Caught Covid outside? :(

[Threelittlegins]

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.

OP; I would try not to worry, it’s very Very likely to not be covid.

Good luck

You caught a cold not covid.
Let's not be dramatic here

I had a cold last week too, I am grand now

I think everyone is missing the point here. Fact is OP, you shouldn’t have caught ANY bug, cold virus, URI or COVID if your precautions were working as you describe. In your circumstances, if you really wanted to not catch C-19 I would be looking to critically review those

Will be interesting to see the results though. Even if it’s not Covid i wonder how you caught a cold. I can only think it’s the takeaway cup?

might be just a cold. problem is that covid symptoms include 'ordinary' cold symptoms.

good you are getting tested and I hope you are better soon!

Whatever you have caught it shows you have been close enough to someone to catch a virus (either by direct transmission or indirectly via a surface). Its probably a cold but just goes to show how easily viruses spread. Your friend may have it without symptoms as close personal contact is more likely as a cause than a coffee cup

@SurferRona

In your circumstances, if you really wanted to not catch C-19 I would be looking to critically review those

Well unless I stayed indoors I’m not sure what about my precautions I could’ve changed.

Maybe I shouldn’t have got the coffee. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Hope your test is negative and you feel better soon OP. I’m shocked by the comments on here - just ignore them

Also how can someone drive up the cases unless they do have Covid ? Or unless they have it and go off to the shop
Op is staying home and getting a test if negative it won't register as a case, if positive it will but the OP has gone over and above in following the rules
I for example still have to work as does dh and have one in secondary and one in college , we follow the guidelines but having 2 in education I know puts our risk up slightly

I believe a common cold is easier to catch than Covid. I read it somewhere so obviously might not be true!)

@SurferRona

I think everyone is missing the point here. Fact is OP, you shouldn’t have caught ANY bug, cold virus, URI or COVID if your precautions were working as you describe. In your circumstances, if you really wanted to not catch C-19 I would be looking to critically review those

That’s not even true. I have viruses that exist in dormant form in my body and will reappear directly I am run down. So earlier this week I manifested a cold sore all by myself and post DS1 I had a resurgence of a virus I first had twent years previously and supposedly you only get it once. Yet there it was in my blood work all over again! When I told the doctor I’d had it when I was a teenager she admitted it does sometimes reappear and a week later I tested negative for it.

I've had a cold sore throat and sniffles one of my children had the same but got a test for her work negative. I don't think you went out and caught covid as your title said it could just be a cold.

@anniegun

Whatever you have caught it shows you have been close enough to someone to catch a virus (either by direct transmission or indirectly via a surface). Its probably a cold but just goes to show how easily viruses spread.

My friend is the first person I’ve seen in weeks (except my husband who doesn’t go anywhere)

I didn’t get close to my friend.

Passers by were briefly closer to me than my friend as we were walking of opposite sides of the path.
Several runners also passed by.

So it’s got to be from being briefly close to them than being 2m away from my friend, who is fine and has no symptoms of anything.

perhaps it was the cold air in your lungs op?

Also People can't always help catching covid even when following guidelines .
Op hope you feeling better soon
I had test last week as had cough went to drive thru result back in 20 hrs ( negative )

Sadly OP, there's a lot more people on here quick to pick at posts rather than read and move on.
Sore throat is a symptom of covid (I know) but also a symptom of lots of things including being inside for a long time, stuffiness etc.
Sounds like you are being over cautious which is a good thing and it's a shame more aren't. Take no notice of the paranoia and anxiety bashing, I see it on here a lot.

Hope you're feeling better soon OP.

@Skipsurvey

perhaps it was the cold air in your lungs op?

This does not cause a cold.

it was probably the joggers op
all the breathing as they ran past you!

cold air probably causes you to cough though

Also went for a Covid test for our teenager, results back in 24 hours, negative.

Good luck.

Hi OP, I've had two stinking viruses/colds recently but I have children in school(s) so am going to get everything, including Covid, that's going. I'm resigned to getting it at some point.

I had a test for the second bug, which was negative. I had a sore throat and a nasty cough, but it wasn't Covid. The first one I didn't get a test as none of the main Covid symptoms were present. I still isolated for a few days anyway in case a cough or temperature developed but it didn't. I bet you've just got a bit of a cold. They're unfortunately doing the rounds as ever.

Do your health conditions place in you in the vulnerable category? If they do I totally get your anxiety. If they don't, I would try to find a way to work on your anxiety levels. I have GAD (generalised anxiety disorder) and these things can take control of me to an obsessive degree if I'm not careful. I'd rather take my chances with Covid than get into the sort of state I've been in in the past with my anxiety over health-related things.

But if you are in the vulnerable category then that's different of course. Hope I'm making sense. V. tired and need coffee.

Surely you are more likely to catch it from contact with your friend than a takeaway drink. Anyway it sounds like whatever you caught it was from that day out.

@Skipsurvey

cold air probably causes you to cough though

Not when you’re back in the house. Certainly not for long enough to count as a continuous cough for the purposes of ordering a covid test.

Probably just a cold.
Having said that, if heaven forbid it is the plague, then I’d think it’s down to sodding bloody joggers/runners - 98% of whom around here have apparently never heard of social distancing - they come up behind you before you’ve realised, puffing and grunting their horrible germs six inches from your shoulder.

A pox on them! As the good old saying goes. 🤬

can anyone actually define continuous cough though?