Doing interviews just after covid

[someladdersandsnakes]

DH came down with covid quite badly on Wednesday and tested positive. I got cold-like symptoms on Friday, felt a bit rough, tested negative, feeling almost totally better today and still negative. I'm supposed to be conducting in-person interviews on Monday. If I feel totally better tomorrow and am still negative should I do it? My boss expects me to. It's a weird thing to think about though because I've clearly just had covid even though the tests aren't always reliable and once upon a time you definitely wouldn't have done something like that on day 5 even if you were well.

Feeling fine and no negative test? Of course you should do your job!

From the information you have provided, you have no justification whatsoever for failing to meet your contractual obligation to your employer by not attending tomorrow.

Unless there’s a drip feed and you’re interviewing elderly volunteers for a charity shop or transplant patients for a medical study, there’s absolutely no reason not to go to work and interview as normal. The whole Schrödinger’s Covid thing is baffling. You likely had a cold.

I dunno about assuming it's a cold. We've been working from home all week together, not been anywhere else, it was obviously covid. A negative test doesn't count for much these days.

You are almost fully recovered and your covid tests are negative.

Why wouldn't you go to work? You don't want to assume it's a cold, but covid is a cold albeit one that can be quite nasty. Nevertheless, by your own account, you haven't been particularly ill with it and you are now substantially recovered.

Go to work. You have no legitimate reason to let your employer down.