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I have to go to hospital on 9 November. I have been told by the hospital NOT to use public transport and my husband doesn't drive and I have no family close by. A very close friend, who live 4 doors away, and I have been support in each other with shopping etc since March. She live alone but has close family as her 'support bubble'
If we take the required precautions mask and hand sterilising can she take me to hospital?
I have no other way to get there and back
If we take the required precautions mask and hand sterilising can she take me to hospital?
I have no other way to get there and back
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The rules permit people to leave their homes "for any medical concerns, reasons, appointments and emergencies" AND/OR to "provide care for vulnerable people, or as a volunteer". That would seem sufficient for you to both leave your homes (with your friend being a 'volunteer') Travel is permitted for "hospital GP and other medical appointments or visits...
20:54 Mon 02nd Nov 2020
//No goverment that has real responsibility whether SNP or Tory or Labour will pay ant attention to those who thing its all hype as they wont play fast and loose with so many lives and leave are NHS to be overran.//
You seem to be continually confused (either by accident or design).
Nobody that I know (including all the people who post on here) suggests that the virus is a hoax or a conspiracy. What many people are questioning (including some on here and elsewhere) is the strategy adopted to tackle the problem. It is leading to confusion and mistrust. The confusion is abundant and this question demonstrates just a small part of it:
"I have been told by the hospital NOT to use public transport"
Why should the hospital tell Granny Grump that? The only advice about public transport is to avoid it where possible. If the risk to her is so great they should lay on transport. They should not tell her not to use the bus but leave her to get on with it. One day the government will realise the blindingly obvious fact that, short of confining everybody to barracks 24/7/365 they will not prevent this virus spreading. They will then have to adopt a strategy that lives with it rather than trying to live against it. That will not happen any time soon because great swathes of the population believe that its spread can be prevented. But by the time that reality is finally accepted the collateral damage will be so great that there will be nothing much left to reopen.
You seem to be continually confused (either by accident or design).
Nobody that I know (including all the people who post on here) suggests that the virus is a hoax or a conspiracy. What many people are questioning (including some on here and elsewhere) is the strategy adopted to tackle the problem. It is leading to confusion and mistrust. The confusion is abundant and this question demonstrates just a small part of it:
"I have been told by the hospital NOT to use public transport"
Why should the hospital tell Granny Grump that? The only advice about public transport is to avoid it where possible. If the risk to her is so great they should lay on transport. They should not tell her not to use the bus but leave her to get on with it. One day the government will realise the blindingly obvious fact that, short of confining everybody to barracks 24/7/365 they will not prevent this virus spreading. They will then have to adopt a strategy that lives with it rather than trying to live against it. That will not happen any time soon because great swathes of the population believe that its spread can be prevented. But by the time that reality is finally accepted the collateral damage will be so great that there will be nothing much left to reopen.
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