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Caught Covid outside? :(

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Threelittlegins · 21/11/2020 10:14

My husband has been working from home for months.
We don’t go to a supermarket we have food delivered and we always wipe it down.

Since lockdown began the only places we have been is for a walk.

I take my DS for a walk to our local park most days. (Only a baby so we don’t use the play area)

On Tuesday I met up with a friend and we went for a walk around a local lake.
It was quite busy but I never had close contact with anyone.
A few runners did run past quite close though.

Me and my friend distanced the whole time.

Before our walk we visited the cafe for a takeaway coffee. It’s all done outside so we didn’t have to go in.

I did drink from a disposable coffee cup but sanitised my hands when I’d finished, washed hands when I got home.

This morning I’ve got a sore throat and a tickly cough. 😖
I’ve ordered a test.

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PrivateD00r · 21/11/2020 17:49

Anyway op, I appreciate you may be projecting because you are anxious about this, which I understand. I truly hope you test negative and feel better soon. I also hope you don't let this scare you into stopping your walks, I don't like this idea of you and DH not going out at all. There needs to be a bit of a balance

sepsisandAKI · 21/11/2020 17:51

Very unlikely to be positive! Stop overthinking!

time4anothername · 21/11/2020 17:53

I often get sore throats from talking outside in the cold, it's drying and the mucous membranes get irritated. So hopefully it's just something like that.

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Threelittlegins · 21/11/2020 18:01

It hasn’t eased up all day. It’s only on one side and it even hurts to open my mouth now. Grim. 😔

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PrivateD00r · 21/11/2020 18:06

Urgh how awful! I started with a heavy chest, like someone was sitting on it. Then had the sore throat and tickly cough. That evening the temp crept up. I only got really unwell from about day 2 or 3 I think. I really hope it doesn't develop like that for you Take it easy anyway!

WhoopsSomethingWentWrong · 21/11/2020 18:09

@Threelittlegins

It hasn’t eased up all day. It’s only on one side and it even hurts to open my mouth now. Grim. 😔

Sounds like a throat infection.

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Threelittlegins · 21/11/2020 18:10

@PrivateD00r

Take it easy anyway!

@PrivateD00r

The tickly cough seems to be easing now, but the pain at one side of my throat isn’t. 😔

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CeibaTree · 21/11/2020 18:20

@Nicknacky

CeibaTree Ditto with the walkers round here. But given that no one is more entitled than the other then it works both ways.

But you said however in real life runners all give space which isn't true from my experience 😂 I've never been yelled at by a group of walkers, or even cyclists 'to get out of the way' as I have by runners locally, and no I don't take up the whole path or walk really slowly or anything like that! That's what I meant by entitlement.

Nicknacky · 21/11/2020 18:29

CeibaTree Oh please let me apologise for my terrible blunder. I should have said MOST runners give space.

Holy fuck, some posters are so fucking pernickity.

Oh and I’ve sworn at pedestrians. The ones that walk out their gates with their dogs and don’t bother to look at what’s coming.

StanfordPines · 21/11/2020 18:32

Other people walked between us when they passed, so yes, passers by were closer to me than my friend.

Where did you expect other people to go? Jump in a ditch?
Honestly you are other thinking it. How many people do you know who work in supermarkets or schools who have got it. People working in supermarkets spend all day passing close by to people indoors.

CeibaTree · 21/11/2020 18:38

@Nicknacky

CeibaTree Oh please let me apologise for my terrible blunder. I should have said MOST runners give space.

Holy fuck, some posters are so fucking pernickity.

Oh and I’ve sworn at pedestrians. The ones that walk out their gates with their dogs and don’t bother to look at what’s coming.

Ha! Sorry but if you can't write what you mean then don't call other people out for pointing it out 😂 You seemed to be a bit over the top in your defence of runners, but I see now that you are just being defensive in general. Oh well each to their own and all that 🤷🏻‍♀️

islockdownoveryet · 21/11/2020 18:46

I'd be a bit annoyed if I passed you with you giving me no option to go between you both tbh .
It's like people that insist on walking together even though they can see someone coming towards you so you have no option to stop and let the 2 walk past side by side . Most pedestrians who are walking with someone get in line so the runner can well run past at a social distance.
I still doubt you've caught Covid from a passer by but even so maybe re think how you let others pass you by .

Aragog · 21/11/2020 18:57

@PurpleDaisies

You haven’t caught covid outside.

How do you know?

