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AIBU to cancel interview due to COVID?

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Sexisthairdressers · 24/04/2025 07:21

I have a job interview this morning but have COVID. Didn't sleep. Work up feeling crap and did a test. Just emailed to cancel. Feel terrible that it's last minute and really want the job. Have asked to reschedule. Did I do the right thing? AIBU? For info, it was a 4 hour interview (tests etc then face to face interview - just don't think I could have got through it - quite apart from not wanting to infect everyone).

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Calliopespa · 24/04/2025 10:41

Widowerwouldyou · 24/04/2025 10:41

Had no idea anyone tested still or even that tests are available! The only person I know who still had a batshit terror of Covid is 93 and nothing else to do with her time but chide relatives that they will kill her either their germs.

“Batshit.”

Calliopespa · 24/04/2025 10:41

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I hope it’s not a biology essay.

Widowerwouldyou · 24/04/2025 10:41

Had no idea anyone tested still or even that tests are available! The only person I know who still had a batshit terror of Covid is 93 and nothing else to do with her time but chide relatives that they will kill her either their germs.

Dotjones · 24/04/2025 10:40

Lanzarotelady · 24/04/2025 10:28

When was the last time covid was cited on a death certificate? When was the last time someone was hospitalised for covid?

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79 people died in the week to 4th April here.

People still get hospitalised with Covid. People still die with Covid. It hasn't gone away, it's just it's not newsworthy now.

COVID-19 | UKHSA data dashboard

Overall summary of COVID-19 in circulation within the UK

https://ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/respiratory-viruses/covid-19

fairybower · 24/04/2025 10:38

Mumoftwo52 · 24/04/2025 09:24

Profile pic wearing a mask. Sigh

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You didn't notice the date of it was 2020?

Searchingforthelight · 24/04/2025 10:38

I would thank you for not coming in and giving everyone COVID
And be happy to reschedule

And would think you are very responsible!

MrsSkylerWhite · 24/04/2025 10:37

Lanzarotelady · 24/04/2025 10:32

Yes but he would have had other symptoms, his BP, his HR, his sats, his blood results, him feeling not well, all indicators, not a temperature alone.

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Difficult to tell with him, tbh. He has complex medical issues anyway and those stats are often all over the place anyway!

RampantIvy · 24/04/2025 10:35

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NestOfWipers · 24/04/2025 10:35

doodahdayy · 24/04/2025 08:56

Why on earth are people still testing? I mean fair enough not to go if you feel unwell but I’m surprised anyone is buying and bothering with tests now. It’s a severe as a cold for most people.

What about the Other people for whom it's a serious illness or worse or don't we count?

Calliopespa · 24/04/2025 10:35

Lanzarotelady · 24/04/2025 10:33

I am stepping away from this, my essay won't write itself and my violin won't play itself.

No. They won’t.

Lanzarotelady · 24/04/2025 10:34

feelingbleh · 24/04/2025 10:33

I'm talking about me you was asking about my temperature. According to the nhs website anything above 39.4 needs immediate medical intervention. Considering you claim to be a nurse it's surprising you don't realise how dangerous really high temperatures can be

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Apologies, wrote OP in error

Lanzarotelady · 24/04/2025 10:33

I am stepping away from this, my essay won't write itself and my violin won't play itself.

feelingbleh · 24/04/2025 10:33

Lanzarotelady · 24/04/2025 10:30

But is the OP having those symptoms?

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I'm talking about me you was asking about my temperature. According to the nhs website anything above 39.4 needs immediate medical intervention. Considering you claim to be a nurse it's surprising you don't realise how dangerous really high temperatures can be

Lanzarotelady · 24/04/2025 10:32

MrsSkylerWhite · 24/04/2025 10:31

My husband has had sepsis 3 times, the latest episode this January.
On the second occasion, some years ago, we were driving back from a family holiday, a long drive. By the time we approached our home town, he felt “odd” and wasn’t thinking quite straight. I took him straight to Preston Royal. His temp was 39.9 and he was admitted straight away.

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Yes but he would have had other symptoms, his BP, his HR, his sats, his blood results, him feeling not well, all indicators, not a temperature alone.

