Expecting people to accept you have covid

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Would you visit your family even if you have tested postive and expect them to accept this? Just curious how many people are "living with covid"

Currently got covid and really poorly. Wouldn't knowing want to infect anyone.

Mild for some but not for others

No one should be going anywhere ill. What a crap thing to do to another household.

My kids broke up a week ago but we'll still test before we see family later this week. They don't want our germs. The same goes for them, if they're ill with anything, they'd let me know.

No one should be going anywhere ill. What a crap thing to do to another household.
We have some family who would rather see us, regardless of cold or flu symptoms. I wouldn't cancel last minute on someone who had invited us and still wanted to see us. I've visited ill family members many a time as well. Other family who are vulnerable we wouldn't visit and they wouldn't want us to.

I wouldn’t test.

I would leave it up to those hosting. I'd happily go if they were fine with it but wouldn't be offended to be asked to stay at home.

No I wouldn't. I wouldn't want to make anyone ill, especially someone clinically vulnerable. Plus long covid is a horrific thing that can affect anyone. A few of my friends suffer from long covid, and one (young and previously very healthy) friend was on sick leave for months with it.

It’s one thing not to test all the time but I wouldn’t actively choose to visit people with COVID symptoms. That’s just a dick move.

Nope nope nope. If you know your positive why would you go anywhere! That's just stupid

I wouldn't test either. It wouldn't make a difference as my family would either equally not want neither covid nor flu (both a risk to vulnerable), or not mind if we were ill.

No cos I am not a selfish ass. And that goes for all illnesses not just covid

Anyone who knowingly visits someone when they are ill is a dick imo

Take covid out of the situation and say someone had chicken pox, noro virus or flu, you just wouldn't want germs spread about that others could catch.

Not visiting when sick has always been a thing in my family. Earlier in the year I missed my mother’s birthday dinner because I was full of cold and felt pretty awful. Knew it wasn’t Covid as free PCR tests were still available in my country at the time.

Had sort of hoped she might reschedule (was only six of us going) but life still goes for other people when you’re sick.

No . I work in healthcare so whilst don't have to isolate would not be allowed in work.. so not living with it is it.

Definitely not. Also, what is the point in testing if you're going to spread it around anyway?

Are you nuts? Nobody wants lurgies. Just because you are symptomless doesn't mean they will be if they catch it. If someone turned up with flu or a streaming nasty cold I'd tell them where to go

I wouldn't visit if i felt ill, regardless of what it was. I wouldn't know if it was covid or flu or a cold as don't test though.

In my friends/family, you tell people if they are ill and then you can make a decision whether to still see them

No I wouldn’t guidance is still to not mix for 5 days after testing positive

You would be welcome in our house as we have nothing else planned after Boxing Day other than work. Would be annoyed if someone came and we had new years plans. Same for horrible colds etc it's not the avoiding infection (very much a hygiene hypothesis House) it's the fact we could the be to ill to attend something else.

Noro nope 48hours clear please.

No, not in our family. My DP is positive for COVID so the big family Christmas at our house we had planned is unfortunately cancelled. I'm sad but we don't want to be responsible for my entire family falling ill. DP has felt extremely rough this week and I don't want that for my parents or elderly grandmother.

It affects people differently so it’s hard to say what will happen to them if they get it, and I felt bloody awful the second time I had it, despite all the jabs. I also had a horrible vomiting bug and would not have seen family whilst I was going through it (husband was unaffected, but the children got it bad too). It’s like living with chickenpox, yes you get on with it, but you wouldn’t turn up for Christmas with it!!

No

Not sure which is which on the poll? I wouldn't expect anyone not to come because they have covid but then my family all live abroad and so I take them in whatever state they arrive at as there's no where else to go. I suppose that gives me a different outlook and so that attitude is extended to whoever wants to come over. I am happy to have sick people in my house. We get endless bouts of covid from our school age kids and our very socially involved jobs so we'll get whichever strain is going around - may as well get it from our guests. I find a lot of people to be stuck up and fussy about this kind of thing but accept that we all just have different attitudes to socialising

Never test, so not an issue. I wouldn't mind anyone turning up with cold/flu/Covid - unless they felt so unwell that they preferred to stay in their own bed. I'm not precious and I've had all my jabs, plus I realise that it's perfectly normal to be exposed to viruses etc. The utter failure of lockdown as a policy showed us that it's not healthy to continually isolate ourselves from whatever is circulating.

If they felt perfectly well I wouldn’t mind at all, I’d just treat it like flu and avoid hugging etc. IMO that is living with covid.