This is her first time wearing a face covering; her mother, who has health conditions and had been shielding, is a veteran. She too has been wearing a face covering throughout; Monday’s reusable mask had a daisy pattern - “one of my kids sent it”. In Donegal, she points out, “virtually everyone was wearing a mask” even before it was compulsory, whereas in a supermarket in Derry on Saturday she was one of only two people covering her face. “Last week, I’d put mask wearing at only about 10-20 per cent. For those returning shoppers, there is also a new habit to learn; that of peeling off their masks on the way out.

Source: The Irish Times August 10, 2020 21:11 UTC