Which supermarkets has the most mask wearing?

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 went to sainsbury's today and wore a mask and I'd say 95% of people/staff were wearing them
I then popped into the farm shop and hardly anyone had them on at all

I didn't wear a mask in the co-op yesterday as I had forgotten to take one

It is interesting to find correlations between a social class and a public behaviour. I bet social psychologists have paid attention to correlations between posh shops and a specific behaviour , and negative correlation between downmarket shops and the same specific behaviour.

Since covid is front page news, it would be odd if there were no studieds of covid related behaviour. As a matter of fact I myself am a guinea pig for a DOI study on covid related behaviour and actual infection, although specific supermarkets have not so far been mentioned.

Well, I'll report back next time I go into a shop I never shop in because I'm not educated enough, shall I?

So how many people who are intelligent, middle or upper class are wearing the N type masks in these supermarkets? As they are the only ones effective against viruses. The disposable ones and cloth ones have little or no effect

Just because a poster knows of few, or even no people who have suffered Covid tells us nothing because we know it is very prevalent now and rising. I saw one in every twenty people had Covid last week. Between 100-200 people are dying every day day with Covid and hospital admissions are up to 1,900 a day across the country.
Covid has not gone away, whatever we like to think.

Covid is so prevalent that it’s unlikely to pass any one by although many people I know, including myself haven’t had it

That's a bit of contradiction! I know very few people who have had it - DDil and both DGC, but DS didn't get it and I know no on else who has had it.

Where I live we have a Sainsbury’s, Asda, Lidl and a Waitrose. The Waitrose is near perfect mask wearing (I was there yesterday and the age range was a wide age range, not just OAPs) Sainsbury’s is pretty much 60 % wearing mask 40% not wearing one, and Asda and Lidl is almost no mask wearing. For that reason I avoid the latter two as I’m looking after my mil in her 90’s and she’s very vulnerable so I don’t want to pass it onto her.
Make of the above what you will. ??‍♀️

I work in a theatre, no one wears a mask anymore in the auditorium. Second Boosters are rolling out now, Covid is so prevalent that it’s unlikely to pass any one by although many people I know, including myself haven’t had it….yet! I think many people are more relaxed about it now, it’s not a death scenario any more but I do believe that long Covid is a serious consideration. I wear double masks in my job for this very reason.

I think it as much depends on the area as the shop. And the time of day. As a general, older people tend to wear them, younger not so much. When it was advisory I had a rant at the staff in Pets at Home because they had put a big sign outside asking customers to please wear face masks, but the staff were not wearing them. When I questioned them they said ‘It’s my choice’. I pointed out that could hardly request customers to wear then then if they weren’t.

I would say that mask wearers are in the minority now in most supermarkets. However, yesterday (Saturday) I called into the Trafford Centre with my daughter to collect an order and felt decidedly uncomfortable, as it was very busy and the shoppers were almost exclusively under 35. I was glad to get out. (I’m not keen on the Trafford Centre anyway - it’s full of things I don’t want or need!?)
It’s interesting that Covid has taken a back seat on the news now.

Very high mask compliance amongst customers and staff of all ages in the large Waitrose where I work. Many customers comment on it. It's by no means an 'old people's' store.

Really!!

What a load of old rollocks.

Wherever you go, there will be mask wearers and non mask wearers.

Personally, I don’t go in them and still prefer click and collect.

All age related imo. Waitrose et al tend to have the more mature shopper who won’t let go of wearing a mask whether they need to it not. Aldi et al, younger shoppers, families etc, well and truly over the mask wearing joke.

Did a quick shop this afternoon at our local Co-op 2 masks spotted one member of staff one customer they are definitely disappearing

I’m so unobservant I had to ask DH how many people were wearing masks when we went to buy our Easter eggs in Tesco today (£1 off the £3 ones, ends soon…). One family group apparently, and none of the staff.

We’re off to Sainsburys tomorrow so I’ll pay attention and see how they compare.

We’re a Waitrose-less area with no Asda either, so I’m not sure what that says about our social standing, as determined by Gransnet.

Hardly anybody seems to be wearing a mask anymore here. In the shopping centre this morning there were about twenty people wearing masks. In Sainsbury we only saw two other people in masks. In the local Co-op it's about the same. We've noticed that people are starting to stare a bit now when they see masks, whereas no one seemed bothered before. It seems to be mainly older people still masking up near us, and they are masking up properly - I think the 'under-the-chin', 'under-the-nose' wearers have just dumped their masks.

I was in a day unit in a major hospital and there were plenty notices faces must be covered. In the crowded waiting area during my 5 hour wait the people who did not mask were one very frail looking old woman in a wheel chair with an attendant, a young man, a middle aged man, and a very pretty dark complexioned young woman wearing a sun top and a mobile phone.

Surely it depends on which supermarkets are in your area, how big a population and level of virus is in your area and who is shopping when you are! I would presume, maybe wrongly, that the older you are the more you are likely to wear masks.

In Scotland it is still the law for masks to be worn indoors in shops, restaurants etc. and on public transport. I’m in Glasgow and almost everyone in the places I visit wears a mask.

I was shocked when visiting another town to find mask wearers in the minority. On telling this to a friend she said that she felt it was linked to education levels and she had found remarkably different compliance levels in different parts of my city.