Torn on attending a wedding with a positive covid test

I bet relatives who are immunocompromised under medical treatment and, according to some posters, supposed to decide to stay away from ‘gatherings’, are still supposed to pay toward the wedding and/or buy wedding presents.

But that’s really not how the world goes round when it’s people’s close relatives, surely?

@Naomival-- ive been housebound with long covid for a year and happily punch you for saying that. Educate yourself or shut up.

If you had cold symptoms what was the point of testing? What are you going to do with the information?

Please don't go. You don't know the bride and groom, so you have no reason to be there. You don't know any of the other guests or their medical history.

You would be the equivalent of that person who takes a child with chickenpox on a plane because everybody has had chickenpox & you don't want to ruin your holiday. You will never know the consequences of being so selfish.

I voted unreasonable because you did a test. You don’t need to but once you have - and told people the result - there will always be people who say you shouldn’t go. But people need to realise we’ve come a long way since 2020.

There’s always one, although you were quicker than I expected.👏

I clicked on this thinking it was a zombie thread re-surfaced years later… first thing I did was check the date it was posted!
It’s now pretty mainstream to think the response to Covid was an overeaction. It’s now just another cold circulating just as colds do. Though if you’d said it was on over reaction at the time, everyone did look at you like you were an insane foil hat wearer. Chill out a bit and stop testing for Covid! If it were any other cold, do you feel well enough to go? That’s all that really matters.

Selfish to consider going anywhere public with a transmissible illness, especially one as potentially deadly, but to a wedding?! 🙄

I think I last did a Covid test three years ago.

I guess why test if you weren’t going to use the results to inform your actions?. Maybe put yourselves in the other guests shoes - if you caught covid from someone at an event who attended knowing that they had it and were displaying symptoms how would you feel? How would you feel if it was your elderly relative that got ill?

Covid isn't 'over' as some believe. 819 people were admitted to hospital in England due to COVID in the week up to July 31st and that is an increase over the week before. Covid is no longer front page news but it is still bringing people to hospital and causing deaths.

Yep as we have seen on this thread. Until it happens to them or someone they love.

This. Especially since it's not even a wedding for people you know.

It really isn’t!

I know someone who works in ASDA bakery with 4 other people, all 3 colleagues had covid and she was flabbergasted she had to go into work with them and bake things for customers.
The response was get over it, its like any other infection etc that can be passed between people, it's not treated any differently.
We walk amongst people with all kinds of infectious every day, so many of these infections affects people who are immunosuppressed but there's no testing and quarantine for them and there no longer is for covid.

Mine was also mild.

Perfect blood pressure, heart rate. Fit and healthy.

Now in my 3rd year of LC. I can now wash myself and potter about a bit. Was unable to wash, cook, use screens, read, talk, get dressed.

People are so fucking blase

I don't think people are testing now so the groom is right. Do everything you can to minimise the risk gargle frequently with either Dentyl mouthwash or Listerine Advanced Defence Gum Treatment Mouthwash both of which are effective in killing the virus in your throat, and that should shorten your illness. Also you can get spray to use in your nose at first signs of illness, so your partner could use that. You can decide what to do tomorrow.

Covid is endemic now, circulating freely in the community.

As we know many people will have it with no symptoms at all, others will become unwell with it.

At that wedding there may well be people incubating and transmitting all manner or viruses, bacteria etc without even knowing it.

The world is not a sterile environment. A wedding certainly won't be.

Just wash your hands.

I'm due to attend a wedding at 37 weeks pregnant 😬 and while usually I wouldn't care about catching Covid, I get it, common cold - at this stage I wouldn't want to catch it one bit.

Personally, if I'm sick, Covid or not, I wouldn't take the risk of infecting others. It is selfish and you never know how someone else's immune system (or lack of) will react.

I had surgery a few months ago, so a considerable time after the pandemic restrictions were lifted, and I was required to take Covid tests two days before and on the day of admission, and had to take the final test into the hospital with me as proof.

And they are wearing masks in surgery and in most interactions.

Drs in hospitals who perform operations aren’t testing and even when they are and positive they still come to work so let that sink in!

How many are you talking about? I can point you to the data on the number of medical staff who are missing work because of covid, if you'd like?

The key part is that was before Covid. Covid is different.

She'll probably be spending several continuous hours in an enclosed space with 90 people, not popping in for a pint of milk. When the risk factors were discussed at length over the last five years some people must have been utterly oblivious to the information!

It’s a huge number and it’s having a massive impact on the economy as most of these people can’t work. People need to understand a bit more how serious this can be.

That number will just keep going up and up because Covid keeps circulating every year (and all year round!) and it’s affecting healthy people not just vulnerable.