I've been amused at various times during the pandemic when my observations intersect with national or even global news items. For example, I've recently noticed more nickels and dimes in my loose change after shopping at Haymarket, which aligns with stories about a national 'coin shortage'. There are also those stories about deodorant sales being down, a report that passes (by failing) my sniff test.
But suggestions that venturing into public without deodorant as a social distancing 'tactic' has the aroma of being too clever for its own good. Isn't losing the sense of smell one of the COVID-19 symptoms? It seems like this strategy would work around healthy folks but fail to prevent the infected from wandering into your vicinity; I'm open to other strategies, but in the meantime let's stick with the masks, reduced gathering sizes, and running blindly into the street to get around any unmasked idiot.
