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Going on holiday tomorrow and I have covid ...

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navyplaint · 24/10/2023 07:36

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?

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ttcat37 · 25/10/2023 17:25

Tailfeather · 25/10/2023 17:21

@ttcat37 I did see your previous post.

At, you’re just reiterating that you only care about yourself then. Got it.

Tailfeather · 25/10/2023 18:10

@ttcat37 Not at all. The way it was dealt with has left some with severe health anxiety. Others followed all of the guidance to a t, testing when we were meant to, isolating when needed - including now living life as normal. We can't all live life in fear. I've had it 5 times, all mildly, twice with no symptoms whatsoever.

Overthebow · 25/10/2023 18:24

ttcat37 · 25/10/2023 17:19

See my previous post. Thanks but I don’t want me or my unborn baby to die. Or anyone else vulnerable for that matter.
Maybe you should seek therapy for selfish tendencies?

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Don’t go on a plane then, or go out at all. Everyone is just getting on with their lives, there is no requirement to isolate and why would someone lose a £3k holiday when they’re not actually unwell themselves? Those worried can protect themselves and not go out or wear protective masks.

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Overthebow · 25/10/2023 18:26

@ttcat37 im pregnant too, and have a dd who was born in lockdown. I couldn’t care about covid anymore, it would be detrimental to my dd and baby to worry about it and not want to be around others. Baby classes, soft play and nursery are all petri dishes and there will be people with covid there, but there’s no way I’m going to worry and let me dc miss out.

ttcat37 · 25/10/2023 18:28

Tailfeather · 25/10/2023 18:10

@ttcat37 Not at all. The way it was dealt with has left some with severe health anxiety. Others followed all of the guidance to a t, testing when we were meant to, isolating when needed - including now living life as normal. We can't all live life in fear. I've had it 5 times, all mildly, twice with no symptoms whatsoever.

I don’t have severe health anxiety. You’re lucky. I was quite ill with covid. I know people who were ultramarathon runners and now can’t climb stairs due to lung damage. People I work with who have caught it in the last 2 months have been off work for 3 weeks.
I would not dream of going out with covid, because I don’t want anyone to die because they caught it from me. Likewise I’m glad that my colleagues have all stayed at home so I’m not put at risk.
Just because it’s legal to go out with covid doesn’t mean you don’t have a moral obligation to not spread it where you can help it. You’re lucky that it doesn’t seriously effect you but it does effect some people very severely.

ladeluge · 25/10/2023 18:54

Go on hols OP, you have a virus, just like a cold. No one will cancel a trip due to a cold.

Anyway, to those who are insisting that OP cancels and stays home, what do you think she should do if she contracted Covid abroad on her hols? Stay there at great expense so she won't infect others on the plane home? See the logic, or lack of in cancelling the outbound leg?

Come on folks, it's a virus, lots of them in circulation at this time of year.

Delatron · 25/10/2023 21:37

ttcat37 · 25/10/2023 17:01

I can only imagine that the people who are so flippant about exposing people to covid haven’t been serious ill or had loved ones seriously ill or die. There’s plenty of people who are much more vulnerable than you are. Again, if you’d experienced some of the horrific long term long-covid symptoms that people are still suffering 3 years later perhaps you’d be less flippant.
People saying “it’s just a cold”. I don’t want your fucking cold either thanks. Stay at home and stop spreading it.
As for the person saying I have covid anxiety and hopes I get therapy… thanks but I’m just pregnant and don’t want me or my unborn baby to die.

I think you need help.

Zanatdy · 25/10/2023 21:42

Do airlines have any rules if you know 100% it’s covid? I would go as I can guarantee you others on that plane have symptoms and haven’t tested or have and are doing as you are. Personally when I travel now; air; train etc I do think I might end up with covid again from this, as this time of year it’s rife. If you go on a plane expecting people with covid not to travel and miss their holidays when no longer any rules then you’re a bit naive

ttcat37 · 25/10/2023 22:14

Delatron · 25/10/2023 21:37

I think you need help.

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In what way and why? Because I don’t want to catch a disease that could kill my unborn child? Something that could be prevented by people with this disease not knowingly exposing people to it?

If someone knows they have an STI and sleeps with people unprotected, is it no issue that they’re knowingly exposing someone to a disease that could give them lifelong serious health problems? Do we blame the victims who trust that the other person is responsible and test regularly if they’re having unprotected sex…? Or say ‘it’s only mild! We have to live our lives!’

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navyplaint · 25/10/2023 22:26

@ttcat37 covid is now something we have to live with -the majority of people have mild symptoms.
People who are vulnerable can get seriously ill from the flu.
Comparing covid and a std is ridiculous
You either live with it or every time you sneeze lock yourself away with fear.

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navyplaint · 25/10/2023 22:27

@ttcat37also you and your unborn child have more chance of dying crossing the road than catching covid and dying from it

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Inastatus · 25/10/2023 22:28

@ttcat37 - hopefully you have had your covid and flu jabs. You have a very very small chance of either you or your baby dying of covid. I think you are being a bit dramatic.

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navyplaint · 25/10/2023 22:28

Thanks for everyone who was kind and wished me a nice holiday
Just landed and on the transfer to hotel Smile

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ttcat37 · 25/10/2023 22:32

navyplaint · 25/10/2023 22:26

@ttcat37 covid is now something we have to live with -the majority of people have mild symptoms.
People who are vulnerable can get seriously ill from the flu.
Comparing covid and a std is ridiculous
You either live with it or every time you sneeze lock yourself away with fear.

