Location: London, UK
COVID-19 / Coronavirus Outbreak
Lockdown
I don't like wearing a mask. I'm a little claustrahpobic but I put up with the discomfort because I think that they help.
I don't think it's that hard to wear a mask - for most of us, it's only when we are in shops or on public transport that it is actually mandatory. You don't have to wear one in a restaurant, a pub, in the street or the gym so generally it will be a limited amount of time.
So why aren't people doing it? Is it arrogance? Do they believe that Covid-19 is a hoax? Do they not think it will help?
A Delta airlines flight recently turned around mid-air and returned to Detroit because two travellers refused to follow the air stewards requests to wear their masks. I applaud the pilot - a zero tolerence approach seems to be the only way to get some entitled people to follow the rules.
In the UK, you can receive an on the spot fine of £100 for not wearing your mask on public transport and generally it seems most people are complying with the rules.
Personally, if I have to be in an enclosed space with strangers for any period of time, I want to give myself the best level of protection I can. Nearly 46k people have died in the UK from coronavirus. The daily death rate fluctuates between about 12 and over a hundred. A day. Some normality to our lives may have returned but this disease is still taking people from their families at an extraordinary rate, it's not gone away.
Wear a mask.
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