The one thing I kind of get
is that some people have sensory issues which would make it psychologically intolerable for them. This is a genuine thing. It's a tiny proportion of people and if just that cohort didn't actually wear masks it wouldn't matter from a policy/numbers perspective.
You can get masks for a quid or two but honestly for the affordability point given we've already wasted unbelievable sums on an app which doesn't exist we might have thought about providing free masks to certain groups: those who qualify for free prescriptions plus pupil-premium households, or some other group. Would cost peanuts compared to other spending on this and might have more impact.
And make them out of different stuff so if people are allergic to one, they can wear another...some people will be chronically allergic multiple things but again that cohort is so small that it wouldn't really matter if they wore no masks at all.
The problem is those who "just won't" for whatever ill-begotten reason. If it were only their own lives they were risking I'd chalk it off to Darwinism. But if they get badly ill they'll be putting health workers at risk, and if they are asymptomatically infected they can and will kill other people without even realising it. So I'm distinctly unrelaxed about it.
Posted By: Old Man on July 14th 2020 at 19:26:58
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- How do we all feel about face masks then (NCFC) - Pukki Pies, Jul 14, 16:56:47
- A B C easy as 1 2 3 (n/m) (NCFC) - Jumbo1, Jul 14, 19:24:48
- A and B (n/m) (NCFC) - revsimon, Jul 14, 19:01:10
- A (NCFC) - Cardiff Canary, Jul 14, 18:39:01
- A (n/m) (NCFC) - Worthing Yellow, Jul 14, 18:10:59
- I'd be unhappy if it became a cultural norm, for all times (NCFC) - paulg, Jul 14, 17:50:08
- Mask wearers untrustworthy (NCFC) - KevinBond, Jul 14, 17:42:56
- B. Does this mean we wear a mask every winter now? (NCFC) - ihateipswich, Jul 14, 17:39:51
- A + B (NCFC) - Timmy_Goat, Jul 14, 17:34:06
- Why the fuck would anyone not wear a mask (NCFC) - Old Man, Jul 14, 17:16:18
- You can ask why the world over during this. There are hypocritical arseholes everywhere (NCFC) - Agatha Fisty, Jul 14, 19:35:37
- Because your glasses steam up? (NCFC) - Old Git, Jul 14, 19:04:50
- The one thing I kind of get (NCFC) - Old Man, Jul 14, 19:26:58
- A (n/m) (NCFC) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Jul 14, 17:03:43
- D .... fuck em no one tells me what to wear (NCFC) - ghostof barry butler, Jul 14, 17:02:59
- B - not been in a shop since first week of March (n/m) (NCFC) - CB41, Jul 14, 17:02:18
- but A obvs, if I'm ever in a sitch where I have to (n/m) (NCFC) - CB41, Jul 14, 18:49:47
- A. (n/m) (NCFC) - DrDublin, Jul 14, 16:59:58
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