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Post by hughnique on Jan 14, 2024 11:18:07 GMT 1
I am unlucky in the fact that I have to have regular injections in my eye for a degenerate problem, I am lucky that these visits are via the local ambulance or hospital taxi as the surgeon gives me a bon de transporte every time. Obviously the taxi firm are reimbursed by the government organisation who deal with it all, however a few times it has been a bit of a merry go round picking up others destined to be at the clinic at about the same time. Pretty efficient but the last time was last week and the chap that sat next to me had a bit of a hacking cough, and of course the absence of a mask provided me with a, I can only assume gifted from him, dose of the flu, or whatever it is called nowadays, subsequently has now been passed down to OH.
So the question is having given the bon DT to the taxi firm, and I have no evidence of how they claim their payment, but I can only suspect that a claim would be submitted for every person in the taxi, based on a single pick up and deliver basis, so in other words you are technically being transported on your own, which is not the case, I am just wondering if, in future I can insist that they pick me up and take me to the hospital on my own and not mix me up with a load of germ laden others. Yes I know complacency has overtaken a lot of us regarding the wearing of masks, but after this I will make my feelings known to the driver, for the need to reinstate the obligatory wearing of masks whilst in the taxi
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Post by suein56 on Jan 14, 2024 11:38:50 GMT 1
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Post by curtis on Jan 14, 2024 12:38:25 GMT 1
Take an extra masque with you and if someone is coughing, ask them to wear it.
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Post by mysty on Jan 14, 2024 12:51:13 GMT 1
Take an extra masque with you and if someone is coughing, ask them to wear it. A good idea but probably too late after someone has started coughing, Spain has brought back mask wearing in hospitals already it would make sense if your in a taxi going to hospital you should all be masked up. If someone coughs near me in a supermarket I walk away. |
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Post by lurcher on Jan 15, 2024 10:13:28 GMT 1
This is an excellent warning for others in your position. You have had a really rough deal andI wonder if the other passenger had advanced warning they were going to share the taxi. Whatever the saving by followingefficiency rules, it has been wasted ten times over considering the result to your health and discomfort. Hope you both recover with no long lasting effects.
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Post by jardiniere on Jan 15, 2024 10:21:04 GMT 1
That is a dilemma for you as you have regular hospital visits not just a one-off. I would speak to the taxi firm. In such a confined space it's essential to wear masks. Hope you and your wife are soon feeling better.
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Post by hughnique on Jan 15, 2024 13:05:57 GMT 1
Thank you for your kind wishes, yes I have decided to speak with the taxi firm as soon as possible, for now it is a case of soldiering on until this bloody snot syndrome subsides, don't know if it is Flu, covid or whatever. I do not have another RDV for about 2 months but we are defo going back to mask wearing, unfortunately we had become somewhat complacent about it. What's the OH watching on Netflix, "the Living Dead", just look at me and in the mirror sweetheart.
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Post by jeliecrack on Jan 15, 2024 15:49:11 GMT 1
Can't you wear a mask yourself?
Oops just reread your post so you can forget what I asked.
As for the taxi, if they have a bon de transport the taxi can group the people together.Not obliged to but I image that the secu would have something to say about it if they didn't.
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Post by exile on Jan 15, 2024 16:29:42 GMT 1
Unfortunately, mask wearing provides limited protection for the wearer * but does provide high levels of protection for those around the wearer. * which is not to say that wearing a mask in hughnique's position is a bad idea. |
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Post by curtis on Jan 15, 2024 18:51:54 GMT 1
I was under the impression that the FFP2 masques did protect you.
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Post by exile on Jan 15, 2024 19:15:16 GMT 1
You are right but how many do you see in use in the streets?
Equally a full Hazmat suit would work.
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Post by curtis on Jan 15, 2024 20:09:20 GMT 1
So, if I was in that taxi situation I would have worn an FFP2 masque.
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Post by houpla on Jan 16, 2024 3:07:57 GMT 1
The other 100% guaranteed situation for catching others' bugs is a flight. Recycled air =recycled germs. Just snuffling my way through Corsair's free gift. I started off with good intentions, all masked up, but I must have been the only one on the plane that was 😁 And you have to de-mask to eat, don't you? It's not a new phenomenon, just a wider choice of bugs now....
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Post by iolar on Jan 16, 2024 12:02:09 GMT 1
I made the same mistake as the OP in not wearing mask in the supermarket. The number of times a parent brings a child into a s/market with a really bad cold or whatever NOT wearing a mask. Better yet why not leave the child in the car.
The Japanese are a social people and don't need to be told to wear a mask when having a cold or flu out and about - why can't Europeans adopt this social necessity.
You would think it obligatory to be wearing a mask inside a taxi or taxi ambulance.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2024 18:24:54 GMT 1
So you advocate leaving a child alone in a car, ill or otherwise ? Nutcase.
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