A growing number of retail giants are going to continue asking customers to wear face masks in their stores after the much-anticipated ‘easing’ of restrictions on ‘Freedom Day’. The Government says that it “expects and recommends” people to continue mask-wearing after July 19th – a plea that has so far been backed by Waterstones, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and more. What’s most disappointing is that this appears to be what customers want. BBC News has the story.
Sainsbury’s said signs and tannoy announcements would remind shoppers to cover their faces.
Tesco said it wanted to “be on the safe side”.
The chain will also continue to limit the number of shoppers in store at any one time.
The Government has said it “expects and recommends” shoppers in England to wear face masks from Monday. But the legal requirement to cover your face in enclosed spaces will end. Different rules apply in the devolved nations.
The new guidance leaves firms to decide their own safety policies after July 19th when Covid rules are lifted. …
Primark has said it won’t have signage requesting customers to wear masks but hopes they will continue to do so. John Timpson, Founder of the keycutting and shoe repair chain, said the decision would be left to customers.
Sainsbury’s said its strategy reflected feedback from customers and colleagues, with the majority of those surveyed in favour of keeping the mask policy in place.
The chain said some Covid measures, such as screens between self-service checkouts and checkout queues, would be gradually removed. However screens between checkout staff and customers will remain in place. …
Dr Roger Barker, Policy Director at the Institute of Directors, said: “Like everybody else, businesses across the country having been awaiting ‘Freedom Day’ with bated breath.
“But instead we have had a series of mixed messages and patchwork requirements from Government that have dampened that enthusiasm.”
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Ah yes, the vaccines that keep on
givingtaking!‘Several.’
Read the article.
Three.
And no info on whether they had ‘co-morbidities’.
Or on how many unvaxxed people are seriously blah blah blah,
But enough of an excuse for Dungford, that poor excuse for a human being, to keep us all muzzled.
I endorse the idea of killing off amyone who doesnt want their old life back based purely on the premise that they clearly dont want it enough .There are people in this world who fight for their life every day who are laughing at this spoilt prince of a population with its “lockdown(see locked up) and Furlough ( see early retirement )for a vius that even the most stupid can now see is not the big thing big governmet told us it was(well,might be) probably if youre not careful etc etc
Yes at first i though it meant several thousand because you know 3 has never been really”severalish” has it but in this climate you only have to print shit get some shit brains to read it and hey presto magic truth formula
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Well I shall shop elsewhere or continue to go maskless – their opinion or advice means diddly squat.
Me too. Will vote with my feet and wallet and take my custom to shops which ALLOW ME TO CHOOSE how safe I need to feel. If people need to feel ‘safe’ then let them wear masks if they choose to do so, based on their own perception of their risk, but let others choose not to do so if they don’t want to or consider them to be actively harmful based on all the research which shows that they are harmful to health. Last time I checked the chief executives of Tesco and Sainsburys were not qualified medical doctors and therefore not in a position to even give health advice never mind lay down the law on what medical devices shoppers should employ.
After this how long will it be before shops are saying only the double jabbed may enter?
Might be doable in a big city. Where I live (medium size town) almost every single business is mask-mad and the customers are too.
We shop at the outdoor market as much as we can.
Difficult in a village too.
One of the pubs is very keen on all the rules as are the majority of the villagers.
Loads of posts on the closed village FB group about covid injections & enthusiasm for having the injection. I post links to a study showing that if you’ve had covid, then you need to take that into your decision making as to whether or not to have the injection too. Apparently that post is very irresponsible & the paper is of poor quality; only one paper & the ‘vaccines’ have had lots of papers published on them & they’re safe….
Best one was a post about the SAGE minutes being the best source of quality information to follow….
Think I’m flogging a dead horse with the majority of villagers….
I’m not overkeen on big cities these days, but they do have some merits at a time like this – easier to find kindred spirits
Good for you for trying – it’s tough in a village situation!
Burn it down and kill all the germs like the Great Fire of 1666
I cannot believe just how utterly braindead these people are. That’s if they ever had a brain in the first place.
