Would you go out this soon after COVID?

[MissAtomicBomb1]

Just want opinions really.
Started with COVID symptoms last Saturday. Tested positive on weds.
Have had to isolate from work due to the job I do though explained I was happy to go in as I now feel fine.
Due to go out with friends tomorrow night. Would you want to go out with someone who'd just had covid? Will it look bad if I'm seen by someone at work?

I'm not paying for tests, but thanks for the info.

People can't hear their homes...

*heat

Okay. I clearly didn't suggest people buy tests if it's a choice between that and paying the electric bill. But for those who are planning nights out, £6 is a glass of wine.

Wouldn't within first five days Sun-Thurs) and then only with care for vulnerable or elderly.n

You need to consult your friends.

I would not want to be in close indoors contact with someone withing 48 hours of a positive test.

It's one thing to find you've caught it from somewhere or other. It's quite another to go knowingly into proximity.

In your shoes I'd send apologies

@takealettermsjones as I say, I don't t test.

But thanks.

I won't pay for tests, if it's that important they'll be supplied.

Yes, this. I can’t believe there are so many selfish people who don’t realise it’s still killing vulnerable people or do realise and just don’t care because they think it’s just a cold!

@WhatALotOfAFussAboutNothing is flu not dangerous?

Do we test for that?

Again, okay?? I'm not sure why you keep coming back at me. I didn't insist you, personally, start testing, did I?

No but then I work in healthcare and have just lost my father to Covid (that he caught in hospital).

Don't go out and mingle until you have tested negative. A faint line is still a positive.

I don't understand why covid in particular is such a big deal.

I wouldn't meet with friends and family if I had ANY contagious illness, irrespective of how well I felt.

Nope.

@takealettermsjones I'm thanking you for your info? But please don't try and educate me, I don't test!

So don't tag me and tell me Asda sell them! I'm not interested, I don't test!

Hopefully you'll stop coming back and tagging me and telling me it's the cost of a glass of wine, I don't test, I'm not interested!!

I’d certainly advise the friends. I don’t think I’d want to socialise this close to you testing positive. My friend is still recovering from a very bad dose of it

Legally you can go out with covid.

I would happily go out with you. You would have been more infectious before your symptoms started and very unlikely to still be infectious now.

I didn't tag you initially! I literally was not talking to you, until you tagged me. 😆

I’d be completely honest with the people I was going out with. Even if I felt well, I’d feel guilty if I passed it on and they got a nasty dose of it, or if they then passed it onto an elderly relative.

Tomorrow I might risk seeing someone in your situation as you’re probably no longer contagious, next week I wouldn’t as I’m due to visit my 99 year old great aunt the week after that.

Legally, you could shag the partners of all your friends.

But morally, would you?

As you're testing OP, you need to stay away from other people (unless it's essential) until you have had 2x fully negative tests at least 24 hours apart.

So tomorrow night is no go.

you might test negative by Saturday morning.
if not ask your friends
I wouldn't want to go out with you though (vulnerable adults in my life)

Exactly! The tests if you have them are shit, they test negative in the early more infectious days, then test positive.

Useless!

Please don't go out, OP. There are no longer any rules, but it's just basic common decency to not go out and risk passing on a potentially deadly disease to someone who may be clinically vulnerable. Or even passing on Covid which may result in someone having Long Covid and ruining their quality of life forever.
I know there will be people on here who will roll their eyes and say "it's just a cold" and other bollocks like that, but if you have a clinically vulnerable relative or child, you would think differently.

Where do you live? All the supermarkets near me sell tests, as long as cost isn't an issue you can test whenever you like unless your friend has cleared out the shops too.

I would treat it the same as any other illness now...if I feel ill I stay home, if not I carry on as normal. I'm not testing anymore though unless in limited circumstances (eg when i had hospital appointments as they asked me to) so I wouldn't necessarily know.

I have covid , I had it really badly actually last Friday it started , I had a fever of 39 vomiting body aches diarrhoea, I could not move I slept for two days only waking to puke. Tested positive on Sunday. Think I’m getting back to normal now just very tired with abit of a cough and snot. My test is still positive and I’ve been out today - I’ve been to the pharmacy out for food and seen family. The thing is majority of people don’t test now so loads of people have it and just don’t know which is how it’s meant to be. I only tested because of my job. I don’t think you can wait for a negative test to go out because sometimes they are positive for weeks which is why I went by how I feel and I think I’m over the worst I can’t see myself being highly infectious.