Are you still wearing a face mask?

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

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!

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?

I use Basset Hounds as a calming technique

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Norah

Christmas approaches, going without Christmas it seems.

Covid isn't just for Christmas!

If everybody acts sensibly, knowing how Covid is transmitted, case incidence rates will continue to go down. Death rates seem to have increased, which is probably a result of the past case rates.

There's a downward trend across England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. We just need to keep our heads and run a mile if there are people without masks in enclosed spaces. If people want large family gatherings at Christmas, they need to think about self-isolating for a few days and testing before meeting. It won't stop all infection, but it will reduce risk.

Christmas approaches, going without Christmas it seems.

What annoys me is that mask wearing, even if it protects the wearer is still more about protecting other people. And yet so many people don’t give a flying flamingo about others. All this talk in this country about Dunkirk spirit and pulling together and yet, when it comes to something as simple as wearing a mask people just look for excuses not to do so. Can it really be so awful to carry on wearing a mask for the next few months? You know, by doing so you might actually have saved someone’s life without even knowing you’ve done so. All this ‘well, the government says I don’t need to wear one’, ‘I’ve never bothered with a mask and haven’t caught covid tee her’ just does my head in.

TwoWolves

Shelflife - the number of facemask lovers who have gone on to catch covid is remarkable. There are even some Gransnetters who have said it happened to them. I think Covid laughs in the face of facemasks.

As for being foolish, I've had two vaccinations and will go for a booster. And would stay indoors if I had symptoms - that's as far as I'm prepared to go to protect myself or others because facemasks DO NOT WORK.

That's your opinion ofcourse! I presume you mean the cloth ones? Not the ones that they use in hospitals and Drs.

Yes I still wear mine and like those I know will continue too. For me it reminds people we are still in the pandemic and to keep their distance.

Yes I know there are varying views in the science community to their effectiveness. Any % is better than none to me

We certainly won't be going without Christmas regardless will carry on as planned and have got a feeling we wouldn't be the only ones

Well if we don’t all go back to wearing masks soon we may have to go without Christmas again.

Thanks for the link growstuff; very interesting.

You may like to read this:

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Shocked lately about the number of people on public transport who get on brazenly without a mask despite the requirement notice on the window. A few weeks ago I was seeing people get on wearing one and then removing them when seated. The drivers have not said anything. Wearing a mask is such an obvious aid to preventing illness and such an easy thing to do that I tend to correlate its use with plain common sense. As for this nonsense about it stopping us getting our lives back surely wearing one is the pathway to doing exactly that.