Neighbour and I both have Covid can we have Christmas together

[Oliveoil26]

Posting for a friend he neighbor has Covid and so does she. She’s brought in all the food for a Christmas dinner but can’t share it with family now I suggested she share it with her neighbor. They can aces each other houses through there shared drive ways so wouldn’t be close to anyone else. She was hesitant as it’s not in the rules

I do know someone who had covid and whilst recovering from that, contracted the Delta variant. They were literally back in work two days when they had to go home again.

I absolutely would

Technically no - you could have different strains of Covid.
But, who the hell is going to dob you in? It’s Christmas - spend it together and have a great time.

Just have cheese and wine?

Legally, no, you can’t. But, of course, you should.

Pls be super careful and avoid doing this. Even if you are both positive, spending time together would increase your viral load and you could both get very sick

@Oliveoil26

Both have omicron

How do they know? I thought you only found out whether you are positive, not the variant🤷‍♀️

I think they should spend christmas together btw.

? When you receive your test result do they tell you which variant it is? Otherwise how would you know ?

Well. I probably would. But one thing to consider is viral load. I’m not an expert so jot sure but I think it could make them both more ill as it would increase the viral load. I’m not certain though and I’d probably risk it.

The entire point of isolating is not infecting those who do not have it. If they both feel up to having dinner together and sharing the day, more power to them!

You might as well you are both in the same boat. X

@CairoLiverpool

Pls be super careful and avoid doing this. Even if you are both positive, spending time together would increase your viral load and you could both get very sick

But they'll be spending a lot less time together than a couple who live together

As this is my third Christmas alone I am relying in all the juicy gossip to get me through mew year. 🤣 It is only allowed if you update us all

The viral load is nonsense, once you're infected with a virus you don't suddenly get more infected when you encounter it again, else we'd all be dropping like flies in cold season.

Having different strains is more of a risk but, and I'm not an expert on coronaviruses specifically, the genome of covid as far as I know isn't arranged into segments like influenza, which is what causes flu to be able to reassort into new pandemic strains on confection. The biggest risk for new variants is immunocompromised people not clearing the virus and it therefore mutating in response to inadequate immune pressures.

Ah glad you said this! That’s what I’ve been wondering about , as there was a lot of mention of increasing viral load early on in the pandemic. Haven’t heard much about it since so I wasn’t sure if it was something they’d now decided wasn’t valid. I’d be interested to read more about this.

@Insanelysilver viral load just refers to the amount of virus you were originally infected with - so someone who is nursing a covid patient might naturally get loads more than someone 1.5m away from someone. If you initially get more viral particles then the chances of it replicating and making you seriously ill before your immune system catches up is higher, whereas if you only get the minimum infectious dose it has to go through more rounds of replication to get up to that threshold. But once you're infected your body immune system is already working on it - any more virus incoming will just be dealt with in the same way. Same with other viruses eg if I have a coldsore and accidentally rub my eye, it's highly unlikely that herpes is going to infect my eye because the immune system doesn't let it get that far past the very initial infection period.

Great idea, it's not like they are going to be putting each other at risk anyway. I think they should make the most of it and enjoy themselves.