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

That was for the benefit of the striking doctors, once it was clear they were still striking, flu suddenly stopped being mentioned

We’re not at ‘stay at home’ level. It’s not Covid times

Exactly this. You should be considerate if coughing or sneezing, but life must go on.

What a bizarre post :/ as if it’s a choice

But yes I’d rather get a cold than be verbally abused in public, yes. I’ve had lots of colds and no they’re not the best fun but they are inevitable to some extent, I can’t remember most of the ones I’ve had. I can however remember much more clearly the times in my life I’ve been verbally abused

Exactly this. You should be considerate if coughing or sneezing, but life must go on.

Post them please.
Especially ones about having a cough.
Remember the year.

Actually, most shopping is done online these days. It’s the people shopping from home that are driving the economy.

His mind is only going there because that’s what the public announcements broadcast to the entire country have been saying for weeks. They’ve been telling everyone stay home if you have a cold or cough because the NHS is dealing with the worst flu season in a decade.

If everyone who had a slight cough or cold stayed at home in the winter, the economy would be even further down the toilet. No one would build any immunity either.

OP has post nasal drip. A PP has lung cancer.
People cough. Cough does not mean death.
I mean, you are accusing me of being hyperbolic but I think you should take a look in the mirror.

I’m immunocompromised. I can’t as many people have said on here stay home as it’s for life and I have to balance risk
but people cough and sneeze for all reasons, it could be asthma, a dry throat, swallowed something… I sneezed three times in a row yesterday for no reason! I wouldn’t have bothered about someone coughing

No it’s ok for asymptomatic people to be out in public because they feel perfectly healthy. They haven’t a clue they are ill.

It’s not ok he shouted at OP, but OP shouldn’t have been sat in the cafe in the first place.

And the man is also oversensitive if her hears a cough and his mind goes to the NHS collapsing.

Yes, from people who are asymptomatic. People like OP who know they have a cold and a cough should not be swanning about sitting in cafes and coughing their heads off. It’s antisocial and selfish.

The old man could well be asymptomatic with a bug too. But it is ok for him to approach and shout and spread spittle everywhere because he of his health anxiety. Approach a woman on her own and shout. Maybe you could handle that, but I would find that terrifying.

During Covid, he would have been told to stay home.

I note you have deleted “aggressive” and “lone” to unmake your hyperbole.
I am sorry for your past experience, but that means you are over sensitive if this would spiral you into a panic attack.

Genuine question for you: would you rather encounter a stranger who shouts at you for a brief moment (as happened to the OP), or encounter a stranger who gives you a cold? I mean obviously both scenarios aren’t great, but I’m guessing you think the worse scenario is being shouted at which just seems so counterintuitive to me.

Maybe the old man should stay at home then?

Unfortunately if you go out and about during winter you do assume the risk of catching a seasonal virus.

A sinus infection (sinusitis) itself isn't usually contagious

, but the viruses or bacteria that cause it often are, especially if it starts from a cold or flu. !!!!

Viral sinusitis spreads like a cold, so you're contagious, but bacterial sinusitis, which develops later, is less likely to spread.

I guess it makes no difference if satisfying your Starbucks or Costa espresso addiction is worth risking the lives of other customers by sitting and drinking it in the cafe instead of doing a take away coffee. It’s selfish for those of us who actually give a shit about other people. Like those who have just beat cancer and are trying to get back to normalcy with compromised immune systems who rely on people being decent enough to limit exposing their illnesses in public spaces.

OP coughed into her elbow in a cafe. A man shouted at her.
What is acceptable about that? It is not hyperbole at all.

I grew up with an aggressive man. A man shouting in a cafe at me would absolutely send me spiralling into a panic attack. Not hyperbole. My lived experience

OP did nothing wrong.

Public spaces are for the public.

But you're being far too trusting here, how do you know this man was healthy? He could've been carrying fuck knows what, and spraying it merrily over the lone woman he felt entitled to shout at, with no care at all for the NHS. You just prefer his form of selfishness, that's all.

🤣 I recognise you, by the end of the thread the old man will be a convicted rapist Covid conspiracy theorist madman shouting death threats at a poor disabled lone woman who merely blew on her hot coffee to cool it down.

you love to resort to hyperbole while erasing all the context.

Yeah that’s not based on science or caring about kids or staff health but on how attendance stats affect their performance assessments and league table rankings.