Still only a few minutes of exposure per journey though isn't it, way less than the punters. If it's that dangerous trains shouldn't be running [it isn't that dangerous of course].Unless they happen to be your workplace....
I am a train guard on 15x and 170s and spend most of my time in the train checking and selling tickets and operating the doors. Funnily enough none of our trains have ever had any seats cordoned off though, although at times of highest transmission we had revenue duties withdrawn and if we wanted we could cordon off the back set of doors. We were always walking through to do Local Door stations too while for example TfW were being stupid and not stopping.
The thing that disappointed me most about the Rail Industry Coronavirus Forum was that I assumed it would lead to common good practice between TOCs. Instead individual H&S sections at TOCs and trade union representatives came up with loads of wildly different ways of doing things.
Symptomatic of the whole approach to COVID though isn't it.Exactly. Even allowing for variances in methods of operation (dispatch locations etc.) there is simply no way that TfW's wildly excessive caution is justified, and that every other operator with local door ops is acting dangerously and irresponsibly. If nothing else you'd have expected the unions to kick up a fuss about it otherwise!
My barber insists upon customers wearing a mask, sanitising hands (even though they touch nothing), disposable aprons, temperature check upon arrival with one of those useless forehead scanners ("32 degrees, perfect" - err, I should be dead love )and the staff wear masks AND face shields.
My fathers barber just cuts his hair without any of that nonsense.
Supermarkets are another. Tesco seem the most sensible - masks but only because "it's the law" and gallons of alcohol rub available. Others with door marshals, one way systems (which I've always thought *increase" risk), customer *must* have a trolly etc.
How we unravel from all of this hysteria is a concern. I am hopeful when I walk into "no-public" workplaces like offices and see complete normality, no mass, no distancing, no fuss. And I still remember that the day beofre the mask mandate came in perhaps only 5% of people in my local Tesco wore them, so I thin the silent majority like me can't wait for the day we cut the c**p.