People Who Wear Masks In Public

[Woolverhampton_Blue]

What’s the consensus on this? Paranoid cretins or a good example to the rest of the population?

Poll attached.

 

[COYBL25]

You’ve just woken him up again ffs.

Expect incoming anytime soon.

 

[-Rob-]

Wearing them when likely to come in to very close contact with other people is fine. Wearing them while walking alone in the street is just pointless.

 

[Papa Shango]

I have no issues with people wearing them.

I have major issues with people thinking that it makes them invincible so that they can walk right next to you in supermarkets or stand for ages at the end of an aisle reading a tin of beans or whatever whilst everyone else waits for them to do something.

Usually the same type of person too.

 

[cooperman]

You never know what the individual situation is for people who are wearing masks in the street. They could have someone in their home who is clinically vulnerable for instance.

 

[orly]

If they are ugly kopites or have two noses for example then yes please

Otherwise no

 

[Shevin Keedy]

Acceptable for trick or treat and armed robberies, anything else is overkill.

 

[sdk]

My wife's prospects would be very poor if she picked up the virus so I've become a hygiene-awareness jerk. Having thus already been rendered a jerk, I turn it on my fellow citizens and wear a mask whenever I leave the house. I was an early adopter in my town but now more people than not seem to be doing it, though it varies by specific location. While lots of people at the supermarket have been masking, the patrons of the local liquor store are only just coming around to it; for a few weeks I was sometimes the only masked person at the packy and had to stare at gawkers until they stopped gawking. They probably just thought I was Tom Davies.

I don't care how I look to people overly concerned with fashion or freedom. If they think I look ridiculous masked, my face is no remedy.

 

[Baines' left foot]

bUnCh oF fAnNiEs sHoUlD gEt A gRiP!!!!

 

[Baines' left foot]

I have no issues with people wearing them.

I have major issues with people thinking that it makes them invincible so that they can walk right next to you in supermarkets or stand for ages at the end of an aisle reading a tin of beans or whatever whilst everyone else waits for them to do something.

Usually the same type of person too.

I was in Tesco last week and some older bloke wearing a mask was walking down the aisle the wrong way. The shop assistant pointed it out to him and instead of accepting it and apologising he got right in the assistant’s face and said “listen lad, I don’t need people like YOU TELLIN ME WHAT TO DO!! I’ve got terminal cancer you know!”

As if that absolves you of any responsibility for your behaviour. Utter bell end.

 

[Yank]

I don't know how it is there, but in NY it's almost required by law when you enter any establishment. So I wear one when I have to. I do laugh at the people I see driving with one on.

I hate the mask, but I think anyone really caring if someone wears one is an idiot. It doesn't protect the person wearing it, it's a courtesy towards others. People refusing to wear one are more annoying because they're mostly attention seekers. Talking about freedom and this and that. It's so over blown with them.

 

[tommye]

 

[The binman chronicles]

Basically everyone in Asia wears one* and they won't be happy until we all do too. So after the tenth incident of bird/swine/snake/bat/porcupine flu it will become compulsory to be worn in public here. This is the way.

*this may be an exaggeration.

 

[Blue 1]

I don't know how it is there, but in NY it's almost required by law when you enter any establishment. So I wear one when I have to. I do laugh at the people I see driving with one on.

I hate the mask, but I think anyone really caring if someone wears one is an idiot. It doesn't protect the person wearing it, it's a courtesy towards others. People refusing to wear one are more annoying because they're mostly attention seekers. Talking about freedom and this and that. It's so over blown with them.

They people driving with one on at least understand how this works, and aren't handling it every time they get in and out of the car, potentially spreading any germs they've picked up on their hands outside.

They should be laughing at you, if you handle your mask multiple times every trip out. You might as well not bother with it. If you're gonna do the mask thing, put it on when you leave the house and take it off when you get back.

 

[TommyDavo]

From what I’ve seen, lots of people must have had a very cold neck prior to this. No PPE is better than that which is poorly used.