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The population of Hamilton (2019) is 763,000 (it's a relatively large city) - there have been 881 confirmed cases; 143 people hospitalised - and 45 deaths. Social distancing has been in place since March - stores etc., (other than groceries. LCBO and pharmacies) had limited opening and pick up (curbside) or delivery only. Grocery and similar stores limited the number of people admitted at one time, had social distancing one way system etc., in place. Face coverings / masks are now mandated (as of 10 days ago) to enter most enclosed spaces, with big fines for not wearing them.

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Wal-Mart next week will make masks mandatory in all their Canadian stores, majority of their stores are located where a mask mandate is in effect at the government level, so this really only affects stores located in areas where no mask mandate exist.

https://www.vicnews.com/news/face-ma...art-locations/

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this won't make Mr Piff happy. He'll have to carry his own mask for his pops into Walmart now.

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Giant Tiger had a good supply of masks when I dropped in a few days ago. Packs of 20 for $15.

But in the entrance they had a bar with loose ones dangling. $1 to go to the SPCA, just tell the cashier you picked one up.
Admirable.

Apart from the fact that someone unpacked them and then casually leaves them there uncovered for anyone to handle (or worse). It doesn't seem particularly hygienic.

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Karen is back at it.

https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreak...ask_at_planet/

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This one might have a case.

My first reaction was not needed if exercising outside, alone, but looking at a few governor mandate things they seem to allow an exemption for where strenuous activity may make breathing difficult and as long as social distancing can be maintained.

Unless she scared other members away, the distancing looked easy. But is it strenuous?

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Just about any service industry business will have a sign somewhere around the front desk saying they reserve the right to refuse service to anyone they choose. She can probably get a refund for her membership.

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I also couldn't escape the feeling that she was being sneaky when she asked him to remove his mask to understand what he was saying. :whistle:

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'You're cutting into my freedom of liberty' :rolleyes:

Her mouth got plenty of exercise anyway.

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Pretty interesting read

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavir...ction-12046715

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My friend Mary is giving masks out to all of her friends. I've given a few away so I guess my karma just arrived:
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...b082def8ea.jpg

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Is it 'scented'? ;)

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On the community facebook page for the area I live in last week, a rather earnest and well meaning (probably) lady was expounding on the benefits of using peppermint essential oil on your mask to assist with breathing and presumably make the world smell like foxes glacier mints. My assuming good intent take was that she was is trying to help people use masks (not yet mandated here but recommended), my cynical side is that she was shilling her essential oil guff to her neighbours and using a global pandemic to boost sales..

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My problem is dog hair, they all seem to attract dog hair.

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Spain, along with the UK and most countries in Europe is now experiencing a second wave.

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...4c2ddddb87.jpg

And some people have responded by protesting against the mandatory mask requirements! :rolleyes:

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...b206648c1a.jpg

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She's promoting classic plague doctor methods, isn't she?, stuffing the beak with herbs to filter nasties (and possibly the smell of corpses).

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I’m pretty sure the inside of my lungs are already coated in dog hair. Hopefully it provides some sort of filtering effect.

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Is there a bear on her product? ;)

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Because it's been a while since her last brazilian wax?

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:lol:
It sounds like you might not be aware of the mints.

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No....I made the Foxes Glacier Mint reference because,well, this is a British Expats forum...

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Masks mandatory in public places (so offices, shops, transit but not, oddly, schools) in Newfoundland from next Monday 24th,

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Yeah, very odd, because it seems that just about everywhere that schools have reopened, coronavirus cases, or other unwelcome news reports, have followed. :(

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The short time we were at Wal-Mart (their credit and debit machines were down so we didn't get past the main entrance) seems the anti-mask folks method to get into the store is to look down, and walk/run as fast as they can past the Wal-Mart employee at the door, could tell the employees were annoyed, but to the stores credit they are handing masks out at the door, so there is no excuse not to have one on, but seems the anti-mask folks will find a way into a store and not wear a mask.

