Penalty Notice for not wearing a mask

[BazzaS]

I too struggled with “digital” : would it be better phrased as “binary”?

 

so ‘dead’ and ‘pregnant’ are binary.

you can be ‘almost dead’, but still not dead

you are either dead or alive.

(OK, in a cardiac arrest it can go either way, but you are in fact dead - it is just that, initially, it may be reversible)

 

For asthma, you either have asthma or you don’t, but there are varying degrees of severity, hence “not binary”. You can have “a touch of asthma” (so not needing regular inhalers even) or “life-threatening asthma” (regular inhalers, multiple ITU admissions .......)

 

Binary rather than digital?

[BazzaS]

1 hour ago, Ethel Street said:

Neither of us are qualified to judge OP's medical condition or degree of anxiety or determine whether OP's medical condition justifies not wearing a mask. 

 

It's not for us tp pass judgment on OP. 

but it is for the court to decide.

 

Else, the law would be pointless. No one would ever be successfully prosecuted if all anyone* need do to escape prosecution is say “I reasonably believed”.

 

So, the court has to decide if that belief was in fact reasonable.

 

* (I’m taking no position as to if the OP has / had reasonable belief : just highlighting that clearly the court CAN decide)