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 😞

In fact isnt "omfg do not go out.." more apt for a local facebook site. Perhaps follow it up with "what's the matter with these people? " and put up a picture of a family going for a walk.

I have asthma and cough a lot I cant help it and would also know if my cough changed and then i wouldn't go out

Also it's like when they talk about nits at school people start scratching.. I've noticed I was really thinking about not coughing so much in the store that I let out a random cough that came from no where

Coughs actually existed before Covid 19.

I always have a cough because I'm a smoker. Nothing has changed.

I have asthma and hay fever so tend to cough a lot, does that mean I should not go out?

I have chronic asthma, hay-fever and I suffer with acid reflux. I cough 24/7/365

Get over yourself. Not every cough is flaming coronavirus. Try educating yourself

I have hayfever which I can generally control with antihistamines. However occasionally if I walk under a flowering tree i suddenly have to cough. This has happened once since lockdown. Do you think that I should stay indoors all the time?

I’m another with asthma and hay fever. I always cough. Should I never go out?

Everyone has an excuse for their cough though in this nice weather . Because would you rather have hayfever (nice quality of life, walks out and about each day) or mild covid 19 (isolated at home unable to leave, social pariah , loss of earnings, fear, uncertainty, people in hazmats, endless cleaning , unable to get supplies , potential hospital admission...)
If we’re self diagnosing then this is what it comes to eventually.

Allergies and reflux. I cough all the time. Ffs should we all stay indoors

This made me laugh on a reddit sub

A bloke on the opposite pavement to me this morning coughed massively and spat in the gutter. envy (not envy)

Gross, but coronavirus presents with a dry cough, not one that would produce mucus that needs to be spat out.

Another hay fever sniffer and cougher here. I cross the street if I see someone coming in case I cough. We have so many cherry blossom trees around here which are beautiful but my nemesis, along with cow parsley!

Chances are the cough isn't related to coronavirus, but even if it was you're allowed out after a week.

After 7 days you do not need to self-isolate if you just have a cough as a cough can last for several weeks once the infection has gone. The 7-day period starts from the day when you first became ill.

Perhaps it was a fake cough just to wind you up??

Oh FFS, really? YABVU and obviously have never suffered with asthma. Are you really this small minded?

My baby coughs constantly because he has one lung.

You are still allowed out for exercise even if you have symptoms. Really.

Whether this advice should be changed I don't know, given the graphic I saw today of how far droplets can spread....

I run and when I run I cough a fair bit and my
nose constantly runs, I'm sure it scare people but I've always been the same.
My friend coughs a lot and always has done, she had acid reflux which the doctors think is part of the cause but aren't 100% sure.

Strangely I had this conversation with my uncle the other day. He was complaining that he'd passed a woman who was coughing. I put him straight.

3 people walking past in safe distance all coughing.

Just get over yourself.

I have had a chronic cough for weeks and weeks. It’s dry. I feel like I shouldn’t leave the house but it’s not coronavirus.

“coronavirus presents with a dry cough, not one that would produce mucus that needs to be spat out”

I think this is true initially but not for long.

My husband has copd and asthma. He has an impressively loud cough and has had since he was a child. Even before corona he could get a lot of stares when he coughed. Now hes shielding so doesn't scare people so much!

I have a permanent cough due to a medical condition. Are you seriously saying I should be permanently inside? Get real