That is too much black and white. Now I enjoy the luxury, here in north Cornwall, of never having to use public transport (there isn't any that I could use), so maybe I'm a fine one to talk. I have used public transport, briefly, in London during the time when masks were voluntary. I didn't wear a mask. My view on masks is notoriously well-known on Mudcat (though I would never break the law and I always have a mask with me). I test myself at least three times a week. If I test myself negative on Monday morning, then go straight to Morrisons, I will have to wear a mask. I'm no danger to anyone and, as for me, I'm vaxxed up to the hilt. But I still have to wear a mask, because no-one who sees me knows all that. So if I don't wear a mask I'm, unjustifiably, not to be trusted. And I will wear one, cos that's the rules. But I'm doing it for no other good reason bar making other people feel comfortable. In my long life I've done lots of things that make people feel uncomfortable. I've been on demos and held up traffic, I've lain dead in the street to protest against nukes, I helped the Greenham women, I've organised pickets and I've threatened, as the union rep, my headteacher with industrial action. I had the music room closed in my school after finding blue asbestos in the ceiling, disrupting the school for a whole term. I don't mind making people feel uncomfortable. But I wear a mask not because I'm railing against authority if I don't. I'm wearing a mask to make individuals feel comfortable. I'm not protecting them from anything, and whether I'm not protecting myself is my bloody business. So roll on next Wednesday.