martin2345uk
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Further to my question about tickets.. i've just seen it mentioned that you HAVE to wear bloody FFP2 masks on all public transport? Is this true? If so what a ballache!
So if you wear those standard blue disposable ones you should be ok?
what a ballache!
Ballache? Really? Seems to me to be less of a ballache than catching the bloody disease.
At the moment, I believe most German states are fine with medical masks or FFP2 but not cloth masks.
Hamburg and Niedersachsen require FFP2.It seems so. (I think some states still require FFP2 - Bavaria maybe?)
Yeah, the FFP2 requirement is Germany-wide. The only difference is in active enforcement.Hamburg and Niedersachsen require FFP2.
I've only seen cloth masks in the UK, or on people from the UK. AFAIK they're not considered 'masks' (in the protective gear sense of the word) anywhere else.medical masks or FFP2 but not cloth masks
Yeah, the FFP2 requirement is Germany-wide. The only difference is in active enforcement.
I've only seen cloth masks in the UK, or on people from the UK. AFAIK they're not considered 'masks' (in the protective gear sense of the word) anywhere else.
Masks don't protect you as the wearer, and are useless as a public health measure. Go take a look at England's covid rates since February 2020 on a graph and see if you can pinpoint where masks became mandatory.Seems to me to be less of a ballache than catching the bloody disease.
Catching covid is no big deal to the vast majority of Brits.Yep. Public transport and medical facilities require wearing of FFP2 masks. As others have noted, surgical masks are accepted in practice.
Ballache? Really? Seems to me to be less of a ballache than catching the bloody disease.
Wearing an FFP2 mask in the UK is sort of a clue that someone is foreign here.Yeah, the FFP2 requirement is Germany-wide. The only difference is in active enforcement.
I've only seen cloth masks in the UK, or on people from the UK. AFAIK they're not considered 'masks' (in the protective gear sense of the word) anywhere else.
Well I’m on an ICE from cologne to Frankfurt right now and some heavy security guards walked through the train 5 mins ago at the start of the HSL, telling people to put their masks on. The Americans behind me argued with them and were told that if they do not, they will be fined and myst leave the train at Frankfurt flughafen. The security people were not handing any out either. So do take a mask with you.