classic33
Leg End Member
Women on buses, with beards. Some hiding them with masks!!
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deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
They could have been simple blue chin warmers but I didn't want to get close enough to find out what they were hiding underneath the chin warmers.
classic33
Leg End Member
Can't say I blame you for not wanting to get closer than needed.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Wife's company has officially said anyone with a cold should WFH, as that's how a covid infection started last week, and a whole floor sent home from one positive. We've already got that 'unofficially' at work. As from today, face masks must be worn everywhere you can't socially distance, so unless you are at your desk, then mask up. Can't see the student's complying at all.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Very high mask compliance in Lynn yesterday and a queue at the walk-in vaccination centre. Not what I expected at all, but it seems a case of the scary new variant in a neighbouring district motivates change!
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
There is an argument like that but it seems the effect is smaller and probably contradicted by people taking fewer risks because the mask both directly prevents thoughtless mouth/nose touching and reminds people the pandemic is on, plus the extra risk-taking is overshadowed by the vaccinated taking more risks.
Latest studies suggest masks do offer significant (but very imperfect) protection to wearers. For example https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-10-2...-wearers-covid-19-infection-large-scale-study
Johnno260
Veteran
- Location
- East Sussex
Just for a little levity.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Formally, the requirement does not apply to employees and they won't mask until their employer updates its risk assessments in light of the new variant. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1340/part/2/made
Informally, as long as there are screens at checkout where I'll be facing them, I don't get too excited about unmasked workers because they are in the room so long that masks won't prevent a significant build-up of any virus particles they are emitting. Ventilation is required... and that's part of why I don't shop in Morrison's whose local brutalist buildings could qualify for sick building syndrome with low ventilation, little natural light and chemical cleaning smells.
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mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Not that funny. John Snow's 1854 findings on cholera were not accepted during his lifetime and thousands more died as a result. We have a long history of stupidity about diseases.
vickster
Legendary Member
Not required to afaik
Very good compliance on train and tube this morning. Just one bloke who clearly couldn’t care less sat opposite me. I’d have put him in a high risk group too. Ok he might be exempt but I’d more say DGAF
Johnno260
Veteran
- Location
- East Sussex
I don't think it's going away anytime soon unfortunately, I have had several more friends and family decide ignoring medical science means the issue goes away.
Thing is nature provides stupidity moderation in the wild, we as a species have removed many risks from stupidity.
I suppose humor is becoming my coping mechanism, no offense was intended, well if someone is a pseudoscience believer I hope it offended them, I know you don't fall into that category so it wasn't a barbed comment.
markemark
Über Member
I’ve noticed that too. My unscientific experience is the more likely to be badly affected, the less likely to wear masks.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
· "I don't need to wear a mask because I've been vaccinated"
· "I can hug them because I've been vaccinated"
· "I'm alright to visit that packed pub because I've been vaccinated"
· "I don't need to isolate while showing covid symptoms because I'm wearing a mask"
· "I can hug them because I'm wearing a mask"
· "I'm alright to visit that packed pub because I'm wearing a mask"
Nope. Do you enjoy suggesting other people believe stuff you invented?
