Aibu ti be slightly annoyed with DH for taking a Covid test

Your thinking is a bit crazy. Who would want to go and be around an 89 year old with any illness especially one that could be potentially harmful to them. You’re mad because your DH found out that you already had covid? Isn’t it better to know?

Along with pp, I’m going to repeat that covid really isn’t ’just a cold’. I’ve been unwell for 6 months so far with long covid. I’m still too unwell to see my family during Christmas which I’m sad about. So far I’ve needed 3 or 4 consultations with my GP as well as repeated blood tests, chest x rays and various medications. I’m one of the lucky ones, as I avoided being hospitalised with it, but it costs the NHS huge amounts of money to treat. It’s very selfish to spread any illness with no thought for other people.

I’ve not read all the replies but I can have a cold for 3 weeks and it wouldn’t be practical to stay home all that time. I try to limit passing it on to people of course. At my work and at my DC’s school you are expected to continue attending unless you are extremely unwell.
If I felt too unwell to leave the house I wouldn’t. I appreciate that some people are more vulnerable than others but unless you are going to visit someone you know to be vulnerable I don’t think it’s irresponsible to carry on in your day to day life. This doesn’t appear to be the general consensus though.

edited to add that I know the OP has covid not a cold but many of the replies seem to suggest you shouldn’t go out with either

I don't get the point of testing tbh. If you've got a virus & you're ill, it makes no difference if it's covid or something else

I like knowing if I've been around anyone with it so I can delay visiting DF until I know I've not caught it. DF has had many colds in his life but the one time he got COVID he had a stroke.

Course these incredibly accurate “tests” are still being flogged to the vulnerable, still suffering from the lies they were brainwashed with throughout the whole thing. Gotta make money out of people somehow.

OP the only reason you’re feeling like it’s worse because you know is the same reason. Such a number was done on people during the scamdemic.

Forget it and in future if you have really bad actual real life flu symptoms stay away from people but no one tests anymore apart from those who wish to continue this path.

Weird to be annoyed at your husband. Maybe you're feeling guilty, because you've exposed your 80year old mother to COVID?

You were selfish as not only have you affected those at your mums party you’ve affected the attendees at ABBA Voyage and possibly ruined their Christmas. Maybe spare a thought for them

But now you may have ruined people’s Christmas? Most people would rather not be around ill people the week before Christmas. It’s awful being ill at this time of year.

You may not have been affected too badly but this latest strain of Covid is lasting a long time in many people - a month plus.

You being more worried about appearing to be 'flakey' is self absorbed. Just because you can't see it, doesn't mean it's not selfish.

If you were off work and you are a teacher then it was clearly more than a cold. You must have felt quite unwell. So no you don’t go out and about spreading that to elderly people.

If you insist on going it’s always worth giving people a heads up and telling them you have ‘cold symptoms’. Because some people may not want to get your illness for Christmas. If a friend told me they were coming out for dinner or to see me with a cold I’d say ‘no thanks’ and I’d avoid.

I feel sorry for all the people you will have infected. If you weren’t well you shouldn’t have gone

I agree with this. If you have symptoms and don’t feel well then stay at home. Do not go and hang out with elderly relatives! Doesn’t matter what virus it is - why would you want them to be ill for Christmas? And potentially they would have it much worse than you.

If you felt better and were symptomless then that is different. It’s not clear how ill you both felt.

People who have potential COVID symptoms should not have to test or act differently to accommodate people who actively chose not to get vaccinated, despite being able to do so.

You went to see your 80 year old mother with a horrible virus?!

Do you not like her very much?

I'm sure you know full well. Another faux naive to belittle those who have more consideration for others.

Well I’m ‘boostered up’, I have Covid and it’s my third day of barely being able to get out of bed.
I don’t know where I got it from, all I know is I feel incredibly rough and coughing makes my head feel like it’s splitting in half. I can’t drink enough because my throat is raw and I’ve no appetite at all.
By all means put your hand over your mouth when coughing, then you can pass it on by using door handles, touching things in shops etc.

Amazon and pretty cheap.

I always see them on the shelf in Boots/Superdrug/Tesco etc, fortunately we get supplied with them at work.

I wouldn’t see my elderly parents if I had any kind of fairly bad cold

This.

If a cold/illness makes you ill enough to take a day off work, it’s really irresponsible and selfish to then go out socialising a day or two later, especially if you still have symptoms. It’s pretty obvious that anyone catching your cold/illness is also going to feel extremely unwell too.

I get mine free from the pharmacy due to needing iv antivirals if I test positive. A quick google would have told you though...

I appreciate a man being proactive with health may seem a rare thing. OP I applaud your DH for doing so.

You can buy them all over, even boots sell them.

Am I the only person who’s read this thread so far and wondered where the fuck people still FIND covid tests? Because the ones I got given during the pandemic have expired surely.