Same in our village, and emboldened by the enforcing of petty rules, the local Stasi have now struck up a partnership with the police to run a speed trap, sorry- ‘safety camera scheme’- locally. The posts on the local group are full of unrestrained glee at catching people out. I don’t want anyone speeding through the village, but it’s job of the official police force to enforce and educate, not the local nutter squad who, let’s face it will have a field day selecting who to go after and who to ignore. Also, as I pointed out to no avail, there’s supposed to be warning signs about speed cameras- the idea being to slow people down, not hide and then nick them. What good does it do to nab someone for doing 40mph after they’ve just killed a child? Isn’t it better to slow them down BEFORE they hit anyone? But no- much more rewarding to nick them all, which shows their real motives to me. They really are away with the fairies and going power mad- what next, guards on the doors of shops to check if you’re buying the correct food for your children? Someone, and I’m not saying who, has been out putting warnings up about the cameras…
people dont wear flares much these days the same will happen to masks,.there will be a lightning bolt moment ,a sudden realisation of just how ridiculous we all look for no good reason .The only good thing is that Covid has seemingly cured all other illness
Our local town is mask crazed too. They absolutely love em. I like walking tall and proud exempted with ease. If they want to screw their own lives up. It’s their call.
You don’t need medical qualifications to judge – you need an ability understand basic statistical method, to read research papers and to think rationally. An entirely different set of skills – as many doctors prove.
Critical thinking appears to be the skill of a very small percentage of the British populace.
Glad our local supermarket is Morrisons. A friend works for Morrisons and shop staff are not allowed to even question maskless shoppers as to whether they are exempt.
Morrisons it is then- I like their deli counter anyway!
The shops have no legal power to enforce this nonesense.
Heard about all the prosecutions for non mask wearers?? No of course not, because none of it is enforcable, never has been.
Stop fretting and live your lives as you wish, no one can stop you.
if only society would stick together for once and do the same
So which of the supermarkets are not insisting on muzzels?
None of them are insisting on muzzles. It will be interesting to see, come Monday, what percentage of punters identify as sheep. I’m thinking about 50%. As I recall, this is what it was like immediately prior to the face nappies being made compulsory last July.
blimey, if only, I’ll be surprised if it’s much less than 90
I bet it will be nearer 75%!
the ones who arent subsidised bty the BOJO Gang probably the European ones like Ladi and Idoli or something
Morrisons. A friend works for Morrisons and shop staff throughout, have not been allowed to question unmasked shoppers as to whether they are exempt. Thankfully our local supermarket is Morrisons.
I’ve heard that the case with the Co-Op as well.
Tescos dont enforce it in Daventry. I claim exemption and it hasnt been a problem for the last 14 months.
My company has just announced that our freedom-day rewards will include…
Removal of one-way systems. And…
Feck all else. Muzzles required, 2 m distancing, etc. Doesn’t impact me though for obvious reasons. I did quite enjoy going the wrong way down one way systems though.
We have a one way systen in the Outpatients Department i work in .It mostly involves sensible people telling other sensible people to ignore it .Apart from this though it involves some poor old geezer with a walking frame having to walk twice as far as when he came in and sitting down to catch his breath half way around and thats the NHS!!! so there is no hope in waiting for normaility to reassert itself it will have to be enforced by the members of the public who think these restrictions/measures are something from a medieval comedy
Same here. But not even the one way systems are removed (i.e. literally nothing is changing).
Just exempt yourself QED
I welcome the opportunity to give my custom elsewhere. Thanks Sainsbury’s and Tesco for the heads up!
Waitrose it is then…
i like your style but we need another 40 million of you to put the sops into a minority
yes but shop where?
OK, so what about Morrisons and M&S?
My town has three supermarkets – Tesco, Morrisons and M&S. If any of the three don’t order mask wearing then that’s the one I will be using.
Me too – got Aldi, Lidl’s, Farmfoods, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, Waitrose, Co-op, Asda, Icelands … my money will go to the stores who are not enforcing masks.
