patrick.hearn3
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There’s certainly a case to say the government should have been encouraging businesses to drop all this to align with official guidance. But what hope is there when even rail operators like LNER are still doing the passive-aggressive stuff.
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It’s rather depressing that, a year or so after all the vulnerable groups completed their course of vaccination, we’re still in this odd state of being normal but not normal. My work is the same - the official line was that all social distancing signage was supposed to come down at the beginning of this month (in my particular building this mysteriously happened some time before that!), yet again we’re still plastered with it all.
Official guidance (April '22) btw does still include when to consider wearing a face covering:
- when you are coming into close contact with someone at higher risk of becoming seriously unwell from COVID-19 or other respiratory infections
- when COVID-19 rates are high and you will be in close contact with other people, such as in crowded and enclosed spaces
- when there are a lot of respiratory viruses circulating, such as in winter, and you will be in close contact with other people in crowded and enclosed spaces"
Equally, if there are staff at risk or who have family at risk. There are businesses - like LNER - with lots of opportunities to catch it and where staff absence has a big effect on the ability to provide services. I can understand why some businesses might want to mitigate risk.