Quote Originally Posted by Andy_Faber View Post
Good summary Ram, that would be my observation based on a number of towns I've been out too, I'd extend it to Eastern European groups , I offered an anecdote on this way back and got Swaled for it. Back in Spain I would also add 'entitled expats', total in-denial prats, the type of folk that persuaded Mrs F and I to sell up.
Having returned from Spain not so long ago I have to say the difference in attitude to masks between there and England (Derbyshire anyway) was very marked.
We hear that the situation in Spain is at least as bad as here...and in the more densely populated areas it undeniably is...but where we were
the nearest town (pop. 18,500) had had just seven cases since last February and yet mask compliance was somewhere in the region of an estimated 95% in the streets and 100% in shops.
There was a big playground in the nearest village to where we were staying where children and parents were all ‘masked up’ and when we were out at an outdoor restaurant in the evening children continued to play out, on bikes etc, but again virtually all wore masks. Interestingly, we passed close to one secondary school where every pupil and every member of staff appeared to be 100% mask compliant.
Eventually ‘released’ from self isolation (nearly there mista!) I went out to my nearest Derbyshire town...100% mask compliance in shops but about 20% elsewhere and then you see the scenes in Nottingham the other night (which are likely to be replicated all over the country later this week) and wonder why.