To think that if you are high risk you should prob not be on the bus?

[malificent7]

Prepared to get lynched here but i get the bus to hospital placement every day. There is a young man on bus who normally wears a mask. Today he wasn't. He forgot.
A woman on the bus kicked off at him massively as she has cancer. Yes i do sympathise with her but if I had cancer I wouldnt be travelling by bus. Id go to chemo by taxi. The risk is just too great atm.
He should have worn a mask but she should be protecting herself. My mum died of cancer so I know how hard it us.

@pepsicolagirl

ya probably bu but I do see your point. Would the country be in a better situation if we isolated/helped the vulnerable (by helped I mean give lifts to rather than have them get the bus) and let people who were low risk go about their business?

No

What would be better would be if everyone acred as if they were vulnerable and everyone else contagious.

Then the guidance would be well adhered to and transmission low

And people who, like the man in the opening post, though it OK get on the bus despite forgetting his mask, would rightly be condemned as anti-social idiots

@pepsicolagirl

ya probably bu but I do see your point. Would the country be in a better situation if we isolated/helped the vulnerable (by helped I mean give lifts to rather than have them get the bus) and let people who were low risk go about their business?

What about the vulnerable who have jobs, or children or are carers? You can't isolate everyone in their household.

A better solution would be for everyone to take pretty simple precautions like wearing a mask when required, washing their hands, keeping 2m away when possible and not going to large gatherings - it's not rocket science.

Exactly user

If I had cancer and had to use the bus I'd be wearing a mask myself. No way would I be relying on my fellow passengers.

If I realised I'd forgotten my mask and the bus journey were a long one (ie too far to walk)/next bus would be 3 hours later, which is often the case, I'd just pull my top over my face, instead. Not ideal but better than nothing at all.

If I had cancer and had to use the bus I'd be wearing a mask myself. No way would I be relying on my fellow passengers.

Your mask protects others. Their masks protect you. Unless you can access and afford surgical standard standard masks.

@malificent7

I have come round and agree that the young man should not have got on the bus. She did get off at the shopping centre not the hospital.

FFS 🙄

Who cares where she got off

Yabu: having had chemo and had to travel on public transport to it it sucks. I was told to avoid high risk infective areas but equally had to go to chemo once a week, which would have cost me over £120 a time via a taxi and driving not possible either. At the same time my child care costs went up as I was too ill to care for my child for long periods. Our heating bills went up as I was at home rather than at work. However my income went down massively. So please let the woman travel in peace to a horrible hospital appointment. over 5 years later certain memories of that time still make me cry or be sick, she is likely to be going through a horrid horrid time.

@malificent7

Well the lady ended up getting off at the shopping centre not at the hospital which was my stop. I waa a bit

Heaven forbid she needs to do some shopping, or just wants to do some shopping to have some semblance of normality whilst going through a bloody awful time. Having cancer is bloody awful, to have it combined with covid and lock down must be just horrific. Just think for a minute what she is going through

Apologies that this has got me all ranty but the op has really wound me up. Every time I made the 3 hr round trip on public transport to chemo I was terrified of catching some bug, I hadt to travel through rush hour so was stuck close to all the people with their winter colds which for most people are fine but for someone whose immune system is being blasted to nothing could have had very serious implications. There was no hospital transport available, the only way to get there was on crowded public transport. Op really do try and get just a modicum of empathy

The charity ‘Cancer on Board’ has seen a big increase in demand

Which is a pity - it shows how the exceptionally vulnerable are struggling

I have come round and agree that the young man should not have got on the bus. She did get off at the shopping centre not the hospital

Are cancer patients not allowed to go anywhere except their hospital appointments? I didn't realise you lost all rights the minute you were diagnosed.

You are seriously training for the wrong profession. I hope myself and my family never have the misfortune to receive 'care' from you.