Beard Liberation Front
28th November
Media Release
Contact Keith Flett 07803 167266
Beard wearers should wear masks as social solidarity & ignore clean-shaven unmasked Tory MPs
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has renewed a call that it first made on 23rd July 2020 for the hirsute to wear masks as a matter of social solidarity.
The campaigners say they have been unimpressed but not surprised by Tory MPs excusing themselves from a requirement to wear masks in the Houses of Parliament. Its clear that the majority of MPs who won’t wear masks are clean shaven Tories
A specially commissioned poll found that 91% of respondents backed its guidance to the hirsute to continue wearing masks in appropriate contexts and settings.
The campaigners say that mask wearing has seen a rise in follicle health over the past year, as beards have been protected from the elements and accidental exposure to noxious substances.
They also say that mask wearing protects others, hirsute and clean shaven, from anything that the beard wearer themselves may transmit, via the occasional splutter, groan or cheer.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, it’s clear that beard wearers put the duty to protect themselves and others first against clean-shaven fools like Jacob Rees-Mogg and Boris Johnson and will continue mask wearing where appropriate
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