Face Coverings on Buses
Face Coverings on Buses
Today was the first time since face coverings were no longer a legal requirement that I have been out and about on buses.
I was quite surprised to find that on the several journeys I was on, each time the majority of passengers on the bus were not wearing a mask or face covering. It was surprising given the push from GNE to still wear one even if it's not law.
I was just wondering what other people's experiences have been when travelling on buses since face coverings become not mandatory. Is it now the norm for the majority of passengers to not bother with it?
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(07 Sep 2021, 6:08 pm)big mac Today was the first time since face coverings were no longer a legal requirement that I have been out and about on buses.
I was quite surprised to find that on the several journeys I was on, each time the majority of passengers on the bus were not wearing a mask or face covering. It was surprising given the push from GNE to still wear one even if it's not law.
I was just wondering what other people's experiences have been when travelling on buses since face coverings become not mandatory. Is it now the norm for the majority of passengers to not bother with it?
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(07 Sep 2021, 6:08 pm)big mac Today was the first time since face coverings were no longer a legal requirement that I have been out and about on buses.
I was quite surprised to find that on the several journeys I was on, each time the majority of passengers on the bus were not wearing a mask or face covering. It was surprising given the push from GNE to still wear one even if it's not law.
I was just wondering what other people's experiences have been when travelling on buses since face coverings become not mandatory. Is it now the norm for the majority of passengers to not bother with it?
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(07 Sep 2021, 6:08 pm)big mac I was just wondering what other people's experiences have been when travelling on buses since face coverings become not mandatory. Is it now the norm for the majority of passengers to not bother with it?
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(07 Sep 2021, 6:08 pm)big mac I was just wondering what other people's experiences have been when travelling on buses since face coverings become not mandatory. Is it now the norm for the majority of passengers to not bother with it?
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I’ve only used the bus to get to and from the match and absolutely nobody has been wearing one though this is the casual crowd as opposed to regular users.
It was about unnerving at first but I’m stood in a pub with a few hundred people with no mask
(07 Sep 2021, 8:52 pm)Ambassador I’ve only used the bus to get to and from the match and absolutely nobody has been wearing one though this is the casual crowd as opposed to regular users.
It was about unnerving at first but I’m stood in a pub with a few hundred people with no mask
(07 Sep 2021, 8:52 pm)Ambassador I’ve only used the bus to get to and from the match and absolutely nobody has been wearing one though this is the casual crowd as opposed to regular users.
It was about unnerving at first but I’m stood in a pub with a few hundred people with no mask
(07 Sep 2021, 9:09 pm)Dan I’m with you. Whilst unnerving at first, I find mask compliance is vastly reduced everywhere now (shops, bars, restaurants) and arguably is becoming the norm not to wear one again. It was always going to happen when it became optional (or recommended) and not mandatory.Even though in general mask compliance has definitely massively reduced, I still was genuinely taken aback by the sheer extent that it had reduced on buses, given that public transport is often mentioned as one of the main areas where it still should be done.
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(07 Sep 2021, 9:09 pm)Dan I’m with you. Whilst unnerving at first, I find mask compliance is vastly reduced everywhere now (shops, bars, restaurants) and arguably is becoming the norm not to wear one again. It was always going to happen when it became optional (or recommended) and not mandatory.Even though in general mask compliance has definitely massively reduced, I still was genuinely taken aback by the sheer extent that it had reduced on buses, given that public transport is often mentioned as one of the main areas where it still should be done.
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(07 Sep 2021, 9:23 pm)big mac Even though in general mask compliance has definitely massively reduced, I still was genuinely taken aback by the sheer extent that it had reduced on buses, given that public transport is often mentioned as one of the main areas where it still should be done.
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(07 Sep 2021, 9:23 pm)big mac Even though in general mask compliance has definitely massively reduced, I still was genuinely taken aback by the sheer extent that it had reduced on buses, given that public transport is often mentioned as one of the main areas where it still should be done.
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Most people when I've been out aren't bothering now. I only do if people start to board the bus or I cannot keep away from others, e.g. by sitting upstairs, but the majority of buses I use haven't been that busy. I have to admit, it doesn't annoy me as it once did, and certainly vaccination has give me more peace of mind. Along with regular lateral flow testing through work.
Aside from buses, I don't bother at all in supermarkets and shops now, mainly because I can still keep a good distance away from everyone else. I was for the first few weeks of it being optional, but I find more and more people aren't now. The supermarket messaging especially has been very much 'for the protection of our staff', but when the vast majority aren't reciprocating the arrangement, you can see why the customers aren't bothering.
The UK case data over the next week or two will be interesting. Although it feels its rarely mentioned now, we've still gone up over 10k on the 7 day case average during August, and that is with one of the major factors being absent - education.
We're probably too far down the road of pissing into the wind to change now though.
