Anon OpinGrowing up, the main bus in my town was every 10 minutes and always packed. I didn't worry about timetables I just left the house and knew it would be there. Now it's every half hour and completely deserted. This is no coincidence. Fund buses properly and people will use them.
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@anon_opin I don't use buses any more. I qualify for a bus pass now but haven't bothered to collect one. How could I be sure that nobody on the bus has covid?
✨pencilears✨@TimWardCam @anon_opin you can't, but, you can wear your own mask and that's pretty good
@pencilears @anon_opin Ah, well, that's a personal choice thing. I wear a half-arsed mask on the rare occasions when I'm in the same enclosed space as people I don't live with for a few minutes (eg to pick up a prescription), but for longer periods I think I would need a real mask that fit properly. Which would mean cutting the beard off and then shaving every day, and I can't be arsed with that.
So far I've not wanted to do anything in particular badly enough to change my mind on that point. Going for a bus ride wouldn't be it.
@TimWardCam @anon_opin I can respect that.
if you're willing to carve it into a goatee someday, there's a lot of reasonable full-faced options for people who work with dust or paint for a living, but riding the bus is not one of life's more sublime pleasures and I understand letting it go considering the circumstances
@pencilears @anon_opin I can get anywhere that a bus would usefully take me faster by bicycle anyway, so I'm not giving up much.