What would you do NOW if you were to test positive for Covid?

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In the next few days DH is
1/ chairing a committee
2/ invited to house party on Friday and another on Saturday
3/ a school Christmas assembly
4/ we are having friends over for dinner

he has been rough since Saturday- WFH so no problem there. Only tested this morning.

WWYD of those things (if feeling well enough) ? All or none of it? Or some of it. Give reasons for your answers please.

Life doesn't carry on for people who acquire these infections and have had say an organ transplant or transfusion for MS, so selfish me first behaviour....harms and inprisons others ...and as a consequence puts a huge strain on the NHS ..then staff get sick and ordinary non vulnerable people get poor care, delayed routine treatments...leading to more disability and excess *unnecessary death. Life can carry on AND people can reduce contacts if they are sick. Its basic courtesy

It's not madness if you could make someone ill.

As any selfless person would do.

A study of 10 million people in Wuhan where covid began, showed there was no evidence of asymptomatic transmission of covid.

I was completely flattened with covid the first time I got it. For six weeks. This time I was ill for about three and it was horrible - and if I had known I had covid I would have asked my mum not to come into my house.

As I said before she's ended up with hearing loss because of it. I don't understand the mentality of just crack on its not a big deal. It could be a very big deal to someone with a weak immune system

And I caught it because someone who had it didn't stay home

None of the above. Not fair on others.

The second time I had it I was cursing the selfish bastard who had passed it on. Twice now I've had the same long after effects so I can completely empathise.

Fun story, Tiggy! My DB has stage 4 cancer. When he has any type of respiratory virus, he has to be hospitalised. When he had Covid - OMG. His kidneys shut down. He was peeing red blood. He only just made it.

I know you don’t want to consider other people, but when you’re ill, keep yourself to yourself at least for a few days. Please?

But most people now wouldn't know if it was COVID or a cold etc so are just living life as normal. I don't really understand how just because someone 'knows' it's COVID makes it more likely someone vulnerable will catch it than Joe bloggs who thinks they have a cold and goes about as usual. It just doesn't make a difference now people aren't asked to test and isolate etc. There is so much COVID around all the time in the population that one of two individuals testing as deciding to isolate makes no difference.

I think if you’re feeling well then go about your life but avoid close contact in doors with others where possible.

When I had Covid my DH didn’t get it even though we were sharing a bed, kissing and having sex!

If you are sick stay home. If you feel fine go.

There is no current protocol for testing, you don't need to do it.

If I had tested positive I would give it all a swerve. If DH had tested positive but not me I would skip the purely social activities and mask up/ keep my distance for anything essential or unavoidable.

This.

It's endemic in the population.

There is a reason flu testing and RSV testing were not a thing in the past, because it's not helpful, just a cost to the health system. When people are ill they should try and stay home, once they are feeling better they are not usually particularly contagious. Same for people with no symptoms.

Covid is no differernt in terms of controlling it in the population.

That's what I thought.

I would chair the committee online.

Personally, I would steer clear of large gatherings such as house parties and school events if I thought I might be infectious. Though having said that, I think many people might attend such events with various lurgies in any case, so the risk is already present for anyone attending.

Re friends coming to the house for dinner - I would tell them and let them decide. Knowing most of my friends, some would probably come anyway while others would politely decline.

I think it's really difficult for people who just had the "mild flu" symptoms to understand how badly it can fuck you up. I'm in reasonably good health, but I had a really high fever for a few days. I've never been that ill before and could feel the bony hand of death on my shoulder, as it were. I don't mean that I thought I was going to die, but I could totally understand how it could kill someone. I think this has made me more cautions - I still test and isolate if I've got it.
On a different note, if you invited me round your house then infected me so I was down for the count over xmas I'd be really angry - maybe friendship-ending.

I would not have tested in the first place so as long as I was feeling ok, all of it.

I still can't get past the fact that dh tested positive, was visibly unwell and was demanded back into his school. On that basis I can't unsee that and it effects how I see covid now.

Do you mean mine or yours? Mine is not visually unwell - he just feels rough - no cough or sneeze, just a bunged nose and a cold.
He’s not a teacher - the assembly is connected to the kids.
He’s absolutely delighted to not have to socialise!

But he’s not got a cold he’s got Covid.

None of them. Firstly because passing it on might mean that someone catching it spends Christmas alone/ill, and secondly because going out when you are ill into groups of people is a supremely selfish thing to do at any time of the year. Some people have no rights to sick pay or are self employed or have ill or pregnant relatives and willfully spreading your germs makes you a bit of a dick in my book.

He should stay away from other people.
You can carry on as normal if you don’t feel like you’ve got it, but I’d be avoiding the vulnerable.

I would test each morning, and behave accordingly. Even if you've caught it, a -ve test means you're unlikely to be infectious if not showing symptoms.

If I tested positive for Covid then of course I wouldn’t mix with other people in any of the situations you've mentioned until I had a negative test. I would expect my partner to test to see if he had been infected. The last time I had Covid I tested positive for ten days, and my husband and I stayed in separate rooms for the whole time. I wouldn’t have dreamt of mixing with other people and spreading it to potentially vulnerable people or their relatives. I would feel exactly the same if I had flu.

I wouldn’t do any of the things on your list