People with coughs shouldn’t be allowed in restaurants?

[Andrewsgirl]

AIBU to think people with continual coughs shouldn’t be allowed in a restaurant at the moment and to be annoyed a restaurant allowed someone with a very obvious cough dine there?

You are being seriously unreasonable. I'm suffering from Long Covid. As far as I'm concerned, I survived Covid, barely, I'm damned if I'm letting Long Covid and others opinions stop me living my life now. I have a cough, and will do for a long time to come, it sometimes makes me nervous to be in public places, but I make sure people around me know they don't need to worry. If I let it dictate where I went and what I did, I would never leave the house.

@Angrymum22

I take ACE inhibitors for hypertension which sometimes cause a low grade dry cough. You would never have noticed me pre covid. Damned if I’m going to avoid restaurants just because I have a persistent drug induced cough.

Oooh yes, same here

I remember the consultant saying ‘unfortunately they may give you a dry cough’ and i was just ‘oh fuck my life’

I don’t think its any worse in my case though, which is a relief

I'm on the side of the OP here. All the people who demand their right to cough in public don't seem to recognise the adverse impact their cough has on other people in the current climate. It is like there is a complete lack of empathy while expecting everyone else considers their feelings.

I think if I was on a table next to a heavy cougher I would feel uncomfortable. And when I have had something stuck in my throat at work, it was clear my coughs were making colleagues uncomfortable so I moved to somewhere without anyone else around, because I do try and consider others.

So someone with a chronic condition shouldn’t go out in case it makes people feel uncomfortable, despite being at no risk to them? Why are they responsible for your feelings?

I mean, I’ve already stayed at home for months on end, lost a significant amount of income, been double vaccinated, do LFT’s twice a week etc to make sure my risk to others is minimal, but that’s not enough, I have to stay at home indefinitely in case I make someone feel anxious? Maybe people should start taking some responsibility for their own feelings and not expect other people to do it for them?

You said you were annoyed not interested in other people's thoughts.
Either stand by your title or agree with good humour you are bu.😄🍸

I had covid - never coughed at all. Both my kids had it and they never coughed either.

My son has a nervous cough and will cough a lot in social situations.

So by your opinion I would have been fine to go in and spread it but my son who is fine not?

Cough doesn't mean covid at all, in fact I know many people who have had it and not one has had a cough with it.

Finally took my boyfriend's granny out for her lunch and shes 86 and has COPD so was coughing a bit. I could see people looking at her and judging. But she's not been out for 18 months and was so excited and loved it.

@Ifitquacks

So someone with a chronic condition shouldn’t go out in case it makes people feel uncomfortable, despite being at no risk to them? Why are they responsible for your feelings?

No, people with chronic conditions should start try empathising with the people around them, rather than just expecting everyone to understand them and their wants.

Should my empathy extend to staying at home indefinitely?
The biggest issue for me is that the fear is irrational. I’m double vaccinated, careful and take tests twice a week. I happen to have a chronic cough.
The person at the next table could be unvaccinated, spend their nights at illegal raves and be out with a temperature or other Covid symptoms, but id be the one getting the dirty looks and tuts?
By the way, none of the people I’ve known work Covid have had a cough. So it’s an irrational fear.

I think the empathy would extend to saying to the staff "I have had a cough for a few years now. I tested just to be on the safe side and it came back clear, but it might be worth giving a bit of space between us and other customers if possible so they don't feel anxious"

@Impier people with health anxiety should stay home and stop irritating people with non contagious coughs!

No, people with chronic conditions should start try empathising with the people around them, rather than just expecting everyone to understand them and their wants

I’ll save my empathy for those with serious conditions that cause them to cough, not for idiots who think that every cough is Covid. I cough through hay fever so not serious but there’s no way I’m asking to be sat out of the way to pacify the hard of thinking. You don’t like it, you avoid sit in bloody corner!

All the people who demand their right to cough in public

This might be the daftest thing ive read on here

@impier

Are you insane? You’re accusing people with medical issues that they CANT HELP and DIDNT ASK FOR of lacking empathy for daring to go out in public?? When they pose no actual risk to anyone else.

Where is YOUR empathy for others? Do you think, for example that I should stop my two year old from going to any public events, after over a year of lockdown, at a critical time in her development, just because her allergy cough might make someone like you feel uncomfortable?

You are the one seriously lacking empathy for others, not the other way round.

Reported for telling the OP to bore off 😂😂🤣

@Impier

I think the empathy would extend to saying to the staff "I have had a cough for a few years now. I tested just to be on the safe side and it came back clear, but it might be worth giving a bit of space between us and other customers if possible so they don't feel anxious"

Fuck that. Why should they have to pander to people's ridiculous anxieties?

Have you lost the fucking plot? There aren't words for how utterly unreasonable you are.

“The adverse impacts their cough has on other people”

I call bullshit. The adverse impact is from the media and from people’s own inability to carry out some form of realistic risk assessment.

Lol deleted because I was outraged that someone with lung cancer should consider someone else's feelings if they cough !

@PinkSparklyPussyCat

No, people with chronic conditions should start try empathising with the people around them, rather than just expecting everyone to understand them and their wants

I’ll save my empathy for those with serious conditions that cause them to cough, not for idiots who think that every cough is Covid. I cough through hay fever so not serious but there’s no way I’m asking to be sat out of the way to pacify the hard of thinking. You don’t like it, you avoid sit in bloody corner!

This, so much. People need to get a grip of themselves.

@Impier

I find your point of view completely abhorrent and your outrageous views should be deleted as offensive.

@Impier

I think the empathy would extend to saying to the staff "I have had a cough for a few years now. I tested just to be on the safe side and it came back clear, but it might be worth giving a bit of space between us and other customers if possible so they don't feel anxious"

Yeah, I guess maybe they could sit them in the back alley by the bins or something.