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If you wore a mask in public in the UK before COVID, you would have got some very strange looks. They might have thought you were a criminal trying to hide your face. It seems fairly normal now though.

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It's worse than that, you'd probably had been harassed by the police, or just simply arrested.

Bullshit, while rare, more than a few people wore them in train stations or airports.

It was illegal in France to cover your face. They had to change the law.

Don't agree that that's the case at all if you wore a mask on a packed tube commute for example.

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