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What's The Definition Of A Face-Mask/Covering?

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diddlydo | 15:32 Sun 26th Jul 2020 | ChatterBank
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Anything that covers your mouth and nose ,although its advisable to ensure you can breath through it. Its probably best not made of plastic!

This one is fun!

https://metro.co.uk/2020/07/24/mum-makes-joke-mask-baby-wipe-packet-openable-flap-drink-wine-13033029/
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Where does it say in any legislation that it has to cover your mouth and nose? Could I wear a cardboard mask that covers my whole face with slits for eyes and mouth? Could I just wear an eye mask with slits in so I could still see?
//1. What is a face covering?
In the context of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, a face covering is something which safely covers the nose and mouth. You can buy reusable or single-use face coverings. You may also use a scarf, bandana, religious garment or hand-made cloth covering but these must securely fit round the side of the face.

Face coverings are not classified as PPE (personal protective equipment) which is used in a limited number of settings to protect wearers against hazards and risks, such as surgical masks or respirators used in medical and industrial settings.

Face coverings are instead largely intended to protect others, not the wearer, against the spread of infection because they cover the nose and mouth, which are the main confirmed sources of transmission of virus that causes coronavirus infection (COVID-19).

If you wish to find out more about the differences between surgical face masks, PPE face masks, and face coverings see the MHRA’s (Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency) regulatory status of equipment being used to help prevent coronavirus (COVID-19).//

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/face-coverings-when-to-wear-one-and-how-to-make-your-own/face-coverings-when-to-wear-one-and-how-to-make-your-own#when-you-do-not-need-to-wear-a-face-covering
Definition - a muzzle for humans ! Every article I read says less people on public transport, now less in supermarkets, which I witnessed myself last Friday. People just don't want to, or can't wear them - a stupid ruling Boris !
Tha can wear a bucket or go commando as far as I'm concerned.
Diddly, you know full well what constitutes a facemask. Quite frankly, you're being argumentative for the sake of political point scoring. Kind of pathetic really, and I'm not even a Tory.
Why the heck folk are getting angsty is anyone's guess - wear one or don't for crying out loud.
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No political point-scoring here by me. I just want to know what I can get away with within the law as my sole experience of shopping with a face-covering was more than unpleasant. It's not even as if they have any proven benefit.
The OP is being childish for the sake of it....and I don't know why anyone bothers to even reply.
I've got a range, including a Darth Vader one.
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I assume therefore that gingerbee just loves going shopping incognito and unable to breathe easily.
It'll hasten the death of the already beleaguered High Street - or am I bring 'angsty' again ??
Reg 2(1) of The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings in a Relevant Place) (England) Regulations 2020 states,
'In these Regulations—
“face covering” means a covering of any type which covers a person’s nose and mouth;'
I wore a face covering in Waitrose this morning (as did everyone else I saw) with no problems at all.
If people don't want to wear one, they will find excuses to justify their reluctance. I really don't care.
The definition of a mask can mean a lot of things so I can see where the confusion lies - as a rule of thumb for Covid think less "Zorro" and more "The Durango Kid".
please dont do this to me !
this is like the daily brexit fred - day after day
five or six sometimes - arn and arn the carousel goes

Mrs Scruntie writes - sometimes when I go out - I dont breeve - does that mean I dont have to wear a mask? I lie in bed at night and wonder if a) I will be murdered or b) be taken orf to a concentration camp
c) sumfing else

Mrs Bronte writes ( from Haworth - where dat den?) - yes wivvart a doubt ( she writes in N Lancs dialect). Unless you cough blood which we all seem to do up here in Keefly- the atmosphere I think. Or Mr Bronte's peep.

and Ellen Nussey writes - o lardy lardy - I just tend to the familys needs I do - what a day. Here we are - in whenever - no internet. Mr Bronte's parishioners seem to be brain dead as usual and that is on a good day - - - up down up down - church every day. Ot doesnt seem to do any good you know

and then the journal mysteriously ends .....
covered in droed blood
Thanks PP you just made my day!
I went shopping for several hours yesterday to M&S to pick something up for someone, then to Argos, a post office and then to a supermarket. Everyone seemed to be wearing a mask in the shops - the only exception was a man who went to pay in the kiosk at the supermarket petrol station. There was nobody arguing with staff or questioning the denial of civil liberties, no-one appearing confused, no-one saying they couldn't breathe, no-one saying this was really just like the flu, no-one demanding to know why this wasn't made compulsory ages ago. I'm sure some like me are not convinced at the scientific case for masks or dubious that people are always using them hygienically them, but they all just got on with life. Hopefully we'll soon find the incidence of covid drops to a level here things will be relaxed again
I'm just glad that they don't change colour when 'protection' stops.
Had a good few miles out of my 'disposable' one so far.

Bliddy farce.

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