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dementedpixie · 12/10/2022 10:32
Munichfam5 · 12/10/2022 10:29
Ah Okay - thanks for all your posts - i will not be going on the work event
@phishy thank you for posting the UK COVID guidance that really helpful
Yes, adults are advised to stay away from crowded places for 5 days. For children it's 3 days. Best not to go tbh
CousinTime · 12/10/2022 10:35
Tell your work, they probably don’t want you bringing down everyone. The 5 days thing Is bollocks, if you’re still testing positive U.K. to 10 days you’re still infectious.
but legally you can do what you want. Air on a plane is circulating so someone at the front infects the whole plane or queue at check in. Same as if you had flu or chicken pox etc
TimeForMeToF1y · 12/10/2022 10:36
Pollydon · 12/10/2022 10:20
I live in Spain.......please dont fly if infected.
Air on an airplane is circulated, you WILL pass on your infection.
Air is circulated but due to the way it's done the risk of transmission is LOW
Look up the facts before spreading disinformation
You might sit next to someone with covid but you're very unlikely to catch it via the air from someone in a totally different part of the plane
AriettyHomily · 12/10/2022 10:36
greenhousegal · 12/10/2022 10:18
Well you can, because no one will test you or look for symptoms as you travel. But it is your own conscience that you have to test here. Maybe you want to swerve the works do, in that case a positive test would be enough I think.
But please don't do it. I am just back from Cadiz and that region, my first journey since October 2019! I am fully vaxxed and for the first time (despite being a cardiac and kidney patient) I am now Covid positive. I caught it in the airport or on the plane. No one wore a mask but myself.
Anyway it is your choice, but think of others too..
How do you know where you caught it?
Youthinkyoureuniqueyourejustastatistic · 12/10/2022 10:42
TimeForMeToF1y · 12/10/2022 10:36
Air is circulated but due to the way it's done the risk of transmission is LOW
Look up the facts before spreading disinformation
You might sit next to someone with covid but you're very unlikely to catch it via the air from someone in a totally different part of the plane
Pollydon · 12/10/2022 10:20
I live in Spain.......please dont fly if infected.
Air on an airplane is circulated, you WILL pass on your infection.
You are 100% wrong.
Yes air on a plane is well circulated and filtered BUT the filters don’t work UNTIL the plane taxis. Thus there is a long time before and after flights that spread airborne pathogens. You can check this by using a CO2 monitor yourself if you like. It builds up so much it takes a long flight time to remedy the air situation.
StaunchMomma · 12/10/2022 10:58
It's a plane - close quarters, lots of people, circulating air!
If you tested positive today then this is day zero. Day 5 will be next Monday and you should only be mixing then if you are testing negative.
We are ALL expected to follow guidelines. The argument that you can go out mixing with people because you won't be challenged or checked on is what's going to have the NHS on its knees again this winter.
VickyEadieofThigh · 12/10/2022 11:03
MaggieMagpie357 · 12/10/2022 10:17
So you'd be willing to infect a plane load of people if it was legal to do so, just so you can go to work event? Wow.
Must be someone like the OP who infected my partner and me when we came back from holiday a few weeks ago. We both tested positive and were poorly a few days after we got back.
Fortunately, we weren't seriously ill (though my partner dropped 8lbs in less than a week and as she's tiny, that was quite worrying) but if we'd been vulnerable or in close contact with someone vulnerable, it could have been very serious. As soon as we knew we were infected, we quarantined ourselves until we tested negative.
Infected people really shouldn't put themselves in confined spaces with aload of others for hours at a time.
Stopyourhavering64 · 12/10/2022 11:04
I'm clinically extremely vulnerable ( on immunosuppressants) and fully vaccinated with 6 jabs....came back from first trip out of U.K. in 3 years last weekend and tested positive on Friday ( had worn mask while travelling)
I feel dreadful....temp, hacking cough , ache all over but don't apparently qualify for antivirals, so just resting, keeping warm and taking regular paracetamol
If you know you're positive you're just to just spread it even more
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