Refused entry into Tesco’s...............

[FLYING BANANA]

............................ as I was wearing a visor and not a mask. Tesco’s policy is no mask, no entry. This was at the Tesco’s superstore in Lee Mill Devon. I explained to the security chap that I favoured the visor over the mask. He wanted me to show him proof that I was medically exempt from wearing a mask. It is just personal choice that I wear a visor as I find wearing a mask for a long time makes me feel too hot to concentrate.

But I always carry a mask with me, plus spares in the car. So if I wanted to shop I would have to put the mask on. I said to the security chap what would stop me swapping the mask and visor over once I was in the shop. He explained that if I was caught doing that then I would be escorted from the store and I would be banned from shopping at Tesco’s for life.

The security chap then went on to explain that the visors have been proven that they do not stop the spread of the virus. I wasn’t going to ask him to show me proof of this. So I donned my mask, and the security chap said it would be best that took my visor back to the car to stop any temptation to wear it. So off to the car I went and put the visor in the boot. Then back into the shop with my mask on and past the security chap who never gave me a second glance.

Inside the store I noticed that some of the staff had visors on plus masks. There was a couple of people with no masks or visors on, I presume they had proof of medical exemption to be able to wander round.