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NewsColony Online fashion retailers blasted for selling ‘cornavirus’ face masks An online fashion retailer in the UK has  been blasted for selling slogan-heavy COVID-19 face masks. Outlets such as boohoo.com and Etsy have been offering cheap face masks with slogans such ‘eat, sleep, isolate, repeat’ and ‘if you can read this you’re too close’. The Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW) in the UK said that he sale of these face masks, that offer no protection from the virus, are “scandalous”. Boohoo has apologised and removed the masks from sale. It insisted they were not designed for “protection”. USDAW’s general secretary Paddy Lillis said also told the BBC that “selling fashion clothing is not essential in a period of national emergency, but selling items that look like essential equipment is downright scandalous.” Boohoo admitted an error over the masks. A spokeswoman said that the fashion mask was “not suitable or designed to be used as pro...