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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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hummmmm · 09/02/2024 10:14

shhh OP, they can't believe in aerosol transmission and ventilation being key to minimising it because if it was real then they'd be being inconsiderate and stupid.

iLovee · 09/02/2024 09:53

Bullshit

NoWordForFluffy · 09/02/2024 09:43

notknowledgeable · 09/02/2024 09:28

No, I have a timetable which means I do not have to cross a corridor at any lesson change time. As requested to HR by my consultant, and implemented by the school managers, you know, due to being immunocompromised.

Why does it surprise people that school can and do manage these medical situations, both for students and for staff?

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How do you get to and from your classroom when entering and leaving the building?

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notknowledgeable · 09/02/2024 09:28

Ursulla · 09/02/2024 09:23

You probably ache because you were carting bags of heavy wet books around while scrambling up hill and down dale during your commute.

I don't walk down corridors in the school

What do you do? Fly? Climb in and out of windows and run around outside?

No, I have a timetable which means I do not have to cross a corridor at any lesson change time. As requested to HR by my consultant, and implemented by the school managers, you know, due to being immunocompromised.

Why does it surprise people that school can and do manage these medical situations, both for students and for staff?

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Ursulla · 09/02/2024 09:23

You probably ache because you were carting bags of heavy wet books around while scrambling up hill and down dale during your commute.

I don't walk down corridors in the school

What do you do? Fly? Climb in and out of windows and run around outside?

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notknowledgeable · 09/02/2024 08:51

NoWordForFluffy · 09/02/2024 08:43

I dont think you understand how viruses spread - they spread when you are crushed up with loads of other people and no ventilation, not when you are outside, no matter how cold and dark and wet it is.

Weird. I got ill without being 'crushed up with loads of other people and no ventilation'. Almost as if that's not the only way to get ill. It could just as easily have been caught from a person in school as it could a person on the bus.

I think it's you who doesn't understand how viruses work.

potentially, but the bus is a lot more likely as there are safeguards in place for me in school

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notknowledgeable · 09/02/2024 08:50

ButWhatAboutTheBees · 09/02/2024 08:37

Oh now you're ill and it definitely was the bus. Of course.

Not making yourself more vulnerable by getting cold and wet.

Or the supermarket or anywhere else you've been

Or, you know, the school. Where I'm sure you had to walk down corridors etc....

Getting cold and wet does not cause virus infections. Viruses do. From being in close contact with other people who are infectious. And might or might not know it.

I socially distance in the supermarket. Because I am immunocompromised.

I don't go anywhere else. because I am immunocompromised

I don't walk down corridors in the school. Because guess what! I am immunocompromised, and so, being reasonable people, managers have arranged for me not to be put in a vulnerable position, and my time table takes that into account!

So guess what, it probably was the bus

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NoWordForFluffy · 09/02/2024 08:43

I dont think you understand how viruses spread - they spread when you are crushed up with loads of other people and no ventilation, not when you are outside, no matter how cold and dark and wet it is.

Weird. I got ill without being 'crushed up with loads of other people and no ventilation'. Almost as if that's not the only way to get ill. It could just as easily have been caught from a person in school as it could a person on the bus.

I think it's you who doesn't understand how viruses work.

ButWhatAboutTheBees · 09/02/2024 08:37

Oh now you're ill and it definitely was the bus. Of course.

Not making yourself more vulnerable by getting cold and wet.

Or the supermarket or anywhere else you've been

Or, you know, the school. Where I'm sure you had to walk down corridors etc....

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notknowledgeable · 09/02/2024 08:24

2024HappyNewYear · 09/02/2024 07:48

Probably because you decided to be a martyr and walk in the cold and rain rather than sit on the nice warm dry bus!

I dont think you understand how viruses spread - they spread when you are crushed up with loads of other people and no ventilation, not when you are outside, no matter how cold and dark and wet it is.

I got off the bus once in the morning. I should have got of the other bad morning too. And I should have got of sooner, even the morning I did get off, and never mind if that messed up the day even worse.

