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?

@Topgub in that case. I would stay at home for the full 10 days so as not to infect anyone whether the government says I should or not.

Obviously unknowingly infecting someone is different as you did not know but when you know you have covid definitely and then you go out and about, morally I think is incorrect.

I understand though that this government has turned everything into a mockery though and sadly people do not know what to believe any more.

Day 5 I was fine. Day 7 and 8 felt like death till Day 12. You might not feel well while away. I wouldn't go. I couldn't function when I had it. Thought of passing it on to an elderly person who lived alone would haunt me

You'll have done 5 days isolation by then anyway, I think go but wear a mask on the plane etc.

Obviously if anyone elderly, pregnant or vulnerable is going then I wouldn't go. So not auntie mabels 90th birthday.

There will be plenty at the airport and on your flight with covid. I’d just go. You won’t be the only one.

@Lottie2shoes

I presume you can afford to isolate your entire family for 10 days plus.

Not everyone can.

I wouldn't, but only because my conscience wouldn't allow me to.

Its not just selfishness to not want to continue that harm

You could argue expecting it is selfish.

How is it selfish to not want people to suffer and die?
’But Boris said it’s ok….’ 😂

it’s this behaviour that basically keeps my Dad locked up in his own home. He’s hardly been out due to cancer diagnosis, been told catching covid will likely see him off, a mask helps reduce the spread but in my opinion going somewhere so enclosed with a positive Covid test result is unacceptable.

Try telling that to all the poor sods under the NHS long covid services now

long term physical and mental health problems

Even if OP had insurance, I very much doubt voluntarily chosing not to travel in the absence of any legal restriction on travel would be something that could be claimed on travel insurance

Do a saline nasal rinse. Look it up - salt, (optional baking soda), water hot enough to dissolve the salt. It shifts the mucus and any nasty microbes hiding in it. If you are still testing positive the following day you still have a viral infection. If not you were testing the dead remnants of a bug you shifted when you stopped having a temperature. I have always found it the best way of shifting a respiratory infection quickly. It is also helpful if you suffer from hay fever, which I do.

Yes I would after 5 days I would definitely wear a mask

I know its a Covid thread but its truly Covid Bingo Tastic

This is true. Anyone who is choosing to get on a plane has made an active decision to encounter covid. I flew recently, and I understood that as part of that process I was consenting to being in a confined space with the virus.

I'd go but wear a mask on indoors where possible. People will say 'how can you knowingly get on a flight' but the truth is there will be lots of others (knowingly or unknowingly) doing exactly the same thing.

I wouldn’t go.

Well that's ok then, because everyone else is doing it.

I would go. Wear a mask on the plane.

Even if you had insurance, it would only pay out if you were too unwell to travel or if restrictions meant you weren't allowed to travel.

It wouldn't pay out because a bunch of MN'ers tried to guilt you into not going.

Yet lots of posters, in fact at least 2 threads yesterday, have done just that successfully.

I don't disagree with you but the truth is that the government has taken away the ability to easily test. Therefore the vast majority with covid won't know about it. Why should certain people cancel their plans when the vast majority carry on regardless. I have an immuno-compromised DF so I totally get where you're coming from but be angry with the government not OP.

@TwilightSkies

People have suffered and died due to the response to the pandemic.

And will continue to sufer and die because of it for a long time.

Wealth inequality (globally), health care, gender equality have all suffered.

We cant keep prioritising covid above all else forever.

Particularly given the vastly reduced risk of death/severe illness.

If people are symptomatic/knowingly positive they should isolate if they can. They should get vaccinated if they are eligible. They should keep up good hand hygiene and ventilation.

I dont think we can ask for more at this stage

Yes it does.

What about the people not on the flight that could be exposed to it after the travellers catch it. What about them?

People will say 'how can you knowingly get on a flight' but the truth is there will be lots of others (knowingly or unknowingly) doing exactly the same thing.

That doesn’t make it right! Do people have no morals? No sense of social responsibility?