Page 5 | Expecting people to accept you have covid

KatherineJaneway · 25/12/2022 06:54

Living with Covid doesn't mean possibly infecting others

Sukisal · 25/12/2022 22:05

smooththecat · 24/12/2022 22:52

You’d likely be quite ill, but whatever it is I don’t want your disease, thanks. Keep it to yourself.

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Nope, I was asymptomatic the first time and had a mild cough the second time.

are you advocating I test constantly? As for the poster who says that people like me make her feel sick….. remembering covid can often be asymptomatic, are you suggesting will still test whenever we go somewhere even if feeling fine?

Abraxan · 26/12/2022 11:01

9pmchange · 24/12/2022 20:57

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"

If someone had only just tested positive within a few days then I'd rather know and yes, I'd probably avoid them. I'm classed as vulnerable and covid out me in hospital the first time and left me with a life long health complication. The second time I managed to get antiviral treatment fairly quickly.

But then if someone was just coming down with flu or a tummy bug I'd be feeling similar. Not that either of them have put me in hospital or left me with king term issues, just I don't want them and my immune system is rubbish.

A cold wouldn't bother me so much as it's almost impossible to find a week where someone hasn't got one this winter, and again - a cold hasn't out me in hospital before.

I don't, however, ask people to test.
But if they had tested and knowingly had a positive covid result I'd want to know and would chose to avoid,

Abraxan · 26/12/2022 11:07

luxxlisbon · 24/12/2022 21:00

Living with it doesn’t mean being stupid though, it just means it’s not illegal to mix with people/ in lockdown.

I probably wouldn’t want someone who didn’t live with me already coming to Christmas with covid and spreading it about. Equally I wouldn’t want them to come and spread a vomiting bug or the flu or chicken pox etc.

To be fair we are still seeing my nephew who has chicken pox. He will be on day 5. But we have all had CP previously and me and dd had already seen him 2 days before he came down with it, so when likely contagious.

And people have been here over Christmas despite dd having a nasty cough (flu type bug about 3 weeks ago and cough ongoing) and I have a chest infection (again, long lasting as fell ill about a fortnight ago and on second course of ABs.) Our parents all knew before they came and were happy to still come. It's unlikely we will be spreading bugs around at this stage tbh and coughs can last for ages.

toomuchlaundry · 26/12/2022 11:09

@Abraxan is the nephew at home or travelling to relatives’ houses?

Abraxan · 26/12/2022 11:11

toomuchlaundry · 26/12/2022 11:09

@Abraxan is the nephew at home or travelling to relatives’ houses?

Seeing them at their home. They aren't going out and about with him so no one is being exposed unknowingly.

dicdicnurse · 26/12/2022 12:54

DH tested positive on Saturday and so we decided to cancel my parents coming for Christmas lunch even though DD's and I were fine. Thank goodness we did because we (DD's and I) then tests positive yesterday too. All feeling a bit grotty but not too bad. Cancelled our Boxing Day plans too. I wouldn't go out and mix knowing I was positive.

maryberryslayers · 26/12/2022 13:05

I wouldn't know it was covid as I don't test myself or my children. If I was feeling very unwell I wouldn't go anywhere, as usual. However if I had a normal mild cold I'd just get on with my life, as usual. Either could be covid, but I now treat it as I treat any illness.
The only exception to this would be if I was visiting a new baby/very poorly person, I wouldn't go if at all unwell and would test if requested.

FrenchBoule · 26/12/2022 13:07

No.Keep your germs to yourself. You might “just have sniffles”, somebody else might have it more seriously.

notsorich · 26/12/2022 14:35

If anyone knowingly exposed me to Covid, I wouldn't forgive them.

SirVixofVixHall · 26/12/2022 14:39

Ivyonafence · 24/12/2022 21:00

I wouldn't and I'd be furious if someone did that to me.

Same.
I caught Covid for the first time three weeks ago and dc and I are still not well. I am fed up of feeling rough, and struggled to get Christmas shopping done . I stayed at home until I was testing negative, I would be really angry if someone visited me with Covid or flu. Or even a cold at the moment as tests are not accurate.

nether · 27/12/2022 09:05

Sukisal · 25/12/2022 22:05

Nope, I was asymptomatic the first time and had a mild cough the second time.

are you advocating I test constantly? As for the poster who says that people like me make her feel sick….. remembering covid can often be asymptomatic, are you suggesting will still test whenever we go somewhere even if feeling fine?

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If your visiting someone critically vulnerable (the 'third primary' subset of the CEV) or someone very elderly, yes that would be the sensible thing to do

phoenixrosehere · 27/12/2022 09:09

SirVixofVixHall · 26/12/2022 14:39

Same.
I caught Covid for the first time three weeks ago and dc and I are still not well. I am fed up of feeling rough, and struggled to get Christmas shopping done . I stayed at home until I was testing negative, I would be really angry if someone visited me with Covid or flu. Or even a cold at the moment as tests are not accurate.

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Was given it by by guests who were staying who knew they were unwell but not with what. I almost missed my b’day trip that I had planned in advanced for months. I luckily tested negative the morning of the flight. The cost of having to rebook it if I had missed it was more expensive than the flight and

the accommodations.

Iusedtoliveinsanfrancisco · 01/09/2023 11:05

I’ve got it now for the first time. I don’t hate anyone bough to want to share this.

Fivethirtyeight · 01/09/2023 11:26

Why did they test?

MotherEarthisaTerf · 01/09/2023 11:28

Fivethirtyeight · 01/09/2023 11:26

Why did they test?

Its a zombie thread.

Yellowlegobrick · 01/09/2023 11:29

I wouldn't visit family if actively unwell with anything.

However, i don't test for covid any more. If I'm too ill to go out, I'm too ill, regardless of what I've got. So I wouldn't ever have a situation where I was aware I apparently had covid but was not unwell and could consider going.

Brefugee · 01/09/2023 11:31

someone knowingly comes into my home with a highly contagious illnesss? an illness where the effects can be nearly nothing to ending up in a wheelchair (or death)? fuck that.

They are out of my life. At the very least they are not welcome within 6 feet of me ever again. That goes from Covid to Ebola and anything in between.

ToWhitToWhoo · 01/09/2023 11:31

No, just as I wouldn't visit with the flu or norovirus. No point spreading illnesses unnecessarily.

Fivethirtyeight · 01/09/2023 14:26

MotherEarthisaTerf · 01/09/2023 11:28

Its a zombie thread.

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Thx 😊

ANiceBigCupOfTea · 01/09/2023 14:27

No but then I feel the same way with a bug or a flu. Keep it to yourself thanks!