The local Waterstones is always empty anyway – I’m surprised they can afford to by fussy about masks – not been in there for ages – buy my books out of the charity shops instead.
That’s the funny thing about Waterstone’s announcement the other day. Apart from the run-up to Christmas you rarely get more than three people in at a time. And that’s High St Kensington, in West London.
Waterstones have been bloody stupid about the whole thing right from the word go. They won’t take cash, and on one occasion the operative wouldn’t even touch the book I intended to purchase. I had to turn it over myself so that he could scan the barcode. I told him to sod off and walked out, leaving him to pick it up and put it back on the shelf.
its not a competition i know but i think being made to stand inside the 2M circle in Costa and then handing my cash over on to a plate is even sillier because when this callow youth poured my cash into the till from said crockery he immediately put both hand into the till to rummage for my change .This is why we have swearing !
Customer service in the Harrow Waterstones was hilarious a few weeks ago. Soon as I’d entered the empty shop I was accosted and told to put a mask on – the poor woman didn’t realise she was going to get a lecture in response.
Being unable to find Laura Dodsworth’s State of Fear on the new non-fiction racks, I returned to the assistant who told me it wasn’t yet in but that if I’d like to place an order…
Bought it online, of course.
Exactly, High Street Ken’s already faced decimation from Westfield and you still have these idiots encouraging less custom. I actually find Kensington less mask obsessed though than say Islington.
It is for the safety of customers who spend hours reading the books without buying them. So considerate. So stupid.
this is very simplistic but do they want us to wear masks for longer in order to sell more of them Just wondering
NONE OF THEM will be insisting on face masks. Encouraging means they will leave the sign on the door, thats all.
Of course, that doesn’t sell advertising clicks in the media so their version of encouraging is that everyone will be forced to, which is complete bollocks
My hunch is that M&S and Morrison’s will take a pragmatic view but obviously it depends on the people on the ground.
The local Morrisons has been the worst of the three local supermarkets, by a long way, so far. Tesco and M&S have been less bad, but variable – sometimes there would be a hostile jobsworth on the door, and M&S still had queues until not very long ago.
All brought to you courtesy of the govt headed by that well-known bold, closet libertarian Alexander “Boris” Johnson.
The govt have played a blinder – appear to give people freedom of choice but merely outsource enforcement to the private sector, blame them for any problems.
Sort of like how people describe Houston, Texas as the “city without zoning” while overlooking that it has lots of land-use covenants that amount to privatized zoning.
Are they telling or asking? I can’t continue to wear a mask as I’ve never started.
It’s an ask. Not even the Government can order you to restrict your breathing.
One word…. Exempt
Just had an email from the Roman Baths in Bath. They are keeping the pre-19th restrictions too. I’d booked (non-refundable) tickets thinking all would be normal.
These ninnies and nannies just don’t want this nonsense to end
We’ll go, but as usual, there’ll be no masking up for us
I went there maskless last September and it was fine. I hope you enjoy it!
If a business stops me entering without a facemask I shall tell them I’m taking my business elsewhere and leave. I’ve boycotted my local ASDA ever since a covid harridan called me back into the shop to have a go at me for accidentally ignoring the arrows on the floor when I left the shop! If I was an infection risk why call me back – that was before face masks too.
The difficulty is when they are all doing it and there are no non-jobsworth options.
The only way out of that is mass non-compliance.
You said it
And you didn’t just laugh at them and continue to ignore the stupid arrows like everybodg else?
I think the supermarkets are just going with what – they think – the majority of their shoppers want.
It’s our job to prove them wrong.
For the last year I’ve shopped via Click & Collect in order to avoid being in a shop full of mask-wearing shuffling zombies.
From next week I’ll go back to shopping in store, sans mask. If asked, I will say I am exempt. Which I am, as wearing a mask causes me “extreme distress”.
We need to create pressure of numbers, it’s the only language these people understand.
Why say that you are exempt? Be honest and tell them that you don’t want to.
