Following guidelines

[Top-of-the-hill]

  The Post Office staff in our shop are using those. It is probably important for customers to be able to hear what they are saying, which I gather can be a problem with face masks.

[KGarrad]

According to the BBC website the other day, plastic face shields are acceptable 'face coverings' for those who cannot wear a mask. My daughter's friend has a 3D printer & he gave her several, although she had sewn masks by hand for her family. Apparently the shields are very cheap - a lot of high school technology departments have been producing them to help with the PPE shortage.

There are very few people who cannot wear a mask.

Most people who say they can't simply don't want to!

My daughter works in a hospital, and has to wear a mask all the time she is at work.
Apparently, its a nuisance put it's perfectly do-able.

[roopat]

  The Post Office staff in our shop are using those. It is probably important for customers to be able to hear what they are saying, which I gather can be a problem with face masks.

I was brave & ventured into Next the other day (well 7pm - only 1 other customer, shop very well organised) & the staff were wearing face shields. Our village hairdresser wears one too.

[Girl Guide]

The mask wearing is one of the reasons I haven't yet ventured far from my door.  I am deaf and rely on lip reading to understand what is being said. 

If someone has their face covered then I cannot do any lipreading and therefore wouldn't have a clue what was being said to me. 

[roopat]

According to the BBC website the other day, plastic face shields are acceptable 'face coverings' for those who cannot wear a mask. My daughter's friend has a 3D printer & he gave her several, although she had sewn masks by hand for her family. Apparently the shields are very cheap - a lot of high school technology departments have been producing them to help with the PPE shortage.

There are very few people who cannot wear a mask.

Most people who say they can't simply don't want to!

My daughter works in a hospital, and has to wear a mask all the time she is at work.
Apparently, its a nuisance put it's perfectly do-able.

I agree with you 100%! I've made masks for me & OH & my other daughter + her boyfriend & after the initial strangeness, wearing them is fine for most people. My son-in-law is by nature very contrary & automatically tries to do the opposite of what he's told (but folds like a deflated balloon when challenged, bless him! ) - he was trotting out all the reasons why he 'can't' wear a mask - fogged glasses, hay fever etc etc - he's just worried about looking silly.    I know my daughter has made him one & she will make him wear it 

[Maiden Stone]

Girl Guide, I'm in Scotland; wearing face-coverings in shops has been compulsory from 10th July. Disability Equality Scotland held/is holding a survey about issues people with disabilities are encountering. Groups elsewhere may be doing similar.
Noticed only 1 customer in Tsco convenience store with bare face. I use only local shops so have no idea of what's happening in the wider world.

[Maiden Stone]

Girl Guide reply #12 some ideas for lip-readers on the twitter account of this paramedic.
https://twitter.com/SECAmb_Danny/status/1284071390107361285

[Girl Guide]

That was interesting Maiden Stone, thank you for that.