Face coverings compulsory on public transport in England from 15 June

[yorksrob]

If asked to remove a face-covering for identification purposes (as allowed in the regulations), presumably one should sanitize first (having potentially touched a potentially infected surface (table, ticket machine, gateline etc) in order to prevent contaminating your face covering, lower covering as requested, replace covering to continue, then sanitize again in case your covering was already infected and you have now transferred it to your hands and thus on to any surface about to be touched!

Indeed - although I'm not sure how often people would be expected to remove theirs for identification.

 

[Bayum]

If asked to remove a face-covering for identification purposes (as allowed in the regulations), presumably one should sanitize first (having potentially touched a potentially infected surface (table, ticket machine, gateline etc) in order to prevent contaminating your face covering, lower covering as requested, replace covering to continue, then sanitize again in case your covering was already infected and you have now transferred it to your hands and thus on to any surface about to be touched!

Yes.

 

[Mag_seven]

As the legislation is now in place and face cover wearing is now compulsory on public transport we are going to close this thread for the time being.

There is a thread to discuss your observations on face cover wearing here:

What are your observations of face coverings wearing on public transport?

Now that the law has been enacted for compulsory wearing of face coverings on public transport in England (as discussed in this thread ). What have been your observations? Have people been largely compliant or not? Do people take them off when they think no-one is watching? Are people wearing...

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and you can discuss face cover wearing within the wider context of social distancing measures etc in this thread:

The viability of social distancing, and confusion over whether it should be 1m or 2m

Actually, the benefit of wearing masks has been quite strongly proven in situations where adequate social distances cannot be maintained and is recommended by the WHO. It doesn't do much to stop you from getting infected, but wearing a mask significantly reduces the risk of you spreading the...

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If there is any change to the legislation surrounding the wearing of face coverings on public transport then we will consider reopening the thread.