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 might think we should be worrying more but I want to get through this with my sanity in tact, not panicking about everything. I'm not washing my shopping or quarantining my post and I'm ordering things online as normal and having takeaways. I am also not going to stay indoors because of hay fever.

I was sitting in the garden earlier and started coughing. The neighbours were in their garden and carried on their conversation as normal so I'm presuming they aren't expecting me to hide away either!

Well it would be unreasonable to expect you not to use your own garden.

After seeing some posts on MN I'm sure some people would think I was unreasonable, especially as we have tiny gardens and can't always stay 2m apart!

Actually MrsHunt, some of us have fought for years to overcome severe anxiety and don't particularly want to go back there again. HTH.

But I want this to stop and I think we all have to put public good above personal wants.

I want to keep a roof over my kids head and to feed them if thats ok with you.
I have coughed 3 times at work today not once did i cough over anyone else. I used tissues or coughed into my self.

I am not staying at home to starve till September on some mini dictators say so.
I could say shops should be home delivery only as many customers seem to think staff are invisible. Pushing past us, leaning over us, banging i to us with trolleys if we dont jump put the way in time but that would be ridiculous. Hmm just like asking a huge % of the population to stay at home for 6 months earning nothing and doing nothing! How the hell would business including the NHS run without all those people?

Just before lock down, I was on the train to work, and I sneezed (I am an inveterate suffer of hayfever). The two people sat in front of me shot off like a rocket.

A sneeze. Which generally doesn't mean you have CV.

I imagine the OP will be glaring at people not wearing face masks and full biosecurity gear next month

My MIL has had a cough for around 10 years. The doctors have never been able to find out what causes it. She now feels very self conscious about going out in in public because of people like you OP.

My daughter is the same. She’s 9, she is petrified people will think she has coronavirus despite the GP being very clear that she hasn’t. She is full of heavy gunk that just won’t shift but she’s so worried. People have coughs for all sorts of reasons. Not just from coronavirus. Hayfever gives me a cough, my hayfever doesn’t usually kick in till June, I’m dreading the judgey looks I know I’ll undoubtedly get

So that's 20-30% who, if they contract CV, have a higher chance of passing it on than people without coughs and sneezes

Hate to break this to you but 100% of people cough and sneeze for no apparent reason

My best friend just FaceTimed me, she’s a child protection social worker and was coughing with hay fever. I’ve told her it’s fine, and that despite what the government and her employer says she shouldn’t be out protecting vulnerable children in case she has asymptomatic coronavirus and her hayfever cough sprays it over those children. She’s thrilled she gets the summer off until her hayfever goes but is wondering who is going to pay her in the meantime...

I'm an ex-heavy smoker and still cough every day. You need to chill a bit.

I’ve got my second cold since lockdown and will probably start coughing in a few days as I always do. I am a carer for my adult ASD son and my elderly father who has COPD. Our joint shopping is complicated 2 fussy eaters and I am vegetarian. I have to do this even if I am coughing. Obviously if I had a temperature I would have to self isolate but as it’s a cold I won’t.

Clearly some people have to go out despite frequently coughing/sneezing. But not everyone does and if you can avoid it you should.

I live in dread of getting a tickle in my throat and coughing while I am out in case someone lays into me. Try and be a bit more understanding.

What, so now I need to tell her she does need to go to work after all, as the MN armchair experts have decreed it? Ok.

I’m overweight and exercise makes me cough. So should I not go out and try to exercise because I’m fat?

My dd2 started with a cough 20 days ago , dd1 started 7 days ago. we have all complete 14 days, dd2 19 days. Both still coughing but according to guidelines as long as no other symptoms they can go out after 7 days. I have to admit we went out today and I was paranoid either would cough and we would get funny looks but we were fine. They are worse at night.

You’re having a giggle aren’t you. If you’re not might I suggest you move into a hermetically sealed box until a vaccine is found

How about we all just judge ourselves instead of judging others that we know zero about? You will find that much more reliable and a useful tool for normal life as well as during lockdown.

I don't need to know anything about you. I know that if you cough or sneeze near me and have Covid, I have a higher chance of catching it than if you don't do those things near me

@MrsHuntGeneNotJeremyObviously well duh.. but we are saying just because you cough doesn’t mean you have covid , it’s more likely a hundred other different things.. and sneezing isn’t a symptom

To be fair...and i do like being fair

I do absolutely see mrshunts point...completely

But ...everyone sneezes and coughs

And people who do cough or nervously clear their throats shouldn’t be confined to their house

Not that i think mrshunt was saying that...I can’t remember to be honest

Yes, I know that, but as I've repeatedly said, you can have a cough and unknowingly have Covid too. Until testing is widespread we have to behave as if we and everyone else is positive.

No, I don't think you should be confined to your house for clearing your throat or accidentally choking on something and coughing. Of course everyone sneezes or coughs sometimes. But that is very different from having a persistent cough and still going about your normal business, even though that increases the risk for everyone else.