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 husband has to test because he's CEV due to cancer and needs antivirals and more support.

Yes, still have tests because I have a relative who is seriously ill. I test before going to see them if under the weather.

Well it wasn't, but if it had been, I probably would cancelled anyway as I don't think I could have got through the morning! That it's COVID is probably irrelevant, actually. It's more just that I am ill.

That kind of 'edgy' first answer is so frequent on MN. Really stressed me out.

People who have serious illnesses (there's quite a few different ones). People on Immunosuppressants. People prone to pneumonia.

You can get tests in the pharmacy

I think they lurk about looking to jump in first and see if they can influence a ridiculous take on the issue.

Haha... Fingers crossed! 🤞🏼

I did a test at the weekend. First one in ages. Heavy cold, loss of sense of smell etc. But tested as DH was off to visit his elderly father who has significant health needs including lung problems. I wouldn’t have tested otherwise.

COVID isn't just a cold. And I wouldn't want them passing it around to anyone they come into contact with.

You have to take your existing colleagues into consideration.

I got a reply to my email and they have proposed another date for the interview.

I feel completely stressed out after this thread, though. Worried that they'll think I'm making it up.

Sigh.

Onwards and upwards!

What!!!!?

They didn’t even call you a bedwetter??

Great news btw!

Runny nose and sniffles are the symptoms for the vast majority of people with Covid.

Yes, anyone still terrified of Covid is a bedwetter. Sorry that hurts your feelings but I’d suggest you don’t take everything you read on the internet so personally.

• Lockdowns were fudging awful and unnecessary
• Covid is not a serious illness for 99% of people.
• Most people are choosing to live their lives without fear of a virus we now know - despite people’s anecdotal evidence - causes a bad cold for most people.
• Masks don’t stop transmission and you’re a fool if you still wear one.
• You may think you weren’t caught up in the mass hysteria and propaganda of the early Covid days but it is clear you and others have been, otherwise you wouldn’t be so scared.
• It’s not easy to just ‘stay home’ if you have a cold. Some people will lose their jobs, some elderly people who need social contact to avoid going insane - the list goes on. You’re in a privileged position if you can just book yourself off work for a few days to recover in bed alone.

I am bored of repeating basic stats and commonly-held knowledge so I will see myself out of this thread.

That's good to hear. I hope you smash it. Try not to worry if some randoms have chosen to be spiteful.

Iv had covid twice and iv never had a runny nose and sniffles what i have had is breathing issues, high temperatures, damage to my heart muscle, brain fog and it gave me asthma

There's a middle ground between living life in fear, and ablelism and and a total lack of decency. I have no time for people like you who use the term "bedwetter". I think your attitude is despicable, as are your comments. Probably best that you're taking yourself off before you show yourself up any further.

Wow, are you under-informed. The wave of early-onset Parkinson's alone that is going to emerge from this pandemic in the coming years should wipe the smug of your face in no time.

What an earth are you talking about? Please, provide me with some evidence of this as I’d love to see.

FWIW my 66yo dad has Parkinson’s.

I'm sure you can figure it out yourself, as you are such a scathing expert talking down to all of us "bedwetters".

I thought you were taking yourself out.

In all seriousness if your dad has parkinsons you need to start being a lot more careful about spreading covid especially to him as its been proven to make parkinsons disease worse and exacerbate symptoms. We may disagree about covid and that's fine but please be careful around your dad at least.

I quite frankly couldn’t give a toss what you think.

But I do find it ironic that anyone anti-lockdown / anti Covid fear-mongering is selfish, given we are thinking about the greater good of society (immeasurable lockdown harms) rather than the minority of people who get very ill / die from Covid.

I care about: the women who gave birth alone, women who went to scans and told they’d miscarried, alone. Children who died in hospital with only one parent by their side instead of 2. The elderly who were shut into care homes unable to see loved ones. The thousands of businesses that collapsed, livelihoods lost and the people who committed suicide. The kids who couldn’t go to school or play in the playground. Women who suffered from domestic violence because they couldn’t leave home. Children so deprived of socialisation that they started school without basic skills. People’s mental health which was absolutely destroyed. The government spending billions on a furlough scheme that has created the economic mess we’re in today.

Yes Covid is triggering, the above explains why. If you want to keep testing and worrying about the virus, go ahead but most of us want to move on.

And if that makes me selfish then so be it.

What a convenient answer 🤣 I don’t have the evidence so you have to find it. FML

Where's the tiny violin emoji?

Here, have a bedwetter🛌or two🛌

I’m replying to someone who’s commenting on my post. What’s it to you?