Unmasked?

It is reassuring that so many of the shops in our little seaside town have continued to request that customers wear masks and use the hand sanitiser strategically placed by the entrance. There are many people who feel that the relaxation of restrictions has come too soon in this country, particularly while there are many young people who still haven’t had 2 doses of vaccine. Yesterday I was being “girl Friday” in a local shop and noticed that the only customers to enter without masks were visitors from a county nearly a hundred miles away. They confidently strode around un-sanitised and maskless. Should I have challenged them? The risk of abuse or argument was too great – they might have spent money with us, could I turn them away? I decided not to, but kept my distance and my mask on and will do so for the foreseeable future. My feeling is that the government has been too cavalier in continuing the path to normality by attempting to create herd immunity by stealth.