Going on holiday tomorrow and I have covid ...

[navyplaint]

Pretty much that
Going to Lanzarote tomorrow and woke up Sunday with sore throat.
Anyway yesterday I had a lots of phlegm and felt like I had a head cold.
Had a test lying around and it was a strong positive.
I've never had covid before but at the minute it feels like a cold.
No temperature and I haven't lost my appetite /don't feel sick or anything just feel like I have a head cold.
I feel guilty having to get on a plane with covid but if I don't go it's a £3000 holiday
I am okay now to go abroad with covid aren't I?

In real life nobody would cancel a 3grand holiday for mild Covid symptoms....this is Mumsnet though 🙄

Which is why I don't.
My oncologist and the staff on the ward and in haematology test regularly and do not work in the dept if they have covid. The dept has its own entrance.

I work for an airline and people travel with covid all the time sadly, it’s normal now. It’s the same as any cold and we have to accept it. I’m currently on round 4 of covid and I’m severely immunocompromised but I’m still going to work etc. life goes on

And Covid will always be a "thing" because of the attitudes of half of the posters on this thread. Go OP....have a fab time.

Yes Oncology will be a lot stricter that's true

id go. I’d probably wear a mask on the plane to try and prevent spreading. That’s what we do currently at work. Even if it’s just a cold or testing negative. I do it out of care for my colleagues. We work in close contact and no one wants to be ill.
I had the most horrendous cough/cold/respiratory virus which wiped me out for over 6 weeks, it wasn’t Covid. I still wouldn’t have wished it on anyone. So I would wear a mask for the plane at least

The cev have just been forgotten about it seems

Oh behave! The economy and NHS has been wrecked because of restrictions. People were unable to leave their homes for the best part of 2 years to protect the cev. Children's education was massively disrupted - some died in abusive homes due to lockdown for a virus unlikely to affect them.

People need to stop calling others selfish for living their lives; if you're vulnerable take precautions to protect your own health - the country cannot afford to keep locking positive people away for mild cold symptoms!

Quite. A generation of school children have been effected in all sorts of ways because of the two years they spent protecting the cev. Not saying they shouldn’t have but it’s unfair to try to stop people living normal lives.

That's because it's an airborne upper respiratory tract infection, it's highly unlikely you'd catch it from touching cash points/handles etc. A decent mask is the best way to avoid catching/passing on Covid.

I think you should go. Take what precautions you can, and enjoy your holiday.
I've been told I'm extremely vulnerable to Covid. Last year I was in hospital with a cold and on oxygen and months of steroids for a bloody cold. I bet no one would cancel their holiday for a cold. Life is for living, I got very unlucky.

Unable to leave home for 2 years! What country was that!! 🤣

Just che n your travel insurance will pay should you become seriously unwell.

I wouldn’t go. I would have the flu - call the drs claim on the insurance.

Why?

Because I have just had covid.

The first 5 days were grand, and just like a cold and then it kicked in properly on day 5/6 and I was bed bound and could barely walk for nearly a week. I have never been so ill, and can’t imagine being that sick overseas. It was hell. It’s taken 5 weeks to recover. My dh and xx all had the same experience. It’s a really nasty strain that can really make you very unwell indeed. My neighbour was hospitalised.

So I would change the dates yes.

@Tailfeather ·
The problem here is that you've done a test. I wouldn't have. I would have assumed it was a cold and gone. I would probably have worn a mask on the plane

Yes, this.
Why did you even bother testing if you didnt want to know the answer?
You should have just assumed it was a cold and then been none the wiser.
Now you know, you should stay at home.
You don't have to, but you should imo.

Enjoy!

I am going on holiday and hope my runny nose is playing ball tomorrow

🙄
So why bother testing in the first place and then coming on here to ask for other opinions if you're going to do what you like anyway?!

@Lastchancechica - but the OP is feeling much better and only has a runny nose! Myself, DS and DD had it recently and we only had mild symptoms for a few days. I guess your family/neighbour were just unlucky.

Just go op.

Enjoy your holidays op!🌻

Yes

Not sure why you even tested. There is no legal requirement to and what benefit is there to someone who 'has a cold' knowing its covid?

Enjoy your holiday

Go and enjoy! DH has woken up today ill after us being at a gig Saturday or it could be the fact we’re both teachers and have kids of our own, so germs all of sorts are rampant at this time of year.

It would hurt me more to lose 3k than being I’ll on holiday!

BTW, why test?

I would go for sure. I've just been ill with sore throat and coughing and not tested and done everything and would've gone on holiday as well.

@Flopsythebunny will they not give you your boosters? I'm permanently neutropenic and had mine with no questions (0.3 last bloods)

You shouldn’t have tested.