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Please don't fuel this bad reasoning - decreasing the number of trains or lowering their speed is a dangerous measure that will increase transmission! It's the

• Milner08 7y ago
  If it was at the same capacity sure, but its been a ghost town (compared to normal) the last few days, so I doubt it will have a huge effect in that sense. It will also discourage people from taking the tube unless they have to (tbf they probably already were at the is point).
• Grue3 7y ago
  >the same brand of broken-mindedness that brought us the "only sick people should wear masks" So apparently qualified health professionals having to deal with masks shortage are "broken-minded", but a bunch of armchair MD Internet commenters are correct.
• eythian 7y ago
  You make claims in italics, but you don't justify any of them.
• makomk 7y ago
  They don't have the staff due to people being off. Many of the other odd-seeming emergency measures taken or planned for in the UK have the same root cause. Even the school closures are more about staffing than reducing the spread of the virus; apparently that's a useful measure in flu pandemics because kids lack the immunity that adults do, but since no-one is immune to this as far as we know it's kind of weak here.
• Reason077 7y ago
  Well, nnq. Turns out you may have been right and owed an apology by those who downvoted you: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/mar/23/criticism-over-crowded-london-underground-trains https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/mar/23/criticism-ov...