Just got shouted at in a coffee shop for coughing in public 🥴

He wasn’t right to shout full stop. But OP shouldn’t have been there in the first place. If you go out coughing, then you risk upsetting people who rightly think OP should be following the guidelines.

Wonder if this man has shouted at anyone else for being out in public lately, or if he's going to repeat the performance? Being this entitled, he could rack up quite the string of incidents.

I think it is sad. The fear around Covid really did a number on some people's mental health.
I know a lady who has been wearing a mask when she leaves the house since Covid started.

Not so long ago, a friend of mine went to the local off license and coughed (covering her mouth) and the woman standing next to her gave her a petrified look and actually ran away, out of the shop. Running.

I think Covid gave some people permanent cough anxiety. I have also found that some old men like to shout at or scold or be arseholes to women, if they think they can get away with it.

If you think you could still be infectious and it's a nasty cold or flu (a quick Google will tell you the approximate timelines) please only go out and about when you have to.

But that's just city life I'm afraid. We all have to rub along somehow.

Here is the UKHSA
https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2025/12/02/how-to-avoid-catching-flu-covid-19-and-other-respiratory-illnesses-this-winter/

“If you need to go out, then avoid close contact with anyone who you know is at higher risk of becoming seriously unwell.”

and
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/people-with-symptoms-of-a-respiratory-infection-including-covid-19

But if he was not, was he still right to shout at her? Not a passive aggressive eyeroll, but actual shouting at a lone woman?
I bet he would never have shouted at a man.

Except she has said she has post-nasal drip.

You are just making things up now to suit your own narrative.

Yes I’ve noticed that too no one was clinically vulnerable before Covid but now all of a sudden no one can be in close contact with anyone it’s all getting ridiculous now.

Im so sorry to read you live in a house without windows.

I think it was obvious OP was sick, because he was right in his deduction that she was sick.

Always a bit suspicious of the self righteous. Usually the ones getting up to all sorts IMO . Sorry you got yelled at in the shop OP. It’s not nice to yell at people, obviously. And then getting yelled at in here. To which the incoming rebuttal from said self righteous is likely to be : “Well, it’s not nice to leave the house when coughing/ getting over a cold/sub-optimal…”

Always a bit suspicious of the self righteous. Usually the ones getting up to all sorts IMO . Sorry you got yelled at in the shop OP. It’s not nice to yell at people, obviously. And then getting yelled at in here. To which the incoming rebuttal from said self righteous is likely to be : “Well, it’s not nice to leave the house when coughing/ getting over a cold/sub-optimal…”

Always a bit suspicious of the self righteous. Usually the ones getting up to all sorts IMO . Sorry you got yelled at in the shop OP. It’s not nice to yell at people, obviously. And then getting yelled at in here. To which the incoming rebuttal from said self righteous is likely to be : “Well, it’s not nice to leave the house when coughing/ getting over a cold/sub-optimal…”

Yep, actual NHS guidelines.
Posting shite from random SM and news sites is crap. They also all say you can claim PIP for acne etc. Don't get health/money info from them.

Edited for typos

There’s no mandatory guidance, no one has to stay at home or wear a mask. It’s not the Covid pandemic. It’s flu a bit early.

I didn’t post anything from social media. Go read the links to the NHS advice reported in major new outlets.,

I’ve had an irritating cough for a couple of months now. It starts to go then comes back again. Went to the doctors this week as feeling pretty run down too. They told me I had a ‘recurring virus’ whereby I was recovering, then picking it back up again from others because the current virus makes immune system very low. I was advised to stay home and avoid crowds to break the cycle for myself, but also to avoid spreading it. I wonder if GPs are being told to try and get people to isolate to stop the current escalation of flu etc?

'Probably'.

Telling that you've now started to make things up. This is not something you can do when you've decided others are wrong for insinuating aggression. You have no idea how OP looked.

Here is the actual guidance from the NHS on colds. No advice to stay home and avoid others unless you have a high temperature or you're too unwell to do normal activities. Guidance on avoiding spreading it doesn't include advice to stay at home and avoid others.

I didn’t tag you OP or say you had changed your story

There'll be a book out soon though 🤣

no idea why I tagged myself here either

They do stay locked away because people are inconsiderate and selfish.

Their lives cost more because they have to do this (shop online)...then we tell them we are removing their benefits and MH from the isolation is a lie. You couldn't make this stuff up...never criticise benefits spend increasing from taxes if this is your view

He most certainly did, as he had no idea why OP was coughing. The NHS have not in any way shape or form told people with coughs they should all be staying at home.

I have given a factual description of his behaviour. There is not one word of it that's even remotely at issue.

Exactly. If there was an NHS one, then it would be one link from the NHS... not shit from social media.