At present the OP doesn't have a test result.

When that result comes back THEN we will know the answer to the OP's title questions (and yes, I read it as a question too, due the question mark)

It may be that she has not caught Covid whilst outside.
It may be that she has caught Covid whilst outside.

The source of the Covid, if she tests positive, may well remain unknown. Even if it was on the cup (which is quite unlikely based on the more recent research and findings) the OP was still outside at the time.

Aragog · 21/11/2020 19:02

@HumanFemale1

Covid is hardly the only reason for a sore throat and a tickly cough.

I don't understand why you would order a test, you're not going anywhere so even if you are positive you cannot pass it on to somewhere else.

It's people like you who are the reason why we're back in lockdown, you're driving the cases up while being not only healthy but not in danger of passing it on to someone else. I despair

I don't understand why you would order a test

Maybe because she has a known testable symptom - a new cough

you're driving the cases up

No, the OP isn't.
IF she tests positive then it is a genuine positive case.

Or should we be hiding all cases incase people find out?

Personally I despair of anyone who would want us to hide positive cases and pretend it wasn't happening!!

Same type of person who'd rather I hid the fact that I caught Covid whilst in school I bet! Had similar comments regarding that.

Flowersinthewindowstill · 21/11/2020 19:07

It's possible, but probably unlikely. I've had several tickly coughs/sore throats that have made me wonder, but they've all ended up being reflux or lack of sleep.

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Threelittlegins · 21/11/2020 19:20

@Flowersinthewindowstill

It's possible, but probably unlikely. I've had several tickly coughs/sore throats that have made me wonder, but they've all ended up being reflux or lack of sleep.

@Flowersinthewindowstill

I have reflux and it’s given me a sore throat before but this is different.
The pain is just at one side.
I have a headache now too. Although it’s more pressure and pain in my fave and nose than head.

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MRex · 21/11/2020 19:42

Where did you expect other people to go?
We've got the start of an impromptu triathlon here, runners obviously should have swum across the lake.

Nicknacky · 21/11/2020 19:48

Threelittlegins You didn’t answer earlier, where did you normally go out before covid?

Why can’t you go places?

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Threelittlegins · 21/11/2020 20:47

@Nicknacky

Threelittlegins You didn’t answer earlier, where did you normally go out before covid?

Why can’t you go places?

@Nicknacky

Baby was born 5 weeks before first lockdown so where I went pre Covid is irrelevant now.

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Threelittlegins · 21/11/2020 20:48

@Nicknacky

Also I didn’t say I couldn’t go places.
PP have said I don’t go anywhere, I replied asking where there was to go.
I’m in England and right now places are closed! Walking is pretty much all there is to do.

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Nicknacky · 21/11/2020 20:53

Threelittlegins But there have been loads of places to go that have opened since lockdown started. Garden centres, cafes, restaurants, shops, national trusts, garden coffee with family. Even hotel breaks! That’s just off the top of my head.

I just think you need to look at your anxiety and start working on overcoming it. Then you might not get as stressed as you have been about a walk with your friend.

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Threelittlegins · 21/11/2020 21:09

@Nicknacky

I just think you need to look at your anxiety and start working on overcoming it. Then you might not get as stressed as you have been about a walk with your friend.

@Nicknacky

Oh, sorry, you want me to list all the places I’ve been since the first lockdown eased in the summer... ah...

Okay.. well off the top of my head, in the summer I went to the following places ...

Chester Zoo
Yorkshire Wildlife Park
Two animal farms
3 National trust parks(two fairly local)
1 garden Centre

Costa coffee(outdoors)
Local coffee shop(indoors)
3 local restaurants (outdoors)
Mums house
PIL house
Friends garden
Drive 90 miles to visit my elderly Nan so she could meet our baby.

Lost count of the amount of local parks / beauty spots / walks we’ve been on.

Since 1st November only outdoor walks.

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Nicknacky · 21/11/2020 21:13

threelittlegins Forgive me of thinking you were referring to lockdown in your first post I.e March rather than localised restrictions since then. Funnily enough, I’m not psychic.

WhoopsSomethingWentWrong · 21/11/2020 21:15

@Nicknacky

threelittlegins Forgive me of thinking you were referring to lockdown in your first post I.e March rather than localised restrictions since then. Funnily enough, I’m not psychic.

The current restrictions in England aren’t localised, they’re national.

Nicknacky · 21/11/2020 21:26

Whoops I must have missed her post when she confirmed she was in England?

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