Daily Mail is running a story with this pie chart, showing where people were infected last week.
I'd wager that if the Workplace category were further broken down, the vast majority of Workplace infections will be where people are working on top of one another, such as factory production lines, and fast fashion sweatshops, rather than relatively spacious offices with regularly cleaned toilets etc.
My take-home from this would be
(1) masks for everyone in schools/colleges and care homes, and the aforementioned close-working workplaces, but everyone else should be allowed to get on with life as normal. I don't see supermarkets or cinemas or gyms or railway stations on here, so quite why they are being so restricted is beyond me (though no doubt, despite there being no actual evidence for it, someone will claim it's the masks that are keeping such places safe).
(2) remarkably low infection rates in hospitals, so their measures are working, so it's about time the NHS got back to work properly so we can start getting our routine treatments again before people start losing teeth, sight, limbs etc (I still can't get any dental treatment, I haven't had any diabetes monitoring checks since 2019, and my friend's mother is still waiting for her life saving cancer treatment to restart).
(3) Workplace reopening is not just about office worker's productivity etc. It's important to get sandwich/coffee shops fully back to work before those businesses are lost, and full public transport back in operation before we lose some of the more lightly used services forever.
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