Hide notifications when the icon is clicked

When the bell icon is clicked, I wish it would hide all the open notifications because they just get in the way. I don't think it's necessary to show said notifications again after the notification menu is closed either because the user already demonstrated they know where to see them.

To clarify I'm talking about situations like this

As you can see, the notification popups cover the notification menu so I think when the notification menu is opened, these popups should be hidden. The notifications would still be accessible to the user from the menu so I think it's okay to hide the popups after the user has manually opened the menu. This will only apply to current notifications Subsequent notifications should still do the popups and so on and so forth.