Masks

Wagstaff

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#5
I haven’t been to a hockey game since Covid arrived (due to many reasons not just Covid), and it worries me that personal choice is now the main decider.
In England you don’t have to wear a mask and you don’t have to self isolate if you have tested positive! So your personal choice is now not whether you wish to protect yourself but more now whether you wish to risk infecting others!
I don’t think I will be ready for large scale events for a while yet!
 
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Deleted member 1337

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#6
It's interesting how people high up in the organisation, including Todd, can walk around maskless without bring badgered to wear a yellow lanyard but he wants everyone else to wear one.

I don't see why people are so against personal choice. If you want to wear a mask go for it but your fear gives you no right to impose it on anyone else.

We know cloth masks and casual wearing of them does nothing to impact the spread of covid (or indeed anything else), but if it's like a comfort blanket for you you are welcome to continue wearing it.
 

Earnie

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#8
If you have an EN149 mask( not the usual handout) the filtration is so good you need not be too worried if the person next to does not have a mask at all.
 

Wagstaff

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#13
It's interesting how people high up in the organisation, including Todd, can walk around maskless without bring badgered to wear a yellow lanyard but he wants everyone else to wear one.

I don't see why people are so against personal choice. If you want to wear a mask go for it but your fear gives you no right to impose it on anyone else.

We know cloth masks and casual wearing of them does nothing to impact the spread of covid (or indeed anything else), but if it's like a comfort blanket for you you are welcome to continue wearing it.
My issue is that the mask is not designed to protect the wearer unless it is a specialist device, the standard blue masks and other 3 layered masks are there to prevent particles of spittle from being made airborne, hence protecting the people around the wearer if he/she is covid positive.
In England (I don’t know about Wales) you no longer have to self isolate if you know you are covid positive so combine that with personal choice, you can now choose to put others at risk, not choose to put yourself at risk.
I understand that we have to start to normalise and treat this as a normal infection at some point, but I’m personally not there yet. As I say there are other reasons aside of covid that have stopped me attending games, so sadly I may never feel I am able to return to the rink, even when covid is just a memory.
 

NathanG

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#14
Didn't wear one at Dundee or Glasgow recently. Didn't really really notice if anyone else was either, too busy watching the games
 

Pembo

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#16
I wear a mask for work, it’s no major hardship wearing one out especially if potentially protecting others. I’m amazed how the simple act of wearing a mask has become such a polarising politicised issue in the west, in a way it hasn’t in many non-western countries.
 

BostonBart22

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Thread starter #17
So are we mask free sundays game, just watched welsh open snooker from Newport and from what I seen about 10 wearing masks in around 300 or so fans there.
 

Kevlar68

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#19
See, now at this point in time we're going to continue to wear ours at arena and respect the individuals choice they make now they are allowed to choose BUT when it was mandatory to wear a mask in arena knowing it was law and people weren't I would lose my shit.
 

terry hunt

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#20
It's interesting how people high up in the organisation, including Todd, can walk around maskless without bring badgered to wear a yellow lanyard but he wants everyone else to wear one.

I don't see why people are so against personal choice. If you want to wear a mask go for it but your fear gives you no right to impose it on anyone else.

We know cloth masks and casual wearing of them does nothing to impact the spread of covid (or indeed anything else), but if it's like a comfort blanket for you you are welcome to continue wearing it.
You appear to be supporting folks who have tested positive to assert their right to infect others.
I hope this does not apply to your sexual activities.
 
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