Well you are right, at our local pool you leave shoes at the racks before walking barefoot down the hallway to the dressing rooms, but when leaving the pool I still go sock-shoe because that is a public outdoor shoe mat.
Similar principles to food-safe cross-contamination prevention.
You wear socks to the pool?
Oh, you don’t use the dressing room?
Well you are right, at our local pool you leave shoes at the racks before walking barefoot down the hallway to the dressing rooms, but when leaving the pool I still go sock-shoe because that is a public outdoor shoe mat.
Similar principles to food-safe cross-contamination prevention.