I have to disagree. Health and safety measures aren’t adopted on the basis of protecting people from feeling safe or unsafe. These measures, which lets not forget are often expensive and onerous, are put in place to address significant risk where it actually exists. The risk posed by Covid even pre vaccine was negligible, to all but the clinically extremely vulnerable. In the post vaccine world, where shielding ended long ago, it’s absolutely preposterous that compos mentis adults should continue to be scared of this virus. Colour me cynical but I suspect many of those claiming to be scared have another agenda and are perhaps hoping to gain some advantage, such as changing their working arrangements against their employer’s wishes.
I suppose I take a fairly hard nosed approach to this as someone who would have been sacked long ago if I’d stopped showing up to work because I felt scared! People basically need to accept if you do a job where you can’t work from home, you either suck it up and go to work, or you get another job!
I had an interesting situation yesterday - I boarded a railway replacement bus and sat near the front (as I tend to because I like to see out of the windscreen). There was no signage suggesting this wasn’t permitted. I was then rudely ordered to move further back by the driver; a request which I politely but robustly refused to comply with. I was over 2m away from the cab and he was behind a Perspex screen! He gave up and drove on when he realised he wasn’t going to get anywhere. I simply refuse to indulge peoples’ irrational hang ups over this any longer. My attitude is, if you don’t like working with people, don’t do a job which exposes you to the general public!