Telling ex we have Covid

[midnightblue12]

So basically I have Covid and I just messaged my ex husband making him aware as we share children. He works in a children's home and is due to have children in 2 days when they will most likely have it.
Anyway I thought out of courtesy I'd text him incase he needs to swap childcare etc and he's made me feel about 1mm tall.

He has told me it means nothing, it's just a cold etc. Really made me feel like I'm making a mountain out of a mole hill. Basically how he always makes me feel.

I really wasn't trying to make a big deal out of it. Like the majority I'm just over talking about Covid.

Would you have text in my situation or am I being dramatic? 🤷🏼‍♀️

Oh - and people are sometimes being tested for flu if they are ill with certain symptoms and are vulnerable.

I'd would have just text as an fyi
Up to him what he wants to do!

It would be more comfortable to believe that COVID is like a cold. But it is not. Any one infection is much less dangerous than it used to be, but it is still much more dangerous than a cold, or even the flu.

That does not mean we need to be terrified of it. People choose to do dangerous things all the time. But it is courteous to warn others if one knows that a personal meeting with oneself could pass on to others a potentially serious contagious disease.

You did the right thing. To the majority of people — reasonable health, vaccinated— Covid will be pretty horrible for a few days but not the deadly serious illness it was pre vaccines. But it’s still a danger to vulnerable people, those with compromised immune systems, undergoing chemo, lung conditions like CF or COPD so a text to alert him just in case visitors or people he works with might be at higher risk is not OTT.

Thankyou for caring about this OP.

I wish more people did.

Im a nurse and it is really isn't just a cold .

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