Giles Coren has launched a scathing attack on people still wearing face masks after Plan B rules were lifted - branding them "cringing losers afraid of their own shadows".
The writer and presenter hit out at "masked ninnies", saying they had "postpandemic health hysteria" and some were on a 'courtesy crusade'.
The stinging criticism for mask wearers came in his latest column for the Sunday Times, in which he described his journey on the London Underground on Thursday - the day mandatory mask-wearing was axed in England.
Coren said most of his fellow passengers still wore face coverings and debated why they had chosen to wear them.
He stressed he was not an "anti-masker" but said they had "sheeplike obedience to yesterday's rules".
He wrote: "Perhaps, I thought, they were wearing them against air pollution, which is bad at the moment. Or because it was a cold morning and they actively enjoyed the warmth of their foetid breath circulating inside the germy fabric?
"Or perhaps, I supposed, these masked ninnies were still so afraid of the now-harmless bug that they were prepared to endure the mild discomfort and inconvenience that comes with the illusion of security provided by a mask.
"Or perhaps, in their postpandemic health hysteria, they were hoping now to protect themselves against flu, measles, hepatitis ... even cancer? (I know, but people are weird — weird and stupid)."
Coren added he had "quintuple immunity" after catching the Alpha and Omicron variants of Covid and three vaacine jabs.
Noting that train companies were asking passengers to continue to wear masks as a courtesy to others, he went on to rage about behaviour on public transport - blasting teenagers "nodding to crappy music", people scratching and belching, women brushing their hair and people eating breakfast on trains.
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