He is being honest, surely. Certainly the cumulative effect of the distress caused to me over the last 16 months by all the mask-wearing IS severe.
Just self indentify as someone who finds wearing a mask as distressing then it becomes true!
There’s a difference between a jobsworth and someone just doing their job.
Most security guards just want to hear “exempt” and will happily let you proceed.
Saying “I don’t want to” is asking for a pointless confrontation and most likely refusal of entry. What does that achieve?
I’d rather be in the shop encouraging other people that it’s okay not to wear one, rather than a five minute argument with a single security guard and an effective barring thereafter.
Its true, and I’d go further in saying that the views and intentions of the office and boardroom staff do not coincide with those on the shop floor
I’d been able to get some main shopping deliveries just so I don’t have to “face” the masks. But recently I’ve been back to Lidl and Aldi, and it’s been absolutely fine. No hassle at all. I’ll stick with these stores. Sainsburys can be arsey at times, but I stand my ground. Really though, no one gives a toss now.
I stopped wearing a mask in supermarkets about 6 weeks ago and neither Sainsburys or Asda have challenged me. I just walk in as if I own the place.
Sadly I’ve hardly seen anybody else in these stores not wearing a mask, but maybe that’s because I go early when it’s quiet, when the more cautious types are likely to shop?
I’ve found it mainly depends on where you shop.
In a “nice” middle class area the majority have face coverings.
In a more working class area most people show their faces.
I opt for working class area shopping whenever I can.
I’ll continue with click and collect because I prefer pre-ordering my shopping online and collecting it only takes 10 minutes.
Yes I was a little hesitant about using it but it has worked out pretty well.
I’ve not tried click and collect. I’ve used online shopping with Asda and Tesco, pre panscam, due to being unable to drive (broken foot) and I found Asda was terrible for including low date items. Tesco were far superior in the date range and the quality of the fresh items.
When shopping in store at Asda, I’ve seen most staff tasked with online shops just grab items and throw them in the containers without checking dates. My daughter does online shops with Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury’s and Iceland and had similar problems with all, except Tesco, sending low date and grotty items. Trying to contact customer services via phone when issues arise is soul destroying.
The low date issue puts me off doing click and collect.
You’re brave. The sight of the shuffling zombies just makes me want to scream and scream until I’m sick.
Yes good. I say living in a lying, manipulative, authoritarian state in which masks are mandated causes me “extreme distress” giving me legal exemption from following their unscientific and demeaning demands.
Why wait. I have shopped at Morrison’s throughout, don’t do online shopping. I have never worn a mask in any environment, (retail, transport or medical) and have not once had any hassle. My lanyard got ditched three months ago, and still nobody says a word. Most shop staff realise the stupidity of it all.
Indeed – I’ve not worn one anywhere in over a year, no mask no lanyard and no problems. Get asked maybe once out of every 10 times and just say “exempt” and that’s it.
No need for anyone to wear a mask. Just take them off – it is easy
Supermarket giants like Sainsbury’s, along with Amazon and the like, are very much playing their part in this dystopian nightmare. They’ve made enormous gains on the losses of small competition being forced to shut while the government locked us down. They continued trading with home delivery when we were in the hardest lockdown.
They’re not naïve, they can afford to push their customers around because the aforementioned competition has all but dried up or been bought out. Our options become smaller every time a new Sainsbury’s opens up and a local shop shuts down.
I am fortunate enough at this point in time to be able to take my money somewhere else that doesn’t continuously bully their customers, but I know my options will begin to narrow through time and I think it’ll happen fast over the winter months.
That’s true, and I do try to support local shops where I can – but a lot of them don’t make it easy. For example the local chippy, which has two branches and was always good, has become not worth the hassle – Always challenge about masks if no lanyard, then look at you as if you are lying when you say exempt, crappy one-way systems which don’t work well, barked orders if anyone doesn’t follow their ‘rules’ to the letter. After several confrontations (including one where I was told to stand outside in heavy snow because their ‘policy’ said only one person at a time was allowed in the counter area (there was one other person at the time, who was at least 5m away from me, and nobody else anywhere near the building). I’ve just stopped bothering now – had enough of their attitude.
