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COVID-19 etiquette and good manners after 19 July 2021

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TerriBull Sun 04-Jul-21 13:07:55

I think I may continue to wear a mask in supermarkets, particularly if it happens to be busy. If I feel I'm fairly spaced out from others, say in garden centres or stores that aren't particularly busy I won't wear a mask. If I were to use public transport, I haven't for ages, I would definitely wear one.

MerylStreep Sun 04-Jul-21 12:57:58

Mollygo
As we know most of the lanyard wearers have no health problems to exempt them.
They will dump them and probably respect what others decide to do.

Mollygo Sun 04-Jul-21 12:53:15

I’ll wear a mask where I want to, but I don’t expect mask wearing to be widespread. As MerylStreep says, “What other people decide to do is their business.”
I’ll be interested to see what all the lanyard wearers will be doing, and what they’ll expect others to do.

Whiff Sun 04-Jul-21 12:52:49

I will continue to wear a mask on the bus and in shops. Plus keep my distance and of course hand washing.

Before Covid first thing I did when I got home was to wash my hands before even taking my shoes off. You never knew if people washed their hands after going to the loo.

MerylStreep Sun 04-Jul-21 12:46:27

The only time I will ever be wearing one again is when having my B12 injections. What other people decide to do is their business.

maddyone Sun 04-Jul-21 12:45:03

I don’t use public transport very often, but if I do, I will wear a mask.

JaneJudge Sun 04-Jul-21 12:43:51

I don't understand why you wouldn't wear a mask and wouldn't social distance from strangers outside. Surely there is still a risk?

That said, I let a waif into my house yesterday who had broken down outside my house (it is quite remote) to use the toilet and made her a drink and I don't suppose that is advised either

Lin52 Sun 04-Jul-21 12:40:04

For me a mask for shops, not outside, unless it is very busy . As I do now in fact. Must admit to finding it unnerving to have someone not two metre away in a restaurant, of course when sat down can take mask off. One would hope that there are not too many irresponsible folk around, but then it only takes one. Worry for my grandchildren, not all of an age to have vaccine, and research showing the unvaccinated are the way variants emerge.

JaneJudge Sun 04-Jul-21 12:31:32

I went to our nearest town market yesterday and no one was wearing masks or social distancing. It's very difficult to monitor other people's behaviour imo. Even standing at a crossing to cross the road, people stand all around you.

tanith Sun 04-Jul-21 12:28:28

I think I will continue wearing a mask in shops for now. I choose not to go on public transport but if I did I would wear a mask there.

ElderlyPerson Sun 04-Jul-21 12:25:45

news.sky.com/story/covid-19-face-masks-will-be-a-personal-choice-under-much-more-permissive-regime-of-measures-12348408

news.sky.com/story/covid-19-doctors-call-for-targeted-coronavirus-prevention-measures-to-stay-after-19-july-12347670

These two points of view do not seem to gel together!

So, what to do?

Is there needed a general public consensus on COVID-19 etiquette and good manners after 19 July 2021?

For example, if someone chooses to go to a nightclub where there may not be restrictions, that is one thing, it is not necessary for everybody to go to a nightclub.

Yet everybody needs to eat, so it seems to me that people who might behave COVID-19wise in one way in a nightclub might lbe entirely happy to behave in a different way COVID-19wise in a supermarket, out of consideration for other people.

It is like people going round in shorts in a city, but gentlemen wear trousers and ladies wear a skirt if going into a church or a cathedral.

Another example, wearing swimwear. Alright on a beach or at a swimming bath, but people (usually) do not go shopping in Tesco in swimwear. It is just how people behave. It may possibly not be illegal, (I don't actually know), but it is just not done.

Years ago, 1950s, 1960s, some people would go round shops smoking, even in places like cake shops.

Gradually it got that people did not do it.

The government's approach to COVID-19 seems to be heading towards the 1950s widespread attitude to smoking of people having to put up with it because of a so-called 'right to smoke'. Some people even disregarded the NO SMOKING signs in some railway compartments, though many smokers respected that, some grudgingly.

Is the policy that the governmentv seems to be heading for having a 'right to covidise anywhere' akin to a so-called 'right to smoke anywhere except in church'.

However, a week is a long time in politics and so what is announced nearer 19 July 2021 may not be what is being telegraphed by the government at present. But it might be.

So do we need the public to adopt some sort of COVID-19 etiquette and good manners that by courtesy people choose to restrict themselves in ways that go beyond the very lax legal restrictions?

If so, how should that come about? Put out by the British Medical Association?

Maybe the BMA needs to do that if the government is unwilling to do so.

This thread is to enquire how people here feel about there being such a guide to COVID-19 etiquette and good manners after 19 July 2021.