Who else doesn’t like wearing a face mask?

I wear one all day for work (as well as for shopping, eating out, walking the dog, cycling home etc).

I find the blue ones the most comfortable for breathing but they can be really tickly around the nose sometimes. Biggest problem for me is that it really hurts my ears by the end of the day!

Was tempted to order some Boro masks but they looked a little too much like converted underpants in the photos I saw!
 
They do have an advantage. You can happily walk around a supermarket and not talk to folk you know👍. I've passed many people who I would have had to do the old 'alright mate?' when really you just wonna crack on.

I said the other week that I passed an ex whilst with my 'current'. No awkward 'hi'. Then new missus going 'who's that?'.

They also make some women's eyes look amazing.... OK maybe thats a bit creepy😂. I actually have two different coloured eyes and more people notice when I have a mask on. It's weird what you notice when folk have less to look at.
 
I work up to 14 hour shifts and have worn a mask since March. I'm used to wearing them but the back of my ears are red raw at the end of the shift.
 
I also laugh how people remove them dramatically when leaving a shop like they are gasping for air.... Like pulling off a resperator leaving a CS gas chamber in the armed forces (you know....you know😉)

Haha, this ^^! 100%!

After doing my name and number and a few other questions I remember shoving some bloke out the way to get out, then being blinded by the sun, tripping over and landing in a load of mud (next to others who had done the same). Absolutely brutal that CS stuff, nothing for me has even comes close to that feeling like you're going to die, like in the gas chamber after you take that first and then second deep breath!

Still, that wasn't as hard as running 400m to an NBC shelter in Kuwait, when the air raid siren went off, after Saddam sent some scuds our way. Running fully kitted up in 4R, when it was 45 degrees C in the shade, and the run was in the blazing sun. Didn't even bother running for the shelter, or getting out of bed or whatever for the next few attacks, that run wasn't worth it.

When people whinge about wearing masks, I just think back to times like that and do a mental facepalm.
 
Haha, this ^^! 100%!

After doing my name and number and a few other questions I remember shoving some bloke out the way to get out, then being blinded by the sun, tripping over and landing in a load of mud (next to others who had done the same). Absolutely brutal that CS stuff, nothing for me has even comes close to that feeling like you're going to die, like in the gas chamber after you take that first and then second deep breath!

Still, that wasn't as hard as running 400m to an NBC shelter in Kuwait, when the air raid siren went off, after Saddam sent some scuds our way. Running fully kitted up in 4R, when it was 45 degrees C in the shade, and the run was in the blazing sun. Didn't even bother running for the shelter, or getting out of bed or whatever for the next few attacks, that run wasn't worth it.

When people whinge about wearing masks, I just think back to times like that and do a mental facepalm.

Sonething I don't miss😂.

You see folk getting CS gassed during protests and think 'feck that' (everywhere but the UK).
 
You see folk removing them to pack bags at a checkout or talk on the phone. You can talk through them😂. I also laugh how people remove them dramatically when leaving a shop like they are gasping for air.... Like pulling off a resperator leaving a CS gas chamber in the armed forces (you know....you know😉)

I detest wearing a mask and because of a heart/lung condition I could choose not to wear one but I'd rather wear one, protect myself and others and struggle a bit for the 20 minutes or so it is I'm in a shop rather than not wear one. That said by the time I leave the shop I'm probably one of the people you are laughing at for ripping the mask off and gasping for air.

Not all disabilities are visible!
 
I don’t believe for one minute that what we wear as ‘masks’ and how we wear them makes one iota of difference, we overcame the first phase without them and they seem to have been of no effect in the last few weeks.

That said, I’ve been wearing them since I went abroad in early July in shops pubs and restaurants and since I came home, they don’t bother me, other than the pointlessness of them.
 
I don’t believe for one minute that what we wear as ‘masks’ and how we wear them makes one iota of difference, we overcame the first phase without them and they seem to have been of no effect in the last few weeks.

That said, I’ve been wearing them since I went abroad in early July in shops pubs and restaurants and since I came home, they don’t bother me, other than the pointlessness of them.

