I’m glad. I’m also pretty much back to normal. You have also misinterpreted what I mean as ‘normal’.
As I said, you made some comments which were - understandably - causing alarm. There are some people who really do not want normality to return and many of us are keen to push back against that.
It’s your dismissal of mask wearers as ‘virtue signallers’ I have a problem with. As if you think people are only wearing them as some sort of boast to others.
That's exactly what those who push mask wearing are doing. Those who are behind the drive to either mandate, shame, or encourage others to wear masks and who go round taking photos of themselves wearing masks to prove a point, and going on about how they are "protecting others" are quite frankly a disgrace.
In most settings I do not see many people wearing masks and it is clear that where there are higher numbers wearing masks, it's because many of those wearing masks have either been mislead by those who campaign for mask wearing or who do not want to stand out from others and/or be acting against instructions issued by the organisation whose premises they are visiting and/or acting against the strong messaging of the pro-mask campaigners.
Slowly but surely, as more and more people gain the confidence to ignore the diktat, more people will follow their lead and discard their masks.
For a few people yes but it will not be normalised.
Again, how do you know? I feel some will continue wearing them when they are ill. However I don’t know that for sure, and neither do you.
Because the number of people who feel compelled to wear masks is dropping constantly, entering settings such as pubs you hardly see anyone wearing a mask, and who can forget the scenes many months ago from the Isle of Man where people went maskless while we were experiencing heavy restrictions and people were saying how great it was to get back to normal.
Here in this country we are infested with virtue signallers who are desperately trying to normalise masks and to try to instill a sense of shame/wrongdoing on those who don't wear them and that is holding a significant chunk of people back from discarding their masks in certain settings. As soon as you get those people into a pub type setting they are happy to discard their masks. But not everyone likes being told they are making people "unsafe" by appallingly behaved authoritarian train Guards on virtue signalling TOCs like LNER.
It also seems to me you are unwilling to see other people’s point of view.
It also seems to me you are unwilling to see other people’s point of view.
Many of the very strong views I’m reading on this thread are not what I’ve been hearing in real life from most people.
Perhaps that is due to where you live or what settings you frequent. The strong views displayed by yourself and other pro-maskers are not consistent with what I'm seeing/hearing.
Well some posters on here are saying they wish they didn’t have the vaccine because things haven’t returned back to ‘normal’. I can understand the frustrations, but the vaccine has saved lives which is more important. It seems a bit silly to wish they didn’t have it. Things are returning back to normal.
I'm glad you now admit things are returning to normal however some people/organisations are still desperately trying to continue the charade.
I can understand those frustrations, but we are seeing less of those announcements and signs now, and some demands have turned to advisory messages rather than demands. I accept some organisations have gone way over the top.
And this going over the top is creating a backlash. It makes me more determined to expose the scam of mask wearing.
If the pro-maskers want to end this culture war (for that is what it has become) they need to accept that those who want additional protection are in the minority; those who actually want protection against viruses would need to wear FFP3 (or similar) masks to be effective and they need to accept that all organisations should either be silent on the matter of masks or, if they must put out messaging, it must be suitable to all e.g. "It is your choice to wear a mask or not; please respect each person's choice" or similar neutral wording. Until this is done, the culture war will continue.
Fair enough. But I don’t feel it is a healthy debate when people reply with assumptions and sarcastic remarks.
Sadly those who push for mask wearing make all sorts of invalid assumptions and the remarks they make can be highly inappropriate. I'm fed up of train Guards spouting misleading rubbish through PA systems.
Again, fair enough. At that point I was trying to explain what I meant by ‘normal’.
With mask wearing, time will tell what happens.
It's already happening, but certain settings such as shops and some trains are slow to adapt. Get yourself into a pub and you will see what people really think of masks.