(Don't) Wear a Mask Debate

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My experience is that face masks have all but disappeared, apart from some hospitals, doctors’ surgeries, and dentists. I live in Staffordshire.
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HHTel wrote: Tue Jun 28, 2022 11:55 pm Stores/shops/private businesses can make their own rules as in other countries. However apart from edits to some store websites, policies within stores are not obvious (as yet). Should you walk into Bluport without a mask and you're challenged. It's quite fair to say "Show me your policy rules"

Personally, I will wear a mask in shopping centres and stores (like 7/11). But there's no clarity as yet.
Yes, it's not obvious. I saw a young Western couple walking around MV yesterday unmasked and it did occur to me that if they'd just arrived and knew that the law changed recently, they probably thought they were doing nothing wrong.
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HHTel wrote: Tue Jun 28, 2022 11:55 pm Stores/shops/private businesses can make their own rules as in other countries. However apart from edits to some store websites, policies within stores are not obvious (as yet). Should you walk into Bluport without a mask and you're challenged. It's quite fair to say
Personally, I will wear a mask in shopping centres and stores (like 7/11). But there's no clarity as yet.
"Show me your policy rules"
And the minder will give you a blank look because he has no idea what you are saying/
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handdrummer wrote:
HHTel wrote: Tue Jun 28, 2022 11:55 pm Stores/shops/private businesses can make their own rules as in other countries. However apart from edits to some store websites, policies within stores are not obvious (as yet). Should you walk into Bluport without a mask and you're challenged. It's quite fair to say
Personally, I will wear a mask in shopping centres and stores (like 7/11). But there's no clarity as yet.
"Show me your policy rules"
And the minder will give you a blank look because he has no idea what you are saying/
Was in Bluport today and there were plenty of foreigners not wearing masks walking around and going in shops. Nobody seemed concerned. Locals still in masks of course.
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Taken at Khao Kalok beach earlier today, from a distance with my crap phone camera, so excuse quality. Thai ingenuity at its best!

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I wonder if they will remove the mask on this statue at Suvarnabhumi nowImageImageImageImage

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huahin4ever wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 10:39 pm I wonder if they will remove the mask on this statue at Suvarnabhumi nowImageImageImageImage

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He doesn't look very happy with wearing that.
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Gotta say, that after the last couple of days, you can tell the tourists in town, they're the ones without the masks!
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I've just been past a large construction project out near me and non of the workers are wearing masks anymore.
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I would imagine the workers are Burmese, and the tourists are farangs. The Thais still seem to be living in fear of the big mask stick the junta has wielded for the past two years. Most of the local sheeple are still wearing them where we are, in a rural setting in the middle of nowhere!
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I’m in the UK at the moment where the incidence of catching Covid is increasing quickly (up half a million in a week) - it’ll be interesting to see whether people go back to wearing masks again or carry on as normal?
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Dannie Boy wrote: Sat Jul 02, 2022 10:31 am I’m in the UK at the moment where the incidence of catching Covid is increasing quickly (up half a million in a week) - it’ll be interesting to see whether people go back to wearing masks again or carry on as normal?
Here’s an article from the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-61995463
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Dannie Boy wrote: Sat Jul 02, 2022 11:44 am
Dannie Boy wrote: Sat Jul 02, 2022 10:31 am I’m in the UK at the moment where the incidence of catching Covid is increasing quickly (up half a million in a week) - it’ll be interesting to see whether people go back to wearing masks again or carry on as normal?
Here’s an article from the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-61995463
In the article, Dr. Bauld said these comforting words, "these things burn themselves out, when they run out of people to infect."
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From that article:
The number of people in hospital with Covid across the UK is 10,081 - up by around 2,500 in a week. More than half of those will be there for other reasons, such as a broken bone or a stroke, but they still need to be managed.
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HHTel wrote: Sat Jul 02, 2022 12:11 pm From that article:
The number of people in hospital with Covid across the UK is 10,081 - up by around 2,500 in a week. More than half of those will be there for other reasons, such as a broken bone or a stroke, but they still need to be managed.
But all the same, numbers are going up rather than down - let’s hope as the article says, that it will eventually burn itself out and no worse strains come along!!
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