(07 Sep 2021, 9:53 pm)Adrian Most people when I've been out aren't bothering now. I only do if people start to board the bus or I cannot keep away from others, e.g. by sitting upstairs, but the majority of buses I use haven't been that busy. I have to admit, it doesn't annoy me as it once did, and certainly vaccination has give me more peace of mind. Along with regular lateral flow testing through work.
Aside from buses, I don't bother at all in supermarkets and shops now, mainly because I can still keep a good distance away from everyone else. I was for the first few weeks of it being optional, but I find more and more people aren't now. The supermarket messaging especially has been very much 'for the protection of our staff', but when the vast majority aren't reciprocating the arrangement, you can see why the customers aren't bothering.
The UK case data over the next week or two will be interesting. Although it feels its rarely mentioned now, we've still gone up over 10k on the 7 day case average during August, and that is with one of the major factors being absent - education.
We're probably too far down the road of pissing into the wind to change now though.
(07 Sep 2021, 9:53 pm)Adrian Most people when I've been out aren't bothering now. I only do if people start to board the bus or I cannot keep away from others, e.g. by sitting upstairs, but the majority of buses I use haven't been that busy. I have to admit, it doesn't annoy me as it once did, and certainly vaccination has give me more peace of mind. Along with regular lateral flow testing through work.
Aside from buses, I don't bother at all in supermarkets and shops now, mainly because I can still keep a good distance away from everyone else. I was for the first few weeks of it being optional, but I find more and more people aren't now. The supermarket messaging especially has been very much 'for the protection of our staff', but when the vast majority aren't reciprocating the arrangement, you can see why the customers aren't bothering.
The UK case data over the next week or two will be interesting. Although it feels its rarely mentioned now, we've still gone up over 10k on the 7 day case average during August, and that is with one of the major factors being absent - education.
We're probably too far down the road of pissing into the wind to change now though.
(07 Sep 2021, 10:39 pm)streetdeckfan I think it's due to the fact that the link between cases, hospitalisations and deaths is nowhere near what it once was. If an extra 10k deaths results in an extra 10 deaths a day (insert the obligatory every death is sad statement here), is it really worth bashing on about it?
At the end of the day, lockdowns were only there to 'protect the NHS'. And, assuming things scale linearly, even if we double the number of cases, we would only be at half the number of hospitalisations that there were in December/January (obviously there would be other implications with double the number of cases, like increased risk of spreading etc.)
It's going to be interesting to see the data coming in from Scotland with regards to the link between cases, hospitalisations, and deaths following the return to school.
Obviously with the re-introduction of mass testing there is going to be an uptick in positive results, but seeing how that translates into higher hospitalisations will be interesting considering it looks like (to my untrained eye) the cases started to increase around a week before the schools went back, with both cases and hospitalisations increasing on the same date (13th August). In the past there has usually been a delay between the two. It's been a good few weeks and deaths have yet to really increase by any significant margin, but obviously analysing this kind of data isn't my speciality (and I've had a glass or few of Lidl's finest)
(07 Sep 2021, 10:39 pm)streetdeckfan I think it's due to the fact that the link between cases, hospitalisations and deaths is nowhere near what it once was. If an extra 10k deaths results in an extra 10 deaths a day (insert the obligatory every death is sad statement here), is it really worth bashing on about it?
At the end of the day, lockdowns were only there to 'protect the NHS'. And, assuming things scale linearly, even if we double the number of cases, we would only be at half the number of hospitalisations that there were in December/January (obviously there would be other implications with double the number of cases, like increased risk of spreading etc.)
It's going to be interesting to see the data coming in from Scotland with regards to the link between cases, hospitalisations, and deaths following the return to school.
Obviously with the re-introduction of mass testing there is going to be an uptick in positive results, but seeing how that translates into higher hospitalisations will be interesting considering it looks like (to my untrained eye) the cases started to increase around a week before the schools went back, with both cases and hospitalisations increasing on the same date (13th August). In the past there has usually been a delay between the two. It's been a good few weeks and deaths have yet to really increase by any significant margin, but obviously analysing this kind of data isn't my speciality (and I've had a glass or few of Lidl's finest)
(07 Sep 2021, 10:39 pm)streetdeckfan I think it's due to the fact that the link between cases, hospitalisations and deaths is nowhere near what it once was. If an extra 10k deaths results in an extra 10 deaths a day (insert the obligatory every death is sad statement here), is it really worth bashing on about it?In my personal opinion I don't think the majority of people are making their decision based on that level of detail. They're not looking in to it that deeply. I reckon it's simply a case of "if I don't have to, I'm not going to". Of course, everyone is different but I do think it's as simple as that in a lot of cases.