And a local bakers with loads of signs about masks, only one person allowed in at a time, they only accept cash. Nearby, an independent coffee shop with two pages of ‘rules’ stuck to the door, and so on.
If they want the business, they need to stop this twattish behaviour – I am not going into multiple shops, all of which might give a load of hassle, when I can go to the supermarket at 11pm, when the chances of being hassled are lowest, and get everything there in one place.
“I think the supermarkets are just going with what – they think – the majority of their shoppers want.”
They are saying what the government want to hear, just to get them off their backs. On Monday, none of them wil give a shit if you wear one or not. You can bet your life none of the staff will be wearing them. When the lanyards first came out, the supermarkets distributed them. Half the supply went to their own staff.
They won’t even ask. No one asks anymore, I haven’t even bothered wearing my lanyard in months.
I think at one stage this site was promoting independent sceptic businesses. I’d be up for using them and not giving my money even online to shops which continue with store restrictions.
We’re now up to Asda, Lidl, Waitrose, Aldi, Sainsbury’s, Tesco. Nothing from Morrisons yet, but of course – of course – they will. The calls have been made, they’ll have been told that it’s in their best interests, that muzzles will be mandated again soon enough, and to get ready for demanding to see our Social Credit Score apps come the Autumn as well.
This is all utterly predictable, and predicted. All we can do is to resist to the best of our ability, for as long as we can.
wonder have their insurers caused them to take this line?
There could be no grounds – insurers’ only concern is payouts, and for that someone would have to be able to prove that they caught it in that shop and that masks would have prevented it – both of which are impossible.
And, their insistence on you wearing a mask could be another insurance headache. You could argue that they need a proof of claim that wearing one is going far more beneficial to others in preventing the rona, than any damage to your health, both mentally and/or physically. You could ask for their medical risk assessment that they carried out which proves this (!) Worth a try if you can be bothered arguing with any little door general who tries any crap.
Makes no difference to me. I’m exempt and I’ll go on being exempt. Had a whole year of training to get my attitude and belligerence fine tuned. No one’s giving a flying duck anyway in any of the shops now. And I’ll have a few choice words if I am stopped. Their loss if they lose me as a customer. I’m through with it all now.
Agreed. I obviously have a very smiley face and have had no trouble from anyone, in fact they always seem to want to chat with me! I have though always wished someone would start as although I look like an old biddy I’ve always thought I could channel Jet Li and do a bit of faux chop-socky while shouting choice expletives!! I can cram!
I can dream!
Let’s be honest: masks are gone come Monday at most places. There will be a few places that hold out for a while, but they won’t last long. The employees already hardly ever challenge you at the majority of places that you go, because they don’t actually care whether you wear a mask.
I agree. apparently 99% of people love masks according to BBC commissioned surveys. The crowds watching the football and my experience don’t mirror that
masks will be all but gone apart perhaps from some gentle encouragement in some places
no-one ever mentioned to me being maskless in tesco or sainsburys and I doubt they are going to start after Monday
Most of the people that I know are quite happy that the mask mandates will be removed. I don’t think that they’d be so happy if they planned to keep on wearing them.
Many of the meek will need to have the example of other people venturing into these spaces bare faced before they will follow suit. So, it might take a few days. But, once the dam has broken, the noses will all pop out in a short time.
I think we must discount all headlines in MSM, we know they are propaganda outlets for this government and their communist advisors.
Compliance on my fairly busy commute-time train yesterday was 100% minus me
Trains are more likely to be special cased, because it may be backed up by force of law. The supermakets, however, are just “encouraging” people to wear masks. Within days, they’ll have to make a choice: either kick the bare faced out and have their employees police this, or accept the bare faced will be the majority.
I thought the train operators were saying that they were encouraging people to wear them IF busy. So at least if the train isn’t busy there’ll be no problem.
