Face coverings mandatory on public transport from June 15th

[Mango Chimes]

I echo the calls to know where you get the cool masks.

I thought the DIY option may be a goer, but to do the good ones you need a sewing machine, and the non-sewing ones are fucking shit and leave me a cunt with painful ears, a squashed nose and an increasingly heated lump fabric that needs adjusting every few seconds before it migrates around my overheating face. I admire Dex's makeshift ninja outfit, but I don't understand it and I worry for its temperature regulation.

I've seen some online that look well fitted, but then on closer inspection even on the model shots you've got the pressure of the straps causing ear origami.

[BlodwynPig]

my mum made a load of masks from silk napkins and I scoffed at her. She says I can't have one now if I indeed ever return to society.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Yes, but the difference is momentary exposure vs sustained exposure. I don't know entirely how contagion works in this context but it seems possible that if your mouth is closed and you're exhaling through your nose at the moment when droplets come near, that might be a better situation than continuous breathing through a contaminated cotton mask.

I've seen lots of mask-making tutorials that suggest inserting some sort of filter - even if it's only a coffee filter - into the mask, but the government's version doesn't include anything like that.

I don't think the filters would make a difference in that scenario, and cloth masks don't have them anyway.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Face masks are uncomfortable if you have facial hair but beyond that they are absolutely fine.

I wore mine to the shop, it rode up my face, eventually poking me in the eyes and my glasses slid down, so i could see fuck all.

yeah, FINE

[bgmnts]

They are absolutely fine if you're not a gimp*

[Sheffield Wednesday]

I got some from here: https://www.contrado.co.uk/custom-face-masks

4 for £20 and you can make your own design so I made one zoomed in on the multicoloured diggers hard at work banging out a hospital in Wuhan:



I also did an ironic bullet hell one from Akai Katana where you can use a temporary shield to repel the spray of bullets but they still gather round you like a lot of moisture droplets on a mask hahaha dodge THAT 🤣



I also did one of Guts' smile from Berserk:



And one that's just THE LOST BOYS logo.



If they're shit I let you know. Q

[Mango Chimes]

I got some from here: https://www.contrado.co.uk/custom-face-masks

Top of the model's ears folded down by the elastic. Engineering disaster.

[Sheffield Wednesday]

Oh for fucks sake what a waste of time designing them

I also got a shitload of N95 masks online from China back in January when I first heard about this tsunami of death so I might draw something funny on them

[Zetetic]

Welsh TAC stuff on masks:
https://gov.wales/sites/default/files/publications/2020-06/use-of-masks-in-the-context-of-covid-19.pdf

[Dex Sawash]

Here's your tshirt Cornholio mask explained

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/in-3-easy-steps-fold-a-t-shirt-into-a-face-mask-in-30-seconds-no-elastic-required-2020-04-23

Actually that one 8s shit, do this but gather up some folds over your nose before tying..

https://youtu.be/_W_xveAHp_g

[Sheffield Wednesday]

Welsh TAC stuff on masks:
https://gov.wales/sites/default/files/publications/2020-06/use-of-masks-in-the-context-of-covid-19.pdf

Cheers beast, that's really helpful to me albeit not yet policy, I appreciate.

[mippy]

I was on a bus today and was the only person wearing one, despite the posters.

I made a few and it turns out they fit really well unless you have a beard, which then bunches up and pokes out the bottom. MrMippy bought some 'snoods' that seem to work - basically little jersey fabric tubes.

[Sheffield Wednesday]

Zero enforcement, maybe 50% following this.

You couldn't vent it up.

[idunnosomename]

Remember when we were laughing at people with buckets on their heads

[Indomitable Spirit]

Everyone was wearing them on my bus except the driver.

[Butchers Blind]

Everyone was wearing them on my bus except the driver.

Hope you reported him and got him chucked off.

[Mango Chimes]

JOKE POLICE: Drivers are exempt from the regulations.

[PlanktonSideburns]

I tried doing this:


But getting the top to fit around my glasses was causing me issues. It'll work for people who aren't speccy twats though.

the fuck is this?

[Sheffield Wednesday]

The UK government advice for making a face covering.

[Billy]

Yeah, Jubilee line today was about 50% masked up - the others either no mask at all or it was just hanging over their neck covering nothing and therefore useless. 90% of the no mask lot were men, and given how common it is to see people just casually jumping/pushing through the ticket barriers here I'd presume they're the same lot who don't actually pay to board anyway.

This also happened back in 2008 when alcohol was "banned" from London Transport and everyone just carried on anyway, and - from what I've read - it took a massive devastating fire at Kings Cross in the 80's for everyone to actually take the No Smoking signs seriously, as it was fairly loosely enforced until then.

[Head Gardener]

ah good my new covid mask has arrived

[steveh]

As I was getting off the Overground this afternoon the police got on and were starting on warnings of the 20% who had no mask or weren't wearing one properly so there is some enforcement going on. Only about half the staff in the station seemed to be wearing one though...

[PlanktonSideburns]

The UK government advice for making a face covering.

im imagining some big lad with a diy mask and a belly poking out of his crop top t-shirt now

[Sheffield Wednesday]

Yeah, Jubilee line today was about 50% masked up - the others either no mask at all or it was just hanging over their neck covering nothing and therefore useless. 90% of the no mask lot were men, and given how common it is to see people just casually jumping/pushing through the ticket barriers here I'd presume they're the same lot who don't actually pay to board anyway.

This also happened back in 2008 when alcohol was "banned" from London Transport and everyone just carried on anyway, and - from what I've read - it took a massive devastating fire at Kings Cross in the 80's for everyone to actually take the No Smoking signs seriously, as it was fairly loosely enforced until then.

They should release mustard gas through the vents 🤣🤣🤣

[Cloud]

ah good my new covid mask has arrived

Jim Carrey has let himself go etc

[idunnosomename]

smmmmmmmmmmmmokin'

[H-O-W-L]

If anyone knows a good place to order masks please let me know. Would really love to have them for work when I return in July.

[Bronzy]

just got my new mask

[bgmnts]

Stupid idea.

[Head Gardener]

If anyone knows a good place to order masks please let me know. Would really love to have them for work when I return in July.

there was a bloke selling them at the car boot yesterday, they were not in bags or anything they were just stacked on a pasting table, I forgot to ask how much they were though. sorry