At the end of the day, lockdowns were only there to 'protect the NHS'. And, assuming things scale linearly, even if we double the number of cases, we would only be at half the number of hospitalisations that there were in December/January (obviously there would be other implications with double the number of cases, like increased risk of spreading etc.)
It's going to be interesting to see the data coming in from Scotland with regards to the link between cases, hospitalisations, and deaths following the return to school.
Obviously with the re-introduction of mass testing there is going to be an uptick in positive results, but seeing how that translates into higher hospitalisations will be interesting considering it looks like (to my untrained eye) the cases started to increase around a week before the schools went back, with both cases and hospitalisations increasing on the same date (13th August). In the past there has usually been a delay between the two. It's been a good few weeks and deaths have yet to really increase by any significant margin, but obviously analysing this kind of data isn't my speciality (and I've had a glass or few of Lidl's finest)
(07 Sep 2021, 10:39 pm)streetdeckfan I think it's due to the fact that the link between cases, hospitalisations and deaths is nowhere near what it once was. If an extra 10k deaths results in an extra 10 deaths a day (insert the obligatory every death is sad statement here), is it really worth bashing on about it?In my personal opinion I don't think the majority of people are making their decision based on that level of detail. They're not looking in to it that deeply. I reckon it's simply a case of "if I don't have to, I'm not going to". Of course, everyone is different but I do think it's as simple as that in a lot of cases.
At the end of the day, lockdowns were only there to 'protect the NHS'. And, assuming things scale linearly, even if we double the number of cases, we would only be at half the number of hospitalisations that there were in December/January (obviously there would be other implications with double the number of cases, like increased risk of spreading etc.)
It's going to be interesting to see the data coming in from Scotland with regards to the link between cases, hospitalisations, and deaths following the return to school.
Obviously with the re-introduction of mass testing there is going to be an uptick in positive results, but seeing how that translates into higher hospitalisations will be interesting considering it looks like (to my untrained eye) the cases started to increase around a week before the schools went back, with both cases and hospitalisations increasing on the same date (13th August). In the past there has usually been a delay between the two. It's been a good few weeks and deaths have yet to really increase by any significant margin, but obviously analysing this kind of data isn't my speciality (and I've had a glass or few of Lidl's finest)
(08 Sep 2021, 8:47 am)big mac In my personal opinion I don't think the majority of people are making their decision based on that level of detail. They're not looking in to it that deeply. I reckon it's simply a case of "if I don't have to, I'm not going to". Of course, everyone is different but I do think it's as simple as that in a lot of cases.Oh, I totally agree with you there!
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(08 Sep 2021, 8:47 am)big mac In my personal opinion I don't think the majority of people are making their decision based on that level of detail. They're not looking in to it that deeply. I reckon it's simply a case of "if I don't have to, I'm not going to". Of course, everyone is different but I do think it's as simple as that in a lot of cases.Oh, I totally agree with you there!
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(07 Sep 2021, 6:08 pm)big mac Today was the first time since face coverings were no longer a legal requirement that I have been out and about on buses.I still normally wear one,but i didnt today as i was really struggling with the heat
I was quite surprised to find that on the several journeys I was on, each time the majority of passengers on the bus were not wearing a mask or face covering. It was surprising given the push from GNE to still wear one even if it's not law.
I was just wondering what other people's experiences have been when travelling on buses since face coverings become not mandatory. Is it now the norm for the majority of passengers to not bother with it?
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(07 Sep 2021, 6:08 pm)big mac Today was the first time since face coverings were no longer a legal requirement that I have been out and about on buses.I still normally wear one,but i didnt today as i was really struggling with the heat
I was quite surprised to find that on the several journeys I was on, each time the majority of passengers on the bus were not wearing a mask or face covering. It was surprising given the push from GNE to still wear one even if it's not law.
I was just wondering what other people's experiences have been when travelling on buses since face coverings become not mandatory. Is it now the norm for the majority of passengers to not bother with it?
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(08 Sep 2021, 4:05 pm)V514DFT I still normally wear one,but i didnt today as i was really struggling with the heatI have more issues with humidity than heat. If it's even slightly humid I can barely breathe without a mask nevermind with one!
(08 Sep 2021, 4:05 pm)V514DFT I still normally wear one,but i didnt today as i was really struggling with the heatI have more issues with humidity than heat. If it's even slightly humid I can barely breathe without a mask nevermind with one!
Frankly I couldn't care less about anti maskers, they deserve all that's coming, They are usually members of the 52% anyway, so no loss.
(08 Sep 2021, 7:33 pm)54APhotography Frankly I couldn't care less about anti maskers, they deserve all that's coming, They are usually members of the 52% anyway, so no loss.
(08 Sep 2021, 7:33 pm)54APhotography Frankly I couldn't care less about anti maskers, they deserve all that's coming, They are usually members of the 52% anyway, so no loss.