I think mask compliance varies a lot,how many people in that supermarket were wearing masks correctly? Covering nose and mouth Were any of them fiddling with or touching masks? Were the masks disposable or cleaned thoroughly before and after being used?
Maybe I live in an area of poor compliance but round here, if you are wearing a mask at all chances are you are not doing it properly.
Do you remember back when .... originally masks were not encouraged were they? I agreed with that based on what I'd seen of people who did wear them - as all I saw was a transference from the mask to hands occurring. The constant touching, adjusting and plain misuse was commonplace. I would say that still occurs here based on what I see at the SM. The masks are frequently under the nose (so why bother at all?) and I lose count of the times they are touched.
Do you also recall back when the holidaymakers came back from Spain or wherever last year and were saying they felt safer over there as everyone was very good at wearing masks? Totally then ignoring that the reason for the early end of their holiday and quarantining on return was because Spain was experiencing spikes in infection. OK, I take the point that it may have been a spike elsewhere and what the tourist saw was a 'safer' area.
To 'me' - the virus has to get from without to within, so if that means wearing a mask AND sanitising my hands to make sure I don't touch any 'orifice' that the virus can enter by, then what the heck.
My latest visit to Sainsbury's. Most wearing masks. Many under nose Nobody but me sanitised their trolley. I seem to render that, back in the olden days, a supermarket trolley handle was just about the best place to pick up any kind of bug.
Seems that Uncle Fester and old Boris may either have it or have been ping'd. But it seems they're part of a test where you don't have to isolate (you do away from work), but to just undergo daily testing. I wonder what Andy Marr will make of that - he was supposed to have had Uncle Fester on - but....
I think mask compliance varies a lot,how many people in that supermarket were wearing masks correctly? Covering nose and mouth Were any of them fiddling with or touching masks? Were the masks disposable or cleaned thoroughly before and after being used?
If they work why are the numbers rising again?
Quite! Part of me thinks "face coverings" are becoming nothing more than a security blanket. And, in places like supermarkets they're certainly not being policed in terms of how they're being worn or what's actually being used - I've seen everything from old socks to oily rags.
Why have the UK gov brought back 10 day quarantine and Day 2 and 8 Covid tests for people coming back from France, even the fully vaccinated? The UK has 5 times the new daily cases than France. The French Gov has just announced that fully vaccinated people coming from the UK don't need to have negative tests or quarantine. I read in a paper that France has a lot of Beta cases (South African). Not true, the Beta cases are thousands of miles away in Réunion. It's like saying England has Beta cases because they are in the Falklands.
Concerning masks, I never minded when I was a nurse and did a stint in the theatres, but the masks nowadays seem so narrow, they make me sore behind the ears. I always wear them in the SM though, and disinfect my trolley.
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Nobody but me sanitised their trolley.
I seem to render that, back in the olden days, a supermarket trolley handle was just about the best place to pick up any kind of bug.
Concerning masks, I never minded when I was a nurse and did a stint in the theatres, but the masks nowadays seem so narrow, they make me sore behind the ears. I always wear them in the SM though, and disinfect my trolley.