I was sitting in my favourite cafe bar in Glastonbury at the weekend called "Excalibur" - yes, sword of truth, and fortunately the owner is very awake and switched on. I was having a healthy plant based organic lunch from the buffet and sitting watching people in the high street. It was great to see Glastonbury coming alive again - it had a bustling atmosphere with people in and out of the conscious shops - an ancient Bazaar kind of exchange.

I'd say about 20% were adorning masks as they went into the shops and so being intrigued, I'd paid attention to behaviours. These people would be going in and out of the shops, putting their face masks on and off. Which means that whatever bacteria they capture in the mask, they're constantly collecting on their faces and hands, which they then go on to smear across any surface or item they touch. And most importantly, no matter how often they clean their hands, and bacteria is now busy collecting in the facemask.

A couple walk out of the shop opposite, take their masks off to cross the road, then decide to come in for some lunch. Taking their masks out of their back pockets (I wonder how santised that is!), put them back on to come into the shop, thus smearing 'whatever' all over their hands again, before then going across to the buffet and now covering utensils with whatever bacteria they might be carrying around with them.

And so the mask is being probably about the best thing you could wear and carry, were you wanting to more effectively SPREAD the virus!

The utter insanity of it all.

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