MrsSkylerWhite · 24/04/2025 10:31

Lanzarotelady · 24/04/2025 10:27

A temperature is one identifier of potential sepsis. No one would be started on the sepsis pathway for having a temperature

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My husband has had sepsis 3 times, the latest episode this January.
On the second occasion, some years ago, we were driving back from a family holiday, a long drive. By the time we approached our home town, he felt “odd” and wasn’t thinking quite straight. I took him straight to Preston Royal. His temp was 39.9 and he was admitted straight away.

Lanzarotelady · 24/04/2025 10:31

fairybower · 24/04/2025 10:30

I left that bit out. You don't sound very well-informed either.

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Because I am not bound up in hysterics?

Lanzarotelady · 24/04/2025 10:30

feelingbleh · 24/04/2025 10:28

Yes when their having fits and hallucinating because they can't bring down there temperature having a temperature in the 40s can be incredibly dangerous

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But is the OP having those symptoms?

fairybower · 24/04/2025 10:30

Lanzarotelady · 24/04/2025 10:22

I don't have to be empathetic, I need to be informed and able to keep you alive.

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I left that bit out. You don't sound very well-informed either.

feelingbleh · 24/04/2025 10:28

Lanzarotelady · 24/04/2025 10:25

Do you think people are admitted to hospital for a temperature?

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Yes when their having fits and hallucinating because they can't bring down there temperature having a temperature in the 40s can be incredibly dangerous

Lanzarotelady · 24/04/2025 10:28

feelingbleh · 24/04/2025 10:26

Colds don't kill people. Flu and covid do

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When was the last time covid was cited on a death certificate? When was the last time someone was hospitalised for covid?

R053 · 24/04/2025 10:27

Mumoftwo52 · 24/04/2025 10:04

Because we cannot always shut ourselves away from society at the smallest sign of a sniffle.

Kids have to go to school, they mix germs, they come home to parents, parents go out to work, viruses and bacteria spread. This is life. If YOU want to stay home and shut yourself away from ‘the germs’, go ahead. But you can’t seriously expect people who have to continue to earn money and go to school to stay at home because they have a runny nose.

Most people carry viruses - including Covid - and don’t show symptoms. So viruses spread even if ‘sick’ people stay home.

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I respectfully disagree. We live in a society, in which not everyone is naturally healthy. Those who are visibly sick do tend to carry a higher viral load and a greater capacity to infect others compared to those who are asymptomatic, so there is benefit to everyone for that cohort to stay at home. Staying at home for a few days to rest and recover before rejoining again is not as you put it “shutting ourselves away from society”. It makes biological sense to rest. That’s the whole reason we sleep at night (or in the day if you do shifts) because our bodies would eventually break down.

I work in a school and I feel so sorry for the kids who are sent in when sick. I see them crying and looking utterly miserable because they are so unwell. The office staff naturally don’t want to nurse other people’s kids, so they distance as much as possible.

Lanzarotelady · 24/04/2025 10:27

MrsSkylerWhite · 24/04/2025 10:26

They are if they are assessed to be on the sepsis pathway.

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A temperature is one identifier of potential sepsis. No one would be started on the sepsis pathway for having a temperature

NestOfWipers · 24/04/2025 10:27

Mumoftwo52 · 24/04/2025 08:44

I thought the Covid bedwetters would be long gone 5 years on from the pandemic. Evidently not

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Covid bedwetters

ODFO you nasty bit of work

Calliopespa · 24/04/2025 10:26

Lanzarotelady · 24/04/2025 10:21

So every cough and cold they have you keep them off? How will they build their resilience or immunity?

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Well by that stage they’ve already got it haven’t they.

They can build their immunity at home.

You don’t need to be sick at school to build immunity. Sick at home works just the same way.

Perhaps we would all like to see that certification you offered after all …! 🤣

feelingbleh · 24/04/2025 10:26

Lanzarotelady · 24/04/2025 10:23

But you would knowingly spread a cold around? What is the difference?

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Colds don't kill people. Flu and covid do

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