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Original poster

to go to a yoga class when my daughter has covid

228 replies

Itsnotdeep · 20/12/2021 21:03

I have no symptoms. I have numerous negative lateral flow tests.

I'm interested in what other people are doing. (Btw I did a virtual class today and didn't go, but I really missed it).

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Itsnotdeep · 20/12/2021 21:43

I get the moral argument @notanothertakeaway but please don't presume to know anything at all about my mental state.

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Siuan · 20/12/2021 21:43

@Itsnotdeep

I suppose I kind of think that a CEV person won't be in the yoga class. They're more likely to be in the supermarket.
I find that shocking. What on earth makes you say that?

I am CEV but you wouldn't know to look at me. I went to my Pilates class on Saturday. Last year, pre vaccine, one of our members died of covid.

DropYourSword · 20/12/2021 21:45

@R0tational

Despite answers here, I am going tomorrow to the gym early morning (as long as my LTF is clear and I have no symptoms). Those are the rules and I am going crazy at home with a sick child. The LTFs are 80% accurate if not more.
That’s simply not true.

A recent Cochrane Review found that the average sensitivity was 72% among people with COVID-19 symptoms, and 58% for people without symptoms.

silentpool · 20/12/2021 21:46

Even if I have a cold, I try to avoid spreading it, let alone Covid. Just think how you'd feel if you found out someone had exposed you at the yoga class?

LJAKS · 20/12/2021 21:46

My daughter tested positive today. Her dickhead dad who we don't live with gave her it in the ten mins he's spent with her. Christmas is cancelled now we are stuck in for pretty much the rest of the year. I am devastated. Another Christmas without seeing my family. She's CEV and likely to put this omicron is mild theory to the test. I'm very much over all of this shit now. But no I wouldn't go to yoga.

winterchills · 20/12/2021 21:55

I don't think you should be going if your daughter has covid. You may not be positive now but that doesn't mean you won't start to test positive and think of those people you could have spread it to

Kshhuxnxk · 20/12/2021 21:57

@Itsnotdeep

Actually I go every day. It's pretty essential for my mental health.
Maybe think about others mental health who might be locked up for 10 days because of your selfishness.
PrincessNutella · 20/12/2021 21:58

Thank you for making the kind and conscientious choice of not going.

DroopyClematis · 20/12/2021 22:01

It's bizarre.
My son tested positive and my husband and I were contacted by T&T.
We responded to the text, registered etc... then got told that we didn't need to isolate but to take 7 LFTs.

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Itsnotdeep · 20/12/2021 22:02

@DroopyClematis

It's bizarre. My son tested positive and my husband and I were contacted by T&T. We responded to the text, registered etc... then got told that we didn't need to isolate but to take 7 LFTs.
yes you don't need to isolate legally. It's not a requirement.

It is bizarre.

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MargaretThursday · 20/12/2021 22:04

@Itsnotdeep

I suppose I kind of think that a CEV person won't be in the yoga class. They're more likely to be in the supermarket.
Why?

It may be pretty essential to their mental and/or physical health.

Most CEV people I know are avoiding shopping at the supermarket because that's a fairly easy thing to get ordered.

The fact you didn't go says you know it wouldn't be acceptable.

FawnFrenchieMum · 20/12/2021 22:05

God forbid that a CEV person also wants to exercise for their mental health! Oh no, they are only allowed out to get food!

Prinnny · 20/12/2021 22:07

Well our hospital policy is if someone I live with is positive but I have no symptoms I still have to go to work. So yes I would still go to the class.

MolkosTeenageAngst · 20/12/2021 22:08

I would go. The guidelines state if you’re double vaccinated and are taking regular LFTs then as long as they’re negative you can go out and about as usual.

I would keep my distance from others but also assume everybody at the yoga class is well aware covid cases are rising, that Omicron is more transmissible and that close contacts don’t have to isolate and therefore are happy to take the risk of catching it when they choose to go to the class. I wouldn’t feel guilt if I later tested positive and passed it on to somebody whilst I was acting within the guidelines, people who don’t want to risk catching it are welcome to avoid social situations but the onus isn’t on anybody else to refrain from permitted activities on the off chance they have covid and pass it on.

HangingOver · 20/12/2021 22:10

Despite answers here, I am going tomorrow to the gym early morning (as long as my LTF is clear and I have no symptoms). Those are the rules and I am going crazy at home with a sick child

Where do you live?

Iggly · 20/12/2021 22:12

Just take a PCR and wait it out until you get a result.

RifRafia · 20/12/2021 22:13

I tested positive on PcR last Thurs after starting with what look to be like fairly typical omicron symptoms (sever sore throat, headache etc) on the Weds. I had been testing daily the whole week before (work in a school) and the day I started symptoms and did not have a single positive LFT. I have done two more since I have been ill and both also negative. I have been really quite poorly despite being boosted and wouldn't wish this on anyone. I really doing trust that LFTs are picking up omicron properly, so would urge you to err on the side of caution with them....

Emerald5hamrock · 20/12/2021 22:13

I'd say No.
My DD got a positive covid result 14 days after we were infected, she had symptoms after 11 days but negative lft for 3 days with symptoms.

BlackCatz · 20/12/2021 22:14

I'd go.

But ours is a huge, well-ventilated hall and most of the time it's the instructor, me, and one other person. I don't go anywhere near any of them.

I

fruitpastille · 20/12/2021 22:16

Teachers with a positive case in the household are still going to school. Hospital staff with a positive case at home are going to work. Supermarkets staff with a positive case at home are serving customers. For all you know, the yoga teacher could have a positive case in their home. If you are vaccinated and lateral flow testing daily then the advice is that you don't need to isolate.

NoKandoo · 20/12/2021 22:16

I'd go, on the basis that people in your yoga class could pick up Covid from absolutely anywhere. They presumably all catch buses, go shopping, etc, etc. The only way anyone can be sure of not catching anything is to stay at home, forever. And then they'd probably die by falling down the stairs or something.

It's odd, the way that people try to make one individual responsible for whether someone else catches Covid.

If you had a positive LFT, that would be between you and your conscience, OP. But as you haven't got a positive LFT, I wouldn't give it another thought.

Iggly · 20/12/2021 22:18

@fruitpastille

Teachers with a positive case in the household are still going to school. Hospital staff with a positive case at home are going to work. Supermarkets staff with a positive case at home are serving customers. For all you know, the yoga teacher could have a positive case in their home. If you are vaccinated and lateral flow testing daily then the advice is that you don't need to isolate.
Not in our school - they changed the rules after public health advise due to high rates.
Chickydoo · 20/12/2021 22:18

What would your yoga teacher say?
Ask them.

EarringsandLipstick · 20/12/2021 22:19

you are highly unlikely to have infectious covid even if you do have covid.

It's genuinely unbelievable that people can still type, and presumably believe, this nonsense.

What, might I ask, is non-infectious Covid? 😐

coochyboochy · 20/12/2021 22:21

Just do what you want. You don't need to justify it to Mumsnet.

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