We overcame the first phase because everything was shut down and we all (mostly) stayed at home.
 
that too, still don’t believe they help. Distancing, hand washing/ sanitiser and use of common sense, all helpful. ’face coverings’ I still believe what the government, scientists and WHO were telling us from january to August, a raggy owld pair of pants dragged out of a back pocket and shoved back in after use isn’t going to cut it.
 
I don't like wearing them either but it's like wearing a condom in that you know the potential outcome if you don't. Just slip on one for a few minutes and be done with it.
 
that too, still don’t believe they help. Distancing, hand washing/ sanitiser and use of common sense, all helpful. ’face coverings’ I still believe what the government, scientists and WHO were telling us from january to August, a raggy owld pair of pants dragged out of a back pocket and shoved back in after use isn’t going to cut it.

Whatever you think, you're missing the secondary point of the mask (which is now more important than the primary point).

The initial idea of the mask was to protect the user
Then it became apparent that most masks couldn't do this job to 100% (which is widely seen as correct)
Then it became apparent that anything was better than nothing (which is widely seen as correct)
Then it became apparent that viral load effects how "ill" people get (which is widely seen as correct)
Then it became apparent that the mask massively reduced the viral load leaving a person to free air/ nearby surfaces, so if you emitted 100% before, you might now be emitting 30%, that is of course better, and it's not up for debate that masks do a good job in reducing this. (which is widely seen as correct)

Anything, even a cloth, or a sheet over the face limits the amount of virus getting out. This slows spread and limits the viral load people ingest, which is pretty widely accepted as critical to someone's chance of survival.

80% of case transmission has apparently occurred indoors, in places where people would not typically be masked up. So things like people visiting friends and family. I literally have never seen anyone enter any house with a mask on, not in 6 months, and they're probably in the same rooms, in close proximity for hours.

So masks are working, they're just not been worn enough, and in the right places, or it's being accepted that this happens and factored into the equations.
 
the only issue i have is when i forget my mask I have some tucked away in the car that are literally like putting a massive pair of bloomers on my face :cool::cool::cool::cool:
 
Whatever you think, you're missing the secondary point of the mask (which is now more important than the primary point).

The initial idea of the mask was to protect the user
Then it became apparent that most masks couldn't do this job to 100% (which is widely seen as correct)
Then it became apparent that anything was better than nothing (which is widely seen as correct)
Then it became apparent that viral load effects how "ill" people get (which is widely seen as correct)
Then it became apparent that the mask massively reduced the viral load leaving a person to free air/ nearby surfaces, so if you emitted 100% before, you might now be emitting 30%, that is of course better, and it's not up for debate that masks do a good job in reducing this. (which is widely seen as correct)

Anything, even a cloth, or a sheet over the face limits the amount of virus getting out. This slows spread and limits the viral load people ingest, which is pretty widely accepted as critical to someone's chance of survival.

80% of case transmission has apparently occurred indoors, in places where people would not typically be masked up. So things like people visiting friends and family. I literally have never seen anyone enter any house with a mask on, not in 6 months, and they're probably in the same rooms, in close proximity for hours.

So masks are working, they're just not been worn enough, and in the right places, or it's being accepted that this happens and factored into the equations.
I don't think anybody would be wearing a mask in somebody's house. It's not like you have total strangers round for a cup of tea and a biscuit is it? I've certainly never worn one to visit my parents or the in laws.
 
I don't think anybody would be wearing a mask in somebody's house. It's not like you have total strangers round for a cup of tea and a biscuit is it? I've certainly never worn one to visit my parents or the in laws.

Yup, totally agree, I don't know anyone that does. I don't either, but I've extremely limited visits to others, and visits to my house.

The point is, the virus doesn't care if you're friends or family though. I would say you're far more likely to get it/ give it from/to friends and family than others, especially those that are asymptomatic.

With the symptomatic it probably reverses, but I would hope nobody is being a d*ck, if they have symptoms, but people still will be, no doubt. One would assume some idiot sick people are still not going to visit their nan, but still probably a lot more likely to go to the supermarket.
 
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