OMFG do not go out

[Hopefulworker]

If you have a cough, as innocuous as you might think it is! Why are you out? Just walked on my daily walk for about half an hour. 3 people walking past in safe distance all coughing 🤨 what the hell is wrong with people 😞

You don't know the chance is small. Until there's proper testing and tracing no one does.
I never said I wasn't at all anxious - I just don't consider myself especially anxious, although I suppose that's subjective.

Sorry MrsHunt, I missed your valuable advice on taking a mask before I went for my walk. I don’t own any anyway.
We had a lovely walk thank you. We encountered 2 other groups of walkers on our travels, one group who were far in the distance and another family who we vaguely know and stopped to pass the time of day with. DD1 is currently doing ‘measuring’ as part of her maths work so in the interest of education, after they’d gone, we looked at how far away from us they were when we exchanged pleasantries. We estimated at 6 meters.
I coughed twice on the walk, both of which I captured in a tissue, bagged and binned.
Oh and if anyone else wants to judge me for doing things that are completely within government rules but that they personally don’t agree with... we walked for an hour and 20 mins (gasp) and my two DD’s stopped briefly to sit on the grass for a drink and a cereal bar.

I cough a lot due to asthma. I refuse to stop my and my dogs daily walk because of ignorant and paranoid people such as yourself. You don't like it YOU stay in.

Drivingdownthe101......brilliant...that's us all dead then!!!!!

Ha ha only kidding.

@JRUIN crack on walking your dogs, however, put a scarf across your face, wear a mask if you cough that much. I say that as a hayfever/asthma sufferer. Would you fart in a lift full of people!!

Public health is the health of all the public. That includes Jane Smith's dad's need for physical exercise, his mental health, vitamin D and so on. You don't get to chuck him and everyone else under the bus for the sake of 'public health'. Public health is why he is allowed out and we don't have complete lockdown!

We do not have contact tracing in this country currently, but other countries did and do, and what we have learned from there applies here. The risk is small. He cannot possibly give you coronavirus if he doesn't have it, and the rules about social distancing have been put in place to cover the event that he or anyone else is carrying it asymptomatically. Stay two metres apart from other people and don't go up and lick him.

Not everyone can stay home all the time but I honestly believe that if you have someone else who can shop for you and you have a persistent cough or hayfever is causing you to sneeze frequently, it's safer for other people if you avoid being in public spaces

Why? You can't catch hayfever or asthma or smokers cough or anything like that, why would other people be safer if those of us with one of those conditions or similar stays in?

Not everyone can stay home all the time but I honestly believe that if you have someone else who can shop for you and you have a persistent cough or hayfever is causing you to sneeze frequently, it's safer for other people if you avoid being in public spaces

Just goes to prove that covid19 is way more a cultural tragedy than a biological one.

Well let's hope Jane Smith's dad doesn't have it then! 2m means nothing since sneezing covers up to 6m and the droplets stay in the air for a while.
Thank you JRUIN for demonstrating my point for me

@JRUIN crack on walking your dogs, however, put a scarf across your face, wear a mask if you cough that much. I say that as a hayfever/asthma sufferer. Would you fart in a lift full of people!!

Nope, I will just cover my mouth when I cough as usual. You wear the scarf or mask if you so wish. And I don't generally go for walks in a lift so your comparison is daft.

Just in case it needs saying again, which for some on here it clearly does, there are many reasons someone might be coughing and most of them aren't coronavirus. My own cough variant asthma (20+ years) is well managed, I'm not responsible for managing your anxiety too..

No one has said all coughs = Coronavirus. Only that the act of coughing propels the virus further if you have it unknowingly in addition to your other ailments.

Agree with previous posters. People dry cough for all sorts of reasons.

I dry coughed for a few minutes this morning. I had finished an 8 mile run at 5am. The air is cold. I stop running and cough whilst my breathing regulates to its normal pattern. Doesn’t mean I’m ill.

www.livescience.com/covid19-coronavirus-transmission-through-speech.html

So really you should go out either!

You would need to HAVE CV in order to spread it. If you have it as an asymptomatic carrier (and it would be asymptomatic if you have a CV cough you know it!)

People spreading it without knowing is an issue but you cannot solve it by expecting 20-30% of people not to exercise because they might have it

I take it you dont have any allergies?

@DominaShantotto I'm presuming you've grown them on a plate? Any cultures you've grown need to be dispose of properly because you don't know for sure what has grown there.

Everything I deal with is usually autoclaved, but if you soak them in bleach solution for at least an hour, it should be fine.

I hope this doesn't come across the wrong way, I just work with cultures and know the potential hazards

I think whatever cough you have , cover your mouth... please

So much ignorance...almost like pigs rolling in shit...

But only on Mumsnet...

FWIW I agree op.

I think whatever cough you have , cover your mouth... please

If you read the thread I think you'll find most of us with allergies do, probably because we're so used to it and therefore don't need to stay indoors indefinitely like the minority of posters here seem to think.

So much ignorance...almost like pigs rolling in shit

Whats pig fucking ignorant is telling everyone who has a cough for what ever reason and however they deal with it That they shouldn’t leave the house ...for months if not years

No one is saying you shouldnt cover your mouth or sneeze into a tissue with allergies - it is what I have been doing for years.

What is objectionable is people saying that because of allergy related coughing and sneezing people shouldnt be allowed out of the house

I think whatever cough you have , cover your mouth... please

So much ignorance...almost like pigs rolling in shit...

But only on Mumsnet...

FWIW I agree op.

Your post makes no sense, and I've not seen one person on here saying they don't cover their mouths when coughing

You'll rarely get people admitting that they don't cover their mouths, doesn't mean they always do or are effective at keeping their germs to themselves.

You'll rarely get people admitting that they don't cover their mouths

Probably because the vast majority of people cover their mouths. In my circles, anyway.

Yeah I would . If you’re coughing to the point of coughing fits in a supermarket I think you need to find another way to get food at the minute.
I don’t think it’s a good idea for people with copd to be out shopping now anyway?