To go to a restaurant with Covid

[User112]

Mil has covid but zero symptoms. It’s her birthday on Saturday, AIBU to keep our reservation at a restaurant for a family meal? What are the current rules around covid? We have been at inlaws house, SILs kids are still there (she looks after them and their schools break early).

NONE of us are positive, incl FIL. Mil tested because she went out with someone who tested positive.

Whether cases have peaked or not (and I’m not sure where this is from-a source would be nice), they’re still at a seriously high level. The Zoe app estimates 4.5million active cases.

Can you really not think of any reasons why people might still be testing? It isn’t rocket science.

Definitely not!! Are you stupid!!!

Where is your moral compass?

I can’t believe you’re even asking this

I currently have Covid and it’s no bloody joke.

Do the decent thing and think of the greater good.

Of course you cannot go. Your SIL needs to wind her neck in

The govt are activity saying we dont need to test kids anymore and can send them To school unless they have symptoms so what's the point in any restrictions anymore. I'm beyond it now.

Jump on me I dont really care.

Is this a real thread ?  are people this stupid ?
I work in a hospital @User112 cancel the damn meal.

Just go! You'd go if you had a cold, so there's no difference. Covid is here to stay, & NOT a serious illness. Ignore all the hysterical types who just love making a drama of it all.

I wouldn't go to a busy restaurant if I knew I had covid. But most people no longer know that they have it because they aren't testing. In this case I feel it would be morally wrong to go knowing full well someone has it.

Can you really not think of any reasons why people might still be testing? It isn’t rocket science

I guess I don't really get what the end goal is. People shoving sticks up their noses for the rest of their natural lifespan?

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Pointless testing, however there is no legal requirement to isolate.

Selfish!!

Order a takeaway

Cancel it. Covid is being spread about enough by people who don't know that they've got it without people knowingly going out with it.

Lots of people have holidays abroad coming up. They are already at risk from people who haven't realized they have contracted covid. They really don't need that risk increased by sitting at the next restaurant table to someone who knows they are definitely infected.

Cancel the advice is still to isolate if you can. Rates are currently very high and some people are very poorly probably due to the fact vaccines are waning. My DS 23 tested positive this morning he's bedridden and triple vaxed. Just because it's not being widely reported on doesn't mean it's gone away and learning to live with it isn't a free pass to be selfish and pass it on for the sake of a meal.

Yes, totally hysterical sitting here barking my guts up on day 8, having been hospitalised too. Totally not serious.
I can't even...you have no bloody idea 🤬

I guess I don't really get what the end goal is. People shoving sticks up their noses for the rest of their natural lifespan?

People pee on a stick to see if they’re pregnant.
Many women use tampons or period cups.
People use rectal thermometers to take someone’s temperature.
Most use floss and toothbrushes in their mouths.
I have regular blood tests to test my thyroid function.
Many people are diabetic and prick themselves to test their blood sugars.
Etc Etc Etc

There are a million examples of people doing things with their body which involves sticking things inside them or doing odd things to test for something.

It’s weird that none of the things you do every day triggers you, yet someone doing something to test for covid is weird and unnecessary.

Yes, totally hysterical sitting here barking my guts up on day 8, having been hospitalised too. Totally not serious

Thing is, it's not just covid. My poor SIL is currently in ICU on a ventilator. Not covid but H1N1. No tests, no-one is careful about that.

It's perhaps now legal but completely immoral. The choices that people make can impact others.

Last week I caught covid for the first time, I worked 48 hour weeks supporting vulnerable adults throughout the pandemic, I still wear masks at work and to the shops, I have respect for other people.

I don't get paid a single penny for being off work this last week due to covid even though the guidance says I can't work in my residential setting. I don't get a thing.

In a cost of living crisis I have lost £340 this month pay. I am now faced with the devastating consequences of having to struggle through the month, I have a 4 year old child to support, a school uniform to buy, rent to pay, a car to put petrol in and the astronomical costs of energy to heat my home.

I would be disgusted to find out that the reason I caught covid is down to someone so selfish to go to a restaurant whilst contagious with such disregard for others.

Will you pay the wages of the people that ultimately get infected? Remember when you clapped for key workers to show respect? How about show respect now by making the right decision. You shouldn't need to post to a forum to get some human decency.

After watching my father die with Covid pneumonia I can truthfully say you and your family are a waste of oxygen to even consider this..FFS

My friend won’t be having chemo for the rest of her life.

That attitude is why the cases are through the roof currently. So fucking selfish.

I agree it would be selfish to go. You know you run the risk of passing it to others purely for your own enjoyment. But this was always going to happen when the restrictions were lifted. People are being trusted to make their own choices and sadly many people will choose to be selfish.

Because half of my family is CEV, I had a rotten time with long Covid and I work in close contact with the public.

Are you fucking kidding, @Hbh17?

Tell the thousands people who died that it's not serious.

My mum was in ICU for ten weeks with Covid. She couldn't breathe, so they put a tube down her throat to help. When she stopped tolerating that, they cut a hole in her neck for the tube to go through. She still has limited function in one lung, and spent Christmas in hospital in respiratory arrest because of it. My Christmas Eve was spent in a hospital room, with a doctor asking what her wishes were of the cpap mask stopped helping while my mum cried that she didn't want to die.

So fuck right off with your mild illness and stop being such a selfish and dismissive prick.