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?

Go out if you feel well, stay in if you don't, same as any illness

You're told not to go out for a set period (other notifiable diseases eg measles) or until you are no longer likely to be infectious (feeling really well but chicken pox lesions not yet scabbed)

Why should covid br different?

If you test negative then ho out.
Otherwise you are still contagious 🤷🏻‍♀️

"Go" out not "Ho" 🤶🏽

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

It was important and the only reason it stopped being important is because it was costing too much in their eyes. Every single TV and Radio station in the UK still has covid control measures and people testing + are required to isolate until negative whilst they sit there and tell the country it's a lot less harmful now. Ever noticed how they all sit there on the panels on the daytime TV shows still socially distanced still too? If it wasn't that important they wouldn't be supplied anywhere free or otherwise.

If you don't want to test fine but anyone who's a true believer in freedom of choice will be just as content with others who chose to test where they feel it is necessary too.

Your conscience not mine

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

And if washing your hands was important in any way, soap would be free, right?

Exactly!

takealettermsjones sorry I was quoting another user (I've worked out how to do it now!)

Oh no worries, me too then!

Of course there are people who will use tests in the wrong way
Same people who would come up with any excuse to do what they want all the time
But testing , if you can afford it, is better than not
It's that simple

@sleepwouldbenice u think common sense is better that inaccurate test! It's really that simple!

That should be I think, you carry in testing if you like.

Yep @Hummingbird11 my conscience is squeaky clean! No sleep lost because I don't use inaccurate tests and instead use my common sense? So you think the people going round saying I'm negative, I took a test so therefore I'm fine, so I'll go out, are better than me that stays home if unwell? Not rely on rubbish tests and hiding behind a false negative?

Your conscience on that then!

My conscience is perfectly clear thank you - and has been for the last 3 years. I have no conscience that I am putting anybody in danger by spreading my germs whilst covid positive.
Why do you think tests are inaccurate?? Without covid tests over the last couple of years there would have been a hell of a lot more deaths from this awful virus

Absolutely!

I feel like you are misunderstanding. Most people I know will stay home if they have a positive test and if they feel unwell. It isn't an either/or situation.

@takealettermsjones I think you misunderstand not everyone is the same, as you say most.. not all.

I'm not sure why people think PCR tests are inaccurate? They're not flawless, of course, no test is. But they're pretty reliable.

DD2 (who has a BSc in biomed and a first-class MSc in infectious diseases from a top-2 university) now works in quality control for a company which produces PCR tests. I think she is qualified to comment on the accuracy of PCR tests…

She would echo @Conkersareback's point that the infectious stage can begin before a positive test, but a positive test is still close to definitive since false positives are extremely rare.

But you are still not saying why you think the tests are inaccurate…..

@Hummingbird11 I have! Go back and read my posts?

You haven’t explained why you think the tests are inaccurate

@Hummingbird11 I have! Let me say it's again for you

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.*

Do you have comprehension issues? You don't think that test was inaccurate? Another friend had a cold as she tested negative, two days later positive, quell surprise. So off she went out and about with " I've got a cold", but that's on hers and people like yours conscience!

Exactly!

If sick, stay in!

It's really quite simple, for people with any amount of common sense, sadly as seen on here, many people lack it.

@thing47 sorry posted too soon! I disagree that the amount of false negatives are few, two out of two for people I know!

Sick, stay in!