Social distancing can’t last forever
I have to say I don’t share Lyn’s concern about people ‘barging past’ each other on escalators at less than a metre away (MetroTalk, Mon).
Just how infectious do people think Covid is? If being close to someone for less than two seconds was all it took, everyone would have caught it by now. I agree that sitting close to people on the train might be riskier but how much longer can we keep away from each other?
Last week, for the first time in over a year, someone sat next to me on the train. There was nowhere else for him to go and he did ask first. Sooner or later, we’re all going to have to get used to busy trains and buses.
Peter, Leeds
■ Well done, Lyn, for your rant about Covidiots on the train. No doubt these people witter on about not having had any fresh air for a year when in fact they’ve always been able to go out!
Michael, Kingston upon Thames
■ I have just seen a cyclist in Central station without a mask. Surely if you can get enough puff to ride a bike, you should be wearing a face covering.
Donna, Glasgow
■ The first weekend out of lockdown and we get Tube engineering works between Epping and Bethnal Green, with a series of replacement bus services. What is usually a threeminute journey between Theydon Bois and Debden required two bus journeys for one stop and took up to an hour.
Dave, Epping
■ Regarding the proposed breakaway football super league (Metro, Mon), all 12 teams who have signed up should immediately be kicked out of their countries’ footballing associations.
These clubs should lose their playing licence and should pay back all TV revenues as some of the teams’ deals run until the end of season 2021/22.
Scott, Edinburgh
■ I have been a Chelsea supporter since the 1970s. Can anyone please tell me what the attraction is for me and other football fans of the regular ‘top six’ teams in watching our team play in a ‘no losers league’, which also bars them from participating in genuinely competitive club competitions?
Chris HG, Maidstone
■ I am heartened to see that Boris Johnson has decided to take a stand against the super league, a group intent on breaking away from the main footballing body and operating outside it, to its own set of rules.
As he says, a small number of sides considering themselves elite and going it alone would be damaging for everybody in the long run, sacrificing the evident good of the whole for the short-term benefit of but a few.
If only there were some analogy that could be drawn upon to highlight what a damaging decision this could be.