Originally Posted by skipness1E

It's very hard for some people. How hard can it be to understand THAT? A facemask also confers a false degree of confidence. Pre masks, social distancing was stronger, get too close, you'd be wary of infection. Post mandatory masking, people think it protects THEM. It absolutely does no such thing. It's to protect others from you breathing out droplets with COVID if you're infected. It cuts down transmitted droplets to others, it does NOT increase your protection from getting it. Masks are a placebo to give people some confidence to get back to life again, but they've been seized on as a way to effectively fight this. The initial advice that they made next to no difference was honest, any benefit is marginal.
As to being told to wear one mid sip, I mean FFS. Think about it, if you really and honestly do need to do that, why would you pay thousands of pounds to put yourself in that position at all? What % benefit is this achieving?