Stop thinking about yourself for a moment. The majority have mild symptoms. I didn’t though and many, many people died and many more have lifelong lung damage. It’s great for you that you’re alright, but vulnerable people often don’t have that luxury.
Would you go to visit someone undergoing chemo with covid?
As for me crossing the road, the difference is that I can mitigate that risk myself by looking up and down the road before I cross…

Inastatus · 25/10/2023 22:32

@navyplaint - glad you are feeling better, happy hols.

Dinnerdate1 · 25/10/2023 22:36

@ttcat37 I caught covid at 38 weeks pregnant. I'm unvaccinated and didn't even know I had it. The baby was fine too. Why would the baby die ??

ttcat37 · 25/10/2023 22:37

Inastatus · 25/10/2023 22:28

@ttcat37 - hopefully you have had your covid and flu jabs. You have a very very small chance of either you or your baby dying of covid. I think you are being a bit dramatic.

Of course, but they weren’t available to me until covid was in full flow in my area and at my work place. I can still get covid despite being vaccinated. I’m not being dramatic- it’s a fact that pregnant women have a higher risk of dying from covid as do their babies. It’s not hysteria. I don’t think it’s unreasonable for a woman to want to protect her baby.

Killingmytime · 25/10/2023 22:42

Hibiscrubbed · 24/10/2023 21:52

See, you say this. But I know plenty of people who’ve had Covid, probably everyone I know, some have had it multiple times, but I don’t know a single person who’s been really ill with it. Not one.

For most people it has been a cold and had it not been in the media, it would have been entirely unremarkable from other seasonal illness and mild colds. When I had it I didn’t even know I had it, I only tested out of interest.

Perhaps this, and the behaviour of those in power, have made me feel more cavalier.

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you’re lucky.
you’re lucky it’s not your friend or family that’s died.
be thankful you’re not having to adjust to life without your loved one.
I know a few people who have lost their loved ones to covid.
I’m extremely thankful that although I was very I’ll at-least I’m still here.

ttcat37 · 25/10/2023 22:43

Dinnerdate1 · 25/10/2023 22:36

@ttcat37 I caught covid at 38 weeks pregnant. I'm unvaccinated and didn't even know I had it. The baby was fine too. Why would the baby die ??

You’re really lucky to have been asymptomatic. I was fully vaccinated when I caught covid and was really ill.
Women who catch covid when pregnant, especially in their third trimester, have a higher risk of dying from covid as do their babies. This is scientific fact and the reason pregnant women get offered boosters etc. There is loads of study material and statistics online.

Inastatus · 25/10/2023 22:45

@ttcat37 - it’s not unreasonable for you to want to protect your baby and you have done that by being vaccinated. Yes you might still get covid but it is highly unlikely to kill you. Pregnant women are more vulnerable to flu and covid (and other viruses) but you have to be rational and remember that, for the vast majority, it is a mild illness that is not life threatening. When I was pregnant it was a very bad year for flu but I just had my vaccine and went about life as normal, I didn’t expect the rest of the population to isolate themselves.

Bellabelloo · 25/10/2023 22:59

@ttcat37 So are you isolating? If not you are probably in contact with multiple people a day who have Covid - with or without symptoms. I know you don't think you're overreacting, but the level of anxiety you are displaying on this thread is worrying. I have more than a handful of friends who are pregnant at the moment and not one has displayed any concern about getting Covid. We've been to restaurants, cinemas, birthday parties, on public transport etc. One of them had Covid a couple of weeks ago and never once mentioned it being of serious concern. You seem to be stuck in 2020.

prescribingmum · 25/10/2023 23:00

ttcat37 · 25/10/2023 22:32

Stop thinking about yourself for a moment. The majority have mild symptoms. I didn’t though and many, many people died and many more have lifelong lung damage. It’s great for you that you’re alright, but vulnerable people often don’t have that luxury.
Would you go to visit someone undergoing chemo with covid?
As for me crossing the road, the difference is that I can mitigate that risk myself by looking up and down the road before I cross…

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And as for catching Covid - you mitigate the risk by not flying in your third trimester and avoiding any other confined spaces for prolonged periods where you could get infected. You wouldn’t expect drivers to stay home in case they ran you over, you also should not be expecting anyone who has an infection and is feeling well to stop life in case you get ill. People can’t afford to lose out financially for this.

I have an immunosuppressant parent due to chemo - they are not travelling abroad at present, they don’t go to crowded events or large gatherings. We avoid seeing them if we have any sign of a cough/cold/infection but continue other activities as normal

ttcat37 · 25/10/2023 23:03

Inastatus · 25/10/2023 22:45

@ttcat37 - it’s not unreasonable for you to want to protect your baby and you have done that by being vaccinated. Yes you might still get covid but it is highly unlikely to kill you. Pregnant women are more vulnerable to flu and covid (and other viruses) but you have to be rational and remember that, for the vast majority, it is a mild illness that is not life threatening. When I was pregnant it was a very bad year for flu but I just had my vaccine and went about life as normal, I didn’t expect the rest of the population to isolate themselves.

It wasn’t a mild illness for me. Same as it isn’t for many others.
Even not pregnant, I think if you have flu, covid or anything that could make someone seriously ill and knowingly expose them to that, you’re a very selfish person. It’s not unreasonable to expect people to avoid spreading disease.

BeavisMcTavish · 25/10/2023 23:04

Don’t know why you tested, if you’d have gone in 2019 because you’re well enough to have a good time then go now

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