Going to work with covid..

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Woke up with a tickly throat, I've never had covid but my dad is positive so I tested. positive. I'm due at work soon and it's important. But I work with someone who is currently 20 weeks pregnant.
It would be wrong to still go wouldn't it? Or will it be ok if I wear a mask?

I assume because people have different circumstances.

I work 2 jobs and was told to go in for both unless I couldn't physically get out of bed as there is no official guildines to stay at home anymore
It counts towards sickness now whereas before it didn't
I went to work

Oh I missed the part where OP’s pregnant colleague, an actual person who OP will be seeing, is actually hypothetical!

Some people…

What do you mean? She knows she has Covid - that’s what she has just written.

It’s not a legal requirement anymore but morally you should stay home. Can you not WFH? That’s what I did when I had covid but obviously depends on your job.

Obviously Government advice remains to try to stay at home and avoid contact with other people. People appear to me missing this?

The pregnant lady isn't hypothetical, OP knows her to exist, and she is by definition vulnerable.

Yep. I was off work for six weeks with it when pregnant and became dehydrated from the puking - the latest variant can bring back morning sickness symptoms. It took me the rest of pregnancy to recover, and that’s at the milder end of what covid can do to pregnancies.

I think most people are aware of this government advice but are completely unable to follow it due to risk of losing wages and if you are already on sickness monitoring your job.

You know full well you would be totally unreasonable.

No they are not ,many work p!aces will not pay employees to.stay home,and some work places have very harsh sickness policies,so the government can advise all they want but people are not willing to lose their livelihood by staying home ,it's all very well ,people in cosy,work from home jobs patting themselves on the back for doing the right thing but not everyone has the option to work from home .

Than prhaps,the pregnant lady should stay home?
We are three years into this now ,people are not willing and in many cases simply unable to jeopardise there own families for other others.

Look we have an expert here. Jamieecurtain has spoken. Forget your vascular sequelas and your neuropathy, Jameieecurtain HAS SPOKEN.

Stay home and rest, to protect other people, born and unborn, but also yourself. I have a long road ahead of me with severe long covid, after pushing on working through the initial infection. It very much wasn't worth it.

@x2boys she should stay home for 9 months instead of other people just being a bit considerate of others for a day or two? Good work.

I am SE so no testing or staying at home for me. No work means no pay!

As someone who caught covid at work and ended up in hospital for over a month and now has long covid please don't

i don't test so I wouldn't know if I had it. I would go to work if I had a 'cold' - same as we always used to.

i work in covid medicines and there are a LOT of people who are asymptomatic - shocked that they have covid. What can you do? 🤷🏻‍♀️

There's a big difference between doing something knowingly and unknowingly

I don’t think it’s fair for everyone to give a blanket rule that you can’t go in, as it’s surely dependent on your work rules. I can work from home so I’d be fine but Covid is not excused from our sickness triggers so if I was well enough I’d be expected to still work.

Yes don’t go in if you have the choice but not everyone gets that or can afford the time off.

I couldn't afford the time of when I caught covid from work and ended up in hospital for over a month. I also can't afford to live now after having to reduce my hours due to long covid. If people can't afford to lose a weeks worth of money think of the people losing years

It's not about being considerate ,YOU DO REALISE,that SOME people don't get paid if they don't go into work ,or could put their jobs at risk???

Yes that’s awful and that’s why I said don’t go in if you have the choice but not everybody has that. Some people literally cannot afford to take even a few days off and if their work expects them in, they’re expected in.

Organisations should be fairer but many are not. Covid is not excluded from the sickness absence triggers for us (and I’d imagine many other companies) so some people literally can’t risk having that time off - it could cost them their jobs.

@darhon COVID is very different to flu. It's primarily a vascular disease, causing hidden organ damage and increasing risk of stroke and heart attacks for months after infection, plus long covid. Everyone should be trying to avoid spreading it as much as possible and certainly reinfection should be avoided.

Lockdowns did no harm for immunity. It makes no sense to need an infection to avoid infection. We should avoid getting sick as much as possible, that's why we vaccinate rather than going around having flu parties, because immunity is not long lasting, including to COVID and its hundred of variants.

I dread to think what we're doing to our children's long term health letting them catch it over and over again when there are very simple mitigations that can be applied (and which will also reduce spread of other airborne illness like flu and colds).

At least OP was willing to wear a mask if she ended up going to work sick. This should be standard.

So you expect people to put their families wells being in jeopardy ?we are three years into.transgenic now ,not everybody has savings and understanding emp!over,s if they did in sure they would be delighted to.stay at home .