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?

And it’s people like certain posters who are actively making outside excursions a bit of a Russian roulette situation.

I am clinically vulnerable and also a lone parent of a teen with ASD. I get that my rights in no way exceed any one else’s but fuck me, my faith in humanity takes a proper knocking some times.

and @MissAtomicBomb1 , your title suggests you have had Covid. As far as you’re aware you still are testing positive. So really your question should read

“would you go On a night out with Covid?”

@HoofWankingSpangleCunt

The tests don’t always turn negative they can be positive for weeks ? There’s nothing you can do you’ll just have to practice good hygiene and wear your mask if it makes you feel more protected.

As I was reading this (after I’d posted) I was thinking gosh, poor woman, she sounds awful, she’ll be warning the Op that it’s a nasty illness for some.

But no.
I don’t understand how you can go from actually physically seeing a positive test result to “not seeing yourself as that contagious “ .

The cognitive dissonance is scary .

@AllThatFancyPaintsAsFair costs no issue, but I'm not paying, if it's that important then they'll be supplied free.

I'll give food into the food bank on the way out.

Common decency to stay indoors with any illness?

Whilst that is true about results staying positive for a while, I don’t believe that is the situation here.

And I do wear a mask but it’s not wholly to protect me. In fact, theyre designed to protect others and was compulsory travel accessory in Germany this summer. It was a total pain in the arsch sometimes but I got used to it quickly. That sounds really twatty I know but to me it’s just common sense. If we all wore masks on public transport for example then we could definitely protect more people.

@HoofWankingSpangleCunt

I don’t think I’m highly infectious because I’m over the awful symptoms. I can’t stop my life and not go out my test could be positive for weeks.

What’s food banks got to do with it?

And if you’re not buying them because you believe they should be free would you accept and use tests if they were donated to you? Sort of like a reverse food bank with covid tests instead.

not trying to be goady, genuinely interested in your thought processes here.

I do get that, but you’re talking about how you could be positive for weeks. When all you need to consider is about being positive now.

I understand when people have no choice but to go
out but others who do have a Choice ? Why would you spread germs of any description if you didn’t have to?

@HoofWankingSpangleCunt I don't test

@HoofWankingSpangleCunt I don't text, I'm not spending money on tests that are shit, as OP has demonstrated as they're not positive early on. I'll spend my free cash on something worthwhile.

I wouldnt want to socialise with you purely because DP has lung damage from covid so I'd rather wait to see you, even if you had tested negative today. Im the same with people who have colds or the flu because he could get very unwell. We can't control the general public so yes its always a risk going out but i can take precautions in staying away from someone i know is or has recently been ill.

It took me 10 days to test negative after my first positive test. I wouldn't go socialising until I'd tested negative.

Can anybody tell us if @Conkersareback tests or not, I don’t think s/he’s mentioned it.

see I thought I knew her stance in the first billion posts but the second make me question myself. Maybe she’ll clarify?

This. It's one night

I tested positive for 16 days. Still didn't go out incase I spread it. And certainly didn't go on a night out that was not exactly essential. So no I wouldn't be going in your shoes (especially as you'll be off work)

Yup. Go out, I went everywhere. Shopping swimming car garage the lot because we don't have to stay in. This was a few days after boris said no more rules

Indeed
Won't test as have to pay for them
Wont test as people have to heat their homes (likely people struggling won't be going on night out)
Won't test as they are useless (despite posters saying they identified covid)
Wont test as will give to food bank instead ( as opposed to making others ill do they can't work etc)
Wont test as compares it to flu (yawn)
All a bit of a giveaway really

I work in education and we ask staff (and pay) to isolate for 5 days after testing positive. Personally I would feel a bit off being out with someone who had just tested positive but legally you are allowed to.

If you test negative before you go then you should be fine. If not, and it's just a normal night out, I would probably stay home.

@sleepwouldbenice won't test because it's pointless!

You should be fine?

Is that fine or not fine?

I’d go out, but then I wouldn’t have tested. I go by how I feel now, same for every illness, so if I’m too ill to go out I stay in but otherwise I carry on with my life. I would assume that people very vulnerable to covid wouldn’t be on a night out where covid will be everywhere.

Agreed