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One reader asks what’s fallacious with being further cautious?
To the very impolite gentleman within the Oxfam store in Bromley on Sunday, who observed I used to be sporting a face masks and mentioned (loudly), in passing, ‘Covid was 4 years in the past, what are you frightened of?’
Covid hasn’t truly gone away and if I choose to put on a masks in public, that’s my selection and nothing to do with you.
Earlier than you judge others, maybe you may think about that there could also be a purpose why some put on a masks.
There are numerous older and immunocompromised individuals for whom Covid remains to be a really actual risk, whereas others could also be making an attempt to guard a susceptible buddy or relative.
Vaccination helps however isn’t essentially sufficient by itself, so what’s fallacious with being further cautious?
I see different individuals sporting masks, so I do know I’m not the one one.
We don’t do it for the enjoyable of it and the thoughtless angle of individuals such as you will not be very useful. Nonetheless, I hope you stay fortunate sufficient to take pleasure in your apparent good well being. Ann Smith, South-East London
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Round map? Large mistake
Having simply come again from the opticians with my imaginative and prescient confirmed as 20/20, I assumed I’d strive it out on the Tube map redrawn by a college lecturer to extra precisely replicate the distances between stations (Metro, Mon).
On the face of it, I assumed the round design was fairly a good suggestion however I believe I’ll keep on with the TfL map, having observed Osterley and Boston Manor are the fallacious manner spherical on the Piccadilly line.
Did anybody else spot different errors? If I’m the one one, would you like the title of my opticians? Steve Pratt, Brentford
This different Tube map could also be ‘too radical’ for TfL however the present map has many drawbacks. Why, for instance, is the Nationwide Rail Thameslink proven?
The London Rail And Tube Map, alas now not obtainable in print, exhibits all rail in London, whereas the tiny Pocket Tube Map is just not match for goal.
Current visits to Berlin and Paris present the way it needs to be accomplished. With six renamed Overground strains, all with totally different colors coming quickly, the onus is now on TfL to rectify this iconic map. John O’Sullivan, Edmonton
Corin says having watched the Olympics in Paris, a lot of London compared seems to be ‘brutalised by horrific buildings’ (MetroTalk, Mon).
She is, although, fallacious to suppose that picturesque Nineteenth-century buildings have been destroyed round Victoria station to make manner for right now’s gleaming glass and metal constructions. It was the post-war ugly packing containers put up within the Nineteen Sixties and 70s which were knocked down. The identical applies to a lot of the Metropolis of London, which she additionally mentions.
In fact, we must always by no means have knocked down the Euston Arch or the Metropole cinema reverse Victoria station however right now’s structure is much better and extra sustainable than that of half a century in the past. Chris Shepherd, London
In reply to Corin asking why London fares so badly when measured in opposition to Paris concerning taking care of previous buildings, I’d recommend that, not like France, who surrendered to the Germans in 1940 (underneath the specter of the destruction of Paris), the British didn’t, thus enduring bombing of the capital in each space that’s now enclosed by the M25. This resulted in additional than 1.7million buildings being destroyed or broken throughout Luftwaffe bombing raids and these buildings have been changed by non permanent buildings which, in flip, have been changed by cost-effective (low-cost) buildings by a rustic nigh on bankrupt following World Conflict II.
We Londoners might not have the grandest buildings compared with Paris however our heads can at all times be held just a little greater when requested why Paris appears to be extra aesthetically pleasing to the uninformed traveller’s eye. J Parkin, London
Not each affected person can cope out in the neighborhood
Additional to the dialogue of the relative deserves of psychiatric hospitals and ‘care in the neighborhood’ (MetroTalk, Tue), I keep in mind a few years in the past working a pub with such a hospital close by.
A few of the sufferers have been allowed to go to the pub once in a while. There was speak of the hospital closing and the sufferers being cared for in the neighborhood.
I recall a minimum of one of many sufferers telling me that that they had no want to depart the hospital as they have been properly cared for and wouldn’t know tips on how to cope in a non-institutional setting. RA Smith, Witham
Buses that by no means come
I opted for utilizing the bus on Monday and of three buses I may have caught, one sailed previous with the motive force apologising for seeing me too late.The 2 others didn’t flip up. Is that this regular for bus journey within the UK? Neil Dance, Birmingham
It truly is a self-service
AH (MetroTalk, Tue) welcomes strikes by Morrisons to chop again on self checkouts.
These blasted issues are a part of a rising pattern whereby we, the purchasers, are compelled to tackle the work of these from whom we’re shopping for a service.
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This significantly will get my goat about on-line kinds I’m at all times having to fill in when, previously, it might accomplished by somebody from the corporate in query. Gill, Hertford
Michael (MetroTalk, Tue) laments the growing frequency with which posters on social media conclude their opinions with the phrases ‘Finish of’, as if to preclude any additional debate.Alas, plainly this is only one of various annoying turns of phrase which have turn out to be more and more prevalent throughout the net, which I worry we might even see no finish of. Julian Self, Wolverton
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