I think he's trying to pull a fast one to get more time off college, and using me as an excuse.
Firstly let me point out that my partner and I had covid back in April, so it's hugely unlikely that we'd have it again.
Last week, I started with a cold. It felt exactly the same as any cold I've ever had - sore throat on day 1, lots of snot and mucus for a couple of days plus headache and tiredness and sneezing, and then from about day 3 the start of a cough - which I'll have for weeks, just as I have after every single cold I've had since I was a child. It is not a covid cough, it's productive, I'm all too familiar with the covid cough after having it for weeks earlier in the year. There's no chest issues or shortness of breath.
Anyway, DSS has come from his mum's and announced that he cannot go to college as I have symptoms so he has to isolate. Bear in mind that in his first day of isolation today he went to the shops to buy sweets and an energy drink. Also he knew I wasn't well as I told him on the phone and he heard me coughing. So he could perfectly fine have stayed at his mum's if he was concerned - it would be been fine with her.
He says that he cannot go to college until I've tested negative, or 14 days have passed. My issues are:
- I've already had covid
- It's been too many days since my symptoms began to get a test (they say within the first 5 days)
- I can't actually get a sodding test anyway as my partner tried a few times over the course of today for me, and I refuse to drive for over an hour and a half to get a test when it's pointless as far as I can see.
- It's exactly the same as any other cold I've ever had in my entire life. Literally the same.
- I have no temperature, no loss of taste (a bit of smell in the first day or so but only because I was bunged up) and the cough is a productive, tickly cough, not dry. Nor would I say it was persistant.
What do I do? He won't go into college as he says he has to 'keep people safe' (just not the ones in the corner shop apparently), I can't get a test at the moment and it's too late anyway, and to be honest, given I'm so sure it's a cold (have I mentioned I've already bloody had covid?!) I'd feel incredibly bad even TAKING a test, as someone who really does need one might then not get one.
FWIW I haven't been going out myself. Firstly I've felt grotty, I work from home anyway, but more than anything else I just don't think it's wise to be out with a cough right now.