Which supermarkets has the most mask wearing?

Well after my experience in a virtualIy mask-free Tesco yesterday I went to Sainsburys and B & M today and made a point of checking out the masks. Fewer than 20% of people were wearing them in each. The same people were using the hand gel provided.

I suppose the real question is why people feel that they don’t need to wear a mask despite rapidly rising numbers.

maddyone

I suppose the real question is why people feel that they don’t need to wear a mask despite rapidly rising numbers.

Honest answer Maddyone I test often so I can't give someone something I haven't got. I had Covid in January.
Fully vacinatted and the vacinne did its job
I don't like masks
If I am somewhere lots of people are waring them I will put it on.
I really don't think they make a huge difference unless you have a FFP2 mask

More protection is given if everyone wears a mask rosie. I, like you, test regularly because I visit my elderly mother in her care home, and I cannot go through the door without evidence of my negative test. Nonetheless all the staff and all the visitors must wear a mask all the time we’re inside the home.
As you know, I had Covid in January 2021. I was hospitalised and I was very ill. I had pneumonia on one lung which has left scars not yet healed. Next X-ray due in June this year. Covid isn’t always mild. I, like you, have had all three of my vaccinations and I hope they will protect me, but I know I’m still likely had to get it again, despite my fear of getting it badly.
I cannot accept that we, as a country, have decided it’s all over. It really isn’t. Approximately 2000 cases a day in hospital. Between 100 and 200 deaths a day. Round about 70,000 to 100,000 active cases a day reported, and that’s only the ones we know about. There are estimated to be at least double that each day. Many people no longer test. What will happen when they have to pay for tests? Then they certainly won’t test, with the inevitable drop in number of infections per day. But not really, it’s just that the numbers will be hidden.
It’s not over.

I agree it’s definitely not over but the vaccinations and antivirals have made it totally different.
As you have already had it Maddyone as well as 3 lots of vaccinations in the last year then your chances of being very Ill are much lower
The cases in hospital include people that have been admitted for something totally different which they expect is about half
the cases and those that are admitted have the benefit of antivirals we didn’t have before
I was initially terrified of my daughter getting it but she did. She had cold like symptoms and carried on working from home.
Countries accross Europe are also dropping restrictions despite high numbers

97% of the population have COVID antibodies, from vaccination or having the illness. The chances of getting the disease badly has gone through the floor and the range of medecines that can alleviate the disease increases almost daily.

Sadly those most vulnerable to the disease continue to get it seriously and sometimes need to go to hospital, but there are far fewer of them.

We have been worked up into such a sense of fear, and I include myself in that, that we are completely losing a
our sense of proportion over the illness. but a week or two ago i read that deaths from flu now exceeded those from COVID and I am trying to locate the source of an article written decades ago that plotted the progress of a epidemic/pandemic diseases as the event ended and the reduction slope was just as it is at the moment with COVID, down one week and then up the next, sometimes up for longish period, but then down again. I will keep looking for the link.

There is nothing happening at the moment that is not consistent wth this article as I remember it.