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?

Should you travel in a crowded tin can when you are carrying a potentially lethal virus? No, no you should not.

However, if you absolutely insist on going, please at the very least wear a mask 100% of the time and constantly sanitise your hands.

Anyone going on a flight knows they are taking some level of risk.

and i would expect anyone getting on a flight not to be an utterly selfish sod and not get on it if they test positive.

If I was testing positive no I wouldn’t travel.

Were. If = subjunctive.

Why is everyone still testing?

What about them? Covid is everywhere and is not controllable at this point. There will be asymptomatic covid at any airport, on any flight and indeed in any public space with enough people in it, so anyone who spends time in public or is around someone who has is going to be exposed.

That's not a good thing, no. But it's a thing.

This. Shocked that most people are saying they’d go!

Covid is a mild illness for a lot/most people.......However hospitals are full again with people with serious illness from Covid. This is a fact.
Why would you knowingly go out positive? I despair.

This is rather naive. You don't have to like it, but the idea that people who will in many cases not be insured (and in some of the insured cases still won't be able to take the holiday if they don't go now) are going to all avoid travelling is completely implausible.

Current advice is that only some defined medical/care staff should be testing. Where are you even getting the tests from?

Of course you shouldn’t go if you test positive, and I’m really quite disturbed by the number of people saying you should go on the grounds that half the plane will be covid positive anyway.

Has no one noticed the upturn in covid? Has no one noticed that it isn’t nice friendly omicron any more. This is a variant that appears just as rampant but that effects the lower respiratory tract. Heathly people are feeling really sick with this; god help the more vulnerable.

‘Covid being over’ and the resulting reduction in preventative measures was as much a politically motivated lie as Johnson’s £350m bus claim, his 40 new hospitals bullshit and his lying to the queen over the proroguement. I thought the by-election results showed most people had come to their senses about how little they should trust anything he says or does, but obviously not.

The shop. You can eaily buy them at pharmacy, supermarkets and online.

@boysmuminherts

Is it a fact?

You can buy them. Did you really not realise this?

I am testing before visiting someone vulnerable indoors and when I’ve had covid symptoms.

^ This.

Nurses I have spoken to say so.

Good luck trying to fly anywhere at the moment.

Please wear a mask.

@boysmuminherts

How are you defining full of people seriously ill with covid?

Admissions are up but most people are admitted with something else and found to have covid.

People needing icu care for covid remain 'very low' according to ONS data

I wouldn't go. A holiday isn't worth killing someone over.

I agree with @boysmuminherts Why would you knowingly go out positive?

Libre2

“Why is everyone still testing?“

because it’s the socially responsible thing to do.

I am shocked at how opinions have changed.

18 months ago, if you were testing positive and stepped outside your bedroom door, let alone your Front door you would be torn apart on MN as a selfish granny / CEV killer,

Yet today we have the OP wanting to get on a plane,whilst knowingly testing positive, for a special weekend in the sun and the majority of responses are saying go for it.

I think the appropriate course of action is somewhere in middle. I do think and thought at the time that the country was massively over reacting 2 years ago with measures and restrictions that have damaged our children's education and futures as well as causing at least 10 years harm to the economy which we are now and will continue to pay the price for.

But equally I do think that regardless of the rules knowingly getting on a plane with an infectious disease that has the potential to kill and where many of the passengers had their vaccines more than 270 days ago, all for the sake of a "special weekend" is an extreme act of selfishness and is immoral.

Also on the online check in for most flights now there is a simple set of questions stating whether you are testing positive or have recently tested positive or have any Covid symptoms.

Of course they don't check but OP would also be knowingly lying on these questions.

I think it's the wrong thing to do.

No questions asked. I'm definitely going.

I'd go, but make sure you mask/double mask on the flight. You're over the 5 days, and unlikely to be contagious.. however, you're still in the 'avoid vulnerable people for 10 days' advice, so you could be putting someone on the flight at risk.