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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.

Nobody stinks worse than OP.

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.

How close are you getting to people that you can smell their bungholes?

Perhaps it’s because I shop at Asda

People in Waitrose also stink but it is of money that they wipe their arses with. Although since notes went plastic, this must be like the old grease proof paper they used to use in school toilets.

It makes sense to me that people who live alone would become more lax in their personal hygiene during lockdown.

Or you/we emerged from lockdown not used to being around the odours of other people...

I tend to be fairly nose blind but I know a few people who are reportedly stinky (I try not to smell them) and they are both single older guys living on their own and the issue seems to be them from them not changing their clothes often enough. I imagine some might have got into a similar routine during lockdown when all sorts of grooming went out of the window.

I will ask in the pub on Friday once the stinky guy leaves.

I can't say I have.