Have covid and attend outdoor event, would you go?

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Tested positive for covid on Friday after feeling rough for a few days but just thought it was a head cold, was pretty surprised when that red line appeared! Felt much better yesterday and this morning. There’s an outdoors music festival on today, which I’d ruled out since said red line but friends (ones that were, 3 years ago, very freaked out by the whole thing, rule abiding, social distancing fanatics etc) are like “it’s fine just go, it’s just a cold now” etc! But I feel uncomfortable about it. Obviously I wouldn’t hug anyone or cough on them (bit of a cough still!) wwyd? Would you still go?

(the work infector caught it at a party from someone who also knew they had it - how come as a society we've moved from fascistic rules being essential to hey who cares?)

Depends how long I’d had the symptoms for. You tested positive Friday but if you’ve had the symptoms from say Monday you’d be day 5/6, in which case I’d probably go.

No., I wouldn’t. I have no underlying health conditions and am fully vaccinated and it took me three months to recover from Covid. It affects people differently and it’s a very anti social thing to knowingly spread a disease.

I'm expected to go to work with covid .
So yes I would go

If I knew I had it I wouldn’t go, just like I wouldn’t go if I knew I had flu.

By fanny I mean enforcing to the letter, judging/ grassing on neighbours, shouting TWO METRES!!!!!! at random small children on walks.

And now it's "yeah fck other people's lives and bodies I need to see Harry Styles".

I expect it had something to do with finding out that the people who made those "fascistic" rules were having massive drunken karaoke parties in their house every night while members of the public were arrested for sitting on a park bench or left to die alone in hospital.

IF somebody is that susceptible from getting badly ill from covid they should not be going to a music festival. OP go and have a great day if you feel well enough.

Please don't

I have a highly immune suppressed person in the household.

Outdoors events are very important to us. We know there's always a risk that someone might unknowingly have covid, but it's just horrible to think that someone might deliberately or recklessly spread the disease

(and yes, before someone minimises, covid is different, and we didn't need such precautions with diseases where treatments are better and more available)

Also, the government guidance remains that people with covid should stat at home unless essential. Work might be essential (though I wish people would name those that require it, so the particularly vulnerable can opt to use others) but by no stretch does going to a festival count as that

Definitely don't go. It might be minor for you, but could kill someone else.

Also, viruses mutate all the time and spreading any version of covid makes it possible for new strains to emerge. The next one could be even more virulent!

Yeah I was a fanny about the rules! 🤣
that’s why I had said I’d ruled out going and when friends keep badgering me about it I feel uncomfortable about it, hardly fck the rules! -read the post…..
not that it makes much difference but it’s not Glastonbury, it’s a small local day of bands in a field where people sit down, have a picnic and a few beers and listen to music. No Harry Styles, not that I’d want to see him anyway! 🤣

I wouldn't go

This is inaccurate, offensive and discriminatory against those with certain disabilities and medical conditions

@Lemonpepper I never understand posts like yours. Testing is still recommended for people who are clinically vulnerable or for those of us working in health and social care settings. We are not remnants. Just responsible people trying to keep others safe.

Yes I’d go. Barely anyone tests anymore and you can guarantee that a load of other people who have a ‘cold’ or ‘hayfever’ actually have covid. And they will still be there.

Those who wouldn't go

Would you go if you have another type of virus ( traditional cold for example ?)

As your logic still holds - someone else could die if they catch it

I work in a healthcare setting. Guidance changed a few weeks ago - we don’t test anymore.

I agree with this 100 per cent.

A close family member now has type 1 diabetes because of getting covid, this was prior to vaccinations being available.
Plus there might be people going that have caring responsibilities elderly people with many serious health issues.

You obviously didn't learn much from the pandemic.
If someone passes a virus to another person, it doesn't stop with them. It becomes a risk to anyone they go on to have contact with.
So you might not go to a festival, but could well end up standing in a queue next to someone who did...

I absolutely wouldn't go- COVID impacts so many people in different ways.

Yes I’d absolutely go. Im not staying in doors and missing events over something as minor as covid anymore.

You don’t have to stay in doors and waste your life away anymore. Go out and live.

If you ever step out of your home you’re mixing with people who have covid ….. the vast majority aren’t testing.

So yes I would go if I felt well enough. This madness needs to stop.

Also I’ve never understood how anyone knows who they caught covid from …. even in the thick of it …. you can have a good idea obv but not certain.

Yes, you can go.

Loads of people are freely moving around with covid. Even when we had restrictions and got paid to stay at home people went out as normal and claimed their self isolation payment.

However, most people aren’t testing. I don’t test, but if I did I couldn’t knowingly go.