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).

Our issue is that you are being deliberately goady and obtuse. Covid wasn't a big deal for me either, but it still is for some people. You lack the emotional intelligence to understand this.

So what do we do if we have a virus but feel ok, do we keep children off school, do I not go into work? Do we not go to the shops?

So you think this would happen with a common cold and I should just carry on as normal and go to work.

Oof! I hope you’re not a manager 😬

I have an essay to write and a violin piece to practice, I am procrastinating if truth be told

God, you don't sound like a very empathetic "nurse".

It tells me to take paracetamol and to monitor it more closely to see if I need medical intervention

It doesn't matter what you have, if you're not fit to work, you're not fit to work.

What medical intervention will you need for a temperature?

Yes of course.

You don’t keep children home if they haven’t got it; but if they have, yes of course you keep them home.

So every cough and cold they have you keep them off? How will they build their resilience or immunity?

Exactly but I would be fit for work with a cold as its a cold. Covid is not just a cold and to knowingly spread it around isn't ok

I don't have to be empathetic, I need to be informed and able to keep you alive.

Seriously? You’d go to the interview if you had an highly transmittable illness that can make some people very ill?

If I were your prospective employer, OP, I’d appreciate your consideration and reschedule.

I would follow the e-mail up with a phone call, though, to ensure it had been read and to stress how keen I was on the role.

But you would knowingly spread a cold around? What is the difference?

But no-one is suggesting that people should stay home if they’ve got a bit of a runny nose. When I had Covid last month I tested because I had full blown symptoms and wanted to make sure that I wasn’t going to mix with people who I might infect. My symptoms came on overnight and for the sake of a £1 test and 15 minutes of my time, I avoided potentially infecting many other people, some of whom might only have developed mild cold symptoms and not given it a second thought, and others who might have become extremely ill. Covid is still a very serious illness for a significant proportion of people and dozens still die from it every week, so why wouldn’t you do a very simple and cheap test if you think you may have Covid to avoid spreading it? I’ve got a fairly strong constitution but Covid completely floored me again, and I was unable to get out of bed for a week apart from dragging myself to the bathroom. Im still recovering from the fatigue and breathlessness a month later but am hoping that I don’t have to go back to the long Covid clinic again. I didn’t want to inflict that on anyone, let alone my husband who is vulnerable.

I meet a friend who is in her mid 80s regularly and who has a number of medical conditions and I would never dream of not doing a test before i see her, no matter how well I feel, out of common courtesy.

Are you kidding right now 😳

Definitely right to cancel. You don’t know who on the interviewing panel could be immunocompromised, be pregnant/have a pregnant partner, have young children or elderly relatives they care for etc etc. I would be glad if someone I was interviewing flagged this, and I certainly wouldn’t hold it against them if they were a good candidate. Just make sure you put your very best foot forward in your rescheduled slot. Good luck!

Do you think people are admitted to hospital for a temperature?

They are if they are assessed to be on the sepsis pathway.

Colds don't kill people. Flu and covid do

Well by that stage they’ve already got it haven’t they.

They can build their immunity at home.

You don’t need to be sick at school to build immunity. Sick at home works just the same way.

Perhaps we would all like to see that certification you offered after all …! 🤣

Covid bedwetters

ODFO you nasty bit of work

A temperature is one identifier of potential sepsis. No one would be started on the sepsis pathway for having a temperature

I respectfully disagree. We live in a society, in which not everyone is naturally healthy. Those who are visibly sick do tend to carry a higher viral load and a greater capacity to infect others compared to those who are asymptomatic, so there is benefit to everyone for that cohort to stay at home. Staying at home for a few days to rest and recover before rejoining again is not as you put it “shutting ourselves away from society”. It makes biological sense to rest. That’s the whole reason we sleep at night (or in the day if you do shifts) because our bodies would eventually break down.

I work in a school and I feel so sorry for the kids who are sent in when sick. I see them crying and looking utterly miserable because they are so unwell. The office staff naturally don’t want to nurse other people’s kids, so they distance as much as possible.