When this Covid-19 pandemic started the message was stay at home and wash your hands. Weeks and months passed, we all spent a large portion of our lives on the couch. Keep social distancing and keep washing your hands and face, it wasn’t really that hard to follow. Then the message changed. Stay at home turned into stay responsible. We were let out of our homes and into the daylight. Cases had fallen to almost zero. However as inevitably as night follows day the number of new cases rose again. We were in a second wave.
There was no way we could be locked away in our houses again so the next best thing was the introduction of protective face masks. Again not a particularly difficult regulation to follow. It’s not like I am digging a trench in the middle of a muddy French field in World War 1. It became clear quite quickly that face masks would be the new norm. An accessory, like our wallets or car keys, that we couldn’t leave home without. And it isn’t only us. Pretty much the whole world is now shopping or riding public transport with a mask. Again this isn’t so tough to do.