Mandatory on TFL services at all times, part of Conditions of Carriage. So far AFAIK the National Rail TOCs are saying people can choose.
Question is: will they patrol and how will they deal with non-compliance. My guess is that they will be half-hearted and it will be flauted by a significant minority and then after a few weeks ignored by all.
Exemptions must still be honored.
The question is: do they know that?
Will and can they introduce requirements different to the government’s current self-exemption facility?
I doubt it, as the government certainly would have tried that and looked into it beforehand.
Also, GPs currently have no clue about nor any intention to issuing medical certificates and are, officialky, far too busy to deal with that, which would raise liability issues for the business demanding one and for the GP refusing to issue one or seeing one.
And that’s just what I can come up with after 5 minutes of thought.
Conditions of carriage are toothless. Penalty for breach is nil. They can only ask you to leave the train. Don’t confuse C if C with Rsilway Byelaws.
Not gone in Gulag Wales. The Dung Squad are not going to surrender one jot or tittle if their power, and the population is even more zombified than England’s.
Won’t be shopping at any of these stores then … EVER!
Some freedom.
These supermarkets and stores that insist on continuing mask wearing think that they are alaying customer fears but all they are doing is enforcing it further – this won’t end until we stop pandering to the nervous nellies out there..
Exactly. If people are walking around like zombies wearing face nappies, the only possible inference is that danger lurks everywhere.
I’ll continue with click and collect and I will not wear a mask. The only way to stop this madness is to hit them in the pocket!
“If masks were working so well, we wouldn’t have rising cases now”.
NHS GP Dr Renee Hoenderkamp says face masks do not work: “Masks were introduced to signal fear. Fear is the way they get people to comply with rules”.
Worth watching for two minutes …
https://twitter.com/talkRADIO/status/1415383968325804034
I encountered that one yesterday. When “cases” weren’t rising, masks were supposed to be worn to stop them from rising. Since so-called “cases” are rising, masks are supposed to be worn because of that.
Conclusion: The people who badly want “mask mandates” make up their justifications on-the-go based on whatever the current situation happens to be.
Secondary conclusion: They are probably not convinced that they acutally work, either. Presumably, they just want to help with selling them.
Most of the arguments put forward for the measures are circular and/or non-falsifiable, based on modelling about what would happen if we did or did not do X or Y.
so if the mask cause damage to people are the shops who made me wear them liable?
Slightly off topic but here in my fairly quiet corner of South East London, outdoor mask wearing is on the increase! Either fear due to case numbers or people showing their virtue before the 19th. Either way it’s not based on science.
I counted 23 out of 100 in central London yesterday.
Outdoors!? That’s just fucking crazy! Oh wait a minute, indeed I have tumbled down the rabbit hole. I’m in a macabre carnival of gormless masked souls shuffling along under an oppressive, filthy tyrant (but a disheveled pig, instead of mean-tempered Queen).
Bear in mind this was primarily a business rather than residential area so the frightened old, who make up the majority of outdoor maskers in my home town, would have been largely absent. Mainly young and middle aged office workers as far as I could see.
Tesco are talking through their rear ends. The husband went into one the other day and said he’d forgotten his mask. They welcomed him in. Plenty not wearing masks including staff.
I’ve been wearing my exempt badge since 21-6.
Was planning to hang it up on Monday but, guess not. Will take my first trip through London on Tuesday as we head to the coast for holiday. Let’s see how the Tube Gestapo handle us.
And again, where is the real World data showing that the masks used by society reduce infections by any measurable amount? There is as much proof of their effectiveness against Covid as there is that is stops tiger and polar bear attacks. At least I know of no one who has worn one who has been attacked by them, but lots who still got Covid.
It’s not just that they are inefficient against the virus.
They pose a serious health hazard and risk.
Noone with an IQ above 50 would ever wear a community mask again after having read this:
https://www.hausarzt-kenzingen.de/aktuelles/
does anyone know where I can gain access to a bazooka?
