AIBU to cancel interview due to COVID?

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I have a job interview this morning but have COVID. Didn't sleep. Work up feeling crap and did a test. Just emailed to cancel. Feel terrible that it's last minute and really want the job. Have asked to reschedule. Did I do the right thing? AIBU? For info, it was a 4 hour interview (tests etc then face to face interview - just don't think I could have got through it - quite apart from not wanting to infect everyone).

My daughter ( 11 ) march 9th just gone.

My husband was in hospital twice earlier this year, 6 weeks in total. Covid was running rife among staff and patients alike (hospital was testing patients who required admission).

Yes, my DP came down with “something” first week in February… he’s still suffering with “something” now! It’s been 12 weeks!

Not like him at all, he’s now constantly tired, snuffly, headachey, and got no energy at all. Doctors aren’t interested, so he just carries on🤷‍♀️
There is still some sort of virus around.

Who the HELL is still testing for covid? Where do you even get the tests?? 😂

You absolutely did the right thing. I would be far more annoyed with someone coming for a meeting or interview who was visibly ill than with someone who has the good manners to let me know.

Interviews can be rescheduled and any decent organisation will have no issue in doing so.

I do if i'm feeling particularly bad, out of interest as much as anything else & because I have a few boxes of old tests left in the cupboard

People who have consideration for others less robust than themselves.

Most high street pharmacies carry them.

I think you’d actually have to have a profound lack of basic curiosity not to test in those circumstances.

How is she doing?

oh do stop pretending to be a nurse.

Given your comments, it's just not credible.

It’s probably a good time to stop selling them to the public in pharmacies and only test in medical facilities if it really is clinically necessary, so that people who feel like a day off work don’t have that as an excuse.

If you had bothered to read the thread, you'd know the answer to both of those stupid questions.

I agree with both of you!!

That you think mine and any others direct experience with the long term impact of Covid is brainwashed hysteria @Mumoftwo52 doesn’t prove you to be the freedom fighting voice of sanity you clearly think you are.

Quite the opposite.

Covid gives me really bad breathlessness and really effects my asthma if I hadn't of tested for covid I would of assumed something bad is going on and gone to the drs and sat in a waiting room with lots of vulnerable people. Testing meant I didn't have to do this. It would be like saying you can no longer do pregnancy tests at home or test your blood sugars. Drs don't have time for this stuff when people can check themselves

She's got covid!!!

The rude people on this thread are you and the poster who delightfully referred to "covid bedwetters".

Apologies @Theunamedcat .i meant to agree with you that @Lanzarotelady is indeed rude and have quoted the wrong post.

I agree. I still test for COVID when I feel very ill. I think it's important.

Some people are so selfish.

The batshit comment was unnecessarily aggressive too.

That's what I meant to quote. You are rude.

People eligible for antivirals? I get tests from the pharmacy free of charge
My dad also tests so he doesn’t give it to me

You're minimising by speaking of sniffles and runny noses, doubling down on your "bed wetter" comment. Why is "sick" in inverted commas?

I just don't have the words

Well, not ones that wouldn't get me banned anyway

@NestOfWipers the one I’m thinking starts with T and rhymes with sick, and not in inverted commas, either.

You can’t argue with the great freedom fighters and free thinkers of the internet. All self proclaimed epidemiologists and experts in individualism.

Same people who are as likely to tell you cancer treatment is a scam pushed big pharma and you just need to stop eating sugar and shove coffee up your arse like all the enlightened medical experts of facebook.

Also some of these posts are getting a little confused in their desperation to be derisive.

There is lots of derogatory talk about “hiding away” from germs; but the situation under discussion pertains to having already caught it. They aren’t hiding: they’ve got it.