Asda and face masks.

[miasmum]

No GP's are not going to provide a stamped letter. Most of the time those asking are not exempt anyway, so they are told no letter. The ones that are truly exempt tend not to be out in the middle of Asda anyway.

I was putting my mask on in the doorway of Morrisons last week, three young lads, all mid 20's walked past and each one shouted asthma as they walked in. The security guard said please can you wear masks, one turned round and put his finger up and all three carried on into the store laughing

[Suff]

Young people have become aware that they are almost as likely to die from Covid as they are to win the lottery. So they don't care.


The fact that they don't care about anyone but themselves is hardly surprising.

[JoM]

Young people have become aware that they are almost as likely to die from Covid as they are to win the lottery. So they don't care.


The fact that they don't care about anyone but themselves is hardly surprising.

I’ve been saying all along that it was a mistake to announce that the young aren’t, on the whole, badly affected.

[TheOstrich]

A Year 11 student at our local High School has tested positive for it this week. You wouldn't believe the amount of panic from the parents of other children on the town's FB page.
Well, I have been muttering about the carelessness, the partying and the complete lack of social distancing around here for some time now, so I'm hardly surprised, it was only a matter of time.

[Workingman]

The figures for the different age ranges were always out there so it did not take a genius to work out that "the young" were not the most vulnerable, and for a long time the news was just left at that. It was no big story.

It was only in the summer and the run up to children going back to school that there were spikes in the stories about how resilient and less affected the young were - they were invincible. This was done because the public and parents needed persuading that reopening schools and FE was safe, even as people were still being told to stay away from work, and so the young ones took it all on board and acted according to the message.

This has now turned on its head. For a week or so the focus has been on the number of cases and deaths in those under (pick a number between 11 and 34) and they are rising. They are all going to die!. Unfortunately the original message is embedded and will be hard to shift.

[cruiser2]

Went to a small Tesco on Sunday morning. Four young men got out off cars and walked in without masks.
Always wear a ask when I go to the small newsagent in a morning.

Have ben to Morrisons this morning. Security on the way in showing where they saniting station where. Did n't see anybody without a mask
apart from small children. They also had a queueing system for the tills.

At tesco, just walk in but sanitising stations just inside the door. Just went to any check out. Two members of staff seemed to be monitoring the
situation.
Have not been to Asda recently.

[TheOstrich]

Waitrose here have gone back to having a gatekeeper on the door with a "count them in and count them out machine". Still on duty when we tend to go early evenings so they are monitoring it even when it's relatively quiet. I'd say 99% mask compliance; the only instance I've seen recently of a non-masked person was, as I mentioned elsewhere, a teenage lad with his family who was clearly on the spectrum.
They say they sanitise all their trollies and baskets but I do wonder if it's anything more than a cursory wipe over. There is a hand sanitiser station in the entrance lobby although they keep repositioning the wretched thing, unlike Iceland where it is fixed to the wall.

[Workingman]

Sanitiser stations - never used one.

What is the point?

If the trolley / basket is infected when you use it (and there are no guarantees it isn't) you could be picking up or pushing round a virus hotspot. You might be clean - it isn't. Then you pick up and put down products.... are you sure, really sure, that you have not moved the virus on from one place to another?

It's a con, and you bought in.

Sanitise going out if you must, and sanitise in your car, and wash your hands and things when you get home. But please don't be fooled into thinking you are a super clean hero by by squirting a bit of gel on your mitts when you go in - you are not.

[TheOstrich]

I work on the basis that "every little helps", WM. I hand sanitise on the way in and also on the way out, and on the way in, I lather the trolley handle with hand sanitiser as well.
OK, I could be contracting / spreading the virus by actually touching the plunger on top of the sanitiser station, but that way madness lies ....

[medsec222]

I've thought about the wisdom of pressing the top of the hand sanitizer a few times as well Ossie - but hey ho, I just get on with it and hope for the best