I think people have to simply stop mask-wearing now. If it’s not illegal, they can’t really enforce it.
If everyone who disagrees with this circus stops wearing one and starts showing their face, we’ll all have safety in numbers
If we assume that mask-wearing helps reduce the spread significantly (which is by no means a given) then I think there’s a stronger case for keeping mask and distancing requirements in supermarkets and public transport while repealing them for non-essential businesses, because it is more difficult for the severely immunocompromised (who’d not only be a lot more likely to die of Covid if they caught it, but would also not benefit from vaccination) to avoid these places.
It may help protect such unfortunate people until enough of the rest of the population can be vaccinated to reach herd immunity and thus bring down the virus’s prevalence…
a) There’s no real evidence masks (or face coverings) work very well
b) I would have expected us to have reached herd immunity already with 2/3s of the entire population vaccinated and 95% of the vulnerable age groups. Also there has been natural immunity created from having the virus (which is never discussed). How much immunity do you want?
c) But then, in the same breath, we are told that the vaccinations may not work against ‘variants’ so your idea of ever reaching herd immunity through the vax programme becomes redundant, as does the effectiveness of vaccines at all and our social responsibility to take them
There’s no real-world evidence that masks make any difference, and plenty of evidence that they don’t
There’s also plenty of real-world evidence that vaccinations as they currently stand do not stop the spread of the virus and therefore are not getting us closer to herd immunity
Finally, I am a selfish bastard and do not want to wear a mask for the benefit of others
Someone who is “severely immunocomptomised” (that’s not just a housewife fashion like “lactose intolerance”) can’t go to the supermarket because this would kill him. Hence, you take one to the supermarket with you because YOU want other people to be forced to wear masks.
I am severely immunocompromised. It wouldn’t stop me going to the supermarket in normal times.
Then you’re not because otherwise, your immune system wouldn’t be able to handle any kind of infection.
NB: That’s my definition of “severe”, namely “demonstrably life-threatening in ordinary circumstance” and not “but I believe it’s really bad!”
Indeed, some people are allergic to the sun
If masks work then those compromised can wear one that filters the air inbound.
If they don’t then how does it help?
Am I the only one that can see this?
Good point — perhaps would be better to provide free N95 masks to the immunocompromised if it meant the rest of the population didn’t need masks at all…
One word : “Bollocks”
How can vaccination contribute to reaching herd immunity when it doesn’t prevent people from catching the disease?
Fuck off
Just what do you think all these “immunocompromised” people did before March 2020? I can assure you that in 60 years of shopping, I have NEVER seen another human being walking around in a plastic bubble, nor for that matter, wearing a fade mask.
I can only assume that they were happy to live with the risks of living their lives without spending every waking minute thinking about how every virus on earth could potentially kill them. In fact, I would lay odds that most would find it most distasteful that people like you, use their disabilities to forward your own agenda. Your arguments mirror those of people who take offence on behalf of others despite not being remotely affected by the issue.
Have you ever tried catching water with a sieve?
So come on everybody, people got the power. Just stop shopping at any place that has requirements for stupid restrictions… Time for people to stand together once and for all to stop this crazy. If we all boycott together
What if every shop and other venue where you live has stupid restrictions?
But they won’t. You are falling for the psy-ops and panicking unnecessarily. Think for yourself, and stand up for what you believe in. If you don’t want to wear a face mask just say in a calm but decisive voice, I AM EXEMPT.
Trust me, all your problems instantly go away.
I think we should just throw our masks away.
Why has a supermarket that I have spent an unthinkable amount of money at over the years got the right to tell me what to wear on my face. I am their customer, not their subject.
Or ignore them. I have shopped in a wide range of supermarkets throughtout this nonsense and have never been challenged by staff or other customers even once. If they didn’t do much to enforce it then, they are unlikely to enforce a ‘request’.
So the government advice is mask/dont mask.
Judgment day is coming!
So they are pandering to the minority.
July 19th is freedom day.
WHAT F×CKING FREEDOM?
