Shoppers seem ignorant of rules on mask-wearing

So, while we’re heading for another peak in the coronavirus pandemic, the government seems not to know exactly what to do about it.

Here in Ashford, we’ve got quite a number of people - mainly young, mainly male - who seem to have got the whole thing sewn up.

Last Saturday, as I walked through

County Square to do a little food shopping in the town centre, people were shopping unmasked. It’s possible, of course, that they might all have had the kinds of health problems that make naked faces allowable. I doubt it.

It occurred to me that, either they have no elderly relatives or, perhaps, they hope to kill off granny and grandad in hopes of inheriting the family silver.

Either way, it seems impossible that so many people are ignorant of the fact that masks are mandatory in shops and County Square. I can’t believe, either, that they haven’t heard that the purpose of the face mask is to keep other people as safe as possible.

This suggests that our bold young heroes feel themselves to be impervious to infection and don’t give a tuppeny piece for their fellow citizens.

If there’s one thing that gives the impression of normal life returning to Ashford, it is the sight of our very own Big Issue sales-lady, Marcella, standing patiently at her post outside County Square. It must have been pretty hard on her during the height of the lockdown.

‘Perhaps they hope to kill off granny and grandad in hopes of inheriting the family silver’

A matter of minutes after reading an article on the problems food banks are having keeping disadvantaged people fed, I came across a piece online about a fool who had taken some sort of silly challenge concerning the eating of an obscenely large ‘breakfast’.

What would happen to the leftover sausages, beans, chips and who knows what else? It would be binned, of course.

Had our intrepid glutton consumed the lot without throwing up, he would not have been charged for his adventure. I leave you to make your own judgement.