I am paying the price now. And my classes wont have a teacher, they will have a cover supervisor and do book work instead of getting taught

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2024HappyNewYear · 09/02/2024 07:48

Probably because you decided to be a martyr and walk in the cold and rain rather than sit on the nice warm dry bus!

NoWordForFluffy · 09/02/2024 07:28

There's a bug going round. Almost everybody I know has had it.

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notknowledgeable · 09/02/2024 07:16

I am have very predictably had to ring in sick this morning with a high temperature and my whole body hurting 😡

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ButWhatAboutTheBees · 09/02/2024 00:23

Yes.... of course someone going through chemo would get off the bus and walk through the RAIN and FREEZING WIND rather than sit near the door instead 🙄

QueenBean22 · 08/02/2024 21:17

I like windows closed when it’s winter. The draughts cause my muscles to ache

NoWordForFluffy · 08/02/2024 21:14

notknowledgeable · 08/02/2024 20:51

Thank you for spelling it out for me @hummmmm ! I think posters know that really, they just pretend not to.

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Naaaah. I prefer my version actually.

You're just being ridiculous.

NoWordForFluffy · 08/02/2024 21:13

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Shark well and truly jumped!

0rangeCrush · 08/02/2024 21:04

I hate being cold - I am always cold no matter how many layers I wear. Moving air is particularly problematic for me. Being cold causes me genuine pain.

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CruCru · 08/02/2024 19:15

The people who really annoy me are the cunts who sit on the outside seat leaving an empty seat by the window.

Yes! It's a bit off topic but I swear that people have lost the skill of using public transport. They stand in front off the exit door or the stairs and look surprised that you can't get past. They sit on the aisle seat (because they don't want to sit next to anyone) and look annoyed when you ask to sit down. This morning my husband got the bus and a bunch of people came upstairs but stayed standing. The bus driver refused to move until they sat down and they said that they didn't want to sit down.

I sit on the aisle seat if I’m doing a short journey, but the window if I’m sitting for longer.

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notknowledgeable · 08/02/2024 20:55

Littlemisscapable · 08/02/2024 18:21

This is already been covered but to reiterate....wearing a mask and opening the window (and freezing all the other passengers) categorically will NOT prevent you getting ill. I do hope you are not a science teacher.

Again, I will inform my experienced and well qualified consultant that the advice he has given me on how best to stay well is incorrect!

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notknowledgeable · 08/02/2024 20:54

willWillSmithsmith · 08/02/2024 11:07

You’d rather walk along unlit roads and unmade footpaths in the dark, wet and windy weather with heavy bags rather than stay on a bus because you can’t have the windows opened (even though, as people say, you could stay near the door which opens on a regular basis). That just sounds nuts.

Righto! I will tell my consultant and his team that @willWillSmithsmith thinks his considered, informed, well qualified medical advice is "nuts"!!

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notknowledgeable · 08/02/2024 20:51

hummmmm · 08/02/2024 10:05

what?
they said they walked part of it, not that they walked the whole thing.
Most people who can walk to the bus stop are capable of walking PART of their bus trip, whether that's half a mile or five. That doesn't mean they can walk the whole distance.

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Thank you for spelling it out for me @hummmmm ! I think posters know that really, they just pretend not to.

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notknowledgeable · 08/02/2024 20:49

ButWhatAboutTheBees · 08/02/2024 09:20

I also find it hard to believe more than one person decided a long walk in the rain was a good idea

OP did you question them as to if that's why they got off?

Maybe it was just their stop

She is having chemo. We have shared our window woes for some time. We also share our torchlight if we have to get off and walk

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CruCru · 08/02/2024 19:15

The people who really annoy me are the cunts who sit on the outside seat leaving an empty seat by the window.

Yes! It's a bit off topic but I swear that people have lost the skill of using public transport. They stand in front off the exit door or the stairs and look surprised that you can't get past. They sit on the aisle seat (because they don't want to sit next to anyone) and look annoyed when you ask to sit down. This morning my husband got the bus and a bunch of people came upstairs but stayed standing. The bus driver refused to move until they sat down and they said that they didn't want to sit down.