Compulsory Wearing of Facemasks Indoors

[Bingsmith]

Royal Mail is consistent around the country for bullying, it’s about the only thing the managers are good at! Anybody that pays £1.50 for a visor off one of the resident screws wants their head read.

I love this post, resident screws it’s very accurate. Nope I won’t be paying £1.50, they are probably our free ones!

[luddite]

You can't wear a visor without a mask though can you?

[david3595]

You can't wear a visor without a mask though can you?

You can on health and safety grounds if you wear reading glasses and if the job you are doing involves some kind of machinery or a sharp instrument, well that’s what the boss and union rep told us . We bought visors and give the boss a receipt and 3 days later Money was in bank account via T & S

[luddite]

Our boss said visors not allowed unless with a mask! I don't see how someone wearing a visor protects me?
Four days in and the young and the smokers just couldn't breathe, feeling faint, have to go sick.......
Ffs! It's for a couple of hours!

[GRS]

Just put a f***ing’ mask on, leave it on and you just get used to it. Bloody hell it ain’t hard! Problem is idiots put it on and then after 2 minutes take it off or pull it down, then it’s back on again!! Christ no wonder you can’t get used to it...... put it on and leave it on. I went back today after a couple of weeks leave, thought everyone would have one on due to it being mandatory yet I reckon we’re at about 40% at best. Then you get the clowns who start off with it on and then after 20 mins they take it off and never put it back on again. Royal Mail must have the biggest % of tards in their employment than any other company. Bloody grown men who think they’re so hard and tough squealing like babies cos they’ve got to put a bit of fabric on their face....... f***ing’ diddums!!!

[Sprattacus]

[no]

[luddite]

It's mandatory.
Bloody pathetic tbh! You don't see the nurses, doctors, supermarket staff etc deciding they don't want to use ppe!

[charlatans]

I was night shift at m/c last night. Almost everyone had a mask on. Well done. Thats a big change during my week off.

[charlatans]

I was night shift at m/c last night. Almost everyone had a mask on. Well done. Thats a big change during my week off.

[david3595]

It's mandatory.
Bloody pathetic tbh! You don't see the nurses, doctors, supermarket staff etc deciding they don't want to use ppe!

Mandatory but if you have a medical condition or you tell the boss after it was made mandatory that you feel unwell wearing a mask and the boss says ok then it’s not mandatory

[Jpro747]

At this point the compulsory wearing of masks is helping to reduce infections because staff are:
a) refusing to wear one
b) not wearing them properly
c) touching their face multiple times whilst adjusting the mask
d) not social distancing because they’ve been lulled into a false sense of security that masks alone will stop the spread
e) management turning a blind eye to all of the above

[wandle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEo3rnU12jw

[Murdoch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEo3rnU12jw

I think most people would agree that Covid has created a hysteria relative to the actual risk, but he puts forth no evidence to support his opinion that masks do nothing, and that "there is absolutely nothing that can be done to contain this virus".

The evidence base does seem to indicate the masks reduce the spread through the air. He says in one sentence that masks don't work, and in the next social distancing doesn't work because Covid-19 is spread by aerosol. Meanwhile, the research is suggesting, that masks actually do reduce spread through the air, there's a fairly decent write up on the CDC website with a bunch of links to recent studies here

The main problem with masks as far as I can tell, seems to be a cultural thing, particularly experienced by certain demographics in the west.

[wandle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEo3rnU12jw

I think most people would agree that Covid has created a hysteria relative to the actual risk, but he puts forth no evidence to support his opinion that masks do nothing, and that "there is absolutely nothing that can be done to contain this virus".

The evidence base does seem to indicate the masks reduce the spread through the air. He says in one sentence that masks don't work, and in the next social distancing doesn't work because Covid-19 is spread by aerosol. Meanwhile, the research is suggesting, that masks actually do reduce spread through the air, there's a fairly decent write up on the CDC website with a bunch of links to recent studies here

The main problem with masks as far as I can tell, seems to be a cultural thing, particularly experienced by certain demographics in the west.

The burden of proof on mask-wearing lies with those whose contention is that they are effective.
I could try to sell you some tiger repellent. If you say you can’t see any benefit of that, as ‘we don’t get tigers around here’, would you accept that as proof that it must be effective?

I’ll share an anecdote with you. A man I know who was playing a game of ‘pin the nose on Pudsey’ with his kids, to raise money for Children In Need’. He put on a lightweight black fabric mask over his eyes.... and was astonished that he could see through it well enough to win multiple times, before his kids tumbled as to why!

[Murdoch]

The burden of proof on mask-wearing lies with those whose contention is that they are effective.
I could try to sell you some tiger repellent. If you say you can’t see any benefit of that, as ‘we don’t get tigers around here’, would you accept that as proof that it must be effective?

I’ll share an anecdote with you. A man I know who was playing a game of ‘pin the nose on Pudsey’ with his kids, to raise money for Children In Need’. He put on a lightweight black fabric mask over his eyes.... and was astonished that he could see through it well enough to win multiple times, before his kids tumbled as to why!

Well, that's exactly what I'm saying the research is there to show the effectiveness, but there's a stubbornness from certain people to actually look at it.

I too have an anecdote. I've worn a blindfold I couldn't see though. What exactly is your point?

On the CDC page I linked, it mentions the ineffectiveness of the type of fabric you describe, problem is, you won't read it, cause you know best. Here I'll quote it:

Not Recommended
Masks made from loosely woven fabric or that are knitted, i.e., fabrics that let light pass through