Covid positive

[Galwaygirl]

Would you go on holiday if covid positive, trying to settle an argument!

I’d also concur with guidance which is I’d not test and I’d go if I felt well enough, I’d not know if I had it.

You have to buy them but they are widely available in chemists etc.
I caught COVID at a work meeting but thought I had a cold, as one of my DCs had been coughing a bit.
Went on a booked work trip. Turned out that several of the people who were at the first meeting were also at the 2nd and while I was on the train I got a series of emails saying "I've tested positive too... and me".
I stayed at a colleague's house who was also positive and basically stayed in bed, felt like death, got up the day before I was due to come home, dialled into another meeting, tested negative, went out for dinner and went home.
Still, my colleague's house was tidier than mine and there were no noisy DCs.

Well yes, as Covid isn’t the only viral illness, there are so many more. And if your family are vulnerable. Everyone cannot stay home, they need to self protect with masks and choosing where they go, I’m sorry they are vulnerable but we cannot sanitise the world.

As a sufferer of long covid who has just tested positive for covid again , with tests that I paid for , I couldn’t live with myself if someone ended up losing their career and interests , health , if I didn’t isolate whilst infectious , the same way I have , as a previously healthy individual , because of covid .

Im sure the many people I meet in long covid clinic who have also developed it in the last year or two would agree with me.

ps government guidance is you should stay at home https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus

and from guidance
If you or your child have tested positive for COVID-19:

1. try to stay at home and avoid contact with other people for 3 days after the day the test was taken if you or your child are under 18 years old – children and young people tend to be infectious to other people for less time than adults
2. try to stay at home and avoid contact with other people for 5 days after the day you took your test if you are 18 years old or over
3. avoid meeting people who are more likely to get seriously ill from viruses, such as people with a weakened immune system, for 10 days after the day you took your test

Yes I would.

I would treat it the same as any other illness, so the question to ask would be ‘how unwell do I feel?’

If it’s just a cold that will be over in a few days then yes I would go, but if you can’t get out of bed then obviously no.

Would depend on how ill I felt and any health conditions. I'd also double check my travel insurance just in case needed whilst away.

I'd then were a mask on the plane because I'd try not infect others.

I got ill (not covid) on holiday last year. Likely picked up on the plane and it ruined the trip

Our insurance doesn't cover for just a positive test.

Only if you have a positive test and are required to self isolate by a government body or NHS or if you are certified as too unwell by a medic.

So as there is no requirement to self isolate currently you couldn't cancel just on the basis of a positive test and get your money back.

Yes but as others have said I wouldn’t have tested

So people would travel with norovirus or chickenpox that hadn’t scabbed over or other viruses , presumably flying in an airplane which is essentially a large Petri dish to incubate viruses/bacteria ?

literally the only consideration is how ill YOU feel?

Those who have caught it or other infections say how ill they have felt and yet would still travel and potentially at best ruin a holiday for someone and , at worst , kill someone ? Yes even chicken pox can kill especially those on steroids , immunosuppressed.

covid is covered in most insurance policies as are most infectious diseases .

I really wish people with any infectious disease would consider others as well as themselves .

Depends how the person feels and nothing else. As PP, how would you even know.

I don’t even know anyone who still tests.

I have an extremely vulnerable adult at home and I work in a school, so I still take sensible precautions (as I did pre-covid) to ensure if I’m ill, I’m away from him. He’s just as likely to be ill from a cold leading to pneumonia as he is to covid.

If you’re so ill you can’t fly, then don’t go. If you don’t feel too bad, then go on holiday and put your hand/arm/mask over your mouth when you cough etc.

It would depend on the type of holiday and transport. I wouldn't get on a plane and risk infecting two or three hundred people, but I would go away if I was travelling by car to self catering accommodation, or possibly if I stayed in a hotel but would stay in my room until I tested negative again.

If you're asking whether people would travel with norovirus you've obviously lucky enough to have never had it, @Lollygaggle . I'd have done well to get outside the bathroom when I did.

Yes unless I was too ill to travel.

I wouldn't but I have immune compromised family members and I was also considered ECV. I think maybe you care more when you know yours/someone else actions could literally kill or make someone seriously ill. I also had 2 close friends in ICU in coma's because of COVID. One died ages 48 with no other illnesses or health issues.

Not testing. I don't test for anything else and this is now no different.

But I would assume you're similarly vunerable to other virus like flu or even secondary chest infection from a cold? So the fact it's covid doesn't matter.

I’ve had it , and more particularly I had parents bringing children in for appointments with accompanying children vomiting into bowls . They didn’t think it was a problem as the parent hadn’t got it ……. yet.

I caught measles from a patient (I am too old to have had the vaccine ) which I passed onto my baby who developed hearing problems later in life.

I’ve caught impetigo , more gastric bugs etc than you could shake a stick at from patients who have come in infectious .

I never caught covid at work because we screened every patient and had extremely good cross infection and PPE . Not one of our staff caught covid during the most infectious period.

I caught covid , probably , from someone on holiday who I shared a long distance train carriage with and who, despite coughing , wouldn’t open a window. As a result I ended up in hospital and have been unable to work clinically again .

If I think I'm infectious I stay at home. I don't go round knowingly infecting people.

The two days before chicken pox spots appear your very infectious but don't know so it can't be helped. You'd be an absolute arsehole to go out covered in spots touching stuff and other people. You stay at home 4/5 until your all scabbed over.

Covid is an inflammatory disease that attacks multiple systems .

Flu killed more people in 1918 than died in the First World War and still causes a large spike in mortality rates in winter as it is a seasonal disease.

Spreading either about is irresponsible .

Not if I was going on a flight or other enclosed place where I could impact vulnerable travellers

The vast majority of folks don’t know if they are spreading as the guidance is not to test, and many people have little to no symptoms.

if you wish restrictions brought back, and testing, then you need to petition the government,

So you’d lose your holiday, and even though insurance doesn’t cover it. That is very altruistic of you

Well as a vulnerable person I would be able to claim on insurance as since 2020 have always ensured I have Covid cover included and the requirement for antivirals would be a medical reason for me to cancel