austin repro at BEAULIEU

[Hedd_Jones]

…But so is venturing out in a 90 year old car with poor brakes, poor lights, poor crash protection and an engine mostly not capable of exceeding 45mph…
You decide what and how much risk you want to take, for yourself and others you might affect by your actions.

LOL, I got 50 out of my 93 year old car this morning on my way into the office I'll have you know.... the propshaft vibrates if I go faster.

As for the rest of it, indeed. The face covering thing is very much seen as 'best practice', and I more than implied it in my first post. Their benefit is as described above and this benefit is very much derived from what can be best described as balance of probabilities. There is very little full scientific data available one way or another. The fact that 90% of the world has recommended them for this purpose suggests some broad agreement from both the scientists and politicians, worldwide.

There is plenty of evidence however that wearing what amonts to a bit of rag, or perhaps a B&Q dustmask over the mornings stubble isnt very good as Personal Protection. And anyone suggesting otherwise really needs to read up on the facts. Though I don't generally do anectotes (well other than the speed bit above), when I wore a simple B&Q dustmask to clean the firebox of my steam roller, my snot went black. Once I upgraded to the B&Q FFP3 jobby, even with out the face fit test, it didnt go black at all. Marvellous. Real life evidence of science.