bramblerose wrote: ↑Wed Sep 22, 2021 9:27 am
What I don't understand is why, when you don't have to wear a mask, do people insist on having one on their chin...just don't wear it or put it on properly!
I saw two women walk through Primark in Bath on Sunday with masks on their chin and wondered aloud what the point of that was.
I'm really noticing the mask wearing dropping in the past couple of weeks. Probably because I'd been out and about, travelling to the office, staying in hotels, etc in the earlier post-lockdown days when it was still mandatory.
I'm in a small lecture room today with about 50 students, for 90 mins. No one in masks, everyone happily sitting with just one tiny window open until I did some more, loads of coughing, students bunched right up next to each other exactly as pre pandemic. I'm in a mask and feeling quite anxious. So universities are no better than schools!
If your back's against the wall, turn around and write on it.
There's definitely been a reduction in mask wearing on transport in London the last couple of weeks. Since returning to my commute back in June, I have generally felt in the minority of mask wearers on my rail service (c2c), whereas on the underground (Jubilee/Central) the majority of fellow commuters wore masks. This morning I would estimate that only myself and a few others wore masks on the underground.
But then, during PMQs earlier, one half of the house (Conservative) were 99% mask-free with nearly all opposition party members wearing masks (and I note that the union for the staff working within the chamber are up in arms over the Speaker making a hoo-ha over returning MPs dress code but remaining shtum over mask-wearing).
Bedford Falls wrote: ↑Wed Sep 22, 2021 1:28 pm
But then, during PMQs earlier, one half of the house (Conservative) were 99% mask-free with nearly all opposition party members wearing masks (and I note that the union for the staff working within the chamber are up in arms over the Speaker making a hoo-ha over returning MPs dress code but remaining shtum over mask-wearing).
Kenickie wrote: ↑Wed Sep 22, 2021 9:46 am
I'm in a small lecture room today with about 50 students, for 90 mins. No one in masks, everyone happily sitting with just one tiny window open until I did some more, loads of coughing, students bunched right up next to each other exactly as pre pandemic. I'm in a mask and feeling quite anxious. So universities are no better than schools!
Can you ask your students to wear masks, or at least make it clear that that is what you would prefer?
"You first have to find out who you are. Then you have to be it like mad."
Bat Macdui wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 4:27 pm
So basically, Lily's person was probably within the guidance but perhaps not best practice.
Which is so infuriating because if it were mandatory she would've stayed away! The wooliness of the regulations, or lackthereof, is so intense you could knit a sheep with it.
"You first have to find out who you are. Then you have to be it like mad."
Kenickie wrote: ↑Wed Sep 22, 2021 9:46 am
I'm in a small lecture room today with about 50 students, for 90 mins. No one in masks, everyone happily sitting with just one tiny window open until I did some more, loads of coughing, students bunched right up next to each other exactly as pre pandemic. I'm in a mask and feeling quite anxious. So universities are no better than schools!
Can you ask your students to wear masks, or at least make it clear that that is what you would prefer?
I was observing so they weren't my students - with mine I'm not allowed to ask as it's not compulsory. I was more concerned for them than me as I was only there for one session - I can't imagine that it's not going to spread through programmes like wildfire when this is what we've got.
If your back's against the wall, turn around and write on it.
It went through universities like wildfire when there weren’t lectures and the pubs were closed so I can’t see how it won’t do likewise now. At my place lecturers can ask people to wear masks (they just can’t challenge exemptions) and there is a slide at the beginning of lectures asking students to wear face coverings. I’m not sure how closely it’s being followed though. I’ve seen plenty of people wandering around buildings without masks.
I’m really confused about what I’m supposed to be doing with a mask here, so I sympathize with the confusion you’ve all been dealing with. I’ve seen more mask elevating on the tube than I expected but definitely not 100%. But wearing them inside shops and bars is a really free for all, though most staff are wearing them. I’m trying to wear them anywhere inside that’s a communal space unless I’m eating/drinking something. Often that has meant that (except for public transport and staff), I’m the only one wearing one!
Chicky wrote: ↑Wed Sep 22, 2021 2:28 pm
It went through universities like wildfire when there weren’t lectures and the pubs were closed so I can’t see how it won’t do likewise now. At my place lecturers can ask people to wear masks (they just can’t challenge exemptions) and there is a slide at the beginning of lectures asking students to wear face coverings. I’m not sure how closely it’s being followed though. I’ve seen plenty of people wandering around buildings without masks.
We used to have that slide which has been removed, and it also used to be a screensaver and has now been replaced with a picture of a building. :woteva:
If your back's against the wall, turn around and write on it.
Luce wrote: ↑Wed Sep 22, 2021 3:12 pm
Hopefully vaccines are enough to for it not to go around like wildfire in Universities. Unlike schools which are totally riddled.
Very true. The vaccine bus was on campus today and whenever I walked past there were people getting jabbed, and lots more people saying they’d been jabbed when asked.
Kenickie wrote: ↑Wed Sep 22, 2021 9:46 am
I'm in a small lecture room today with about 50 students, for 90 mins. No one in masks, everyone happily sitting with just one tiny window open until I did some more, loads of coughing, students bunched right up next to each other exactly as pre pandemic. I'm in a mask and feeling quite anxious. So universities are no better than schools!
Can you ask your students to wear masks, or at least make it clear that that is what you would prefer?
One of my team sat in with Brass Neck recently and she did just that. Told in no uncertain terms, rather than asked. My colleague was in awe, but it caused some discussion as we've been told we can't intervene. There's a poster (singular) asking students to wear a mask, which no-one pays the slightest attention to.
This makes me very, very angry. It is your HEALTH, you are fully entitled to ask someone to do something to protect your health (and theirs). Universities disappoint me on a regular basis nowadays.
"You first have to find out who you are. Then you have to be it like mad."
Jesus Christ! How long before we are not allowed to ask men to wear condoms? I mean, that’s an entirely different topic/thread but NOT fucking ALLOWED to mention something so enormous and important?!
The real priority for politicians, sure.
