[Ammi]

Originally Posted by MTVN

I'm not just talking about supermarkets, in fact those are the ones I'm least talking about as they probably would find it easier to enforce as they do still have door staff a lot of the time and people do need to visit them. The problem will be the shopping that's done more for pleasure than for necessity and those are the shops that can least afford to lose out on any custom.

I might be wrong on this and it might actually help if more people now feel comfortable going out shopping but it could go either way. Tbh if compliance is 75% I think that would be a reasonable success as it'd more than double the number currently wearing masks, I don't think this is a law where its absolutely imperative that its enforced to 100% compliance

...yeah, if shop customers decrease because of the mask having to be worn as opposed to shopping online, it’ll be the non essentials which have just re-opened again...the supermarkets have always and would always thrive, regardless of restrictions...

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

It doesn't have to be a mask.
It can be a scarf of something similar.

I know.
It's crazy.

To go into a shop or store for a few minutes or half an hour whatever.

It's such a difficult thing to just have an even in courtesy to others, facecovering on while in there.

As things get eased and relaxed, this should be more important.
The level is still at level 3.
That means the virus is out there and transmissible.

With more back to work,school, and out and about now, it is in my view, and should be, an essential requirement to have a facecovering as you even outline..
Even just like a fashionable scarf.

If only out of respect for and courtesy to others.

Why there's a fuss astounds me.
When less people were out during lockdown, that's when facecoverings were less needed.
Now, opening things up.more, it's moreso needed.
In my view.

[Jessica.]

All of the shops here have signs outside saying "do not enter without a mask" and they turn people away if they're not wearing them.

[Liam-]

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Liam-

No arguing with that

[user104658]

It doesn't affect your oxygen intake, it does make your breathing "feel" stifled though, it's more a psychological/instinctual thing. You get used to it, eventually your subconscious will realise you're not suffocating and the panicky feelings will stop. People just don't like to be psychologically uncomfortable .

[bots]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

It doesn't affect your oxygen intake, it does make your breathing "feel" stifled though, it's more a psychological/instinctual thing. You get used to it, eventually your subconscious will realise you're not suffocating and the panicky feelings will stop. People just don't like to be psychologically uncomfortable .

my glasses do steam up a bit, so i have to fiddle with mask positioning quite a lot to get the sweet spot

[Cherie]

Wear a bandana its much more comfortable

[Amy Jade]

I swear I'll go off if I pop into say tesco and some Karen is saying it's her right to not wear a mask when people in the NHS wear one for 10 hour shifts and even the shop workers who run around babysitting customers who forgot their tin of beans so needs someone to get it for them wear masks too.

I hate them, If I have to wear glasses to fill in forms it makes them steam up but I do it and so can everyone else.

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Amy Jade

I swear I'll go off if I pop into say tesco and some Karen is saying it's her right to not wear a mask when people in the NHS wear one for 10 hour shifts and even the shop workers who run around babysitting customers who forgot their tin of beans so needs someone to get it for them wear masks too.

I hate them, If I have to wear glasses to fill in forms it makes them steam up but I do it and so can everyone else.

Well said.
I agree with all of that.

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Wear a bandana its much more comfortable

Yes, or a scarf.

[Tom4784]

If surgeons can wear masks AND visors to perform heart surgery, people can wear face coverings for a ten minute jaunt around Aldi.

[Smithy]

Can’t wait for all the people that won’t wear a mask to kick off in November when we don’t want to wear a poppy

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Amy Jade

I swear I'll go off if I pop into say tesco and some Karen is saying it's her right to not wear a mask when people in the NHS wear one for 10 hour shifts and even the shop workers who run around babysitting customers who forgot their tin of beans so needs someone to get it for them wear masks too.

I hate them, If I have to wear glasses to fill in forms it makes them steam up but I do it and so can everyone else.

I saw two melt downs during the 'no couples' rule and they were both Asian men, and their wives were being perfectly reasonable about it, so not sure why women are being singled out here, men go shopping too!

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Smithy

Can’t wait for all the people that won’t wear a mask to kick off in November when we don’t want to wear a poppy

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Cherie

I saw two melt downs during the 'no couples' rule and they were both Asian men, and their wives were being perfectly reasonable about it, so not sure why women are being singled out here, men go shopping too!

No one said it was just women Cherie, men can be Karens too, because schrodinger's gender does not exist and is simultaneously the most important aspect of identity. Its 2020, you're lagging behind.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

No one said it was just women Cherie, men can be Karens too, because schrodinger's gender does not exist and is simultaneously the most important aspect of identity. Its 2020, you're lagging behind.

[Livia]

Who could possibly have a problem with covering their face in shops until the threat is over, or at least much diminished. People can be sooo stupid and selfish.

[LukeB]

Originally Posted by Livia

Who could possibly have a problem with covering their face in shops until the threat is over, or at least much diminished. People can be sooo stupid and selfish.

There’s some

Apparently not wearing a mask is better because it’s nice and social...

It’s about time this is happening and i think it should have been done weeks ago tbh, people should start getting use to them because this threat isn’t going anywhere anytime soon and there’s a potential second wave.

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by LukeB

There’s some

Apparently not wearing a mask is better because it’s nice and social...

[Cherie]

I have always worn a mask

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

I have always worn a mask

Not 6 inches of makeup.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by LukeB

There’s some



Apparently not wearing a mask is better because it’s nice and social...



It’s about time this is happening and i think it should have been done weeks ago tbh, people should start getting use to them because this threat isn’t going anywhere anytime soon and there’s a potential second wave.

To be fair, I think that's why it is happening now, while cases are low and there's actually a very low risk of infection in the community anyway. If (I'm trying to be optimistic and stop saying "when") cases start to increase again towards winter, people will be used to the idea of wearing masks.

[bots]

are we all going to need new passport photos taken wearing a mask?

[user104658]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

are we all going to need new passport photos taken wearing a mask?

I think obviously at airports, you'd simply lower the mask for a few seconds. It does pose an interesting question shen it comes to ID in shops for age verification, though. An awful lot of mask-touching going on if you have to remove it for an age check.