Interesting because I was in a Sainsbury's earlier and only about 60% of people were wearing masks.
I was in there just before the 4pm close time and it was satisfying to see some of the staff taking down the high perspex dividers between the self checkouts and the gangway to the aisles. The end of (un)-social distancing tomorrow is very much being prepared for! Last week they took down the hideous claustrophobic like wooden corridor leading to the self checkouts!
It's was interesting wandering around Manchester Piccadilly station today. One couple the woman still wore her mask while for some bizarre reason her husband wasn't but wearing a lanyard? Not sure that was all about. It was also notable that some of the staff in Sainsburys had ditched them. It feels like a deeply divisive issue - particularly by age group which is not good.
Personally speaking, I generally have not worn face covering on the morning service as it's 6 carriages and I usually have a whole carriage to myself. I have not worn it around the station concourse for a month or so as to me this is a large enough space that does not fit into the "enclosed setting". I think quite a few of the NR and TOC staff are of this opinion as well and don't wear them unless in enclosed spaces such as staff quarters. The only time I wear a mask is in the Sainsburys store (or other small units) out of respect to staff given you are always in close proximity to them constantly stacking shelves.
My personal view on masks is that if you can breathe wearing one and smell stuff then it probably isn't going to protect you from Covid as it's now well established transmits by tiny aerosols. I also agree with the view that people have been brainwashed, scaremongered, conditioned etc into wearing them without really questioning whether they are worthwhile or not. I think Sage even conceded last year that the science on the effectiveness of masks is profoundly unclear, but the visual link makes people more wary to social distance etc.