Mask wearing post pandemic

Will you still wear one?

  • Yes

    Votes: 94 62.7%

  • No

    Votes: 56 37.3%
  • Total voters
    150
The_Tiler said:
I think we have got it under to control in this country. Hence the low hospital admissions due to the high level of vaccination. I am sitting down btw.
The government advice is we can remove masks after July 19th. Thats good enough for me.
When you decide to remove your mask, obviously it will be your own choice, please come back on here and tell us all.
I won't critise you, like I haven't so far, but I just wonder if your thread will attract the same attention from people who still decide to wear theirs, as this has. How will you defend yourself?
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You think we have this under control? With cases sky rocketing? With hospitalisations increasing? With deaths increasing? How is that demonstrating a level of control? I would worry about your logic if you think the current high raises in figures shows a level of control
 
It's got sod all to do with faith in the vaccines. It's got sod all to do with the efficiency or effectiveness of the vaccines or masks either as they both depend on the individual and their personal health and physiology.
"Save Lives", "Protect the NHS", remember those phrases?
We have increasing infection numbers, deaths are rising (not to the levels previously thankfully) and we have a new, more virulent variant in circulation.
Under the governments own metrics we shouldn't be abandoning all restrictions. It would be prudent to maintain the mask mandate in situations where you could encounter crowds and/or strangers. Given our woefully bad T&T system, not knowing how many people are actually using the app and having the possibility of being asymptomatic, masking and good hygiene isn't going to be such an issue if it helps to "Save Lives" and "Protect the NHS".
We have to start opening up, but we shouldn't be jumping off a cliff if we don't have sufficient numbers to approach herd immunity and knowing that you can not only catch Covid more than once, but that it can have long-term debilitating effects.
The government are abdicating their responsibility when they could just as easily proceed with the recovery and stick to their core mantra on Covid at the same time. Passing the responsibility pf maintaining the wider public health over to individuals isn't a good idea in a society where we know that there are large numbers of people who only think of themselves.
 
Muttley said:
From two months into the pandemic that we thought would be over by the summer.

So what. This is another example of your pitiful search for absolutes. There are none.
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Pitiful?

I'm not the one doubting the success story of the vaccine. 🤷

I'd have been banned off of here quicker than you could say up the Boro if I myself had posted about herd immunity been an option or doubted the work of the vaccine.


Just out of curiosity Mutters, when do we go back to 2019 life if you were in charge? As nobody on here has ever come up with a strategy for that other than saying "when it's all gone" which we've known for months is never going to happen.
 
Randy said:
Pitiful?

I'm not the one doubting the success story of the vaccine. 🤷

I'd have been banned off of here quicker than you could say up the Boro if I myself had posted about herd immunity been an option or doubted the work of the vaccine.


Just out of curiosity Mutters, when do we go back to 2019 life if you were in charge? As nobody on here has ever come up with a strategy for that other than saying "when it's all gone" which we've known for months is never going to happen.
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Life will never be the same as it was in 2019 - you need to get used to that idea.
 
NYboro said:
Life will never be the same as it was in 2019 - you need to get used to that idea.
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Why not? Obviously the financial and mental strain will hopefully get better in time but there's no reason why we can't get back to normal.
 
SmallTown said:
You think we have this under control? With cases sky rocketing? With hospitalisations increasing? With deaths increasing? How is that demonstrating a level of control? I would worry about your logic if you think the current high raises in figures shows a level of control
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I think i did say earlier that the current rises in infections were in the younger generation that the virus does not really affect. Hospital admissions are down, vulnerable may get ill, but not hospitalised.

There was also a link I posted from the BBC about living with the virus.

You stated that you will stop wearing a mask when you think its under control. Im going by government guidance, you are going by your own guidance.

As I said before, let us know when that is. It may not be when others think its under control, but its your choice.
 
NYboro said:
Covid 19 or its variants is never going to go away. Vaccination helps, but we still need to take care of ourselves and others. From some of the responses on here, that is not going to happen.
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I understand and agree with what you are saying but eventually I believe it will be treated like normal flu.
 
The_Tiler said:
Hospital admissions are down, vulnerable may get ill, but not hospitalised.
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That’s not true though. They are rising. As are death figures. And case figures are soaring. All of these figures are completely the polar opposite of having something under control. Apart from the hospitalisations, which you are wrong on, what is making you think completely the opposite of what the figures are telling us?
 
dooderooni said:
It's "under control" in the same way we were sending £350 million a week to the EU instead of giving it all to the NHS.
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Haha. It’s funny it did feel like a Brexit conversation. Someone arguing that black was white. Very very strange. Hopefully he’ll tell us why he thinks the out of control cases shows a level of control!
 
Muttley said:
Sadly there is no Yes/No answer.

Vaccinated people can still get CV19, some will die from it. Not as many as in unvaccinated people, but still some. People die all the time, that's a fact. It might be that 1 in 1000 vaccinated people who get the virus will die compared to 1 in 100 (made up stats to try and keep it simple). We have something like 45 million people fully vaxxed in the UK. That's 45,000 deaths compared to nearly half a million. Acceptable if you are looking at the general population, less so if yerr mam is one of that 45,000.

You see. That is not what was said it was what "new member" heard.
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The government said it will no longer be a legal requirement to wear a mask. Is that not the same as we can remove masks?
Why the "new member" quote. What are you implying? Please look back when I joined this new board, and then look back and and see how long I have been a member of the old board. Same user name, one user name. End of.
 
NYboro said:
Life will never be the same as it was in 2019 - you need to get used to that idea.
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What else is in your crystal ball? 😉

Anyways, the footie is on, 22 selfish p***** playing a game of football, watched by tens of thousands of selfish p***** and hundreds of selfish reporters and TV crews.

Beer time.
 
SmallTown said:
Haha. It’s funny it did feel like a Brexit conversation. Someone arguing that black was white. Very very strange. Hopefully he’ll tell us why he thinks the out of control cases shows a level of control!
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It does feel like a brexit conversation, totally agree with you on that. Another way to divide the country.
I feel I have explained myself why I think its under control, but read the BBC article I linked earlier about living with Covid. Thats kind of my angle, but it may not come across as that.

Have a good night, im off to watch the football.
 
The_Tiler said:
The government said it will no longer be a legal requirement to wear a mask. Is that not the same as we can remove masks?
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No it's not and that's the problem.
It might not be an offence to not wear one, but it is not an instruction to ditch them either.
As in the video I posted, some will see it as an excuse to never wear a mask again regardless of the situation.
If you've ever had the misfortune of going to A&E then you'll know that there will be people there abusing staff and not wearing masks even if we reach the 50k infections that are being mooted as a possibility.
 
The_Tiler said:
It does feel like a brexit conversation, totally agree with you on that. Another way to divide the country.
I feel I have explained myself why I think its under control, but read the BBC article I linked earlier about living with Covid. Thats kind of my angle, but it may not come across as that.

Have a good night, im off to watch the football.
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Yes you have. Using one metric. A metric you have got wrong. You can’t seriously believe that constitutes a level of control even if it is correct?
 
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