Oh I totally agree, I am equally frustrated to see perfectly healthy looking young people without masks. I completely understand that some people are genuinely exempt but they should be few and far between in reality.
I went to Cineworld at the O2 and every single member of staff serving were certainly late teens or early 20s and not a single one was wearing a mask. Not a single one. We have a culture that means we cannot challenge this.
Not liking a mask is not the same as not being able to wear one. I do not enjoy wearing them.
I really donāt mind wearing them. Only sometimes if Iām wearing makeup they can smudge it a bit which is annoying.
I donāt really mind if others are wearing them. I got tired of worrying about other peopleās behaviour almost as soon as the pandemic began. Perhaps they have a reason, perhaps they donāt, not really my concern. I protect myself and others around me as best I can, thatās all I can do.
I donāt spend all my days being annoyed of course, but with mask the protection mostly comes from the other person wearing one. You can wear one all day; all youāre doing mostly is protecting others from yourself. To protect you, you need to have the others wearing one, not the other way around.
I know that, but Iāve never been overly worried about catching covid anyway. Iām more concerned about unwittingly spreading it to others who might be vulnerable.
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I think supermarkets are allowed to challenge, though they have, understandably, chosen not to.
Iāve recently been to two Sainsburys supermarkets, one in London, and one in Wales. The one in London had many more customers who were apparently too fragile to be able to cover their face than did the one in Wales. But the Welsh one had someone at the entrance offering masks to anyone who wasnāt wearing one. It seemed to work most of the time. So that may have made a difference.
What I believe the basic premise is, is that the mask isnāt going to stop tiny things passing through but the bulk of the virus in you will come out in larger droplets so itās removes some of the risk.
Breathing in though, the virus is generally airborne in tiny enough droplets to get through.
The obvious protection is when someone isnāt wearing a mask and they spray you with larger droplets, but the edge is still more towards a mask protecting others more than yourself.
of course this entirely depends on the type of mask but almost everyone wears basic masks that donāt protect entirely
I know that. I protect myself, as far as is reasonable, by things like cycling instead of using the tube. And being vaccinated, using hand gel, loads of stuff.
Still, as above that is mainly because reducing the chance of me getting it is one way to reduce the chance of others getting it from me.
I probably didnāt explain it well. In Latvia, this Tesco doesnāt enforce covid pass on entry, but the Tesco two blocks down does.
And there is a map, to check which store of the same chain of stores operate under which class of enforcement regime. Thus one can choose to shop where everyone else is vaccinated/tested.
Although winter data is always different than summer data.
Letās see last winter compared to this.
Then place 10-15% absence within NHS.
This will give us a more realistic understanding of whether England is correct to go softly softly or whether January is going to be a really bad month for the NHS (worse than a normal year).
Despite this, people in ICU has been gradually decreasing since November. And compared to this time last year, this number is around 5x lower. Good news.
I wonder how this compares to the number of patients in the ICU pre-covid. So we can get an idea of when the NHS might get some capacity in the system again.
