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newforest said:
You can buy a t shirt that says "if I can turn round and hit you, you are not social distancing"
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Ohhhhh i like that one.

Huggy said:
The cashier in Tesco told me today that they're going to have to wear masks
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I would feel sorry for them if they have to. Can you imagine working a solid 8 hours a day wearing one. Also i do wonder how many particles and fibres we are injesting off these masks.

Up till now most of the supermarkets offered the staff face protection but they werent making it compulsory for them to wear it.
 
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We have been told staff don't have to wear masks, but if we don't it's going to be harder to enforce with customers, so they would like us to.
 
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It's makes more sense for staff to wear something. Surely they are the ones indoors in close contact with others.
We've had outbreaks in food producing places that obviously can't social distance.

There are places already in ppe with shields over the masks in order to open, I am thinking hairdressers, beauty salons, dentists.

The shielding group are going to be back at work, along with the other high and moderate groups.
Can't we think of others that little bit longer, most out there seem to be back to normal, or the new normal, but there are over one million who haven't been off their property. I spoke to an old chap sitting in his garden over the weekend. Nobody has told him he's allowed to go for a walk!
There could scarily be people who just get forgotten and left at home because nobody tells them!
 
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They need to jump on things much more quicky.
But they wait til it gets too bad.
They jump w what suits them.

There were bad rip currents on the beaches they said no one in the water.
And honestly if your a fool to go in the water and drown...you have done it to your self.
People not obeying distance and
Mask rules need to be thrown off the beach..
Their actions AFFECT OTHERS .

We are still on an uptick and over 100 new cases the first time in a month yesterday.. and
Hospitalization going up every day.
Its clearly going the wrong way.
We have a briefing today.. the governor needs to get a handle before we start big surges like many other states.

People are just ignoring cause there yet again is no downside to bad behavior.
 
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Its hard but masks are mandatory here for workers and shoppers
I must be awful for workers but this isn't going away.
Gyms.. hair salons .. bars.. indoor dining.. beaches..
ETC are the first things closing back down
In the hardest hit surges.
So for all they say those venues are not safe.

We were in a good place for a month.
Now I really worry.
 
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Walking round Tesco with 6 yr old grandson, both masked (1st time for him). He's tootling along behind me, and I'm hearing "swsssh, swssh, swssh" over and over. Eventually I'm getting irritable, and ask what he's doing, for goodness sake! "I'm ZORRO, - this mask is brilliant granny, can I keep it?" I wish I could find the positives as easily as that. ??
 
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I tried out Newforest's look yesterday.

We had to go to the huge farm supply store.
My husband needed a few things and i needed some things as well as shavings and ration bslancer.
It was late afternoon very few people and its a huge place.
There is this ditzy annoying woman mask around her chin.. swaying to the Canned music in the store.
I would have loved to have said something but my husband he probably would have given me crap.. ohh just move..
I gave the best most nasty back off look
I could.
It worked quite well.
I really was ready to not keep my mouth shut if she ended up crowding us in line.
HER HUSBAND should have told her
Put the mask up.
People really are morons around your chin a nd neck IS NOT WEARING A MASK.
 
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It worries me going from house to house being back at work and I've got to eat at some point during the day as well. If I was my hands in someone's house how do I dry them, on a towel that might not have been washed for a week. If I use kitchen roll I've then got to handle the bin lid to put it in. Then as I come out the front door I've got to handle that. Then I sit in my car to eat lunch between work.
I tried wearing gloves but it's really impractical. Marigolds are too bulky if you've got to pick up glass ornaments to dust. The surgical gloves get trapped and pinch in the flexi part of the hoover wand so they just split. There too short if your washing showers so they fill with water. Both types of gloves in a hot house make my hands sweat and swell if I wear them for more than an hour. Now I'm doing more this week I've resorted to trying the hand sanitizer gel. Just keep reapplying. Knowing me though I'll end up with it reacting with my sensitive skin if I apply too frequently.
I'm really stressed as I really don't know what to do for the best. More people want me to come back to work. If I don't work I'm not sure how I will pay my bills. I've got elderly people who are desperate for the home help. So I risk passing it on if I've got it without knowing it.
 
