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Katie Strick

Covid restrictions might be lifting but London’s mask wars are more toxic than ever

Masks — are you still wearing one? I ask this question hesitantly, because I don’t fancy being cancelled and I certainly don’t want to have a repeat of the conversation I had with a friend on Saturday, when I called him up for not wearing his face covering on a late-night Northern line.

I say “called up”,  but it was meant as more of a nudge, really, assuming he’d absent-mindedly forgotten.  As if any  friend of mine would knowingly risk others’ health and break Tube safety guidelines?

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