Beard Liberation Front
21st January
Media Release
Contact Keith Flett 07803 167266
Beard wearers should continue to wear masks as social solidarity & ignore Johnson
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 Boris Johnson’s decision to drop a requirement to wear masks in England.
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 two years, 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 Boris Johnson and will continue mask wearing where appropriate
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