I don't understand how they put everyone at risk by making masks not mandatory, to avoid being prejudice against people with hidden disabilities. This merely restricts that prejudice to those of us who are now too afraid to go out BECAUSE people aren't wearing masks. Out of sight, out of mind I guess, we don't matter.
IMO If you can't wear a mask during a pandemic, you have no business being out, you're putting yourself and others at risk. I realise there is a problem with children and people with severe Autism, but those are exactly the ones likely to touch everything too so shouldn't the advice be to not take them into the shops if at all avoidable anyway? Rather than making an exception for those at risk of being silent spreaders.
My mask played havoc with my asthma the first time I wore it, but COVID would be far far worse so it would be insanely stupid to not wear it.
Even a lot of people wearing them don't seem to know how to take them off and put them on properly, and do so far more often than necessary. I've been to the GP and back and the hospital and back, both occasions I wore my mask from leaving the house to coming back, no reason to take it off at any point.