To wonder what the current guidelines/conventions around Covid are?

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I have no idea where we are with Covid, it's not easy to track down a test and they're £2 each! Are people testing if they're unwell - what are workplace policies like? Stay at home until negative? Are people really testing everytime you feel unwell?

We do test if we have symptoms, so we can stay home but I know lots of people don't bother now.

And not everyone can work from home. I can't imagine why anyone would routinely mask up these days if they were about to be within 2m of a stranger.

There aren't any restrictions.
I'm not testing, or masking.

I had COVID last Xmas, work in care and was told to mask up.

Goodness me your poor Dd yet posters are dismissive of covid and people are just being "silly"

They accused me of living in a hovel as I have no spare room for an office. Apparently by working from home rather than commuting I could save enough to move out of my hovel to somewhere with enough room for and office.

As I only have a 15 minute each way commute I haven't saved enough yet!

Nobody cares. I work in healthcare and nobody tests or is interested in testing. The hospital doesn’t care either.
I know it’s rife, but……

I wouldn't test. Threw all my masks and testing stuff out ages ago.

What a delightful character he/she is.

My child also goes to a special school some of the pupils are very vulnerable ie on oxygen ,and tube fed etc but my son is expected to be if he's well enough we are told not to test for covid 🤷‍♀️I'm lucky despite my sons disabilities he's in robust health but what can you do when you are told to send them in any way

So why are hospitals testing everyone who is admitted or who has symptoms if they attend A&E if it's such a mild disease that no one needs to worry about?
Why has my local hospital currently admitted 30 people suffering from COVID difficulties if it's so mild, the highest number in a long time according to the nurse I spoke to when i was in hospital?
Why is my previously extremely fit and healthy( ultra marathons etc) family member suffering from heart problems brought on by Long Covid if it's so mild?
You need to educate yourself. It's mild for many people but very serious for others, and it's not just a respiratory disease, it can affect other organs. There's no telling who will get Long Covid, no correlation between that and how healthy you are.

I would test and stay home
If I had it, I wouldn't spread it around.

I don't think some will ever move past their fear and for a few it's become a fetish.

Very sad.

We test in our husband as DH is vulnerable. Therefore if I test positive before him then he can contact his hospital consultant for advice. Likewise if he tests positive first then I can try and isolate with the kids so I don't get unwell and not be able to act as his 'main carer'. Nobody else does that I know of. Doesn't bother me, life goes on and we all have to cope with it the best we can. Although we both WFH we do both go out, use public transport, visit hospitals etc so probably will catch it again. We are both vaccinated (I get it when offered in the autumn and not eligible for the spring ones) and what will he will be. When DH had it in 2022 he got anti virals at hospital and that was that. Imagine it would be similar again next time.

I’ve had a lot of hospital appointments recently, there’s no mention of Covid. Nobody’s testing in schools anymore. We have bugs a lot worse than Covid all year round in schools.

I've found covid tests are readily available in all pharmacies, or from Amazon for under £1 each. Most people I know still test if they have symptoms which could be Covid - I test because I don't want to risk passing it on to a vulnerable person.

My husband is clinically vulnerable and had managed to avoid catching Covid throughout the pandemic, but caught it a few weeks ago and was the most unwell he has ever been in the 50 years I've known him. He was still testing positive for ten days and if he hadn't taken regular tests, once he was able to get out of bed, he could have gone out and passed it on to other similarly vulnerable people . I think it's incredibly selfish not to take a test if you think you've got covid, in the same way as it would be to mix with anyone if you had a contagious illness.

I forgot to mention that I had surgery just under five weeks ago, and I had to take a covid test when I arrived at the hospital for my operation.

Where I work if you do test and do test positive if not feeling to ill to work can still come in. If rough then stay off.

Don't get sick pay either only SSP.

Some places of work expect you in though, or wouldn't pay you for being off.

I only tested when a friend said she tested positive
Brain fog was the was the worst. Couldn't really think properly. Weird

Stayed indoors though

Basically meant to treat it like the common cold now. Daily business as normal unless unwell. I personally test when I have symptoms but I have grandparents who are vulnerable, one with cancer & my mother has a chronic lung condition so mainly for their benefit x

I agree with this and for some people I think it tips over beyond the health fetish and into this weird fetishisation of the lifestyle which seems to be endemic.

See also the militant introvertism which has become standard since the pandemic. People celebrating the narrowing of their social circles and patting themselves on the back for not having friends and living a Puritanical lifestyle.

Those still social distancing masks etc have a severe health anxiety and need to sort that out. You only get one life go enjoy it!

Like any other illness.

If you're too ill to work then you call in sick. No requirement to test or the rest of it, no requirement to inform anyone you;ve been in contact with etc etc,

I would only test us if we were going somewhere with a lot of vulnerable people- visiting a care home, or going as an inpatient to a care home.

There are no requirements to test or social distance any more. Rates of it can be high (just as they can be of flu) but its not resulting in high levels of excess deaths now.