Covid - Would you go to this event ?

[catfunk]

Weekend away planned fri-sun. Special event.
Short flight.
Covid positive since Sunday. Symptoms started Saturday.
Over the worst of the symptoms (not coughing or sneezing)
Likely still testing positive on day of travel but it will be 5 full days since symptoms started.
No test required for destination.
WWYD?

Of course you should go - there is no reason not to. My only question is why you bothered to do a test in the first place. Covid is endemic, it's a mild illness, and we are all just getting on with our lives as normal.

Yes, I'd definitely go.

But then I haven't been testing anyway so I'd be none the wiser as to whether I was positive or not.

Yes I would and wouldn’t be testing so wouldn’t know either.

Never mind the covid, Anyone who goes away knowing they are ill with no insurance is bloody stupid.

I'd go

If probably go if I felt up to it BUT only if it was a short flight where I could wear an ffp3 mask the whole time ( no taking it off to eat and drink in enclosed crowded places like buses, trains and planes)

. I appreciate you may have y eat and drink at some point but I'd find somewhere not too crowded at a travel hub and take something I could eat and drink quickly. I'd also be scrupulous about washing / gelling hands regularly

Well that's incredibley stupid for starters.

As for going, if you are positive it's incredibly selfish to knowingly spread it just because you have been idiotic and not got insurance

No I wouldn’t go especially if I was travelling with or to meet others. But so many people do go which is why so many people are getting COVID on their holidays?

hahahahaha

Oh, you mean it?

I have elderly parents. They are 10x as likely to die from COVID as from flu. That's just a fact.

I tested positive for Covid a few weeks ago. I wfh and isolated from partner and kids etc.

But I was very surprised at the number of people who were shocked that I was still testing. I had assumed that most people were testing with symptoms, particularly at work but the vast majority thought it was odd. So on the basis that most people wouldn’t know that they had Covid in the first place I would probably just go.

Im confused, people still dying and in hospital but because there is no mandatory responsibility to isolate its ok to spread and infect so it doesnt matter about anyone around apart from yourself? Why if you are unwell would you not test & isolate? It hasnt gone away yet most people are happy to transmit & infect for their own enjoyment. Would they do this to members of their own family? Just interested on this view as I dont force what i think on anyone else BUT find tge attitude now pretty blase. Judging by this thread i may be the only one. Apologies but unless i knew i was negative I wouldnt be going.

Urgh covid isn’t a mild Illness, it gives some mild symptoms but that’s not the same. It can really fuck up some of our systems. These reinfections are going to bite some of us in the ass in future and lead many to poor health. The variant has changed again and looks to be affecting lungs more once again.

I think if your testing positive but have to go to go to work because no sick pay etc I get it but to know long go about other things that you could avoid. Nah. We have to get on and live with it but knowingly potentially spreading it in enclosed surroundings is not on.

oh and it’s not endemic it’s still a pandemic by the way. Cases are way up despite low testing and our hospital admissions in the trust I work up again quickly too.

I agree with the above comment actually. A good N95 mask is supposed to stop transmission. I used them last year on flights as I was paranoid about catching it on a flight!

I flew a few days ago. I would say that about 20% of people had Covid judging by the hacking coughs and sneezes. So sadly doing the right thing on my flight wouldn't have prevented a single person catching Covid. It's very difficult now there is no testing to get on a flight.

Please always get insurance when you go on holiday.

& this is why numbers are increasing again

@catfunk stay home, why would you risk giving it to others & others who may not be as 'hardy' as you?

maybe mild for YOU, not everyone.

Why would you get on a plane knowing you had covid? How selfish.

No way I’d be going still testing positive.

You can always add common decency & common sense. You chose not to care about others, own it!

Assuming you feel well enough and not coughing or sneezing then yes I would probably go and as others have said ensure you wear mask properly at airport and on flight

Someone walking around with their covid has now given me covid. I'm nearly 36 weeks pregnant and have had to cancel my pre-baby holiday that I had been massively looking forward to.

I mean guidelines say do whatever but I'm still pissed off with whatever dickhead gave me a covid

This

YABU

i wouldn’t be so selfish

I had covid recently and missed an event I was really looking forward too. But going to a crowded place knowing I had covid would be very selfish so I didn’t do it.

I wouldn't go. You may not react badly to Covid but others on your flight (on their way to a much-needed holiday of their own!) might do.

My fear when flying for the first time again this summer is someone like you on my flight, giving my family a rotten holiday and wasting our one opportunity for an expensive and desperately needed break.

It's most definitely NOT a 'mild illness' for everyone. It's still killing people, it's still causing long term, life changing, illness in many others.

because idiots are acting like it no longer exists, many people are NOT able to live their lives as 'pre covid normal'