I don't believe that anyone is calling for mandatory masks for all outside activityNo country in the world has had mandatory masks outside your house. Would you want solitary fellwalkers wearing them for example?
I don't believe that anyone is calling for mandatory masks for all outside activityNo country in the world has had mandatory masks outside your house. Would you want solitary fellwalkers wearing them for example?
I don't believe that anyone is calling for mandatory masks for all outside activity
Anything but shut the pubs again,as far as I'm concerned. I'll wear a facemask on my own toilet if it stops that !
Asthma UK advise that wearing a face covering may cause breathing problems and have a downloadable exemption on their website.Since I'm an asthmatic could you please explain to me how there is a link?
(Note, I have been wearing a mask regularly and had no problems!)
I don't believe that anyone is calling for mandatory masks for all outside activity
I’m of the opinion it should be encouraged and people should be allowed to wear them, but mandating them given the weakness and ambiguity of the evidence in support of them isn’t justified in my opinion. This, combined with the abuse and discrimination against those genuinely exempt that I’ve witnessed in Scotland make me think that it’s simply not a good idea.
Which would be fine, as long as there is a public information campaign about genuine exemptions, and warning people not to try and enforce the rules themselves.
I think you will find pubs were the very thing that did cause a small outbreak for obvious reasons. As you are drinking you won’t be able to wear a mask (not that I agree with compulsory mask laws) and you can’t expect drunkards to social distance we have a hard enough time trying to stop them from driving cars and getting them to behave in a peaceful orderly manner when in public.
opening pubs is like storing flammable materials around a bonfire and hoping nothing ignites
There is one teeny tiny problem with that logic. If masks are mandatory in shops, how long do you think it will be before the activists make the case to re-close pubs & restaurants because masks aren't pracitable?
I suppose you could argue that there is a certain amount of risk involved altogether. If you reduce some of it by wearing a face covering on a train or in a shop, where you don't necessarily have to have your mouth uncovered, you can afford the higher risk in settings where you can't have cover it.
I doubt very much that would hold much of an argument with those looking to have masks enforced. Also if it does put people off going shopping, this could also lead to a further reduction in footfall at many pubs, kind of forcing the issue further.
There are a range of lanyard type things purchasable online for this purpose.There could do with being some form of exemption badge you can wear instead of one obtainable from your GP.
There are a range of lanyard type things purchasable online for this purpose.
Fundamentally I don't mind anything as long as I can go to the supermarket without being muzzled.That might be a point.
Fundamentally I don't mind anything as long as the pubs stay open.
That's the bottom line for me.
Fundamentally I don't mind anything as long as I can go to the supermarket without being muzzled.
I don't need to go on public transport, I don't need to visit any shops other than supermarkets, I just want food.
You could have mandatory bright yellow t shirts with “unclean disabled person” on them, just to really ram it home.There could do with being some form of exemption badge you can wear instead of one obtainable from your GP.
You still need a week’s notice where I am.Order a delivery or a click and collect (I believe now you stay in the car and they put it in the boot for you)? Apparently slots are easier to get now.
Also what if you don’t drive?Order a delivery or a click and collect (I believe now you stay in the car and they put it in the boot for you)? Apparently slots are easier to get now.
Oh we're definitely screwed thenMichael Gove just said on Andrew Marr that not mandatory but left to peoples common sense and up to individual shop owners.
I'd prefer to stick the the current new normal, not the nonsensical new normal. It's illogical to impose further restrictions now when the infection rate is at its lowest and declining. When do you lift them?Order a delivery or a click and collect (I believe now you stay in the car and they put it in the boot for you)? Apparently slots are easier to get now.
Also what if you don’t drive?
I was talking about click and collect.Last time I checked, they didn't rock up in their van and say "sorry mate, you haven't got a car, no delivery for you".
I love the smell of political fudge on a Sunday morning... I'll be happy to wear them just before the cold and flu season... This isn't the cold and flu season!Michael Gove just said on Andrew Marr that not mandatory but left to peoples common sense and up to individual shop owners.
Because they think it sells newspapers.Why are the media considering masks to be the "be all and end all" now?
It's like the last pre-lockdown weekend all over again, just with less scientific background and more political point scoring!