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?

People have absolutely lost their mind.

You think someone with, for example, lung cancer, completely not contagious, should stay at home until they die?

Asthma and long Covid. Cough all the time.

I’ll just lay in a ditch and die @Andrewsgirl that good for you?

If you are that worried, perhaps you are not ready to go to restaurants. I didn’t have a cough at all when I had covid. I did lose my sense of taste though. Maybe they should ban people who ask for more salt as they are probably COVID lurkers.

Threads like this really piss me off. Total lack of disability awareness and understanding. Not all coughs are Covid. I have lupus and sjorgens. The sjorgens means I don’t produce saliva. I have to rely on synthetic saliva substitutes. It means I have weeks at a time where I often have oesophageal thrush and cannot swallow solid foods. The weeks where things are slightly better (which is without any reason whatsoever and is unpredictable) I can eat out but will often cough and have a horrible hacking cough, as quite simply without warning mucus will build up as I’m eating. I try to cough discreetly but sometimes it happens so fast I can’t help it. Im only 40 and people look at me like a leper when it happens as they assume I have Covid. It’s so annoying.

I'm asthmatic. Had a cough my whole life. Would be happy to show you my raft of inhalers if you approached me in a restaurant for daring to cough.

I hvae asthma and cough a lot, especially in dry environments (heating on type of thing) or where people are wearing strong aftershave/perfume or because my asthma is playing up.

If I was not allowed into restaurants I would not have been out for 10 years.

Don't be so judgemental

I caught Covid late last year now every time I get a cold, the cough part takes double the time to clear. It's very annoying and painful.

Thank god for understanding people like you eh?!

YABU.

My neighbour has a cough that is quite obvious. He has had it for years.

Fit as a fiddle cycles miles and miles. He thinks the cough may be caused by cold air getting into his lungs over the years as doctors can find no obvious cause.

Should he never be allowed to go out because he has a cough? Of course not!

If it bothers you then maybe wait a while until you go out.

DD has a cough near constantly. She has a bad respiratory history (they won't diagnose asthma at her age but have said it's likely they will when she's older) plus a cardiac issue that contributes to chest infections. She's completely fine and we text regularly so no, we will not spend our lives in isolation.

Catch yourself on. I have asthma and hayfever. I have a constant cough all year. You’d never allow me out.

(Yes it’s not COVID. Yes I do lateral flow tests)

@Andrewsgirl

I’m not trying to wind anyone up. I am interested in what other peoples thoughts are. When I made the booking the email confirmation clearly says you should not attend if you have Covid symptoms. A continual cough is a Covid symptom. I was shocked to sit at a table next to a diner who spent most of the night continually coughing.

Actually although it is a symptom I can tell you as I am sitting in a house with 2 people with COVID it isn't always present. My child/husband are not coughing- they have many of the other symptoms- sore throat/initial high temperature- my child has altered taste and my husband a headache, but no coughing....

The symptom is a continual new cough by the way. Not just a cough.

Persistent coughing is part and parcel of a number of chronic illnesses, including my own. As much as healthy people might like us all to be banished to an invisible corner of society so they don't have to deal with the false perception of being unsafe it's just tough shit for you, I'm afraid.

Don't be so ridiculous.

Tell me the name of the restaurant and I won't go there with my asthma cough.🙄

They might also hVe already has a negative pcr test.

*had

@Andrewsgirl

Bit of a difficult thing to establish though, whether it’s new or old cough !

Exactly so perhaps you should wind your neck in!

My 7yo has had at least 6 continuous coughs since this whole thing started. We’ve had all but 1 tested and none of those were Covid.

I have an anxious cough all year round and have done for about 20 years so I'm pretty worried about people like you getting worried.

So many reasons why a person could be coughing, something as common as asthma for example. It’s discriminatory to refuse entry to anyone coughing so restaurants simply can’t do that. They’re reliant on people knowing they don’t have covid before entering. If that’s too much of a risk for you right now, don’t go to restaurants.

My DD has a continuous cough. She had a test, it's not covid. I'm not going to keep her at home until it's gone, there's no need.

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MarsandPluto

Dh and myself have coughs and were very ill as well, we both had negative pcr tests and are still coughing. Should we be banned as well? ^

Yes same I have had 3 negative lateral flow tests and did a PCR to be certain. All negative. In my experience the cough is usually the last to go when ill. Should I stay in the house though even though I don’t have Covid just because people may be offended if I cough.

People with chronic lung diseases are fully aware of the difference in their coughs. With my asthma I have a tight chest and you can clearly hear a wheeze when I breathe, my inhaler can relieve it. If I have a different cough it feels different and an inhaler doesn’t make it stop.

The fact that you have no capacity for critical thinking doesn’t mean other people are the same. I’d recommend getting on with your own life and leaving people with chronic lung diseases alone.

People who can't handle that people have always had coughs due to hay fever etc and think every cough is Covid should not go in restaurants.