Covid positive

[Galwaygirl]

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

If she was asymptomatic on the Sunday she wouldn't know if that was day one or whether been positive days earlier 🤷‍♀️ if she's worried she could test again but highly unlikely to be contagious if not sneezing and coughing. Wearing a mask if in close contact with others would reduce the probability of infecting anyone further if she's worried.

If you read further on the same page

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 but I'd wear a mask just in airport, flight etc

She had to stay off for 5 days as per government's guidelines. She wasn't required to test but did so before attending her vulnerable patient, as a precaution

A few of her colleagues were suggesting she goes on holidays.as she has 4.days isolation done with no symptoms, I think after her not being in work for the week and of she exercises caution and wears mask etc she should go as she will be day 5

If I was well enough to travel I would.

I am ill now, possibly Covid but I am out of tests. I couldn’t get on a plane today.

I only test before visiting my very elderly grandmother (97) in her care home as she is incredibly vulnerable. We aren’t required to but most relatives are. And we obviously don’t go anyway with symptoms.

To quote the Spartans' laconic response to Philip II of Macedon: "If".

I'm fully aware that if you or your child have tested positive for COVID-19 then all those advice points follow. But why would you test positive when you're neither advised to test nor given test kits any more?

In those very particular circumstances, I would go, masked and sit outside on deck on the ferry, but I can and have cancelled holidays before when one of us was unwell and clearly infectious. We do still test in my family and I had COVID 6 weeks ago so stayed at home. It was the most unwell I have felt for some time , and not improved by the fact that I had it twice in a couple of months.

It annoys me how everyone went tits mental for lockdown and are now all "why would you even TEST, nerd". Arseholes the lot of them.

People who did not go tits mental for lockdown (all three of us) are entitled to do as we please now, though.

I'm not calling anyone a nerd, just pointing out what the advice is. Nobody tests to see whether they have flu or any other routine bug that's circulating in the community.

I didn't go 'tits mental' for lockdown either.* I just followed the advice at the time as I do now. The situation has changed and so the advice has changed. My attitude remains the same: I am guided by public health experts who have made a career of determining the appropriate steps non-expert members of the public (like me) should adopt.

*Not sure what this means. Are tits particularly mental? It doesn't sound very complimentary though.

It's not about being "for themselves." I think most people care if someone becomes seriously ill. But it just isn't reasonable to expect that people will forego a much-needed holiday when they feel well enough to go, in case someone vulnerable is on the plane or in the same hotel. I'm afraid that COVID just is part of life now and it is for those with vulnerabilities to decide what they feel comfortable doing. Why should the person with mild COVID symptoms miss out so that someone else doesn't have to? I'm fed up with people pushing the narrative that those who are choosing to live their lives are somehow awful and selfish and don't care about others. Most people care, but COVID is as much a part of our existence now as flu or norovirus or the common cold and we simply have to live with it, with the onus being on those who may become more ill from it to make their decisions accordingly.

No - you're just totally unthinking crowd people who supported harm then and mock minor mitigations of harm now because of the prevailing fashion. Don't feel too bad, it's an evolved survival trait and we're all just animals at the end of the day.

COVID definitely isn't routine, unfortunately, and is still causing serious illness. Everyone must make their own decisions but it's responsible and community spirited to test and avoid others if infected. Much more so than grassing up your neighbour for having a fifth person in the garden...

Is there really that much overlap between the two groups? I say that as someone who self exempted from some of the lockdown provisions quite early on and also completely understands why some people are still testing.

You and I are on the same wavelength, soco.

There is a big overlap ime. Lots of smug Nazi Banana Bread types now sneering "why did you even TEST".

Agree in part with this but if people were to test every time they got a cold, they'd be spending quite a bit on COVID tests. I agree that if you test, it's community-spirited to then mitigate as much as you can to try to minimise the spread, but they key is to mitigate (wear mask, sanitise, good hand washing, keeping 2m distance if possible) not to stop living normal life, especially when it's a planned special occasion like a holiday.

Yeah I don't think the op is obliged to do anything but asking the question and thinking about it is a good thing.