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To open my window on the bus

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notknowledgeable · 28/01/2024 12:17

It seems to be a mission for some people to fight to have all the windows on the bus closed, for all of every journey? Why? Before covid this wasn't an issue - now it seems people have a point to make.

I get there can be a chilly draught, but just put your coat on, or put your hood up?

I am immunocompromised, and wear a mask and open the window on my way to and from work. Every single time I get ill, ( currently a couple of times a month) my classes are left with non specialist agency staff. I take all the precautions I reasonably can to keep from catching anything, but this constant battle on the bus every working day is really wearing my down.

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Bigtom · 28/01/2024 16:31

notknowledgeable · 28/01/2024 14:32

All the windows are open and I stay more than 2m away.

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Poor kids …

2024HappyNewYear · 28/01/2024 16:26

Bbq1 · 28/01/2024 13:49

Because Op is immune compromised, that's why. The other people on the bus are fortunate not to be. I am the same currently due to serious illness. I am lucky i don't have to travel by bus. I detest masks and struggle to wear them but very occasionally do. I wore one to take our cat to the vets a couple of days ago and a woman sat openly staring at me the whole time . Wish I'd told her my health condition now. I think people think any mask wearer nowadays is wearing them due to covid. Most aren't but if they wanted to it's up to them.

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So everyone else should be cold and uncomfortable because you don't like wearing a mask?

Longma · 28/01/2024 16:23

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2024HappyNewYear · 28/01/2024 16:20

@Grimchmas and I am also allowed to feel annoyed about sitting in a cold draught with my hood up on the bus without it becoming a game of top trumps

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2024HappyNewYear · 28/01/2024 16:19

So a whole bus full of people should all be uncomfortable, cold, and apparently put our hoods up, because OP has decided her frequent colds are all caught on the bus?

ManchesterLu · 28/01/2024 16:18

I'm probably missing the point, but if you're immunocompromised, you're probably much more at risk working in a school all day than you are on your way to the school in the morning. Wearing a mask and practicing good hand hygiene is all you can do. There's no use getting into fights with commuters over a window.

Grimchmas · 28/01/2024 16:16

2024HappyNewYear · 28/01/2024 13:07

I'd be annoyed with you. I hate sitting in a cold draft. You'd be making me really uncomfortable.

Your comfort doesn't trump OP's immunocompromised status though.

Longma · 28/01/2024 16:15

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BassoContinuo · 28/01/2024 16:14

Mybusyday · 28/01/2024 15:50

Exactly this - opening a window makes my condition worse!

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Same. But as I’m not a teacher, I guess I don’t matter

BashfulClam · 28/01/2024 16:13

I have severe hayfever and when people open windows and the pollen comes flying in they get a nice dose of my sneezes! Even medicated I sneeze a lot in pollen season.

Trinity65 · 28/01/2024 16:08

2024HappyNewYear · 28/01/2024 15:59

Maybe you haven't given the best account of yourself on this thread @notknowledgeable but you come across as entitled, self absorbed and unable to consider any other view point - you clearly think you're right and everyone else is wrong. I've always thought of teachers as having a caring and compassionate personality given their vocation, but that's certainly not how you come across on this thread. I sincerely hope my children are never taught by someone who has zero regard for anyone else's feelings.

Absolutely ^

Trinity65 · 28/01/2024 16:08

I was going to comment but you seem pretty arrogant and aggressive against those whom say You are wrong here.

BestMammyEver · 28/01/2024 16:02

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2024HappyNewYear · 28/01/2024 15:59

Maybe you haven't given the best account of yourself on this thread @notknowledgeable but you come across as entitled, self absorbed and unable to consider any other view point - you clearly think you're right and everyone else is wrong. I've always thought of teachers as having a caring and compassionate personality given their vocation, but that's certainly not how you come across on this thread. I sincerely hope my children are never taught by someone who has zero regard for anyone else's feelings.

hummmmm · 28/01/2024 15:58

OP I'm with you. This thread is an excellent illustration of a number of things.

The minimising by authorities has made people dismissive and uncaring about others' health. Oh you might get ill? Not my problem.

Research into aerosol transmission is essentially buried. Note all the comments you see everywhere about how masks don't work and opening a window won't help stop you catching anything.

The appreciation of keyworkers who did so much during lockdowns, also buried.

It's a barely acknowledged damage that I've noticed from COVID. The complete removal of any empathy from so much of the general public is so sad.

Namechangenamechange321 · 28/01/2024 15:56

i am amazed at the number of people who don’t mind breathing in so many people’s recycled air

Ursulla · 28/01/2024 15:56

Mybusyday · 28/01/2024 15:51

Exactly this - kids are more likely to give you germs than a bus with a few people on

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Yes, I'd be thinking that the job rather than the bus was the biggest factor in picking up germs.

As far as the bus itself is concerned, it's public transport so you alone don't get to decide on whether or not the windows are open. You're sharing the space with other people unfortunately.

Mybusyday · 28/01/2024 15:54

MadamVastra · 28/01/2024 14:38

Oh come on op all your windows are open and you stay more than 2m away from your students!! How's that work then?!

what utter rubbish you're spouting

That's what I thought too - how can you teach and be so far away from the pupils?? And as a parent my children come from school absolutely freezing because of selfish teachers having the windows open in Winter causing my kids to be ill!

Mybusyday · 28/01/2024 15:51

MadamVastra · 28/01/2024 14:18

Isn't a class room a bug fest anyway? You must be quite close to the students I would of thought

Exactly this - kids are more likely to give you germs than a bus with a few people on

catelynjane · 28/01/2024 15:51

notknowledgeable · 28/01/2024 15:48

Nothing genuine there, nothing that is going to leave students without teachers

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So you know everyone else's medical history and job, do you?

'course you don't. You're just being selfish and entitled.

Mybusyday · 28/01/2024 15:50

DillDanding · 28/01/2024 14:15

I’d be irritated by someone opening windows on a cold day. Just because you’re immunocompromised OP, doesn’t mean everyone else has to be cold.

Exactly this - opening a window makes my condition worse!

Newgreendress · 28/01/2024 15:50

notknowledgeable · 28/01/2024 15:45

how would taking my coat off protect me from pathogens??? It wont

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You don't need to make it other people's problem

Polomi · 28/01/2024 15:49

I shut the window in front of me if it’s open on a bus, it blasts right in the person behind you’s face.

MustBeNapTime · 28/01/2024 15:48

notknowledgeable · 28/01/2024 14:36

Do you have children in school? Do you prefer it when those children have teachers?

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I have a child in school, and to be honest, whilst I'm really sorry you are immunocomromised and I really don't know what the answer is, I'd prefer it if SHE wasn't off sick because she's been forced to sit in a classroom with open windows because the teacher decided her health was more important than the children's health... Even if she was wearing a coat, her hands would be uncomfortably cold and it's really hard to write with cold hands!