People with a bad cough in cafes

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I would have thought it might be a good idea for someone with a bad cough to maybe not sit in a busy cafe coughing their head off (not to mention not covering their mouths). It's not great at the best of times, but seems really stupid and antisocial now.

No, it's really not very scary. Unless you are over 60 or have complications (heart disease, lung disease etc) you have around a 1% chance of dying if you catch corona virus.

According to the BMJ

www.bmj.com/content/suppl/2003/09/25/327.7417.694.DC1

you have the same risk of dying from any cause – illness, accident, car crash, falling downstairs, murder, whatever – in the next year. That is, you have a 1% chance of not making it to the end of the year. But that doesn't stop you going out, climbing stairs, getting into cars, going on holiday, swimming, flying etc, does it? So why let corona virus stop you?

I have had a cough for months now, every time the bloody thing improves then comes back with a vengeance. I am on immune suppressants and have asthma. H

Well that went well...anyway, GP says to ride it out now and am not contagious. I cover my mouth when I do cough but sometimes I do go into public places like cafes to meet friends. With the asthma every minor cold gives me a bad cough so wouldn't be able to go into cafes etc for six months of the year

My friends who is a medical researcher dealing with contagious disease always tells me that a cough or sneeze should be into ones elbow or a tissue not hand as this is more hygienic. Assuming one washes ones clothes regularly lol

Sadly these days some people aren't aware of what they should do or how they should behave in public.

Perhaps it needs a new updated Govt Info campaign like the wartime and later "Coughs and Sneezes Spread Diseases" specifically telling people to cough into their elbow or at the very least a tissue with frequent handwashing demonstrated too.

Don't think anyone carries handkerchiefs any more, not the huge ones shown in the old infomercials anyway.

People cough for all sorts of reasons. Some people have medical conditions such as asthma, other people smoke. Most coughs are probably just caused by the common cold especially during winter or by a chest infection.

If this is due to coronavirus then YABU, I’m tired of the mass hysteria now and wondering when we all stopped being British about things.

Saw a mum with young child in a pram. The child had a nasty cough but was not covering mouth. Mum did nothing. I have seen others coughing and sneezing without covering mouth or nose. In certain parts of London spitting is a thing too which has got to be equally bad.

I have a tickly cough quite a lot of the time. Years. Never got to the bottom of it. I always cover my mouth when I do it, but I am getting a few looks on public transport when I do it now.

People have coughs for all sorts of reasons.

Dealing with corinavirus is going to be the same as climate change. No point unless we all do our bit worldwide. People no longer know what is the right thing to do in public and have no filter anymore. It will take a mammoth effort to get people to wash their hands singing happy birthday twice all day long.

I am hoping my office based job will tell us to WAH so I can reduce my travel on public transport.

Someone coughed on the back of my head once, on the bus. I asked him not to. He did it again. I fucking lost it at the dirty cunt.

So yanbu imo op.

I’ve had a cough for three weeks. Other than that I’m not ill. I’m not going to not go out in public.

I do cover my mouth and keep my hands clean.

I have chronic post nasal drip and spend most of the time coughing.
It's not at all contagious, just a PITA.
I do, however, cover my mouth and try not to cough all over other people.

I have asthma. It shows as a dry cough from November until the next spring, every year. I do cough into my sleeve.

What you are saying is that it is antisocial to go about my life atm, because you have hooked up your judgey pants. That’s a no from me and anyone who disagrees has the empathy of a gnat. It is this sort of thought process that progresses and has caused Chinese people to be attacked. Get over yourself!

How is a child in a pram going to know to cover its mouth???

Obviously people should cover their mouths, but I don't think you can reasonably expect people with coughs to stay home. People cough for all sorts of reasons, and a cough from a cold can really linger after the rest of the symptoms have gone.

People should 100% cover their mouths.

A friend of mine has terrible asthma and can cough a lot when it’s playing up....which is frequently. And she can go from being ok one minute, to,coughing fit the next. She’s paranoid atm people will think she’s got corona.

@mastertomsmum - child in pram is presumably being pushed in it be a responsible person, they make sure to teach them, or hold the tissue for them. The child I saw coughing in a pram had a woman with her that looked like her mum. The mum did nothing. No attempt to tell the child to cover mouth.

My retired mum has a permanent cough and permanent lung problems. She has never smoked. She lives alone so likes to get out as much as possible. She feels self conscious about the constant coughing. She needs to live as full a life as possible.

Sarcelle - I think you mean a buggy/stroller/pushchair as a pram implies a babe in arms aged infant not a toddler.