Car passenger tested positive

[doritolady]

My son had a football match yesterday morning and one of the other parents asked if I could give their son a lift there and back.

Last night my son said his team mate had been complaining of feeling unwell before the match.

Team mates dad has just put in the group chat that his son has tested positive for covid this morning.

Now I know it can't be helped, and it's not their sons fault etc, but AIBU in thinking that I should have been told beforehand that their son was not feeling well?

@Jedsnewstar

I wouldn't have considered covid based on those symptoms

I agree they are not the 3 symptoms we are told to look out for.

You are clearly not aware of what's happening around you and in the media. Within weeks of omicron arriving we were informed that the symptoms were different. A scratchy throat, headaches and tiredness are the three main symptoms, unlike alpha and Delta which are cough and loss of taste and smell.

This information is everywhere (apart from, annoyingly, on the website for testing)

I don't know anyone who's had covid with a headache or a sore throat

Everyone I know who has had Covid recently had these symptoms especially the sore throat.

OP I'd be furious too ,I have windows down and masks at all times if I give people lifts .

I don't know anyone who's had covid with a headache or a sore throat.

Everyone I know who has had it had a headache.

@doritolady

Headache, sore throat and feeling tired.

Yes his parents knew.

Did they do a test before?

I had a headache for two days before testing positive. I was also really tired, though have fatigue anyway so less clear.

I still went to work where I am in close contact with children all day.

BUT I was following rules. I tested every single day - all were negative. My symptoms did not require a PCR. Needless to say I subsequently tested positive - more symptoms occurred during the day and felt more unwell so did another test on getting home. Negative at 8am but positive at 4pm.

The thing is a headache and feeling tired isn't going to be symptoms than most people will stop doing things for.

My only big bear would be if they hadn't tested at all if he'd said he felt ill, but then I also know most people won't be testing - it's probably how I caught it myself. Rife at school, PHE advising daily testing but most won't be doing it.

I don't know anyone who's had covid with a headache or a sore throat.

My main symptom initially was a headache. Constant, behind the eyes and radiating round, not touched by pain killers. Tickle scratchy throat. Day 4 and had a headache for about 5-6 days now.

My colleague's main symptom before and during covid last week was a similar type of headache.

Many of the children at school have had covid recently. Almost all have complained of headaches and head cold like symptoms.

I didn't get a headache like this with covid in October 2020, but the symptoms this time round are very different for me.

I personally wouldn’t let someone give my son a lift if he was feeling sick, with symptoms of covid. Very unfair

joinzoe.com/learn/omicron-symptoms

Main symptoms of covid are headache - nearly everyone I know who had covid including my family all started with a headache. Sore throat is a classic symptom of new variant

@Hbh17

Covid is no longer a threat, & especially not to kids, so it's really not a big deal. Hopefully it won't be long before all this ridiculous testing stops completely. Just get on with your life as normal, like everyone else is.

It may be to some people. I'm cv and last time covid put me in hospital. This time I'm not in the same position but I'm still not well and day 3 (or day 4 I think actually) is still a bed day. I have to complete a daily diary for my consultant and still awaiting antiviral information.

Whilst covid may not be serious for most people, it can be for some. Please don't minimise this.

From scarby's link

The top five symptoms of omicron are
runny nose

headache

fatigue (mild or severe)

sneezing

sore throat

@saraclara

From scarby's link

The top five symptoms of omicron are
runny nose

headache

fatigue (mild or severe)

sneezing

sore throat

But that's not what the NHS website says, nor what the booking site asks when you request a PCR, so it's not surprising that people are confused.

Just do your tests for 7 days and carry on with life.
Not every headache is covid, it's mild enough now there's no need to panic and isolation is looking like it will go soon anyway. If the child has tested positive and there was no isolation requirements would you be bothered?

@MajesticallyAwkward Am I bothered that I gave a lift to a child who was ill with Covid symptoms but didn't do a test beforehand and his parents didn't let me know they were poorly? Well I'm not exactly over the moon!

It's just common courtesy now surely to test before a social situation like this? I'd be annoyed too OP. I hope you don't get it.

That wasn't my question @doritolady, I asked if the child has tested positive and there was no isolation requirements would you be bothered?

Given it's incredibly likely isolation will also be scrapped soon you'd be likely to be in contact with a lot of people with covid. It's not that far away and everything is pointing to covid now being endemic, would you be annoyed if he had got in your car and come down with a cold the next day?

It's perspective. There's a chance you'll get it of course. But there's also a good chance of transmission when they were playing football together or from any of your dc sat next to other people in school. Not everyone is going to test got every headache.

@TheBestUsernamesAreGone

It's just common courtesy now surely to test before a social situation like this? I'd be annoyed too OP. I hope you don't get it.

I don't do daily tests and neither do my kids. My eldest plays football and we don't test every time he trains or plays a match.

Besides you could test negative in the morning and positive in the afternoon. That's what happened to me.

To those saying covid isn't a threat now - that's very short sighted. What you mean us it isn't a threat to YOU now. To soome of us and our loved ones it is very much still a threat.

@TheBestUsernamesAreGone

It's just common courtesy now surely to test before a social situation like this? I'd be annoyed too OP. I hope you don't get it.

Nope, I don't do daily tests! We were invited to a friends, who asked could we test, well yes but I'd be going to a large funeral two days before and a west end show one day before, so if probably no point in testing.

They're not CEV and no Internet ruin of isolating for two weeks before a meet!