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Andrewsgirl · 2021-07-14T23:02:19+00:00

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?

Cooldryplace · 15/07/2021 07:50

@Feelingoktoday

My partner had a new cough. Also swollen glands. He was tested twice - negative. We can only assume it was a summer cold that we all get. Was he expected to stay in and isolate. The official advice was that he didn’t need to stay in once he got the results.

TBH, yes we should all stay home more when we're ill with contagious bugs IMO

Confusedandshaken · 15/07/2021 07:50

@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.

YABU. Most restaurant staff are not medical professionals. They are not trained to assess or diagnose coughs. They have to trust their customers have carried out their own risk assessment as to whether they are safe to be in a public place.

And as many people have said coughing doesn't always equate to CoVid. I recently had a cold with the accompanying symptom of a terrible cough. The congestion associated with the cold lead to losing my sense of taste. Multiple lateral flow tests and a PCR test at a drive through centre confirmed this was a cold not CoVid. I stayed home when the cold was at it's worst as I didn't want to spread it but the cough came and went for quite some time.

AnotherDayAnotherCake · 15/07/2021 07:50

I did the school run last week and just as I inhaled a fly flew right into the back of my mouth.
I was so scared to cough and I had no water 😭

GoWalkabout · 15/07/2021 07:51

I know what you mean this happened to us last summer. I convinced myself the lady probably had an an allergy or asthma cough because she surely wouldn't have come out otherwise. But then heard her absolutely berate her middle aged daughter for fussing so much about restrictions and started to have my doubts! We are all reliant on others making selfless choices but unfortunately we humans are all wired pretty selfish! Not the restaurants remit to police though, but I think they would be within their rights to require a reasonable level of information about the symptoms (like the places that are temperature testing and turning you away).

moynomore · 15/07/2021 07:52

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

The cougher would know ffs.

Livinginanox · 15/07/2021 07:54

@AnotherDayAnotherCake

I did the school run last week and just as I inhaled a fly flew right into the back of my mouth. I was so scared to cough and I had no water 😭

I think alot of people are scared to cough or even clear your throat. It's always seems to be my luck that the bus is dead silent. And I'm the only one that Needs to cough. Then you get the death stare .

DancesWithTortoises · 15/07/2021 07:55

Don't be daft, OP.

I cough all the time - asthma.

Ifitquacks · 15/07/2021 07:55

I caught Covid last March, quite badly. I have had a cough ever since. Yes i guess my cough is a Covid symptom as it was a result of Covid. No idea when the cough will go.

CrouchEndTiger12 · 15/07/2021 07:57

OK...I don't mean this I'm just illustrating how ridiculous the OP is...

How about you all keep your children out of cafes and Restaurants? None of them vaccinated all of them mixing with 30 households each...coughs and sniffles etc

NormanStangerson · 15/07/2021 07:57

My friend has lung damage from exposure to a chemical. She has an appalling sounding cough. It hurts her. She’s as discreet as she can be but she coughs frequently.
It’s not Covid.
Would you like her to never leave the house because you might be offended that her cough sounds like she might have Covid? Or would you rather that she stand up and explain her own medical history to all around every time she has to cough?
Don’t be so ridiculous. 🙄

I understand why everyone is so preoccupied with Covid but I am fed up with it being the only thing people are thinking about. Other illnesses are (frequently) available.

You see the threads on here:

“My husband’s behaviour has become strange…”
“Could he have long Covid?”

“My baby is really sick and can’t keep food down…”
“not being funny but could it be Covid? It presents weirdly in children.”

“My MIL is a twat.”
“Seriously, could she have Covid?”

I’m so fed up with it.

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 15/07/2021 07:58

Not the restaurants remit to police though, but I think they would be within their rights to require a reasonable level of information about the symptoms (like the places that are temperature testing and turning you away).

If I had you share my medical information with a restaurant I'd walk out, especially if I was asked in front of some nosy busybody like the OP!

strawberrydonuts · 15/07/2021 07:59

People with a new continuous cough are already advised not to go to restaurants.

However as other posters have said, you don't know that person isn't coughing for a completely unrelated reason e.g. smoking/ lung/ chest problems.

There's a lot of blind trust at the moment if you want to go out and do fun things - people will do what they'll do so it's always going to be a risk you have to weigh up.

If you definitely don't want to come into contact with anyone with Covid/ anyone behaving irresponsibly, then at the moment you probably should continue to limit your socialising. Sad, but that's the way it is at the moment.

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 15/07/2021 07:59

Well said @NormanStangerson, it's as though every other illness has ceased to exist

Musication · 15/07/2021 08:00

YABVU. There are many, many viruses and conditions that cause a cough.

Livpool · 15/07/2021 08:00

I have asthma and it makes me cough. Should I just never leave my home like the leper I am?!

Kitkat151 · 15/07/2021 08:01

My mum has a little Continuous cough all the time....has done for about 5 years....she has every right to eat out ( and she does)

User5827372728 · 15/07/2021 08:05

My son is on week 4 of a horrific cough, he’s had 2 negative PCR tests so we are carrying on as usual!

zaragirl84 · 15/07/2021 08:06

Yabu.

I can think of several reasons why someone may have or be living with a continuous cough that aren't Covid.

In reality if I was in a restaurant and someone was constantly coughing, it probably would make me a little uncomfortable even pre Covid.

But at some point people have to accept that we share the world with other human beings and actually remember that they are human beings not disease vectors.

If other humans doing what humans do upsets you so much then it's probably YOU who needs to avoid such places.

doesparentingsuck · 15/07/2021 08:06

YABU as I have just recovered from Covid and still have a cough and am not self isolating on that basis as if you go the the gov website it clearly states isolation can end if the only symptoms you have are cough and no taste.

So if the government says it's ok then what's your problem?

Shelddd · 15/07/2021 08:09

This thread is so sad. People have learned literally nothing from covid and will continue to go out while sick and infect other people.

Dukekaboom · 15/07/2021 08:14

Wow. This thread sums up the very worst side of MN.
Telling the OP to “fuck off” because you don’t agree with her?! How delightful. And articulate to boot.
Also particularly illogical to say “mind you own business”. It is her business if she’s get unwell due to someone else’s cough.

chaosrabbitland · 15/07/2021 08:15

@Shelddd

This thread is so sad. People have learned literally nothing from covid and will continue to go out while sick and infect other people.

o fucking give over , no one has said if they thought they had covid symtoms they would go out anyway . but i expect you expect anybody with a bit of a sniffle to isolate yes ?

MagicSummer · 15/07/2021 08:16

I have hay fever (cough, sneeze, cough) and chronic allergic rhinitis (cough, sneeze, blow nose, cough). I cough all year round - it is NOT new - I am prohibited from pubs and restaurants for the foreseeable then, OP? (Not that I want to go anyway, but there is no reason why I shouldn't.)

stellaisabella · 15/07/2021 08:19

Don't be so pathetic.
Coughs are caused by a million other things than Covid. My DH has asthma and coughs when if flares up, and Do with hay fever - shall we stay inside Incase you get upset?
Get a bloody grip. If you're that upset, YOU stay at home.

Hadjab · 15/07/2021 08:19

@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.

And yet you just sat there, being judgy