Parliament today. Mask wearing. Or not….

It’s not obligatory in our Doctors now.

You can still have covid if you’re double vaccinated. And, if you do catch it you will still have a huge viral load that you can pass on to other people. None of us know how well our immune system has responded to the vaccine until we catch covid.

MaggsMcG

ILoveCheese is it the first time you've watched it. They shout like that all the time.

But you would think that they would realise that they are endangering others at this time, not just behaving like toddlers as per usual.

Masks are not essential in my (and many others) opinion. The MPs were simply making political statements as politicians do! Ignore their posturing! We now have very effective vaccines. As scientists find out more and more about Covid and the results of the various studies are evaluated, vaccines will get better and better. The next wave of vaccines are already in development. Masks were not recommended as particularly effective by the government or the WHO at the start of all this. Vaccination is important until we all carry antibodies against the disease. Then I imagine a seasonal jab like there is for ‘flu will be given to the most vulnerable. Discussion is underway in government about this. We have to learn to live with this virus as we do with many others. If wearing a mask for the foreseeable future helps you to feel safe then go ahead! I don’t mind what other people do or think about this as long as they do not expect me to do/think the same as they do and refrain from castigating me for my ‘lack of social responsibility’. I could ( if I was being nasty-which I’m not!) equally criticise much of what they believe after all.

JaneJudge

^Has the population become deadened to the impact of this disease?^

Do you know, I think they have. I think people's recent experiences of younger people in their family and friend group having it and not being so ill wont have helped.

It is a fact that in the majority most young people who catch Covid are not particularly ill
Most double vaccinated who now catch it are not seriously ill with very minor symptoms that once upon a time they would not have given a second thought to
As I mentioned before I was out shopping in a local designer outlet it was now far more relaxed with only 50% or less wearing masks. I didn’t bother with one either much more pleasant experience
Unless we get some massive change the doom mongering will naturally decrease

Will continue to wear mask..when people cough around me am pleased to have some protection ..but notice that often when they do cough..pull their mask down?

ILoveCheese is it the first time you've watched it. They shout like that all the time.

My nephew posted photos of himself and friends at the Boardmasters gathering at Newquay all cuddling one another and not a mask in sight.
On the other hand my 73 year old son after spending a week at the coast with his grand children isolated himself and will take a test before visiting me next week.

How does eye infections equate with mask wearing??

We had to get a taxi back from car breakdown, (RAC rules)-driver was wearing a mask, luckily i always have a few new disposable spares in my bag for us as DD did not have any. ?

Has the population become deadened to the impact of this disease?

Do you know, I think they have. I think people's recent experiences of younger people in their family and friend group having it and not being so ill wont have helped.

The incidence of COVID is now very low and concentrated in certain unvaccinated groups.

I don't see how you can possibly think that, MOnica. This time last year daily reported cases were running at about 1,000 per day, they are now hovering around the 30,000 per day level. Daily reported deaths then were mostly in single figures, now in double and treble figures and rising by about 10% week on week.

Has the population become deadened to the impact of this disease?

Wearing a mask is something one does to protect others - hasn’t this been a government message all along? Clearly it’s the socialists among us who have a care for others - the Tories don’t give a fig for anybody but themselves …

MayBee70

As an adult my choice is to continue to protect myself and others. It would be good to see the government choose to do the same thing.

As you state, as adults it's a matter of choice. Some choose to wear masks, others not to. I have had 6-7 eye infection since wearing a mask and will only wear one if requested eg doctors etc. My choice

MayBee70

Theoddbird

People on both sides were wearing them. Only the front row of the conservatives were not....

I think you need to look footage of that debate again. It isn’t what I saw.

here you go

there is even a video on this one if you are in doubt

M0nica, I’m not sure I understand your question. Are you perhaps in a country that doesn’t yet have Covid.

I’m sure they’ll be more than happy to be vaccinated to protect themselves and others, unlike the selfish minority here who continue to spread and infect others as well as encourage mutations.

Official advice is to wear masks in crowded spaces indoors...I think Commons staff had to wear them, and the speaker asked MPs to, though he could not enforce it.

I suspect many Tory MPs had masks in their pockets, and waited to see if BJ was wearing one or not.....

While workers are having to wear their masks I am continuing to wear mine. If it protects others the HoC should be setting an example. They should be leading the country not making the place look like the lower 5th common room.

Theoddbird

People on both sides were wearing them. Only the front row of the conservatives were not....

I think you need to look footage of that debate again. It isn’t what I saw.

Thankfully in Scotland we still wear them indoors. It is out of respect for others that they should be worn. So in parliament what does this say about the maskless? There will be some MPs there with reduced immunity through illness or medication! We know that in groups covid spreads easily.

I wonder if the labour MPs wear masks to portray themselves as the 'caring party'
Not a political remark as I don't like any of them much.
I don't wear a mask unless I'm in a medical situation, or on a bus. My choice, my reasons, and I don't feel the need to explain or defend myself.
If you choose to wear a mask, it is your choice, your reasons, and I don't expect you to explain why.

Virtue signalling. Pain in the a*

People on both sides were wearing them. Only the front row of the conservatives were not....

I am out and about on a trip to a local shopping outlet noticed mask wearing greatly reduced now around 50%
Mainly more elderly wearing them