to say they’re not going to wear a seatbelt in a car.

Trying to get my elderly mother to touch it, pull it below her nose, take it off correctly, well what can I say. I cannot get her to understand and follow through the correct procedures.

Part of our business is supplying PHE, a badly fitted and fiddled with mask is absolutely no good to anyone, it could even be detrimental to the wearer.

Please do not touch your masks, put them on and remove them by the ties/loops place in a plastic bag before disposing.
I have no experience of reusable masks do they have to be washed at high temperatures? Do they have filters inside that are washable/disposable.

(I shall be wearing a mask if/when I go anywhere where it is required despite being asthmatic and someone that struggles with anything on her face)

MayBee70

Also, the Scottish daily briefings are signed, something that doesn’t seem to have crossed the mind of the government here.

The English briefings are signed on the BBC News Channel

Just a reminder that anyone wearing hearing aids must be very careful when they take off a mask that has elastic around the ears. Lots of people with hearing aids are loosing them.

On my last visit to the shops every customer was wearing them (Scotland). What I couldn’t understand is why staff were not?

If masks were banned there would probably be protesters fighting for the right to wear them.

JenniferEccles says "There are so few cases of the virus in circulation now . . ." - but as many new cases (560) are being announced on July 23rd as in March when the lockdown began. If that was enough to cause the virus to spread then as it did, it is enough to cause a second wave now. It is still as much at large in the population now as it was then.

Masks were not made compulsory then - they should have been. We might not then have had so many cases and so many deaths.

Other countries are getting second or third waves, after taking it more seriously than us the first time round. Why risk repeating the whole thing?

Liz46 if you aren’t going shopping because you can’t wear a mask, at least you are doing your best for yourself and others by staying away from the shops.
Stay safe.

The briefings were signed if you watched them on BBC 24 hour news. Surely the Government should have said that face coverings were banned then everyone would have been falling over themselves to obtain and wear them. I have been wearing one in shops the whole way through, just wish OH felt the same.

Yes, Marydoll, totally agree. I think this would all have been over if Lockdown had been earlier and mask wearing at the same time. We were in Cambridge late February, I was pleased, but surprised we were allowed to travel home!! When we got home it was our Golden Wedding Anniversary, I hadn't arranged anything because of Covid, DUH!

just do NOT understand this mentality. Really? This is ridiculous

Also, the Scottish daily briefings are signed, something that doesn’t seem to have crossed the mind of the government here.

What a fuss by people who are obviously quite happy to have the choice of being on a ventilator! I've been wearing a mask for my weekly shop since the beginning of the month, before it became compulsory in Scotland, and it's not a problem. The most comfortable one I find is the one made from a cotton square of 50cm folded (instructions on the BBC site and elsewhere) with 2 hairbands and no sewing involved, although I do use a couple of safety pins to hold it together more securely. Lots of layers, but no problem with breathing (but I don't have asthma). Everyone here seems to wear them, young and old - this is a friendly town where people speak to each other and take an interest in protecting each other.

Maddyone agree that masks are bound to protect the wearer as well as other people. Why on earth this notion was put about, I don't know! I still think there were fears that people would panick buy these items same as the toilet rolls!

'...whose....'

We’re being asked to wear them to help slow the spread of the virus. A virus which lands seriously ill people in hospital and many don’t survive. The frontline staff who are risking their own well being to care for them have to wear masks for a 12 hour shift. They’re not cutesy soft cotton ones. They are pressure fit masks, the outline of which is embedded on their faces at the end of the day.

Is it really too much to ask us to wear a mask while shopping if there is the slightest chance it might help?

@mcem Thanks for the acknowledgement. The difference for the Scots is the daily briefing from our highly respected First Minister who's presentation is fresh, articulate, well prepared & informed. She also anticipates, as far as possible, the questions people may have. She presents the briefing herself each time with support from 2 relevant ministers or health advisers. I have never been an advocate for Scottish Independence but she is a great advertisement for it.