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It worries me going from house to house being back at work and I've got to eat at some point during the day as well. If I was my hands in someone's house how do I dry them, on a towel that might not have been washed for a week. If I use kitchen roll I've then got to handle the bin lid to put it in. Then as I come out the front door I've got to handle that. Then I sit in my car to eat lunch between work.
I tried wearing gloves but it's really impractical. Marigolds are too bulky if you've got to pick up glass ornaments to dust. The surgical gloves get trapped and pinch in the flexi part of the hoover wand so they just split. There too short if your washing showers so they fill with water. Both types of gloves in a hot house make my hands sweat and swell if I wear them for more than an hour. Now I'm doing more this week I've resorted to trying the hand sanitizer gel. Just keep reapplying. Knowing me though I'll end up with it reacting with my sensitive skin if I apply too frequently.
I'm really stressed as I really don't know what to do for the best. More people want me to come back to work. If I don't work I'm not sure how I will pay my bills. I've got elderly people who are desperate for the home help. So I risk passing it on if I've got it without knowing it.
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That's a problem with drying your hands on a towel, like you say, you don't know when it was last washed etc etc. Do you have hand gel in the car that you can use before eating? I know gloves are impractical, for sure if you're handling ornaments etc. They can cause butter fingers and you don't want that! Can you just apply the hand gel when you're going to eat and when you need to touch your face or handle something you want keeping sterile? So as not to provoke your skin too much? Bear with me and I'll try and find a link - there's a hand gel available for really sensitive skin as I read about it on a beauty site I visit. I'll try and find it, you might be able to order it online?
If it was me, I'd maybe try and just keep a level of jobs you are comfortable with right now - rather than taking on more and getting even more stressed. I know you need to work and appreciate the bills etc but you're no good if you get so stressed it makes you ill. I don't know the ins and outs of it but is there any government assistance like working tax credits you can claim whilst you stay at a lower level with your jobs?
 
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@chunky monkey this is one of the hand gel's I read about, it sounds like it might be nice and gentle compared so some of the others, and you can buy it online.

Just another thing - are you using plenty of moisturising hand cream when you do get home? It's often a pain to keep applying but when you're at home and in a safe environment you should keep applying some. Even body moisturiser can double up - and often sinks in faster than heavy duty hand cream. Though I do like Palmers raw Shea butter, it's a lovely smell too.
 
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newforest said:
Nobody has told him he's allowed to go for a walk!
There could scarily be people who just get forgotten and left at home because nobody tells them!
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That has actually just made me cry newforest, poor old chap and yes, that is my fear too that some of those shielding will just be forgotten about. :confused:
I read the news article about masks in shops yesterday, there were comments at the bottom and it made me very down reading some of them, people were saying things like 'there are only a couple of million people for who this is a problem for, the rest of us are fine, why should we have to wear masks just because of a few people who are too fat and lazy and have made themselves ill' or I'm going to shop online from now on, I'll just take a shopping slot form those who are too scared to go into a shop, no way I'm being seen dead out in public in a face nappy!' or 'It's all because some babies are scared of a little virus'
I can't even type here what I wanted to reply to those people. :mad:
 
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Huggy said:
Walking round Tesco with 6 yr old grandson, both masked (1st time for him). He's tootling along behind me, and I'm hearing "swsssh, swssh, swssh" over and over. Eventually I'm getting irritable, and ask what he's doing, for goodness sake! "I'm ZORRO, - this mask is brilliant granny, can I keep it?" I wish I could find the positives as easily as that. ??
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Bless him, I actually think of myself as an Arabian princess lol, I remember as a little girl watching all those films where exotic arab princesses would belly dance and look all gorgeous with just their eyes showing above the veil, I dreamed I was one of those and now I can be (in my head at least!) :rolleyes:?
 
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Huggy said:
Walking round Tesco with 6 yr old grandson, both masked (1st time for him). He's tootling along behind me, and I'm hearing "swsssh, swssh, swssh" over and over. Eventually I'm getting irritable, and ask what he's doing, for goodness sake! "I'm ZORRO, - this mask is brilliant granny, can I keep it?" I wish I could find the positives as easily as that. ??
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Children under 11 are exempt from wearing them aren't they.
 
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chunky monkey said:
It worries me going from house to house being back at work and I've got to eat at some point during the day as well. If I was my hands in someone's house how do I dry them, on a towel that might not have been washed for a week. If I use kitchen roll I've then got to handle the bin lid to put it in. Then as I come out the front door I've got to handle that. Then I sit in my car to eat lunch between work.
I tried wearing gloves but it's really impractical. Marigolds are too bulky if you've got to pick up glass ornaments to dust. The surgical gloves get trapped and pinch in the flexi part of the hoover wand so they just split. There too short if your washing showers so they fill with water. Both types of gloves in a hot house make my hands sweat and swell if I wear them for more than an hour. Now I'm doing more this week I've resorted to trying the hand sanitizer gel. Just keep reapplying. Knowing me though I'll end up with it reacting with my sensitive skin if I apply too frequently.
I'm really stressed as I really don't know what to do for the best. More people want me to come back to work. If I don't work I'm not sure how I will pay my bills. I've got elderly people who are desperate for the home help. So I risk passing it on if I've got it without knowing it.
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Take your own towel. I have my own at the field. The only thing I am doing outside the house at the moment though is drink.
It was drummed into us so much in the beginning but to eat without having clean hands that I don't eat unless I am home.
That's not going to be doable long term.

Can you sanitize in your car, coming from someone who won't eat outside the house. I could listen to my own suggestion.
 
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