Have covid and attend outdoor event, would you go?

[Mydietstartstomorrow]

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?

A vast majority of people stopped obsessing over Covid a long time ago as they turned their attention to real problems but no doubt the hysterics will tell you that you are evil to even consider going.

I have regular hospital appointments (three or four a month) and nobody wears a mask or tests, or is asked to.

You said 'presumably most people have been vaccinated'

so your last comment makes no sense, but then neither did your first post, so 💁🏻‍♀️

When you’re wrong just insult. Okay, I get your type.

I work with the public. I actually might have it now, I’m going to work tomorrow. Is there something wrong with your comprehension?

@Bbqshowdownusa

it says

try to stay at home and avoid contact with other people for a further 5 days after your positive test if you are 18 or over

stop cherry picking & taking things out of context.

Try to stay home if you have symptoms. You’re the one cherry picking @ThirstyThursday

from the nhs guidance.

Try to stay at home and avoid contact with other people if you or your child have symptoms and either:

• have a high temperature
• do not feel well enough to go to work, school, childcare, or do your normal activities

You can go back to your normal activities when you feel better or do not have a high temperature. If your child has mild symptoms such as a runny nose, sore throat or mild cough, and they feel well enough, they can go to school or childcare.

I would go. But the issue wouldn't arise, I haven't tested for more than 18 months.

Go if you feel well enough. Few people are testing now (I haven't for at least a year) and life has, thankfully, gone back to normal.

@VenAqui

I'm not the one that's wrong.

Your first post made no sense. Neither do your others, that's a fact, not an insult.

your work situation isn't what the thread is about.

you said about vaccinations, I said they're not effective long term so that's irrelevant, then you tried turning that into proving your point, which makes even less sense.

I'm not spending a lovely day arguing with you. so let's just drop it.

why did you even test if you had this concert coming up?

@Mydietstartstomorrow

you are right, your friends are wrong.

the Guidance says

• try to stay at home and avoid contact with other people for a further 5 days after your positive test if you are 18 or over

But obviously it's up to you to decide whether you want to follow that or not.

just personally I wouldn't risk passing it onto anyone else, because it's not a 'mild cold' or 'nothing' to a lot of people.

@Willmafrockfit

shes already said, she needed to fit an operation

'Try' to stay at home sounds a bit weak, in fairness

@VenAqui

wrong again.

tgats the guidance if you have symptoms. The OP has a positive test result, so should follow THAT guidance which is what I quoted from

What to do if you have tested positiveYou are no longer required to do a COVID-19 rapid lateral flow test if you have symptoms.
But if you or your child have tested positive for COVID-19:

• try to stay at home and avoid contact with other people for a further 3 days after your positive test if you are under 18 years
• try to stay at home and avoid contact with other people for a further 5 days after your positive test if you are 18 or over
• avoid meeting people who are more likely to get seriously ill from viruses, such as people with a weakened immune system, for a further 10 days after your positive test

i tried,
but there was this concert guv

It's not just about them though. (Although shit that because people won't isolate when ill, they are essentially forced to live a half life)

It's about the people further down the chain - the person in the queue that works in a care home, or has an elderly parent. Or the next step in the chain - passed on in workplace or school (places people HAVE to go).

If I was positive for covid I wouldn't then go somewhere I could pass it on.

In OP's situation I would test again and go if negative.

in answer to your question
i personally wouldnt
i did walk my dog but kept my distance
and anyway i was feeling ill

It depends how long you've had symptoms for and if you're feeling better now. So if you felt a bit rough from say Monday, it's unlikely you're contagious now. But ai probably wouldn't go if it was me. My DM has turned her and DF into virtual recluses because she's so scared of them catching covid and she would never forgive me if I went out with a positive test.

If you're ill, you stay home. Any illness.

I think we’re all forgetting, or maybe misunderstood, but lockdowns and quarantines were never about protecting you, me, granny or any vulnerable individuals, they were about protecting and preventing the sacred cow that is the NHS from collapsing under the weight of cases. No government wanted that to happen on their watch because it would have been political suicide as no one in the future would ever vote for a party that had ‘let’ this happen.

i would also like to remind us all that before covid, no one gave any thought to immunosuppresed people. All of a sudden, we’re all ‘concerned’ We previously never gave any thought about the fact that whilst we were coughing and spluttering on the bus, the person next to us might have been undergoing, for example, chemo. We also forget that flu is an absolute killer to those in vulnerable groups. If we had tested for flu as diligently as we did for covid, I think we would have been shocked just how many deaths it is regularly responsible for.

Quite a mix of responses on here.

1. I don't care
2. I do care and feel that it would be morally wrong to put other people at risk
3. I rely on what the government says and ignore common sense

I am not at Slam Dunk BTW, but I know several people who are going and some of them are more vulnerable.

Wow. So should people will illnesses spend all their life having the soul sucked out of them alone in a darkened space

It is entirely their perogative. But they should not expect others to hide away for them.

@Gcsunnyside23 perhaps you didn’t read the pre-appointment paperwork? I certainly was asked to ten days ago and @Mydietstartstomorrow says in her posts that’s why she tested. Perhaps it depends on the type of hospital you are attending?

It’s not slam dunk whatever that is. Or a concert. It’s a local smallish in a field event.

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