To expect people ill with Covid stay home?

Unfortunately I still have to live like that because my health has been utterly destroyed from the pandemic. But never mind, people have to carry on going to exercise classes I guess.

Is it only Covid where people are expected to Stay Home? Or even "stay the fuck home"?

With other illnesses there's a preposition used. "At" normally.

We seem to have established that they don't care. Ableism and disability discrimination is so rife in society that it just becomes normal rhetoric.

im suprised they tested as if i was well enough to go to an exercise class i wouldn’t think i had covid so wouldn’t be testing.
i had an awful cold (poss covid ) a few weeks ago. would never usually take time off for a cold but felt awful so rang in sick one day then wfh for two other days and was too wiped out to go to rhe gym all week.

For a lot of people it is just a cold
Yes for some it is far more serious but thats always been the case
Peoole cant live their lives like we did during the pandemic.

I take it you didn't do well in the sciences at school if you think.covid is a cold.

I'm with you OP. 'if' you can take time off work sick without penalty when ill, .then you should. There's no excuse for doing an exercise class when ill though. That's selfish as fuck.

People got on with their jobs and their lives with a bad head or chest cold before covid, and no-one cared. Unless they were so ill they couldn't function properly it was expected of them to just soldier on. No-one would have thought twice about staying at home to protect other clinically vulnerable people.

This is no different, really. The covid 19 strain is massively weakened now and anyone vulnerable should be vaccinated anyway. Have they actually got Covid? Or just saying they have it? I notice nobody can simply have a nasty cold any more. It's always covid now. The same people who used to claim that every minor virus they picked up was 'flu are now saying it's Covid. It's probably not, but if it is, so what?

When my DH was really ill with flu (I mean actual, bloody awful flu that had him in bed for 10 days rambling incoherently from fever and unwell for 3 solid weeks after that) the GP suggested he might like to do a covid test. We asked why and he said 'well you might just want to know if it's covid.' So we said 'And if it is covid, is your advice and treatment going to be any different?' And he said no. It was still just go home, take paracetamol, plenty of fluids, wait it out. He didn't tell us we should go into isolation or anything.

We did do a test, and it wasn't covid.

You seem very touchy. You’re inferring a lot from my post that isn’t there.

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And here we have it! Thanks, at least, for your honesty.

So it's not REALLY about not being able to afford to take time off? At least not for you? It's about your inalienable right to swing your fist around willy nilly, for shit and giggles, as it meets every nose in the vicinity. (Classical liberals turning in graves everywhere.)

No. Wouldn’t do that even in full health

Doesn’t surprise me. Iain Duncan Smith doesn’t have an empathetic bone in his body. As head of the DWP he waged war on disabled people, shredded social security, punished single mothers, evicted people whose carers sleep in the spare bedroom and wasted billions on Universal Credit.

@alwaysbehindascreen Assuming you still get paid if off ill though?

Do you also need to go to an optional fitness class?

I go into different care homes every day for my job. If i am ill, that's potentially a lot of people I could infect a week- vulnerable people. I still test.

@PigletJohn So is flu.

Talk about a leap!

Anyone with a heavy cold, or Covid should stay away from other people.
It's pure selfishness to go out mixing. Many work places advise staying at home.

Fine if you're young and fit but how do you know that someone you cough or sneeze on isn't suffering with cancer? Immunosuppressed? They have a right to go out and do whatever they need to - and vaccines are not 100% effective.

You might be able to carry on but the 90 year old you've just sneezed on could get it, develop pneumonia and be die.

Sadly, I doubt there is any point bringing science!

SO many on here are convinced "it's just a cold".

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

Interesting to see so many people think a potentially fatal disease can be ignored.

Hospital admissions Increased Baseline

The overall weekly hospital admission rate for COVID-19 increased to 2.04 per 100,000 compared with 1.75 per 100,000 in the previous week

  <a class="break-all" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-flu-and-covid-19-surveillance-reports-2026-to-2027-season/national-flu-and-covid-19-surveillance-report-8-october-2026-week-41" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-flu-and-covid-19-surveillance-reports-2026-to-2027-season/national-flu-and-covid-19-surveillance-report-8-october-2026-week-41</a>

If they feel well enough why not? It’s just a cold for most people. I’ve certainly been to a gym with a cold before. Not sure id go if I was coughing a lot as that would be annoying for others but having an illness isn’t a reason to hide away.

And to an exercise class, apparently...!

Not too sure why you tagged me in this post. My issue would be similar, and I couldn’t afford to take time off for a cold anyway. So I understand

It’s not sociopathic, it’s reality. Many people don’t get paid for being off sick and there’s no obligation to test or to isolate any more. So if you’re not ill with it, you go to work.