To expect people ill with Covid stay home?

In a word: yes. In more words: you also make decisions that benefit you and you only care about this because you're impacted.

The elderly have been dying each year in their thousands from the flu for how long? Did you ever stay home to protect them or think to wear a mask? No, you didn't. You only care / we only care when we are personally impacted.

I continue to be happy
about my workplace that bans people with known contagious illness from the building. People are free to work from home, but exposing others to illness is not acceptable.

It’s terrifying how quickly so many people went back to being selfish. Covid could have helped people learn about how disease impacts vulnerable people and chosen to do better. Truly the only option is to legislate against antisocial behavior and make people responsible for knowingly spreading disease.

You were all happy to do that during the pandemic and then pat yourselves on the back for protecting the vulnerable.

Don't worry though, it'll never happen. Nobody is willing to even wear a mask to potentially save a life. We disabled people know where we stand in the pecking order. It sure would be nice if we didn't have to constantly be at the bottom though.

I'm bowing out of this thread now.

How do you know that noone tests? The tests are easy to find in the pharmacies. I always take one when I have a cold that I think may be Covid.

Ooh, aren’t you the tough one (I assume that’s what you want us to think, anyway)…

Ever heard of sick pay?

Ooh, aren’t you the tough one (I assume that’s what you want us to think, anyway)…

Ever heard of sick pay?

Ooh, aren’t you the tough one (I assume that’s what you want us to think, anyway)…

Ever heard of sick pay?

Ooh, aren’t you the tough one (I assume that’s what you want us to think, anyway)…

Ever heard of sick pay?

How do you know that noone tests? The tests are easy to find in the pharmacies. I always take one when I have a cold that I think may be Covid.

Covid is not a variant of the cold. It is a different virus.

Staying home when contagious, regardless of the virus causing it, is just common decency. Obviously, it’s not always possible if you don’t get paid sick leave or an option to work from home but nobody needs to spread their germs at an exercise class.

If going to work to provide for my family makes me a selfish prat then so be it 🤣

I am amazed at the number of people saying you can't stay at home. Of course you can, although I fully understand that it can cause financial difficulties if you have to live on SSP for any length of time. By the way, for those who are not aware, SSP is now payable from the first day of sickness and must be paid to all employees, including those on part time or zero hours contracts.

Current government advice is that anyone with symptoms of a respiratory infection who also has a high temperature or does not feel well enough to work should stay at home if possible. If it really is not possible, they should take precautions including wearing a face mask or similar face covering.

YABU, stay at home is no longer required and most workplaces will expect people in if they have a cold (which Covid is a variant of).
edit; also who is testing these days?! I just assume I have a cold and go about my life

NHS?

@HappyLizard23 I'm with you - unless I am bedbound I can't afford not to go to work. Rent to pay!
People who don't understand this lead very privileged lives indeed.

Do the people that it's not "just a cold" for matter less?

You were all happy to do that during the pandemic and then pat yourselves on the back for protecting the vulnerable.

Don't worry though, it'll never happen. Nobody is willing to even wear a mask to potentially save a life. We disabled people know where we stand in the pecking order. It sure would be nice if we didn't have to constantly be at the bottom though.

I'm bowing out of this thread now.

If you think having Covid is always just like having a cold, you’ve never had a bad or even moderately bad case of Covid.

I caught Covid over a month ago (probably from someone with an awful cough sitting very near me in a restaurant - DH and I were annoyed at the time but there wasn’t much we could do about it - and have only just got over it. At one point my GP advised me to go to A & E for urgent blood tests as he thought I was dehydrated (terrible diarrhoea for a week, even with only drinking, hardly eating) and I needed a saline drip. The most tough person alive can’t just "go about their life" when they have a high fever, an almost continuous bad cough, low oxygen when SATS measured, and uncontrollable diarrhoea ten times a day - and certainly can’t without infecting many other people.

Luckily I’m basically healthy so didn’t need hospital admission for more than a few hours, but anybody already frail would have been in a very dangerous state. Don't be a selfish prat.

I could be on my death bed and I would still have work ringing me up to cover my own shift.