Covid - Would you go to this event ?

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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?

I would go and I wouldn't have tested as no longer required to. Obv don't go if you're really unwell.

long as you've had your jabs and theirs no one old or at risk i would go.
I mean covid is a dead issue nowadays with so few hospitalisation and deaths.
so honestly nothing to worry about and enjoy!

Sitting here feeling like death with covid, absolutely not. I couldn't live with myself knowing I could have knowingly killed someone or even just put them through this. I should be on holiday now but I'm not and it's gutting, but morally right.

Nothibg 'so called' about it.

It is not only a cold now.

Take your denial elsewhere.

I wouldn't have even tested.

long as you've had your jabs and theirs no one old or at risk i would go.
I mean covid is a dead issue nowadays with so few hospitalisation and deaths.
so honestly nothing to worry about and enjoy!

Is this comment a joke?

I have a friend who is still testing every single day for no reason. Some people don’t seem to want to let it go.

My husbands gran is 97 years old and very, very frail. She caught covid last month. We assumed she was done for. She had a runny nose.

For someone apparently put into intensive care with Covid, Boris sure didn’t seem scared of it, did he?

Honestly I will never test again.

That’s not representative of the vast majority though? There will always be outliers, like people who refused to believe that covid was a thing and never wore a mask or got vaccinated.

For someone apparently put into intensive care with Covid, Boris sure didn’t seem scared of it, did he?

Apparently? You think he didn’t go to ITU?

At the time I believed it. Now? Who the fuck knows.

DH recently had covid and was absolutely rotten for about three or four days but still testing positive at day 9 when he was much better. He was testing due to us having plans with family that we unfortunately had to cancel as we couldn't risk vulnerable family members. He self isolated on DS's room for 10 days so that no one else in our house caught it (taking care of two small kids with covid was not what either of us wanted!) and it worked. DS had lots of things planned with school that we really didn't want him to miss so we really didn't want him getting it either!

Current guidelines say that you don't have to even test now and if you are feeling unwell/test positive then you only "need" to isolate for five days or until you feel better. Even then there's actually no requirement to isolate at all.

I think in your situation I would go. You have spent money on a special trip, are feeling better and will have passed the five days of suggested isolation. Maybe wear a mask in crowded public situations just to be cautious.

ODFOD

I find the daily mail to be an excellent source of medical information

Go and wear a mask

278 people died from covid in the seven days to 18th June.

6,442 people admitted to hospital with covid in the seven days to 21st June.

I’d go.
First, you may not be showing positive by time you board that flight.

second, you’ve had Covid. I’m definitely in the ‘I’m alright jack’ camp. It’s proven that people who put them self first are more likely to survive in an accident situation.

third, everyone on your flight knows Covid exists, it’s a chance they’re willing to take.

fourth, everyone should be vaccinated. If they’re not and they chose to travel why should that play on your conscience.

And finally, since the new variants and vaccines Covid really is no worse that a bad head cold.

so to ease your conscience, would you travel with a nasty cold? I would.

I couldn't get on a plane knowing I may pass it on. It will ruin other peoples holidays and their summer plans, all so you could have a weekend away. Also the idea that they would be sick while away from home visiting family or on holidays just wouldn't sit right with me.

Well lets hope in the future your I'm alright jack attitude doesn't effect someone you care about.

It is worse than a head cold. How many people die or get admitted to hospital for a bad head cold.

Denying it exists doesn't make it go away.

Wow that’s a lot. Is that the number of people with covid 19 listed as cause of death or did they all test positive for covid in the month prior to dying?

I wouldn’t go. I would not want to potentially give someone an illness that could make them seriously unwell.
Several of my friends , (around fifty, fit, slim) have been pretty unwell with Omicron and taken many weeks to recover. One friend who was not all that ill at the time is still breathless and getting recurrent symptoms.