Pre mask shopping - will you?

If mask wearing is advisory, why is there a fine for non compliance?
We should have been wearing masks months ago. My husband and I have worn one in shops or public places since we started to go out again. I don’t believe they don’t protect the wearer as well as other people. It’s a physical barrier, if it protects other people it must give some protection to the wearer too. Scientists recently said that wearing a mask gives up to 65% protection to the wearer, but of course not all scientists agree.

I have bronchiectasis and asthma but have tried to wear a mask and just can’t breathe in one. I haven’t been in a shop since early March so will continue to get food deliveries and just not go shopping.

Our local Asda have really looked after us, even delivering my medication as well as groceries and I really appreciate the staff. Everything has a good date on it and I have written to thank them.

I haven’t been able to go out for months. Now that I can I wear a mask when going anywhere where there are people, such as medical appointments and shops. Why not?

Jeez! It's a fabric mask. You are not being asked to walk on broken glass. Deal with it.

I am happy to wear a mask in shops, and have been doing so the very rare visits I have had to make. I look at so many states in USA now and see the huge rises in Cov19 figures, because they think it is their civil right to do what they like, and there are so many that do not want to wear masks and protest against them.
I am sure we are hearing conflicting figures and information that we can accept or dismiss according to our own beliefs or opinions. But I just feel that the simple fact is all around the world people are dying from this, and the more we can do now to slow or stop it, perhaps we can return to our free, easy and carefree ways. I for one am happy to wear a mask, stay at home, miss seeing friends, if at the end of this we are all still here. I know we are tired of it, but the alternative is not very appealing to me!!

Just been on holiday to Wales were mask are not compulsory but they keep strictly to the two meters rule.Untill August 3rd can't eat inside.Weather been glorious been on beach everyday and ate outside

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

Why on earth buy butter to freeze? Are you laying in supplies for a siege? Stockpiling is really neither necessary or public spirited and sounds rather more "scaredy cat" than just putting the damn mask on and getting on with it.
If you were beside me in a queue and pulled your mask down I for one would walk out. It's so selfish and "I'm all right jack"
Sorry to be so blunt but really!

NotSpaghetti I wear glasses. It was trial and error in the early days to avoid them steaming up. I don’t find any particular mask of benefit but have sorted the problem of steamy glasses by how I wear them.

I bring the top rim of the mask up to the bridge of my nose and wear my specs on top of the mask, lower down my nose than normal. I’ve been wearing a mask in shops for months and have eliminated the steam up problem which was really frustrating in the beginning.

Others have suggested a tissue folded under the top rim of the mask works well to trap any moisture.

Masks are a great divider. Some love them, and some hate them, some agree with them, some don’t. I’ve researched this long and hard and I think it’s one of the worst decisions Boris has taken. So yes, I’m about to go shopping and then it will be minimal and mostly online. I appreciate I’ll be in a minority on here....but you did ask the question!

We went out for our first socially distanced coffee yesterday. Not many masks in sight and then largely on women. A big fat man stared at us in our masks, didn’t he know that being a man and obese meant he could suffer the most?
PS the coffee was lovely but scary!

are we turning into a nation of spoilt brats or what?

Turning into? I thought we already are!

Callistemon sadly in this pandemic they are all as bad.

I agree with so many of you - what is the problem about taking steps to protect yourself - surely that's common sense? If you don't care about others surely protect yourself?

We've not been out for four months and have just started to try a short walk. I wear a mask whenever I go out - apparently it helps to stop me passing the virus to anyone else but not the other way round? I can't see the logic in that at all!

The way I look at it is that if I can take any step at all to reduce the risk I will take it!

Incidentally I was told by an 84yr old the other day that it's only two weeks until it's gone! According to her, from 1st August it's fine for all those who are shielding to go out!!!
Set your clock for 0001 1st August and we'll party!

To be fair to her the 'rules' have been ridiculous as every rule is strongly given, but then every single one has the 'EXCEPT' caviat. I read somewhere that you don't have to wear a mask on a bus if it causes you distress

I would love to take any 'refusers' into the hospital ward where my niece works and make them look at the poor souls still struggling to fight for their lives. The numbers of new cases may be down but the are still many, many currently sick people.

Like you all I will comply and pray!

I’ve worn masks when shopping since lockdown started but now I wonder.
If I carry a card saying I can’t wear a mask, can the virus read?
Will it pass me by like the houses with the lambs blood mark on them during the plague in Egypt?
I found it really strange in Sainsbury’s on Monday, being reproved for not having my mask on before I got to the socially distanced queue, by someone with a lanyard who wasn’t wearing one at all and that’s before it is mandatory.
Perhaps I’ll get a card. I do have an inhaler, so I could.

It's not advisory, but there aren't enough police to enforce it, so they have dais they won't.

MellowYellow, if your daughter is frightened of losing her sense of smell, please tell her to wear some sort of face covering, it does give a little protection. If she actually gets the virus, she could lose sense of smell for good, as it seems my daughter has done (6 months now) and now has a permanent smell of rotting flesh in her nose.

Friend, not fried......

Why was it not compulsory months ago ?

It really is no bother wearing a mask, unless you wear glasses, as they steam up. Just very uncomfortable.
My solution is a silk square folded into a triangle, and tying firmly behind the head.
You can half breath through the material, and half breathe out under it.
Will be donning it tomorrow, even although my fried says l look like Ned Kelly.
Charming.... ?

Maydoll I quite agree with you and have been wondering the same myself.

Some people have a legitimate reason for not wearing a mask.
Otherwise, no-mask wearers advertise the fact
"I ONLY CARE ABOUT MYSELF"
Mask wearers advertise the fact -
" I DO CARE ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE"
It's plain and simple to me.
DO WE CARE ABOUT TRYING TO PREVENT A SECOND WAVE?

Oh dear I didn’t realise it was just advisory, WHY? Why is govt so scared of making a decision and enforcing it ? Vote losing ?

I shall wear a face covering of course but they do slip down when you speak and then you see people and me I've done it too fiddling with it to put it back up so of course you then have organism on your hands so strictly speaking you should handwash/sanitise every time you do that. Not all the experts agree about mask wearing and the conditions of when and where are confusing and conflicting. However the order has been given so mask wearing it is.

My understanding is that it is advisory with the assumption that the majority of us will comply.

There are so few cases of the virus in circulation now so it does seem a bit illogical compared with if the ruling had come in at the height of the pandemic, but at that stage we were all at home most of the time.

Plus of course the ‘experts’ were divided as to whether they were helpful or not !

Now most of us are out and about and trying to get back to normal, face covering might help to keep the virus in check.

I hate wearing them. I find them claustrophobic and hot but I will comply.

I can’t see the problem of face covering. I have been wearing one in shops for several weeks now, and soon got used to it. Why are people so selfish? I listened to a surgeon on television yesterday who said ‘no surgeon has ever dropped dead because of breathing difficulties whilst wearing a mask’ .

I’ve been wearing a mask for a few months now any time I have to go into a confined space ie shop , hospital, chemist.
I don’t see why the sudden protest
I also carry & use disinfectant hand gel which I use every time I go somewhere
I’m certainly not doing any non essential visits any where
It’s not rocket science just being considerate to everyone who could be at a greater health risk