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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mommayorkie" data-source="post: 1665614" data-attributes="member: 37348">I am totally with you on this one. as an ex nurse (long time back now) i used to get so mad with teachers and parents who insisted kids should still go to school when they have a cold. my youngest was forever getting them and i would just tell them hes staying off school till hes clear. because i will not be blamed for him passing colds on......... now asa 75 year old type 2 diabetic on forxiga  tabs once a day, with asthma and copd  i used to be forever getting chest infections. never got fluthough. think its 20 years since my last bout and i think that was down to moving from south of england up here to the north. and i dont have flu jabs . when i did (year before i moved here) i spent 6 months having one bout of flu after another.  ive been diabetic now for 4 years. and apart from a 24 hour bug of somekind..(not a cold or flu) last year ive had no chest infections or colds. .... times its seemed like i ws getting one but didnt develope. iots over 2 years now since i haver had a full blown chest infection. if there were signs of one startubg i have used m,y rescue meds to ward it off. usually successfully. colds i avoid by asking people not to visit if they have any bugs at all. ... my dog walkers if they arent too bad, will come to take my little dog out, if he hasnt been out while they have been ill.  but they stay away from me..wash their hands both before and after handling his coat/harness and lead.  we are all very careful. my daughter is my carer. but because she now has 3 conditions which have knocked her auto immune system to hell, she dare ot come near me if she gets a cold or when i have one. as of now.(yes first one in a few years started yesterday,)... what i do get very annoyed about is taxi drivers, the number of drivers who come to pick you up and have a cold is disgusting. your in a very small space with them, no windows are open... i usually open the one nearest me, heating on. etc,. and if i say anything all i get is we have to work otherwise we have no money.   i point out to them that they are literally putting my life at risk. 1 because im elderly. 2. because i have lung problems, 3 because my immune system is not good  and that i am diabetic and being ill can push my blood sugars up. and that i know i am not the only passenger who is in similar circumstances. its like talking to a brick wall. money becomes before passsengers welfare. no one who has been here in the past few days has got a cold,.ive checked. so has to be either the lasttaxi driver of the taxi who brought me home  or someone on the shuttle bus we got  to literally go 5 minutes away.(too far for me to walk though)... but my bet is that taxi driver. he seemed to be doin a fair bit of sniffing. when i asked had he got a cold he said no was an allergy......... hm really?A sentence has been removed by moderator for breaching Forum Rule C12</blockquote>

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