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Why no mask? ‘Checking WhatsApp’, says smart aleck in Kolkata

Men and women continue to defy the mask mandate with their own excuses for doing so. The Telegraph spoke to some of them

Jhinuk Mazumdar And Gautam Bose Published 21.01.22, 11:55 AM

Opposite Acropolis Mall, two women were walking down a busy footpath, both without a mask. When asked, one of them responded. “We have masks with us.” But the two kept walking without caring to wear one.

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A woman was walking along the Rashbehari connector without a mask. “Oh! I was checking WhatsApp and the mask just slipped,” she said and walked on.

A man and a woman were waiting at a bus stop on Rajdanga Main Road. The woman was without a mask.
“I have it in my bag. I will wear it,” the woman said.

A man at College Street was wearing a mask but it was not covering his mouth and nose. “I always wear a mask,” he said as he tried to hail cabs.

Three women were walking from Birla planetarium towards the Victoria Memorial. One of them had a mask on her chin. “I have it. I was talking and so it might have slipped,” she said and pulled up the mask.

A woman was waiting for a bus at Amherst Street, with the mask on her chin. “I will wear it once I board the bus,” she told the photographer. A bus stopped and she got up, the mask still on her chin.

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