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?

So tested positive yesterday?

Maybe let the people you'll be out with know so they are aware and can decide if they still want to go. They may want to avoid direct known contact if they have a holiday booked, are vulnerable or are meeting someone vulnerable.

For me, flu hasn't put me in hospital but covid has. It's also left me with a long term health condition. When I have had flu previously it hasn't done that.

Yes flu can be dangerous for people but there is no available test for it. I wouldn't go out if I was diagnosed with flu, or knew I had it. I wouldn't go out socially if I had a known contagious illness personally.

Covid we have a test for. If you test and know you have the virus you should at leas give others you are meeting the choice by letting them know. I test as I'm vulnerable and I also get free tests.

This is less so with LFT tests. It was more likely with PCRs. Few people test positive for a long time. Most test negative after a few days.

@Hereweare12111 it's nice you went for food and to see your family whilst you have Covid.

Lovely

@Conkersareback I don't understand your reply to my message?

Clearly I'm saying if you are testing negative then you are likely to be safe to be out so go out, if you are testing positive then you probably are contagious then if it were me, I think I would stay in.

I've still never had it so not been put in that position.

If I was still testing a slight positive after only a few days I wouldn’t go out. You are probably still infectious.

this with bells on

Not pointless though is it??

They aren't perfect at all but with so many coughs and colds about it useful to be able to pick up most that actually are covid and therefore, on average, worse for peoples health

Tests have picked up many many covid cases around me recently. They aren't useless

I would test again and go if negative

@sleepwouldbenice it is pointless, OP had covid long before the test read positive, she's been out and about whilst it read negative. If you don't feel well, don't go out.

Not going out now, is closing the stable door after the horse had bolted imo.

@clockapp

My family were ok with it, I’m not doing anything wrong we are allowed out with it. Literally anyone could have it it even says on the nhs covid is like cold and flu , mine was like flu but the severe symptoms have stopped so 🤷🏻‍♀️ I’m not required to wait untill the tests turn negative.

Being "allowed" to go out and not "being required" to wait for a negative test don't affect common decency when socialising with others - obviously having to attend work is a different issue. I'd be interested in a link to where "the NHS says it's just like colds and flu".

Unless you know for a fact that none of the friends you are meeting have partners or children who are vulnerable @MissAtomicBomb1 I do feel you should warn them all first. Obviously you can't be responsible for people you don't know who might be in the bar/restaurant/wherever but it would be spectacularly selfish not to warn the people you are in a group with.

I would not have any problem with you going out at all, but my DH is very vulnerable post-surgery so I would have to drop out if you were going to be there. That's totally my responsibility, not yours, but I would be pretty pissed off if you hadn't given me fair warning.

Exactly this!! I have lost family due to covid, I don’t get why people refuse to test when they have symptoms - it is so selfish!

I thought you meant testing in general given your "I don't test" comments
Yes OP might have spread it before testing positive, that doesn't mean don't test again, to use your analogy that's leaving the stable door open in case any more horses want to bolt

@sleepwouldbenice nope I don't test, because it's so bloody flawed its pointless.

Saving lives isn’t pointless!

Still not understanding maths then
Ok

@sleepwouldbenice still lacking comprehension skills then? Or not reading all my posts?

Shall I spell it out for you again?

@Hummingbird11 you may also want to read this?

If I'm not well, I don't go out. I do not rely on some flawed tests that give me permission or not. The tests as OP have demonstrated are flawed, they presumably gave a false negative at the beginning of her having covid, because a cold etc doesn't develop into covid, it's covid or not right from the start. So by your reasoning it was ok for OP to go out to begin with, because she could wave her negative test at everyone, even though it was wrong?

I know people where their OH and DC are covid positive, they have symptoms but are just saying "well I'm testing negative, so I can go out"? Only of course to test positive a few days later, unsurprisingly.

You'd prefer that?

So, I use that common sense approach of just not going out if I'm unwell.

Again, I'm not paying for teats, they are just giving people who are unwell false permission to go out.

Can you explain the maths with all that?

I wouldn't want you to meet up with me, sorry. I'd think less of someone who was that thoughtless for my health.

Just reschedule or organise the next one.

Not until I had tested negative.

As we know it affects people differently. When we had it ( 3 of us at the same time) it was disgusting and we were really poorly. Two children and me and I am vaccinated, boosted etc .It is a vile thing. Please don’t knowingly spread it just so you can go out. That’s plain ignorant not to mention selfish.

No. My severely disabled unvaccinated (not through choice) son has just gone down with it / tested positive yesterday. I have had to cancel trip to see his brother in London , a favourite comedian (Josh Berry) & Louis Theroux. As my mum said ‘it was your one chance to get away’. I have no idea how ill my son is going to be. His brother has had a Lifetime of things being cancelled due to his brother. Another person who supports my son is probably going to cancel a trip she had planned to a family member because of higher risks within the family.

I’ve not had covid yet but probably will now. And am paid hourly, so that’s right before Xmas.

So no. Don’t bloody go out if you know you are infectious.

Oh and I haven’t seen my London son since September and was looking forward to seeing where he lives etc now.

I see people are still arguing about Covid etiquette... personally, I don't anyone who is still testing, including my husband who works in a hospital. I think we should all just adopt common sense now and stay away from other people when we feel ill. No need for testing unless we're also paranoid about flu.