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OMFG do not go out

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Hopefulworker · 24/04/2020 21:21

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 😞

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OkMaybeNot · 24/04/2020 22:02

And this is why I haven't been out for 5 weeks. My asthma is triggered by my allergies, I cough and I sneeze and it's my worst nightmare to get confronted by some arsehole in a shop Sad

480Widdio · 24/04/2020 22:03

I have coughed for the past 11 years,a problem with my nose that will never improve.

Coughing is natural.

You are being ridiculous OP.It is also Hay Fever season!

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 24/04/2020 22:03

I say stay at home if you are likely to be coughing or sneezing near people, whatever you think is the cause.

I cough from March to September every year because of hay fever. Are you seriously suggesting I shouldn't go out for 6 months?

Jupiter202020201 · 24/04/2020 22:03

Isolate if you have a ‘new continuous cough’.
Some people have them for many years and if nothing has changed about the cough then theres no need to assume they have COVID I guess

Raaaa · 24/04/2020 22:04

This again Grin

IStressheadI · 24/04/2020 22:04

I had a seriously sore throat the last two days, which has now cleared up but left me with a dry cough. I'm 90 percent sure I dont have Covid, as I have no fever or aches and feel generally fine apart from the throat area.

But still, I'm going to stay in until it's gone and then stay in a little more to be sure. I could have covid19 and be asymptomatic and spread it through my unrelated cough. I think at this point we should all be assuming we have it.

Though I'm lucky in that I have people who can go to the shop for me, not everyone has that.

Lausch95 · 24/04/2020 22:05

I've been asthmatic since early childhood. I cough a lot. I sure as hell will not sit confined to my house! If I feel well enough to go for a walk then I'll go and if you hear me cough, tough. Yabvu

TheRoyallingStones · 24/04/2020 22:05

YABU

I’m asthmatic, I constantly have a mild cough. I try and suppress it on the rare occasion I go out, but it’s exactly the same cough I’ve had for years. If it changed or I had any other symptoms then of course I would isolate myself.

There are plenty of people like me with long term coughs due to pre existing conditions. We are allowed to go out!

SpratsOnParade · 24/04/2020 22:05

Boxachocs I hope that you can avoid it. I'm not particularly concerned about it, but I can understand why you are. I hate those coughing spasms.

Aragog · 24/04/2020 22:05

But I don't cough in the house.
The only time I want to cough these days is the moment I walk inside a shop or when I had to pop into work last week.

It's like when someone starts talking about head lice. I suddenly need to scratch my head.

Seriously though - the symptoms is a 'new and persistent cough' not just a random cough or a cough that you always have for other reasons.

HighNetGirth · 24/04/2020 22:06

Yep. April and May = tree pollen time. Usually I am at work and coughing constantly because of the plane trees just outside. Here at home it is much better but I still sniffle my way around the supermarket. DH is even worse, with hayfever and asthma.

And since we have to eat, one of us has to go out and shop. Anyone who wants to stop me will have to prise my trolley out of my cold, dead hands.

Pickles89 · 24/04/2020 22:06

My sister has a nervous tic cough. It must be a bit unsettling for everyone she meets at the moment, but it's just part of her everyday life.

WatchingFromTheWings · 24/04/2020 22:06

If you have a cough, as innocuous as you might think it is! Why are you out?

I'm asthmatic and have to work.

You can have my first ever Biscuit.

TheKrakening3 · 24/04/2020 22:06

Threads like this make me think we are seeing the extinction burst of the “if you open your front door you are killing nurses with your bare hands” types.

Puppybum · 24/04/2020 22:07

I choke on fresh air it's my party piece, am I never to leave the house again

gabsdot45 · 24/04/2020 22:08

My Mil has an awful hacking cough all the time, she's a smoker
I'm asthmatic and i often have days where I cough a lot
Sometimes people have to clear their throat
It's not always Corona.

OoohTheStatsDontLie · 24/04/2020 22:08

It might have been me, I got a fly stuck at the back of my throat when I was walking this evening

laidbacklife · 24/04/2020 22:08

Sometimes people need to cough. They might also sneeze occasionally. You’ll probably find they breathe too. You are the one who needs to stay in if you’re so ridiculously paranoid.

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MyShinyWhiteTeeth · 24/04/2020 22:09

The pollen levels have been really high. Many people have worse hayfever than normal and it sets off asthma. My eyes are red and I'm sneezing everywhere and struggling to breathe. I've only just managed to source antihistamines.

I'm come across so many 'OMG - what the hell is wrong with you' judgemental fuckers on my shopping trek to find medicine. Keep your dirty looks and ignorant comments to yourself!

ToPlanZ · 24/04/2020 22:09

Another with allergies and reflux. I've had a cough for years now as a result. If my cough changed or I developed any other symptoms then yes I would isolate but currently I'm following government advice with my in no way new cough.

The reality is we all have to take responsibility for our own health. We have to all decide for ourselves if we think we pose a risk to others. Some people will follow the guidelines stringently others not at all. Modelling the potential spread takes that into account. The people who are not following the guidelines at all are hardly likely to be persuaded by someone on a thread saying OMFG stay in because I say so.

What's worse is the sheer lack of humanity and compassion in your post OP. Did you not for one second think about people with health issues who can't help but cough? Some of those people might be anxious already about going out, your post will have exacerbated that. Perhaps if you feel so strongly you'd just be better staying in yourself?

Timetospare · 24/04/2020 22:09

OMFG just stay in then, you don’t have to take a daily walk if you are that paranoid.

Davespecifico · 24/04/2020 22:09

I think Hopefulworker is worried about catching Covid, not about people with hay fever and other conditions.
She’s talking about people who have become ill relatively recently with a cough. These people shouldn’t be out because it’s possible they could spread the virus.
I do have a bugbear about coughing runners. Yesterday, a runner came up behind me and ran past my ear coughing and then spitting.They don’t know if they have Covid or not, and passers by definitely don’t. If you know running makes you cough, choose a quieter time and place to run.

Sparklingbrook · 24/04/2020 22:10

OP has started a few threads about CV, maybe it's all to do with anxiety.

CakeAndGin · 24/04/2020 22:10

I coughed the other day because I choked on a satsuma. That aggravated my throat and I was coughing for the rest of the day.

I also cough because of hay fever, which is pretty strong at the minute. I’ve been coughing for since the beginning of March when tree pollen started to come out. However, I also react to grass pollen and will be continuing to cough until the end of summer.

News flash - just because someone coughs it doesn’t mean they have coronavirus. Similarly, just because someone makes a stupid, sweeping statement, it doesn’t mean they always have their head up their own arse.