Who's In Favour Of Mandatory Face Coverings?

[diddlydo]

Looks like we'll have no option after 24 July - or is this the time for civil disobedience?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53397617

[bhg481]

Ken - it was moving away from Clitheroe in the mid 1960s which allowed my to get rid of my scarves.

[riptide]

I’ve been using a face mask for a while now when going grocery shopping, not that I have noticed that many other people doing so. I welcome the decision, it has not gone away and there will always be people who do not agree with this new rule. However, how is it safe to go and sit in an indoor restaurant with other people with germs in the air, surely it should apply to all in door facilities.

[Cloverjo]

It’s mad to give people incentives to go out to eat, where you obviously can’t wear a mask, because you need to put food in your mouth, and tell us to cover our faces in the shop next door.

Can anyone get a grip on this?
Dare I say Keir Starmer could?

[dannyk13]

Jo, //Dare I say Keith Starmer would?//
You can say it but he wouldn't.

[gulliver1]

08.25 "I hardly ever go to a shop in normal times" He just breaks into them when they are closed. LMAO.

[Ken4155]

I agree that the inconsistency is a tad baffling. However, if I have to wear a face covering when entering shops from 24th onward, I will. Though what use my decorator's dust masks will be is anyone's guess.

[Vagus]

I’m in favour of mandatory face masks because it takes the confusion out of it. We now all know we have to wear one in the situations specified.
If I’m wearing one then I may be preventing some else catching it, and likewise if other people wear them then they may be preventing me from catching it.
I don’t like wearing a face mask (who does?) but will happily do so.

[Cloverjo]

dannyk13 //Jo, //Dare I say Keith Starmer would?//
You can say it but he wouldn't. //

Who’s Keith Starmer? I said Keir, but even so I bet Keith - whoever he is - could do a better job than Johnson ;))

[Apc2604]

That's exactly how I feel Vagus. I don't like wearing one, but I do. I don't see any reason to make a fuss about it.

[jim360]

Whether Keir Starmer could or couldn't do better strikes me as less than relevant. We'll never know anyway, unless Covid-24 strikes. But it feels like the wrong question. Is Johnson doing the best possible job? If not, could anybody else do better? And, if not, then what is even the point of Government and holding it to account?

Defending Johnson's mistakes because somebody else would be equally incompetent seems defeatist.

[diddlydo]

I went to our local open-air market this morning. About 20% were wearing face coverings and they were mainly young snowflakes.

[iluvmargie]

10:42 why should I think that??

[iluvmargie]

I may not bother wearing one, just barge my way through and see what happens.

[youngmafbog]

"I also 'lip read' because of hearing issues and I've not had anyone shouting and screaming at me, methinks over exagerrated."

Well me thinks wrong. How arrogant are you.

My daughter is profoundly deaf - she cannot hear not hearing issues. Perhaps you should understand peoples problems before making bland nasty comments like that for your own agenda.

Despicable.

[ToraToraTora]

the nasty left again YMB.

[New Judge]

Yes deafness is a severe problem which has obviously not been at all considered. Making an exemption for the deaf person would, of course, make no difference whatsoever. I note in the "public transport" face covering legislation there is an exemption for somebody accompanying a deaf person so that the deaf person can lip read them. But that means the deaf person must be accompanied all the time and their companion would have to transmit everything that anybody wants to tell the deaf person. Yet another "back of a fag packet" measure made as a reaction to the baying Twitface mob.

[webbo3]

iluvmargie
\\I may not bother wearing one, just barge my way through and see what happens.//

they probably wont serve you.

no one gets in my hospital without a face mask, you are given one on entry and some alcohol gel for your hands.

[bednobs]

i don't know ILM - you accused me of making pensioner-bashing posts. I can't actually remember ever making any pensioner-bashing posts so i kind of wondered what you meant - pensioners in general or a particular pensioner?

[SlackAlice]

//My daughter is profoundly deaf - she cannot hear not hearing issues. Perhaps you should understand peoples problems before making bland nasty comments like that for your own agenda. //

I am also profoundly deaf on my right side and hard of hearing on my left. Despicable? Unlikely, rather more realistic? Still not had anyone screaming and shouting at me. Have been lip reading for over 60yrs

Arrogant, very probable ☺☺☺

[Davemano]

Persons who help a deaf person in order for them to lip read is one of the exemptions to the rule.