Why dont his mates pop round and see him?
If he can get to the pub then they can surely get to his drum.

Non mask wearing doesn’t happen much round here or the places I go so will be the last to give them up. They’re probably more hygienic too, which I’m more bothered about.

I don’t have to wear one much so I put one on knowing I don’t cough or sneeze in it so know it’s pointless. I puff and pant in it while walking fast because I can’t breathe out of my nose the same. You could see the cloth being sucked in and out of my mouth. Utterly pointless and probably more risky for me in my case.

On a plane I’d wear a real mask for an allegedly aerosol spreading virus rather than a piece of cloth or paper to stop a cough or sneeze that I’d cover myself safely if it were to happen without a mask actually. So to protect myself and those close to me I’d be pumping out more breath through the valves, but I doubt it matters on a long flight because I’d have to breathe air in and out to survive the flight wearing a piece of cloth or paper.

Having said all that I do agree that face coverings have a small use in trapping coughs and sneezes, unless in cases of people coughing through their face cloth onto supermarket shelves. What happens after someone does a full heavy duty sneeze is anyone’s guess. But we’re talking about air circulating on a plane and again, an allegedly aerosol spreading virus. Reminds me of the ludicrous plans to take out the middle seat of 3 etc. Are they still doing this? Doing something for the sake of it? Proper mask, fair enough. Breathing out of and no doubt pulling aside a piece of cloth on a flight lasting hours with air circulating everywhere? And then all the meals come out and everyone takes them off for 30 mins. Mildly amusing.

Edited by Rudi Hedman (03 Dec 2020 3.29pm)

I breathe heavily through my mouth when walking fast. Standing about or sitting is easy. I don’t cough in public these days because I don’t have a cough and if I did I’d stay away.

On a plane id wear a tested mask with valves, not a poor excuse for one that’s going to do nothing when on a plane for hours.

cryrst, I thought you were more intelligent.

Did you read that it's a tier 3 area? Or is breaking the law allowed at home but not in the pub?

So a vaccine that would normally take 10 years to develop and get approval, takes only 10 months.
Make your own judgement call.

And I still regularly gob-off to morons who think a mask is a 'Get out of jail card' to ignore social distancing, and other precautions.

Edited by Forest Hillbilly (04 Dec 2020 2.27am)

My thing with masks is that I’m yet to see a single country who has experienced a sustained drop in infections as a result of using them. You’d have thought that with so much of Europe for example now wearing them and high compliance levels if they were effective youd have seen an impact. But we haven’t so makes me question the point in them.