Covid positive

[Galwaygirl]

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

Why did you, or someone you know test? If testing because of feeling ill, I'd definitely not want to go, but would want my own bed, a limitless supply of ice cool drinks, and paracetamol on standby! I can't imagine anything worse than travelling with a fever.

My experience with COVID is that it starts quite gently and really ramps up after 4 or 5 days. So if I felt ok today, albeit sneezy enough to test, I wouldn't risk it.
I was unwell with covid for a month in April. I test because I get antiviruls.
All the no test and go people - would you take your child with chicken pox on a plane if they were not unwell? Dangerous to a small percentage of the population, ie pregnant women but harmless to most people.

She was asymptomatic but was dealing with a complex medical case where the patient was vulnerable and as she worked in the community she had be dealing with alot of different people and was just being careful I suppose and tye test came up positive, she was testing before she called to the patient

I wouldn't know in the first place.

If I were too ill to travel then no. I always have travel insurance so would have to claim on that. If I were well enough to travel then yeah, would be going.

I wouldn't get on a plane with a communicable disease, no. I'm not comfortable with the idea that I could kill somebody vulnerable. Of course we don't know if we are incubating something infectious and there is always risk - but I wouldn't knowingly spread Covid (or flu, or whooping cough, or any disease that could really harm someone).

Day 4 post test and when was her last test, it's only 5 day advised now not even mandatory. If she got no symptoms she might even be beyond day 5. Our insurance doesn't cover minor viral illnesses so of course we would go I've had COVID multiple times with everything from a headache only to a rough flu, it the headache that makes me think COVID.

I also wonder if chicken pox should be removed from the don't travel list as a vaccine is available if you want it.

Whether the vulnerable choose to travel is up to them but anyone could be brewing a virus that could hurt them without knowing. Maybe wear FP3 masks if they are scared.

I find it hard to believe that people would kiss goodbye to a £5,000 pound holiday (for example) because they had an illness, but only felt slightly unwell. I wouldn't.

Yes it’s hugely altruistic. Oh family I’m not going, you go ahead and have fun, I have Covid and although I feel pretty much fine, I don’t wish to spread it, so will stay home and lose my 5k.

yup, sure.

So, there is no mandatory testing in her department, she has a duty of care to her patients and because covid cases are on the rise where she is working she tested herself before attending this particular patient, no symptoms and test was positive, this test was done on Sunday, positive, and she had hoped to travel Sunday by ferry

Likewise.

There's insurance, but that doesn't mean you'd be able to get the annual leave again at a time when you wanted and could afford to go.

Test was positive Sunday, the guide lines say isolation for 5 days, she goes Friday but she will only have isolated for 4 days instead of 5 so effectively still positive, and this is her issue, as to whether she should go, very little symptoms

No, definitely not.
I have been unwell since Monday, tested yesterday and was positive.

Yes, there is

The world didn't stop to protect the vulnerable, we were all stuck at home shielding. It stopped to protect the nhs

No, I'm not clear! She had to attend patient Monday, tested Sunday as per duty of care, isolated from Sunday. Now she hopes to travel Friday but thinks her isolation period will not be up, she is counting 5 days isolation from the Monday

There is no such thing as an isolation period for anyone else. It might be a work thing. She's not working.

If she feels well she should travel.

I would.

Actually government advice is
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

This.

I certainly wouldn't be exposing others. It's not a cold for many. People still die from it.

Sure, but you are also now not required to test, so it is negated.

You are not mandated by law to test for covid , just you are not mandated to test for tb , measles , mumps but they are legally notifiable diseases.

just because you don’t , legally, have to do something doesn’t mean it’s not the morally right thing to do or even the responsible thing to do.

It's not just that you aren't obliged to test for COVID though. You aren't even advised to test, unless you're a vulnerable person who might be eligible for treatment if the test result is positive.

The advice is here: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/covid-19/covid-19-symptoms-and-what-to-do/

It does seem a bit circular, in that you're only advised to self-isolate (or rather, "try" to) if you have a temperature or feel too unwell to do normal stuff anyway!