Over the past few years, I've noticed an increase in the number of smelly people out and about. In particular, it seems like there's been a sharp increase in the number of people unable to clean themselves properly after going to the toilet.
This increase has been since at least lockdowns ended. It used to be that maybe once in a while there'd be the odd person you'd turn away from or maybe one regular grumpy post office customer who always stank but now it seems like every time I go out there's a minimum of one random person who is utterly offensive and either doesn't realise or doesn't care.
It makes sense to me that people who live alone would become more lax in their personal hygiene during lockdown. Perhaps it was always this way and I'm being retro-romantic about pre-lockdown times. Perhaps it's because I shop at Asda, I don't know.
Has anyone else noticed an increase in smelly people in the past few years?
Edit: bewildered by the downvotes.
Could be a symptom of long COVID going unnoticed - if it severely impacts or eliminates the sense of smell in some, there's a good chance it's merely damaging the sense in others, and some mildly enough that they don't notice at all.