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  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
    Just to say it’s not vanity that makes people wear their visors high. They are extremely uncomfortable and so are often adjusted to relieve the pressure on the forehead especially above the eyes. Everyone at my place of work is suffering from headaches. 
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Lyn said:
    Don’t we all have a responsibility to ourselves not to put our hands in our mouths, up our noses or in our eyes?  

    Or up other people's.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Customer came into store to day 
    " why do we have to wait in a Queue outside , you don't have the virus down here" 
    The use of " you " indicates a tourist. 

    Maybe we don't have the virus here because of social distancing. 
    Maybe we want to keep it that way and , most importantly , we don't know where HE came from and what he's bringing with him
    Devon.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited July 2020
    @debs64 - she's the only one.  All the others have face masks.  Anyone else I see wearing them in other shops or the PO has them at the proper angle in the middle of the forehead.


    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Obelixx said:
    Yes, we do @Lyn and we can learn not to keep touching the masks and only use the ties or elastics to put them on and take them off.   They're more about preventing spread to others if we are carrying the virus than preventing us catching it but even a small barrier is better than nothing against aerosol transmission of infinitesimally small droplets.


    I know what they’re for.  I’m just thinking of trolley handles,  surely people don’t lick them, if you don’t put your hands in your mouth you’re not going to get it from a shopping trolley. 

    @wild edges absolutely, we must all learn to keep our fingers to ourselves 😀
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Not everyone has grasped that masks have a useful role to play @Lyn and I agree about trolley handles and all the rest of the things we touch.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Some weeks ago a doctor on BBC Breakfast said the risk of catching Covid19 from somebody passing in the opposite direction was tiny.  They also said, there is a far greater risk of being hit by a passing car if you walk out into the road to pass another person.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Doctors are not always right.  How can they be?  There's too much to know about too many diseases, mechanical failures etc.  The advice about Covid and other diseases changes frequently as more observations are made about its spread, its effects, its morbidity, its transmission.

    Why take risks with your own health let alone anyone else's?   It's not hard to wash your hands properly, keep them off your face etc, wear a mask in closed public space and keeping a distance from others indoors and outdoors is common courtesy as well as common sense.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    As well as a lack of common sense, there just seems to be a general lack of courtesy.
    It sends a certain message - the same kind as the one folk who park on double yellow lines send, with the casual 'I'll just be a minute' line thrown in the direction of others. Ditto for those who park on zigzags at schools, disabled spaces etc. 

    A nice little view from along the road yesterday :


    Pull back though : 


    I'd call the people who do that a**eholes, but those have a purpose...


    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    Which reminds me of a question on 15:1
    Anne Robinson “Which A is an organ in the body with no discernible function?”
    Contestant “Arse”
    Rutland, England
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