Covid Dilemma - what would you do?

[Iamanon55]

Thought I had a mild cold but just tested and I’ve got bloody Covid! My DD has very important exams coming up this week and my DS has his 18th this week. These exams are very very important and my DD’s future relies on these. No-one but me knows about my positive test and I could keep quiet and no-one need ever know. I feel terrible about this because in any other situation, I would of course isolate and let people know: what would you do?

I just don't understand why you'd test for covid for a mild cold. All it's doing is putting you in this unnecessary dilemma. I bet there's loads of people walking round with it blissfully unaware they even have it.

Why test? Strange thing to do? Zero requirement to do so.

I'm still testing - lucky because I had it for the first time last month. If I hadn't tested I'd have seen my DM, who has MS and heart issues, my DF, who has cancer, my MIL, who is undergoing chemo, my FIL, who's just recovering from a stroke, my co-worker, who has just finished chemo, and my best friend, who has a life limiting auto-immune illness.

I could have finished off virtually everyone I love, let alone those vulnerable people I don't even know.

It horrifies me that you think so little about other people's vulnerabilities.

@QuizzlyBear

It's unlikely you would have 'finished' anyone off.

Are all those people still shielding?

Oddly enough I'm not ok with 'unlikely' when it comes to the lives of people I love.

My parents and in-laws had to shield for 9 months, and they don't anymore but are very careful about where they go and still use masks in certain settings. My DM was hospitalised for three weeks when she caught Covid in 2021. I'm not willing to take risks with their lives when I can simply test if I have symptoms and stay away from them if positive.

I was CEV and had to shield. Both parents were.
I wouldn't test, wouldn't isolate and certainly wouldn't expect other people to.
It's endemic, people are vaccinated, it really is time to move on.

@QuizzlyBear

So they're not currently shielding then?

Meaning they could vat have covid from anywhere at any time

Covid has mutated. We have vaccines

It's not 2020.

My DM ended up in hospital a couple of months ago with COVID.

Couldn't breathe, oxygen sats plunging even though she was on full respiratory support. We thought it was over for her. And it very, very nearly was. No one thought she'd pull through it.

COVID can be utterly devastating for some people even though it's mild for many. And it absolutely does finish some vulnerable folk off. It's a fucker of a virus.

@SpidersAreShitheads

Yes. Thats why I said unlikely

So can lots of other viruses.

It's up to individuals if they want to test or isolate.

COVID can be utterly devastating for some people even though it's mild for many. And it absolutely does finish some vulnerable folk off.

All of that is true for flu though. Yet we have never, and still don't, test for that

I had COVID in February. I was really ill. My partner didn't get it and just went to work as normal while I stayed at home. Nobody died. The end.

I still test for work (visiting care homes) so some of us are still testing.

How old is your daughter and what exams are they? If she's unwell she should call in sick as she would usually (if she gets it within this time). Also if she's feeling under the weather but still able to do the exam maybe hold back on the 'you're whole future is defined by this one exam's

U just keep in doors away from others for 5 days and the others get on with what they r doing.

Just forget that you tested and carry on with life as normal 🤷🏻‍♀️
Maybe try to stay away from your DD so tht she doesnt get sick.

Of course. It isn't even a question. If DD becomes ill and can't take the exams, that can't be helped, but it would be grossly selfish of anyone to suggest she ought not to do them if she's well.

Though on a practical level, surely at that age it'll be her decision anyway? Could you actually stop her from doing them if that's what she wanted?

Honestly I don't really understand your obsession with 'shielding' when my comment was simply that if I had symptoms I would test to ensure that I didn't pass on a virus that could kill my parents.

I had flu last year and avoided them then too.

I had Covid last week. I stayed away from family as much as possible but everyone else carried on as normal.

@QuizzlyBear

It was just a question, I'm not obsessed

If you had only spoken about your self you wouldn't have invited comments. You said you were horrified by others not doing the same

I guess I just assumed that everyone in the world had vulnerable people in their lives - if they choose not to test to avoid disrupting their lives or choose not to avoid them if they have Covid, yes, I find that pretty horrifying.

Socially responsible or virtue signalling selfish people that don't care how much harm they've caused children particularly and adults by supporting this as long as they project an on-message image they think is socially acceptable? Don't forget how many people died due the measures since nobody but those practically dead could access medical help for over two years. While hospitals and A&Es stood empty, wirth a few exeptions.
And we now have proof the measures were introduced without much scientific basis to humour the public.
The vulnerable don't need you or the whole country to protect them, they can protect themselves. Speaking as a CEV. You and the other 'socially responsible' enjoy the harm and destruction and loss of life and health your 'support' has caused to millions of people.

Personally, I'd isolate from your whole family to avoid them getting it - partly to protect them. Also, I'd want to avoid my DD starting to feel ill while she had her exams (she might not test positive for 2-3 days but none of us know if it's going to affect us mildly or we're going to feel awful for two weeks).

I'd isolate away from your whole family to stop them getting it from you - then you don't have to worry about them passing it on to others or your daughter feeling unwell for the exam as that could be disastrous. Similarly you don't want the 18th birthday detailed by illness either!

Yes I would, no questions asked. She has been preparing these exams for years.

Forgot to say that although I would isolate for her sake, she can still go and sit her exams. Obviously if she starts to feel ill, she'd have to decide morally what's the best thing to do, given exams are important to many and they don't want delays.

It's difficult really because no one I know tests at all - I'm certainly not buying any!

if I felt very unwell I wouldn't go out but if I felt as if I had a cold I would.

same as with any other illness really