I hate the things and will only wear one to be able to get on public transport. I find them suffocating and pointless - given that its taken our beloved government months to come to the conclusion that they may be useful.
All that kerfuffle we had a while back about burkas and being able to see people's faces!!
I went into the local Coop yesterday and not only was the lad at the till sitting behind a huge plastic screen (which incidentally has a 'hole' in it so that you can flash your card, so what's the point?) but he was also wearing one of those plastic helmet things. He's a nice lad but quite softly spoken and we usually exchange a few pleasantries but, what with the double plastic 'shields' between us, I couldn't hear a word he was saying!
Personally, I think the country's gone mad. We are destroying (have probably already destroyed) our economy and frightened the bejesus out of most of us people of a certain age (me included) for something that, if handled properly, should have been over and done with by now. People have become totally fixated on what the 'rules' allow us to do and not do. There's no logic to any of it. Now we can see 2 people in a bubble (!), a few days later the number changes or the bubble moves! What on earth is the sense of 'allowing' people to go for a pint/have their nails done/ get a tattoo whilst kids are still not in school - and now won't be for nearly another 3 months? Why couldn't our 'leaders' figure out a way of reducing the summer holidays to get kids back - say - at the beginning of August? Because it would have meant they'd have to think outside the box and actually tackle teachers unions. Heaven forfend that we actually do something innovative!
They're on a power trip. They love telling us, every few days, what we can and cannot do. I, for one, am sick of it. If they really, truly thought the virus was still such a danger, how come I haven't seen a politician on tv wearing a face mask?
I have feared from the beginning of this virus that the government saw it as a way of controlling us minions. Witness the way hordes of police suddenly became available to shoo old ladies off park benches when they'd more or less stopped investigating real crimes.
Bit by bit, we are moving towards a police state and the thing that really frightens me is that most people seem quite happy to let it happen.
