Editor

As a Ceredigion resident I would like to express my strong support for First Minister Mark Drakeford’s current position on the wearing of face masks.

As he points out, there is no firm evidence for the necessity of these things. Indeed the trajectory of the level of Covid-19 infections being now firmly on the way down indicates that the wearing of them in shops would have made no difference at all.

There are many of us who are determined to observe social distancing and hygiene/cleaning rules to the letter (as everyone should) but who firmly do not wish to be forced to wear these things.

I find face coverings both physically and psychologically unpleasant, and I will not wear one. I will be honest and say while I entirely respect other people’s right to wear them if it makes them feel safer, these objects are sometimes to be associated with a kind of “Covid-scolding” Virtue-signalling.

If Mr Drakeford enforces mask-wearing in shops, I am effectively disbarred from shops. Moreover, as a long-time Conservative supporter who voted for Boris Johnson’s government I would serve notice on the Tories that if I am ultimately criminalised for not wearing one of these unnecessary, dehumanising objects I shall emphatically never vote for their party again.

Damon Hammond

Aberystwyth