Outside the supermarket near my house, there’s an ATM- or a cash machine- in a little building. And close to this, there’s the supermarket’s smoking area. As the name would suggest, It’s just a small area behind a fence where people can indulge in their nicotine fix. Why they can’t even go to a supermarket without needing to have a cigarette is beyond me, but that’s another story.
Anyway, today I was waiting to use the ATM, and idly watching the smoking area. In the five or so minutes I was there, every single person who finished their cigarette immediately put a mask on.
Don’t they realize that given that they’ve just been smoking, using a mask is probably a case of too little, too late?