Hilarious people are still playing along with this bollocks
Sainsbury’s already lost any custom I might have potentially gave them with their extremely divisive cultural Marxist political messaging on social media. They chant about inclusivity while telling people to stay away from their stores if they don’t bow to BLM. And now they think they can police us with the government’s criminal covid rules?
They can fuck off.
Go to the BEIS website. Get to the bit about face masks. Exemptions apply, just as before. Print off the guidance that business have to give to those they compel to wear face coverings. And report anyone you see who does not comply as they are putting your health at risk. Example when putting on their rags; wash their hands throughly with soap and water for twenty seconds…. No sod in Tesco will do that so Tesco’s are putting everyone at risk. It’s just about reporting what you see folks
When the great madness started, I switch to home delivery to avoid visiting supermarkets with their masks, distancing, hand sanitizers, and bouncers on the door. I don’t know whether to continue or to make a point of visiting and challenging.
They’re much more relaxed now. The staff don’t care any more.
I’ve never worn a mask in a shop or supermarket. Any requests for me to do so were/are met with a very curt reply.
I never wear a mask, either in shops or on public transport, and nobody ever says anything. I am amazed that so many people are afraid to simply assert their freedom to do as they wish. Stop being such cowards!
Ditto. Wearing masks in respect of other people’s feelings is simply perpetuating the fear factor.
The managers of the companies make these decisions from way on up high sitting in their ivory towers without having a clue what is really happening at the coal face. Meanwhile, the managers that actually run the stores roll their eyes and know that there is nothing they can really do if people want to go maskless and have neither the motivation or inclination to do anything and will instruct their staff accordingly.
I’ve not shopped in the big four supermarkets for over a year now. It is good to be free of them
Bollocks to that! This is government shifting the onus onto businesses, expecting them in the most devious way to enforce the guidelines.
God help us. What a nation of wimps we have become, so easily made fearful, too thick to do any research into the real plan.
Boycott these businesses and let the mask wearing bedwetters carry on…Mask wearers are so deeply hypnotised there really is no hope.
Pandering to the Fearties.
I (reluctantly) started wearing a mask in shops in November and declared myself Exempt a couple of months ago, including Sainsbury. I’ve only been “reminded” twice and on declaration of exemption nothing was said.
I continue to be Exempt.
If Tesco want to be on the ‘safe side’, ? I suggest having fully qualified Doctors at the entrances, so each customer can be given a full medical check-up. Then Tesco’s can make a decision about which ‘medical conditions’ they find acceptable for entry?
Insanity, endless insanity.
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Unless they make it a condition of entry under contract law, it doesn’t matter what they request, recommend, ask, beg or grovel for. It’s as meaningless as them saying they hope everyone wears a red nose on red nose day.
If they DO make it a condition of entry, I am pretty sure you can still shop there maskless while claiming exemption under the DDA.
However, anywhere that makes masking a condition of entry will never get a penny of my money ever again.
Good to know that these various retail outlets after ‘struggling’ NOT, along with all the rest of us who might be about to go bust after the last 18 months of bullshit, can happily manage without revenue from independent minded punters.
They’re content to accept only dosh from the latest evolutionary variant of easily manipulated Humankind, Homo-Bovinus. One wonders why they might only be interested in this gullible easily manipulated variant. Hmm.
I won’t be giving any of them my money. Now or ever again!
I remember a time when all businesses werer keen for sales from all honest, and in many cases, not so honest customers.
Tesco might invite me to wear a mask and I will politely decline their invitation.
As for the government expecting and advising people to wear them I refuse to do anything that a serial philanderer and liar expects or advises me to do.
I’m afraid anybody that didn’t see this ongoing virtue signalling continuing must be blind. The question is, now there is no legal requirement for claiming mask exemption, will the stores feel duty bound to police it themselves? I guess I’ll find out after Monday …
I’ve been dropping in to my local Tesco and Sainsbury’s when passing, even when I don’t want to buy anything. Just to show my face. At least one security guard in each is similarly sans-muzzle.