To find this cold worse than covid?

[Tigerwhocameforsupper]

I had covid in October- sneezing, but of a headache and tiredness. Nothing major and I would have gone into work every day had I been allowed.

I now have a cold. It’s awful. My sinuses are so painful, I have thick green snot coming from my nose and the headache is awful.

I think I would rather have covid again than this! I can’t call in sick from work tomorrow for a cold can I?

Of course you can call in sick if you are sick . It is also better not to spread it.

For plenty of people covid is milder than a cold. Overall covid kills far more, that is why you isolate for one not the other.

Presumably you wouldn’t prefer the kind of covid that requires ventilation or sends you to an untimely death. What an insensitive post.

@rrhuth

Of course you can call in sick if you are sick . It is also better not to spread it.

For plenty of people covid is milder than a cold. Overall covid kills far more, that is why you isolate for one not the other.

We’ve got so many people off isolating with covid that I really can’t call in sick. Most of those people aren’t ill they have very mild symptoms and could work.

I will be teaching their classes feeling like crap because we can’t get any supply cover as every school is also in the same position!

Whilst I understand your position and you feel you can’t call in sick
as a parent I would not be impressed at my child being taught by someone as poorly as you on the last week of term, ready for my child to bring the germs home and pass them round our family so that we all end up sick Christmas period

I've jut got over the worst Cold. It lasted 2 weeks which is really unusual for me, normally colds are over and done quickly and honestly as pathetic as it seems by day 12 I was starting to worry. Thankfully day 14 I woke up and it had just gone, the day before I'd been coughing up nasty mucous and felt awful. Call in sick, I hope you feel better soon

Of course you can call in sick with a bad cold. I realise being a teacher is very different to working in an office, but we haven't been allowed into the office with a cold since Delta hit.

No-one wants your germs.

What you have is not a cold, it’s called sinusitis and you should be doing something about it

If your Ill your ill so call in sick. You would still be spreading it about same as covid and you've admitted how bad it is.

Sounds like bacterial sinusitis and you almost certainly need antibiotics.

Get a GP appt (phone call would do - even pre-Covid, I've been prescribed ABs for sinusitis over the phone).

Don't go in to school until you feel like they've started to work.

I'm a teacher, our school is on the verge of full closure with teacher Covid cases but it us time we stopped being martyrs to the cause. Someone might start to listen when schools are shut.

I had Covid in January and was very unwell
I've now had the worst cold I've had in my life ( PCR negative) and honestly have hardly been out of bed. There was no way I could have gone into work, no one would have thanked me for giving them a nasty virus two weeks before Christmas and also I could hardly stay awake.
The main difference for me between Covid and this cold was that my limbs didn't ache with this cold ( I never had a temperature with either) however I've still lost my sense of taste 10 days on with this cold which I didn't experience with covid.
Call in sick

Of course you need to call in sick. You are sick, need antibiotics and rest. Surely this pandemic has taught people to self isolate when ill??? Do these families a favour and don’t give them your horrible cold for christmas

I have just had a week off with a cold. PCR negative but felt worse that I did when I had Covid.
Don’t take it to work and share it! No one will thank you.

Please don’t spread your cold this Christmas! Anyone who catches it will worry it’s covid which is an additional layer of stress on families RN.

There is really no point comparing them.

It doesn't mean Covid isn't bad - it just means that particular bout of Covid wasn't bad for you at that time.

You might have had a much larger viral load with the cold than you had with Covid. You might have had a bit more immunity to Covid then for whatever reason.

But the fact is that overall, Covid is much worse than a cold, and that is why you have to isolate with Covid and not with a cold - more people can deal with a cold and come out of the other side.

As for calling in sick, of course you can if you are sick.

(Also don't listen to the donut above suggesting you need antibiotics for your cold )

We’ve got so many people off isolating with covid that I really can’t call in sick. Most of those people aren’t ill they have very mild symptoms and could work

They couldn't though, could they, because they have Covid, which means they have to isolate.

As I said above - the reason you have to isolate with Covid is not because of how ill you actually are, it's because of the risk of how ill somebody else might get if you pass it onto them. That is not so much of a risk with a cold.

Two of us actually. Sinus pain, headaches, thick green snot is very likely to be sinusitis which will not clear on its own.

I'd never ask for ABs for a cold, I'm not an idiot. This sounds like sinusitis. I've never once shifted sinusitis without eventually getting ABs.

OP, if you tip your head forwards and your head is much more painful than when upright, it's in your sinuses.

@cookiemonster2468

We’ve got so many people off isolating with covid that I really can’t call in sick. Most of those people aren’t ill they have very mild symptoms and could work

They couldn't though, could they, because they have Covid, which means they have to isolate.

As I said above - the reason you have to isolate with Covid is not because of how ill you actually are, it's because of the risk of how ill somebody else might get if you pass it onto them. That is not so much of a risk with a cold.

Yes this.

Sick of being two years in and people moaning about isolating when they can see how many people are dying every day - and therefre should be able to understand it would be worse if all the positive cases were just spreading it around schools.

I think the OP sounds like their argument is 'those with covid shuld be allowed to spread it through schools so I can be off with sinusitis' - if so have a [bsicuit].

If you are too ill to work, ring in sick, teacher or not.

I had a cold for six weeks - both myself and a friend became ill on the same day, hers turned out to be Covid but mine didn’t. She got better as I became progressively worse and it turned into a chest infection. Never had a cold like it - last time I felt that bad, I had Swine Flu.

But I do agree with others that you need to take time off sick - you are sick. I work in a school and took a couple of days off before the weekend, then went back in but worsened and then thankfully it was half term.

I’ve just had the worst cold I’ve ever had. Definitely not Covid. I’ve been bedridden and really started to panic one night, as I felt so ill. I told my husband I thought I was dying.

Don’t go to work. One good thing to come out of all this is that we’ve learnt how important it is to distance ourselves when ill.

Why would you go to work so ill and spread it round

Phone in.
There might not be supply to teach but in the last weeks they can get away with assessments, quizzes or crafts.
Also its not now unheard off to send a class home if needs be.
Do what you need to do.

Covid was way milder than my common colds too! I'd rather covid again than a cold, if symptoms are the same second time around. I was pregnant and unvaccinated too. A vaxxed colleague caught it at the same time (pretty sure I caught it from her) and had a bad time, strangely.