To go to the shop with Covid?

[Homelessnottoothless]

My friend has Covid. Feeling crap but not at death’s door if you know what I mean.
I text her today to check and see how she was and if she needed anything. She said she didn’t as she was just back from the shops and got all she needed.
I said “should you be out with Covid” and she got really annoyed and said it isn’t the way it used to be and you can go out without a mask even though you are testing positive.
I didn’t want to cause an argument so I just said “ I don’t think you can” and left it like that. She is now bombarding my phone with links and all sorts trying to prove it is ok. I could have gone to get her anything she needed. She insists life goes on as normal and nobody needs to stay home.
AIBU thinking it is incredibly selfish to do this?

But most of the general.public are not testing and therefore won't know they have covid but are merrily getting on with their lives. So it's inevitably everywhere. If people need to test for work or medical reasons let them at it but don't interfere in other people's lives. They aren't doing anything wrong..

It is.

She's a selfish cow.

I think the considerate thing do.do would be to avoid people where possible. We don't need rules to think for ourselves

Mask refusal is way beyond selfish.

She really should have worn a mask

Better still, she could have got delivery, or had a friend do the shop for her.

Lots of people are still getting really quite unwell with covid (and it's causing long covid at a rate of roughly 1 in ten infections) and I think it's really horrible to knowingly go into indoors spaces when you know you have it.

You don't have to test. But if you choose to, and are positive, then you should follow the guidance. Stay home, unless essential. If you have to go out, practice social distancing and wear a mask

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Legally it's fine; just selfish and antisocial.

Every days a school day 😂

Because there will be some who 'can't' wear a mask which then makes it pointless.

@ManhattanNY Well, I'd expect more from a teacher.

im not sure why you take so much pride in spreading your germs?

@dontcrowdthemushrooms

i hope you're better soon.

couldn't you have asked a neighbour?

couldn't you have got a delivery?

wearing a mask & being careful what you touched is appreciated by us more vulnerable people 🪴

Well that might be the case in her work but it's certainly not universal, plenty of people continue to work with covid.

@Sandtownnel very few are unable to wear a mask, but even if a few can't, 98% of people doing it isn't pointless!!

I went to Tesco when I had Covid last year. I felt awful (physically and emotionally) but I had to and it wasn’t breaking any rules 🤷🏻‍♀️

I test because I'm eligible for antivirals
My work won't allow anyone who has tested positive for Covid in, or if you are full of a cold/flu, coughing then it's WFH or be off (paid) sick
We have two colleagues who have children currently in hospital with cancer plus other colleagues with medical conditions
Basically if you're unwell covid or not they don't want you on the premises

Do you mean antivirals?

Responses like this blow my mind. In 2024.

I had a cold. It barely registered on my radar. It affected me not at all. Two sets of guests came to stay with members . Both got Covid shortly after leaving. (Why they tested is beyond me, they’re both self employed 🤷‍♀️) and so I can only assume I had covid myself and gave it to them. None of us were really ill, it was a non-event. It didn’t even occur to me to schlep to a shop to buy tests. I just carried on as normal. As is everyone else.

I think it is very selfish if you can avoid going to shops or work etc. It's all very well saying carry on but don't visit granny, but granny, or someone's granny, may be in the shop or your workplace. Its not just a cold for many and I think there is growing evidence that repeated infection can lead to long covid.

Update. I text her to apologise on my comment which she was lovely about and reiterated that it was not a big deal and that she was going to see Mean girls in the cinema with her daughter this evening even though she felt rough. I said nothing because like a lot of you said, it is none of my business. She text me there half an hour ago to say she felt lousy and if I could drop round Sinutab in the morning. I have no idea how busy the cinema was but she did say the lady in the chair next to her was doing her head in because she kept singing and she had a banging headache. Now in fairness I don’t know know why anyone would be singing in the cinema . I will drop the medication to her door tomorrow but I won’t be going in. People might judge me on that but I’d rather be careful that get Covid if i can avoid it.

Going to the cinema with covid is ridiculous, she sounds like a selfish idiot.

No, everyone else isn’t carrying on as normal after experiencing a pandemic. I keep tests in the house and use one whenever I have cold-like symptoms, so I know whether to isolate or not- it’s not that hard.

I went to the shop when I had covid because I needdd to buy food. I was in and out and wore a mask.

OP, you're totally unreasonable and holier than thou. I am quite sure I have had Covid but wouldn't test even under duress. I went on holiday and had spa treatments and all that. Moral of the story is : DO NOT TEST

In the U.K., you can go to work even in the NHS with Covid so sorry mind your own business please

Thank goodness some of us work in countries which don't seem to have such archaic rules about sickness. I'm pretty sure most of my workplaces wouldn't want people coming in with covid, and at my last workplace my boss told me to stay home for four days with just a cold (I tested every day for covid). And yes, I was paid.