Are you still wearing a face mask?

I see Charles and Camilla have abandoned masks and fist / elbow hand shakes. From the pictures it’s looks as if everyone at this gathering for the Samaritans charity have.

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10132103/Prince-Charles-doesnt-stick-namaste-greeting-Samaritans-visit.html

MayBee70, I agree with everything you have written .
I just don’t understand what is so difficult for folks to deal with.
If bullets were going to being fired at them I suppose they would then take preventive action.
It’s not a lot to ask us to do for our own preservation.

We still get fined if we don’t wear masks. Good source of revenue really, fine the selfish.

I see Johnson is wearing a mask in parliament today. Scared of missing his COP26 gig methinks…..

A certain person on here is winding us all up; of course she wears a mask. She wouldn't be that inane not to!

mimiEliza
I think you’ll find there are millions of people not wearing masks.
Scroll down on this article to see more of the great and the good not only not wearing masks but hugging and kissing.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10137631/Camilla-references-brutal-deaths-Sarah-Everard-Sabina-Nessa-major-speech.html

Yuk! I hope nobody tries to hug and kiss me, unless I know them and I know they've done everything they can to minimise risk. Hugging and kissing sounds a bit "foreign" to me.

During both prime minister's questions and Chancellor Rishi Sunak's budget on Wednesday, the majority of the Tory front bench wore face masks as they listened to the Commons exchanges.

It marked a contrast to last week when, as the Commons returned from its recess for party conferences, Mr Johnson - like many Conservative MPs and ministers - did not wear a mask in the Commons chamber.

news.sky.com/story/budget-2021-boris-johnson-leads-cabinet-ministers-in-return-of-mask-wearing-in-house-of-commons-12446145

This is a big change from last week. Only Mogg, who seems to think you can't be infected by someone you know, is maskless

As I said earlier imo they’re just scared of not being able to go to Glasgow. Johnson still didn’t cover his nose a lot of the time. It was only the front benches that wore masks, further back on the Conservative benches they weren’t bothering with masks.

Mask refusers, like the idiot Mogg, betray their own selfishness and stupidity.

And show their sense of entitlement and privilege. As if those pesky viruses would dare to invade their bodies….

I seem to have stumbled through life without using Prince Charles as a role model.

I use Basset Hounds as a calming technique

MerylStreep

MayBee70
As this virus is going to be with us for, I don’t know how long?
when will the figures be acceptable before you stop using alarmist language?
I know that sounds very harsh but there has to come a time when people stop hanging on every announcement of numbers.

Not harsh but rather a very personal attack.

Why are you so "alarmed" as you chose to call it. The Japanese might see the idea that we cannot have a "normal" life if we continued to wear masks in confined spaces as extremely "alarmist" and, more to the point, untrue. They know. They have lived like that for 100 years plus. They are polite and considerate people.

MayBee wearing a mask is protecting those around her. You not doing so leaves those around you open to infection. Who is the one likely to cause alarm and who is likely to calm others?

As they now know, a person coming into a household, double vaccinated but infected, can pass the virus on to another double vaccinated person. Obviously, either of them can pass it on to someone who is unvaccinated.

Again, what is alarming about wearing a mask, avoiding transmitting the virus?

My son lives in South Korea where they plan to relax mandatory mask wearing OUTSIDE at the beginning of December and if that goes well, in all settings in January (including for children). Their mask wearing policy, together with their efficient track and trace system could be why, with a slightly smaller population than the UK, their stats for the whole pandemic are approx 365000 cases and fewer than 3000 deaths. I for one will be continuing to wear a mask!

But we can’t copy what them ‘furriners’ are doing…..we’re English y’know…..

Susie Dent, the lexicographer, was on BBC Breakfast this morning. She mentioned 'unasinous' that means 'united in stupidity'; it made me think of this post!

Bonhoeffer's Theory of Stupidty explains a lot. Here's a rather succinct introduction to his theory; it'll take about 5 minutes to watch:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww47bR86wSc

I’m in Dublin and very impressed at mask wearing compliance . Astonishing isn’t it that it can be achieved so easily by the Irish but is not necessary or achievable by the English ?

I went to my youngest GD's school assembly this morning. I wore my face mask the whole time as Covid is going around the school. I was very much in the minority, though.

I''m currently on a long distance train travelling north. Guesstimate 2\3 without masks and remainder with. We have regular tannoy messages telling us they should be worn.

Went on a bus a few weeks ago to our large town 20 miles away.
Single decker, no windows open ( I wasn’t near an opening one), more passengers not wearing masks and 3 wearing them under their noses.
There was a large poster asking us all to wear masks.
I won’t be travelling by bus again for a while.

Masc qearing should be compulory on public transport and indoor public places as it is in most democratic countries

Maybe should clarify two thirds and not two or three. Sorry

I was speaking to a friend who had just been down south to visit family. He said that at Gatwick Airport there were very few masks, but when he got back to Inverness Airport, almost everyone was wearing them. I do think it would be a lot easier for people in England if the government just stopped saying that mask-wearing is voluntary but advisable, and made it compulsory in indoor public spaces.