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Which confirms my view that the anti-maskers are incredibly stupid, because surely the easiest way in would be to take a free mask, then take it off again as soon as you're in the store! :rolleyes: Or maybe even accepting a free mask is a sign of servitude to Bill Gates' Global Government New World Order? :rofl:

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Just went to Kamloops Walmart, credit and debit down so all the self serve checkouts out of action, only the few regular check outs open so they must have been taking cash only, lots of pissed off people absolute bedlam in there.I have noticed that since walmart made masks mandatory the parking lot has been alot less congested.

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Same at the West Kelowna Wal-Mart except they were telling everyone coming in cash only, so people were just leaving right away, not many carry cash these days.

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I honestly think that it will take some people 'years' to come around to the idea of wearing a mask to go shopping.

This compilation video of people freaking out over masks gave me a chuckle, and made me sad at the same time.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreak...together_lots/

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I never thought a pandemic and masks would be such a conspiracy driven thing. I do wonder if people were more cooperative in the Spanish Flu pandemic, or if behavior was the same or similiar, to what we are seeing.

While that reddit post is titled in America, I notice some Canadian anti-mask folks have made it, I see a Tim Hortons and a CIBC in the background in one clip, and what I think might be a street sign in Toronto in another.

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From, everything I've seen and heard the progress of the 1918-1921 flu pandemic was almost exactly the same, masks were recommended, some people wore them, some did not, and some people who refused claimed that their "rights" were being infringed and the restrictions and masks were some sort of attempt to suppress them. Early attempts to control the spread were successful, but then people thought is was over and were either bored with the restrictions, or rebelious, and so restrictions got relaxed/ ignored and there was a second wave. .... Exactly the same as is happening now in the UK and Europe, and a number of other countries. :nod;

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I suspected it was likely similiar, humans in many ways can be predictable.

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Winners, HomeSense and Marshalls will now require customers to wear masks following the parent companies policy in the US where masks have been required for several weeks now.

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Unfortunately that is true. :(

Among the many bizarre, ridicuous and stupid branches to the nonsensical conspiracy theory of covid-19 is that because it was predicted that a pandemic would occur (just not when), and the method of transmission was predictable, and that was because of medical science, epidemiology, and statistics (which conspiracy loons don't understand, and therefore entirely discount), those successful predictions are being used to conclude that the pandemic was "planned". "Predicted" is not the same as "planned"! :frown:

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My wife has some very religious friends, like super religious, and they all believe this is the start of the rapture, and literally preparing for it. I try not to laugh when I hear them on the phone with my wife. :rofl:

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That's because cash became the enemy and everywhere stopped taking it for fear of getting the virus from a bank note. Funny how a sudden problem with technical stuff creates so much grief when we are forced to go back to the old way of paying for services and of course just how welcome those "dirty notes" are all of a sudden!

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There is a coin shortage in the US, well I have seen signs asking for change and was told that was one of the reasons they like you to round up your payment with the balance going to a good cause.

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I can't remember the last time I paid cash for anything - it was some time ago, for sure. Obviously I paid cash for lotterty tickets, but haven't bought one of those in over a year. ..... I know I haven't paid cash for anything since before March, but before that .... ???

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In this case though, it seems the store was willing to accept cash. People walking away was probably not because they were unwilling to use cash, more that they didn't have the odd hundred or two hundred bucks on them.

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I would pay cash for something small, I know the fees they get charged.

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Yes Wal-Mart was quite happy to accept cash, of course most as you say likely lacked the cash they needed to pay for the purchase, Wal-Mart as far as I know never stopped accepting cash like some places did, seemed to be mostly small businesses that stopped accepting cash, but I noticed in Vancouver many of them went back to accepting cash.

I prefer cash and generally would use almost all cash, but stopped in March when places got all uppity over cash, but now seems most places are back to normal business wise, so may go back to cash.

Because we are on a limited budget, easier to deal with cash, pay bills, leave rent in account, withdraw the rest for daily necessities.

If we had been buying for ourselves, I would have just gone to the ATM and gotten cash, but it was shopping for instacart so that option wasn't available.


I think Wal-Mart may want to invest in big burly security guards to enforce the mask rule, the 70-80 something greeter well the anti-mask types don't listen, but maybe if there was a more opposing looking force at the door, they might.